THE IICHIGAN IAILY M, A1 , - - -- -- ---- -.. PFinted Pen ON THE Washington Merry-Go-Round WITH DREW PEARON by b. s. brown co-managing editor IT IS INDEED unfortunate that Francis Cardinal Spellman has bluntly charged Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt with bigotry, merely because she has publicly written against Federal aid to parochial schools. Many Catholics have come out against the proposal which Mrs. Roosevelt has denied as being worthwhile. In her syndi- cated column, she said that she did not want to see "public education connected with religious control of the schools which are paid for by taxpayers' money. "If we desire our children to go to schools of any particular kind," the wife of the late president wrote, "be it be- cause we think they should have religious instruction or for any other reason, we are free to set up those schools and to pay for them." Yet those Catholics who have stated their opposition to the proposal have not been called bigoted or termed as anti-Catholic. They realize that there are dangers in ac- cepting Federal aid. Mrs. Roosevelt has taken the vied of many leading educators, politicians and religious organizations in her criticism of a bill that would extend Federal aid to parochial schools. Cardinal Spellman feels that as long as the Catholic taxpayer is aiding in support of the nation's schools, the religious insti- tutions should share in the Federal alloca- tions. On the surface, Cardinal Spellman's con- tentions may seem justified. However, one point to remember is that Catholic parents are free to send their children to public schools. If they feel that their children will suffer in their education by attending a public school, then it is their prerogative to enroll their youngsters in a parochial school. That is a decision they must make. Then there is another. point. Many Catholics realize the danger in accepting Federal funds. It would automatically pro- vide the government with an excuse for interfering in the administration of the parochial schools. And I can't believe that Cardinal Spell- man or any other religious leader would want to submit to any sort of Federal con- trol. Mrs. Roosevelt cannot be denied her opin- ion. Cardinal Spellman, though he may vio- lently disagree with her arguments, should respect them, if only because they are in opposition. He should not try to discredit them by calling Mrs. Roosevelt anti-Catholic. If he.' can present stronger arguments in favor of Federal aid, then there is his recourse. If he cannot, then he should accept oppos- ing thoughts as the result of honest thinking. Name-calling has become far too prevalent today. Its about time we all abandoned the weak and ugly method of criticism. WASHINGTON-A howl came up from some quarters of Congress when Secre- tary of Defense Johnson sent the joint chiefs of staff to White Sulphur Springs, West Vir- ginia, to mix play with work. Some of the brass hats thought the idea was foolish. However, the trip did more to bring about harmony at the Pentagon than anything since unification. For the first time, the chiefs of staff got to see the human side of the other fellow. Though they worked only two hours a day, they accomplished more routine paper work with less bickering than all day in their PenLtagon offices. Most of the time was spent on the golf links where Army Chief of Staff Omar Bradley shot the best game-a neat 75. Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt Vanden- berg's best score was 84, where as Chief of Naval Operations Louis Denfeld didn't even play. He just tagged along to kibitz. The generals and admirals also split up in sharing rooms. Vandenberg stayed with the Army's Maj.-Gen. A. M. Gruenther, secre- tary to the joint chiefs. Bradley bunked with Rear Adm. A. D. Struble, Denfeld's assistant, and Denfeld shared quarters with Lieut.- Gen. Lauris Norstad, Vandenberg's assistant. After playing and living together, they are now working more like a team. BROOKLYN STREETCARS TO VIENNA Paul Hoffman's Marshall Plan-ECA has been going in for the usual hush-hush re- garding any information reflecting scandal or inefficiency. However, it can be revealed that when a batch of old Brooklyn streetcars was shipped to Austria recently to revitalize Vienna's transportation system, the taxpayers got socked an extra $73,000. The overcharge is on the books of the All-Transport Company of New York City. The company was hired by Austria to transport ECA goods purchased in this country-including the Brooklyn street- cars. However, ECA auditors made a spot check, discovered that the profits ran un- usually high and started a thorough in- vestigation. They found that All-Transport shared its business with Overseas Terminal Corpora- tion, which turned out to be nothing but a dummy company. Thus, Overseas Terminal would charge its parent company for serv- ices, which amounted to All-Transport bill- ing itself. The result was to boost profits. All-Transport also chartered the Nor- wegian-ship, Milbank, to haul goods to Austria. But instead of charging bulk rates, the company collected berth rates the same as if the goods had been sent over by regular freight. The company also neglected to give Austria credit for some non-ECA goods carried on the same ship. These tactics ran up the profits of the All- Transport company-and the bill of the American taxpayers. Since the cash was put up by Uncle Sam, ECA is now negotiating with Austria to collect the excess profit. Austria, in turn, will have to recover from the All-Transport Company. PAYS BACK THE GOVERNMENT Maritime Commission officials almost fainted the other day, when, on opening an envelope, they found inside a check for $6,000,000. It was the return of government subsidy by the American President Steam- ship Lines. The man who mailed the check was George Killion, head of the American President Lines, and an old hand at rais- ing money. As former treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, Killion raised much of the dough that financed the 1944 and 1946 campaigns. And, though Secretary of Defense Johnson got the credit, it was Killion who raised much of the real money for Truman in 1948. Killion now operates one of the most im- portant of all American steamship lines, car- rying the American flag to Japan, China, the Philippines, and the Middle East. Re- cently returned from the Orient, Killion re- ports that the pre-war tourist and business trade of Japan would flourish if General MacArthur would kick his officers out of lush Japanese hotels so American tourists could find some place to stay. * * * * DISTILLER TURNS GHOST-WRITER Only a few White House insiders know it, but the idea for President Truman's $300,- 000,000,000 national income plea which he sent to Congress recently, originated with a conservative New York businessman, not a supposedly starry-eyed Fair Dealer. Prompting Truman's plea for national in- come expansion was gruff, tough, Lewis S. Rosenstiel, chairman of the board of Schen- ley Industries. Trotting around Washing- ton, Rosenstiel had pointed out to cabinet members that America has never tried to win the peace as hard as it has tried to win wars. He pointed out that "the world is not overproduced, but unerconsumed and un- derinvested." Rosenstiel also told Truman . advisers that the nation needs more pay for labor --a most unorthodox doctrine to comee from big business. In fact, Rosenstiel went on record for a 5 per cent annual in- crease in wages for labor for the next five years to expand purchasing power where it is needed most: among the lower bracket consumers. In turn, Rosenstiel wants labor to step up its efficiency 4 per cent every year. Rosenstiel evolved much of his plan after a recent trip through Europe which con- vinced him that halfway measures would not win the peace against a dynamic foe like the Russians. Talking to Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin the other day, the Schenley chairman said: "We spent three hundred billion dollars plus untold misery, lives and suffering to win the war. We ought to be willing to pay a third as much to win the peace. We can't have peace until the peoples of the world can see themselves moving toward a higher standard of living. We've got to raise that standard here and abroad." Tobin was so enthusiastic about the Rosenstiel "Win the Peace Plan," he want- ed to trot his guest right over to see Presi- dent Truman. Note-At the Treasury Department, Ros- enstiel urged Secretary Snyder to take a fresh look at the tax laws, start figuring out incentives for making business expand, not contract. Rosenstiel urged Snyder to take the initiative in reviewing tax incentives for business expansion rather than have Congress do it for him. * * * * . SURPLUS WOMEN WANT HUSBANDS Government agencies are usually bored with burdensome mail. But the other day the Interior Department received the fol- lowing inquiry from Mrs. Krsta Tchossitch of Whittier, Calif., which it has not yet been able to answer: "Department of Interior Washington, D.C. We are a group of lonely widows living here in Whittier with no hope of meeting men of our ages and marrying again-ages 30-60. I, as our spokesman, am writing to this department in the hope that I might be able to obtain the answers to the follow- ing questions: Where in the United States is there an abundance of men? Do you get letters from men working on government projects in far off places saying that they are also lonely? If so, where are these places? The few men here in California that we have met are so spoiled that they do not value love and the devotion and a good home that a good wife can give them. I am enclosing a self-addressed letter for some kind of a reply. If you know of any other office where I might obtain this in- formation please inform me. Sincerely, Mrs. Krsta Tchossitch Whittier, California" (Copyright, 1949, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Editorials published in 'The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: HERB KRAVITZ t s Fifty-Ninth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff B. S. Brown.................Co-Managing Editor Craig Wilson ............... ...Co-Managing Editor Merle Levin..................... .Sports Editor Marilyn Jones .....................Women'sbEditor Bess Young ........................ e.. Librarian Business Staff Robert C. James .................Business Manager Dee Nelson.. ..............Advertising Manager Ethel Ann Morrison..........Circulation Manager James MeStocker .................Finance Manager Telephone 23-24-1 Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited to this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matters herein are also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michi- gan, as second-class mail matter. Cold Stec - t i mC 0'fQnE s-r+J ,.4.. ..PCST C.. }MATTER OF FACT by JOSEPH ALSOP WASHINGTON-"The problem of Anglo-American co-operation in atomic energy development is almost as explosive as the bomb itself." Such was the summary of an informed and ordinarily un- excitable participant, after the two grave conferences on this prob- lem that have rocked Washington during the week. But before the dangers can be understood, the facts must first be set down. Three sets of facts have bearing. First, the British nuclear research program is already well along. "They have got about as far as we were in 1944"-the year before the Hiroshima bomb was exploded-.according to one com- petent authority. Thus the so-called American "atomic monop- oly" is already on its way out; whatever happens. Second, the British and Canadians have not come empty-handed to the very limited partnership with us that has existed since the war in the atomic field. They have contributed part of the all-im- portant fissionable raw stuff. Two of our three known and im- portant uranium sources are in the British Empire, in South Africa and Canada. One of our two known and important resources of the second fissionable raw stuff, thorium, is also in the British Empire, in the Indian state of Travancore. Outside the British Empire, thorium is also obtained from Bra- zil. And besides the Soviet-controlled mines in Czechoslovakia and Eastern Germany, uranium is also produced in the Belgian Congo, which has the world's most important deposits. About two years ago, however, the Belgian Congo's uranium output was tied up for ten years, in a contract between the Compagnie Miniere du Haut-Katan- ga (the Katanga Mining Company, which owns the deposits) and the Combined Policy Committee, which is a joint body set up under the Anglo-American-Canadian atomic energy agreement. Thus even the Belgian Congo uranium is not all ours, by any means. And if there is a great deal of rocking of the international atomic boat, the Belgians are quite likely to nationalize the Ka- tanga Mining Company, abrogate the contract with the Com- bined Policy Committee, and begin a world-wide auction of uran- ium ore. This is already the greatest talking point of the Belgian Communists. It is certainly significant that if we put a stop to Anglo-American atomic co-operation, we should be left much worse off for the es- sential raw materials of atomic development. But there is even more importance in the third point. The plain truth is that all American higher strategy, both mili- tary and political, is now, and for four years has been based on the existence of an unwritten but entirely effective Anglo-American alliance. If the Anglo-American alliance should be dissolved, every military plan in all the stages in the Pentagon would have to be torn up. The long, gruelling job of building the precarious structure of American security would have to begin again, at ten times the exist- ing heavy cost. These are not general and meaningless statements. On the contrary, every major strategy paper of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, every policy paper of the National Security Council, recognizes the existence of the unwritten Anglo-American alliance. The specific assumption is formally and officially made, by all Ameri- can high policy planners, that the unwritten alliance will be translated, in wartime, into formal, full, overt fighting partner- ship. And in order to provide a safe channel for working out common problems in peacetime, the Anglo-American Combined Chiefs of Staff have been quietly kept alive. These are, so to speak, the strategic facts of life. The men who have taken the lead thus far in opposing any extension of the Anglo- Candanian-American atomic energy partnership-Atomic Ehergy Commissioner Lewis Strauss and Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper-- wish to cling to the American "atomic monopoly" in the face of these facts. Their only argument is that through the British loan, the Mar- shall plan and the Atlantic Pact, we have already done much for Dritain. Therefore, they say, the British should not seek to compete with us in this field that means so much. The Strauss-Hickenlooper position is lent serious importance by the fact that they have been supported to date by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. But while American public opinion is invoked as the final authority for the Strauss-Hickenlooper position, there is also British public opinion to be considered. It may be wrong. It may be indicative of the wicked, ever-enduring human tendency to be ungrateful. But the fact remains that no British government could last a week which accepted a Washington dictate that the British Commonwealth had no right to produce absolute weapons. Thus the Anglo-American political and strategical partnership is directly endangered by the present dispute. What may be in pros-, pect is a sort of competition, in which each nation will rival the other in biting off its nose to spite its face, until the very tonsils of both are exposed. The mere fact that this danger exists is the best proof of the serious weakening of the bi-partisan foreign policy and the general deterioration of our leadership. (Copyright, 1949, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION last week recom- mended that Communists be barred from the teaching profes- sion. It agreed in effect with an earlier statement, by 20 distinguished educators who had been commissioned to study the problem. But the American Association of University Professors refuses to go along. All notices for the Daly Official Bulletin are to be sent to the Office of the Summer Session in typewritten form by 3:30 p.m. of the day preced- ing its publication, except on Satu- day when the notices should be sub- mitted by 11:30 a.m, Room 3510 Ad-j ministration Building. SUNDAY, JUULY 24, 1949 VOL. LIX, No. 25S Notices Regents' Meeting: The Board adjourned to meet on call of the President. In any event there will be a Regents' meetinlg at 9:00 a.m. September 24. Communications for consideration at this meeting must be in the President's hands not later than September 15. The Pacific Mutual Life Insur-j ance Co. of Los Angeles, Calif., will have two representatives here on Wed., July 27th, to interview menj interested in group insurance sales positions. For further information, call at the office of the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Admin. Bldg. Sociedad Hispanica: Conversa- tion group meets Tuesday at the Spanish House, 1219 Washtenaw from 4-5:30. Faculty and students are cordially invited. Seniors, College of L.S.&A., and Schools of Education, Music, and Public Health: Tentative lists of seniors for August graduation have been posted on the Regis- trar's bulletin board in the first floor corridor, Administration Building. If your name is mis- spelled or the degree expected in- correct, please notify the Recorder at Registrar's window number 1, 1513 Administration Building. U.S. Air Force Reservists: Or- ganizational meeting of 9607th Volunteer Air Reserve Training Squadron, Flight B, will be held at Michigan Union, Room 3-R, Tuesday, July 26, 1949, 8:00 P.M. Information will be available re- garding the Air Force Reserve Training Program and Reserve requirements. Interested Air Re- servists are urged to attend. Lectures Lecture: "The Bisitun Inscrip- tion-A Key to Decipherment and Understanding." Dr. George G. Cameron, Professor of Near-East- ern Cultures, 4:15 p.m., Kellogg Auditorium, Monday, July 25. Sunimer Session Lecture Series: General subect, fifth week: Gov- ernmental Policies in Relation to Natural Resources, Anthony W. Smith, Industrial Union Councils, CIO, "The Role of Government in Resource Conservation," 8:00 p.m., Rackham Amphitheater, Monday, July 25. Lecture: "What Can and Should the Schools Teach about World Peace?" Margaret Koopman, Cen- tral Michigan College of Educa- tion, 3:00 p.m., Auditorium, Uni- versity High School, Tuesday, July 26. Lecture: "Greeks and Phoeni- cians" (illustrated), Rhys Carpen- ter, Professor of Classical Archae- ology, Bryn Mawr College, 4:15 p.m.,'Tuesday, July 26, Rackham Amphitheater. India Colloquium: "Modern In- dia, Repeating Western Cultural Movements." Speaker: Professor Benoy Sarkar. Chairman, Profes- sor Everett S. Brown, Department of Political Science, 4:15 p.m., West Conference Room, Rackham Building. The Linguistics Institute will present lectures by three outstand- ing linguists during the coming week. On Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheater, Professor Angus McIntosh of the University of 8dinburgh, Scotland, will dis- cuss "On Planning a Survey of the Dialects.of Scotland." The Wednesday lecture will be given by Professor Stanley S. New- man of ..the University of New Mexico in the Union at 1:00 p.m. His subect will be "The Status of Field Linguistics in Mexico." Professor Otto Springer of the University of Pennsylvania will speak, on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheater on "Colonial Speech and the Rise of Standard German." Academic Notices Orientation Seminar in Mathe- matics: Tuesday, July 26, 3-5, Tea at 4. Room 3001 Angell Hall. Mr. MacDowell will speak on "Gener- alization of In-Betweenness." Botanical Seminar-Wednesday evening,. July 27, at 7:30, in Room 1139, Natural Science Building. Doctor Robert J. Lowry will dis- cuss his work on Chromosomes in Mosses. All interested are invited to attend. Doctoral Preliminary Examina- tions for Students in Education: University Carillonneur. will pre- sent a recital on Monday. July 25. 1949 at 7:15 p.m. and repeat it on Wednesday, July 27, 7:15 p.m. His program will include compositions by Jef Denyn, Schubert, 7 Scot- tish folk songs, and the Blue Dan- ube Waltzes by Strauss. The Rack- ham Terrace is open evenings to those who wish to listen to the carillon recitals. Student Recital: Sidney Milder, graduate student of piano with Marian Owen and Helen Titus, -will present a program at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, July 26, 1949 at the Rackham Assembly Hall, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music. His program will include compositions by Bach, Beethoven and Schu- mann. This recital is open to the public. Exhibitions Rackham Galleries, east gallery. Paintings by Willard MacGregor, Visiting Professor of Piano, School of Music (July 8-August 5.) Architecture Building: Exhibit of student work in design and in city planing. (June 9-August 13). University MuseumshBldg., ro- tunda. Life around the Mexican volcano Paricutin. Museum of Archaeology: An- tiquities of the Mediterranean area. Clements Library. Unique Can- adiana: A selection of fifteen Ca- nadian rarities in the Clements Library. (June 20-Aug. 19). General Library: main lobby cases. Contributions of the Ancient Mediterranean World to Western Culture. Events Today Michigan Christian Fellowship: Rev. John Burt, St. Andrew's Epis- copal Church, will speak on "Is Faith Wishful Thinking?" 4:30 p.m., -Fireside Room, Lane Hall. Everyone welcome. Refreshments. Coming Events Russian Circle Meeting, Mon- day, July 25, at 8:00 at Interna- tional Center. Games and singing. All interested are invited. Euripides' The Trojan Women, the Gilbert Murray translation, will be presented by the Depart- ment of Speech, Thursday and Friday evenings. This classical tragedy supplements the Summer Session's program of "The An- cient Civilizations of Greece and Rome." Performances will be given on the steps of Clements Library. There will be no admission charge. Michigan Hostel Club - Mid- Week Picnic: To be held Wednes- day, July 27, at Silver Lake. Ev- eryone invited. Call Helen Henley at 7157 for reservations. Meet at Lane Hall at 5:15 p.m. University Community Center, Willow Village: University Club Bridge Night. Monday, July 25, 8 p.m. Small fee. Everybody wel- come. University Community Center, Willow Village: Tuesday, July 26, 8 p.m., Wives Club-Talent Show. New villagers especially welcome. Sociedad Hispanica: Miss Gab- riella Bakonyi will speak on "La novela del siglo XVII"; Wednes- day, July 27, East Conference Room, Rackham Building, 8 p.m. Students and faculty are cordially invited. Churches First Presbyterian Church: Dr. W. P. Lemon will preach at the 10:45 a.m. worship service. His topic will be "What Life Can Be." At 5:30 p.m., 'Prof. Preston W. Slosson will speak to the Summer Vesper Group in the Social Hall on "Some Implications of Atomic Energy." Supper will be served at 6:30 p.m. The Congregational - Disciples Student Guild will meet at the Congregational Church, State and William Streets, at 6:00 p.m. for a cost supper. At 7:30 p.m., Miss Mimi Gowen of New York City will speak on "The Healing Min- istry of Religious Counseling." Miss Gowen is attending the Sum- mer School of Pastoral Care at the University Hospital. Wesleyan Guild at 5:30 p.m. will hear the Rev. J. Edgar Edwards of the Willow Run University Community Church speak on "Sources of Inner Strength." University Lutheran Chapel, 1511 Washtenaw: Service Sunday at 11:00 a.m., with sermon by the Rev. Alfred Scheips, "The Shield of Faith." Ble S~ tu& av t i0. DAILY. OFFICIA1ULEI .1 . L Looking Back 1 35 YEARS AGO: The Wolverine (Summer Daily, three times a week) got its headlines mixed up and ran one head "OBSERVATORY MAN EX- PLAINS MOON TO 150 CURIOUS ONES." The deck (subhead) read "Observatory Man Explains Moon to 150 Curious Ones." 25 YEARS AGO:. The United States unofficially won the 1924 Olympics as they swept the tennis games, piling up a total of 95 points, to 47 for France, her closest rival. Great Brit- ain was third with 38 and Finland fourth with 34.* 20 YEARS AGO: The new queen of trans-Atlantic travel, the German ship Bremen, docked at her pier in Brooklyn after making a record maiden voyage from Cherbourg in four days, 17 hours and 42 minutes. * *- * * 10 YEARS AGO: "Daily Readers Take Heed! It Still Can Happen Here," the headline read in the Daily. It was followed by a short AP squib: "Subscribers to the Wyanet Record, a week- ly, received their papers with one page of a four-page section blank except for the fol- lowing small type: 'Don't laugh. We had a helluva time filling the other three pages." 1 YEAR AGO: A small civilian plane dropped a crude bomb on UN Headquarters, but it exploded harmlessly 400 feet from the main UN offi- ces. The pilot gave himself up the next day,1 saying that he wanted to "make them here and abroad look to the United Nations for lasting peace."i --From the Pages of The Daily BARNABY II I I 'I r Mr. Baxter thinks a car passing over this I Barnaby says his Fairy Godfather broke "arnty ashsfairy f "o" ! --ti tar rrtnrl,,. Gosh, Mr. O'Malley, I was afraid 1 Jac It . lt J __. . _ 5 I _ .._C . II