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NIGHT EDITOR: ELIZABETH M. SHAW
The editorials published in The Michigan
Daily are written by members of the Daily
staff and represent the views of the writers
only.
The Postman
Alwavs Rings . .
W HAT LETTER from home, the epistle
to the "one left behind," the request
for funds, the receipt of those semester marks
-for all these and many more we are indebted
to our country-wide network of letter carriers
and post office employees.
Less than a century ago, missives bound for
destinations .west of the Appalachians were en-
trusted to lonely travellers, to be delivered weeks
or months later, or sometimes left on the mantle-
piece of a cottage in some small town to wait
many days for the next passerby who would take
it upon himself to deliver it to the addressee.
All this has changed, and now a letter travels
from New York to San Francisco in the short
space of 18 hours airmail, or five days regular
service.
Today and yesterday, carriers from all over
Michigan are meeting in 1Ann Arbor for the 40th
annual convention of the Michigan State Asso-
ciation of Letter Carriers, the state organization
of the National Association of Letter Carriers,
organized in 1889 to "unite fraternally all letter
carriers in the United States for their mutual
benefit." The U.S. postal system is a functioning
example of efficient governmental supervision
for a vital public service. It is an excellent answer
to those critics who maintain that efficiency
and democratic control are incompatible. The
key men in this system are the letter carriers;
and it is with sincere best wishes that we wel-
come the Michigan carriers to Ann Arbor.
-Harry M. Kelsey

are usually inexperienced, they soon become
familiar with the task of making yardage into
garments, with each unit showing a decrease in
cost as the workers acquire skill and efficiency.
Workers are allowed a maximum of 132 hours
in each month. When work is stepped up to
capacity and when each employe works the
maximum number of hours, it is expected that
the factory will be turning 300,000 yards of
material a month into shirts, dresses, suits,
trousers and blouses for the needy of Detroit.
Dresses especially are made in a number of
patterns and colors to make them distinctive.
Recipients are offered a wide variety of styles in
garments to avoid easy identification as the
wearers of welfare clothes.
In one month, 64721 yards of broadcloth
and percale went into the manufacture of shirts
for men. Scraps left from the cuttings are turned
over to hand workers who make them into quilts.
Very little goes to waste under the present set up.
The vindictive cartoons and jokes about the
laziness and inefficiency of WPA workers are
answered completely in the work of undertak-
ings like the Sewing Project.
-Helen Corman
A Victory For
Higher Education
A year ago Harvard University was stirred by
a controversy as to whether two economic in-
structors had been denied a permanent appoint-
ment for good administrative reasons or because
their economic beliefs were too radical. President
Conant appointed a committee to look into this
incident and to pass on the general question of
liberalism at Harvard. He now accepts and en-
dorses the committee's report, handed in at the
end of March, and recommending a place on
college staffs for "thoughtful rebels" who might
help the faculty to reflect the "issues, interests
and controversies which are of vital importance
in the contemporary world."
This is more than a victory for academic free-
dom-it is a victory for higher education. At
least it will be such if the Harvard jverseers take
the advice their president hands them and per-
mit him to translate it into faculty appointments.
There are a number of misconceptions about our
so-called private colleges and universities. One
is that they are rally private, which they are not
so long as they benefit by tax exemption. Another
is that they exist for the purpose of teaching
things to students, which they do not if they are
actually institutions of the higher learning. They
are parts of the body politic, with definite obliga-
tions, not merely toward those who endow them,
those who govern them, those who study in them,
or to those who graduated from them anywhere
from two to fifty years ago, but also toward the
general public.
They do not exist for the purpose of indoctrin-
ating their students in any set of beliefs, for or
against any political party, or economic theory,
or any restricted point of view whatsoever. It
is not their function to defend things as they
are any more than to inculcate opinions as to
how things ought to be. In their dealings with tl
so-called social sciences they ought ideally to
be as objective and as free as in their dealings
with conic sections and bacteria. It will be said
that their faculties should not attack democracy
in a democratic country nor free enterprise and
private prbperty in a country which operates
under those institutions. They shouldn't, of
course. They are not called upon to attack any-
thing-or to defend anything, for that matter,
except the freedoms by which they exist and
upon which their excuse for existing rests.
Only the faint-hearted and the cynical can
have doubts as to the results if, for example,
students are enabled to know all that can be
said for fascism, for communish or for social-
ism, as well as all that can be said for democ-
racy. The disciplined mind, trained to weigh
and value all sorts of ideas, will never be a
danger to the public weal.
-New York Times
National Debt Week
WASHINGTON.-The Republican National
Committee has designated this as "National Debt
Week." The fact that under Mr. Roosevelt the

public debt rose from $22,000,000,000 to $40,000,-
000,000 is being handed as the crime of the
century.
To illustrate the magnitude of this spending
-which the Republicans would like to have you
think injured the country rather than helped it
-the Republican National Committee set up an
attractive little exhibit in a downtown show
window.
This exhibit includes a miniature model of the
Empire State Building.
Beside the model is the explanation that had
the money which the New Deal has spent been
devoted to construction of Empire State Build-
ings, 940 such could have been built, one for
practically every smaller city in the country.
That was a very happy illustration, not for the
Republican National Committee, but for the
New Deal's case.
First, the Empire State Building was con-
structed by private initiative and therefore is
supposed to have been a highly efficient under-
taking, not like government spending which is
supposed to be wasteful and useless.
Well, I'll let anyone check on the amount of
office space that has been empty through the
years in that white elephant of private enter-
prise and set it against some of the badly needed
school buildings, hospitals, bridges, roads, play-
grounds, yes, and even the much belabored WPA
writers' projects which have produced a set
of guide books that has just won the praise of a
committee of book publishers for excellence of
workmanship.
I wouldn't try to stretch the point, but would
merely suggest that, just as private spending is
not always efficient, so government spending is

Why China Fights
(Editor's Note: In the same special mail from the
Chinese war zone that brought the story from
Shanghai published in this morning's Daily came
the article that appears below. It appeared originally
in the Far Eastern Mirror, a lithographed paper
published in Hongkong. by American residents in
China. David J. Martin, the authorcofthe article, is
an American journalist with many years experience
in the Far East. Today's article traces the back-
ground leading to the present war, and the next in-
stallment will bring the story up-to-date.)
By DAVID J. MARTIN
China's relations with Japan extend back for
some 2,000 years or more. Before that time the
Japanese were a rude, barbaric race ,engaged in
endless wars among themselves. They were ack-
ing in culture until by contact with the Chinese
they were initiated into the arts of civilization
For a long time, the main contact between the
Japanese and the Chinese consisted in the pir-
atical descents made upon China's coastal pro-
vinces by the islanders. In the year 200 A.D.,
however, a Japanese Express, sent an expedition
to Korea; forced the monarch of that country to
acknowledge Japanese suzerainity; and exacted
tribute from that nation. It was largely through
this armed invasion of Korea that the Japanese
were brought into contact with Chinese cul-
ture, which had been previously acquired by the
Koreans.
Accepts Title Of King
As late as the fourteenth century, however, we
find Yoshimitsu accepting the title of king from
the hands of the Chinese Emperor and there-
after paying tribute to China. In the meantime,
Korea had become a vassal of China. Remember-
ing the former relation of Korea to Japan, Hide-
yoshi, Shogun of Japan, demanded the resump-
tion of tribute payment to Japan and also an-
nounced his intention of conquering China in
1590. An expedition of 200,000 men was sent to
Kora but returned to Japan after a year. The
war was renewed in 1596, both China and Japan
pouring armies into Korea, but the struggle came
to an inconclusive end in 1598. Japan gained
nothing by her aggression and the only thing
she had to show for her efforts was a mound at
Kyoto where are buried the ears and noses of
nearly 40,000 Koreans and Chinese who fell in
the battle of So-chou.
During the last half of the nineteenth cen-
tury there were further bickerings between the
Japanese and Chinese, largely over Korea, which
eventually led to war between the two countries
in 1894. The military operations were in favor
of the Japanese who inflicted a severe defeat
on the Chinese at Pingyang. Withdrawing north
of the Yalu River, the Chinese experienced fur-
ther reverses. A Japanese army invested Port
Arthur, the capture of which was marked by a
ghastly massacre of unarmed men, women and
children, much the same as that which occurred
at Nanking in 1937. The Chinese never forgave
their Manchu rulers for the disastrous results
of the war with the little brown men. Repercus-
sions followed that led first to the Boxer Upris-
ing and later to the overthrow of the monarchy
and the end is not yet.
Japs Frowned On Republic
The establishment of the Republic of China
in 1911 was in reality unwelcome to the Japanese
who much preferred to deal with the decadent
Manchu dynasty. Consequently they resorted
to all sorts of undercover intrigues to the em-
barrassment of the newly established and not
yet fully stabilized republic. There is ample evi-
dence that Japan took full advantage of civil
discord in China to incite civil war by giving
financial support to mercenary factions in China
as for example, in the notorious Nishihara
Loans. But the rulers of Japan did not come out
in the open with their aggressions until 1915,
during the Great War in Europe, when they
presented their Twenty One Demands to China.
the obvious intent of which was to place Japan
in complete control of China. Japan was halted,
however, by the strong protests from America
and Europe. At a later date came the disclosure
of the infamous Tanaka Memorial, the author
of which, General Baron Tanaka, in 1928 did
everything in his power to thwar't the successful
Northern Expedition under Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-shek that led to the unification of China,
even to the extent of armed aggression at Tsinan.
But the atrocities committed by the Japanese

at Tsinan only served to deepen the dislike of
the Chinese for the over-bearing aggressive
islanders.
Feared Strengthening Of China
The success of the Northern Expedition and
the apparent growing unification and progress
of China served only to whet the appetite of the
Japanese militarists who now began to reason
among themselves that the Government of
Generalissimo Chiang and his associates must be
stopped at all costs lest China grow too strong.
Accordingly the Manchurian Incident was manu-
factured by the Japanese Kwantung Army in
1931. Upon the most flimsy pretexts the Japanese
invaded the whole of Manchuria, the real reason
being that Chang Hsueh-liang the ruler of the
three northeastern provinces, had aligned him-
self with the new government at Nanking. The
Japanese Navy succeeded in starting another
war of its own at Shanghai in 1932. After the
Japanese Navy had taken a drubbing from the
Chinese, the Japanese Army was called in a bitter
struggle that actually checked the Japanese until
they resorted to a flanking movement against the
less well-equipped Chinese. The Japanese gained
possession in the end of the field at Shanghai but
at a cost, for the Chinese then knew that the
Japanese were not invincible and that Chinese
soldiers could match the islanders on the field
of battle when the conditions were fairly even.
fered some revealing information on this subject
to the O'Mahoney Temporary national economic
committee.
Using figures of the National Resources Com-
mittee, of which he is a member,,Mr. Dennison

It Seems-To Me'
By HEYWOOD BROUN
I'm afraid people will fail if they
attempt to blow Deatherage out of
the window with nothing but raucous
laughter.
In all logic that ought to work. The
man seems disarmingly silly, but of
late the word has suffered much from
those sinister things which can come,
out of sheer stupidity.t
Lucifer remains in the background,
and the field work is done by the
dumbest of the demons.
Possibly that is the very danger in
the case of demagogues who seem
wholly fantastic fictional creations
and who most obviously burlesque
themselves.f
Brighter folk is camouflaged hide-1
outs pull the strings and all the timeR
the crowd roars at the antics of some
dancing doll the way of destruction is
being prepared around them. I
Hitler was an object lesson in point.
He seemed a clown from whom no
real harm could come in the begin-
ning. In his meek days in Munich,=
when he was trying to interest paint-I
ers in his dim and conventional water
colors, it seemed inconceivable that
here was the man who could destroy3
the culture of a great people and1
threaten that of all the world. But it
happened.
* * *
Give Humorists A Chance1
And so I do not think it will be
well for Americans to commit them-<
selves to a complete hysteria in the<
case of Deatherage. He is no morec
ridiculous than der Fuehrer in thei
days of his incubation.
But just the same I do not think
that humor should be set aside utterly
as a useful weapon. It has a bad
name right now with serious-minded1
people. You will hear that humor is;
the yward's livery and that anybodyp
who cracks a joke #r coins an epi-
gram is betraying freedom, and thet
good life into the hands of the Fas-
cists.c
But it is quite possible that the
fault lies not in the blade but in ther
practitioners who have attempted to'
wield it.I
They used to say that the Ku Kluxt
Klan was laughed out of existence.t
I'm not sure that's true, but therec
were wisecracks and punishing car-a
toons which didn't do it any good. V
A joke can have teeth in it. Humor
is by no means invariably an escape
from reality. So instead of takingI
cracks at wit and humor as institu-
tions we ought to be more critical of
the work of the wits and humorists.
They need not be either louder or
funnier, but they must learn to call
their shots. Too often the funny pieceI
or the funny column is like a sheriff'sk
shooting. There is grave danger that
some innocent bystander will get the
bullet in his leg while the culpritv
makes his getaway.
We need another Mark Twain or
Ring Lardner, or Bernard Shaw withr
twenty years shaved off. These aret
not things to be obtained in any short1
order lunch room. But I firmly be-t
lieve that somewhere there is beingt
prepared a young man who can usec
satirerwith all the deadly accuracy of
a young David.
Smooth And Round
There are smooth pebbles lying in
the brook fit to pierce the thick skulle
of the giant Goliath who stands in1
front of his army and challenges the
world to battle. He can be broughtF
down with a simple flinty piece of
good hard truth. Back goes the arm,
the missile flies, zowie, and another
faker bites the dust.<
And the trick lies in control as well
as speed. The man of God, as I re-
member, hit the monster of Gath
squarely between the eyes. The hum-<

orist will get no place in particular
by peppering the Fascist leader
around the ankles with buckshot.
When a real satirical stone is loosed
the hurler should remember the old
adage which runs, very nearly, "If]
you strike at a tyrant you must kill
him."
* * *
Advice To The General
I have never met Major General
George Van Horn Moseley. In fact,
as far as I can remember, it has not
even been my privilege to gaze upon
his picture.
Sight unseen, I conjure him up as
an old gentleman with a long white
mustache who fairly bristles with
military pomp, patriotism, and excel-
lent intentions.
Certainly no charge hurled at any
man by the Dies Committee should
be accepted in whole or substantial
part without check and doublecheck.
The General has a right to his day
in court, and he has already an-
nounced that, far from being a Fas-
cist, he merely seeks to lead true
Americans in defense of traditional
democratic principles.
And so it is in a friendly spirit that
I would like to offer a word of cau-
tion and advice to the retired soldier.
General, in spite of the intensity
of your devotion to the American way
your place is in the ranks and not in
the pivotal position of staff officer
behind the lines.
Time is a great leveler, and age lays
its finger mnon the hras hatsa w ell

DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University.
Copy received at the office of the Assistant to the President until 3:30 P.M,;
11:00 A.M. on Saturday.

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will be open from 8 to 12 a.m. and 1
to 5:30 p.m.-,
Seniors: The firm which furnishes1
diplomas for the University has sent
the following caution: Please warn
graduates not tohstore diplomas in
cedar chests. There is enough of
the moth-killing aromatic oil in the
average cedar chest to soften inks of
any kind that might be stored inside
them, resulting in seriously damaging
the diplomas. Shirley W. Smith.
The Angell hal Observatory will
be open to the public from 8 to 101
tonight.
The moon and some interesting
stars will be shown through the tele-
scopes. Children must be accom-
panied by adults.a
Literary Seniors: Important that
you order caps and gowns now from
Moe's Sport Shop. No deposit re-
quired.
Cap and Gown Committee.
Senior Engineers: A limited num-
ber of the mimeographed lists of
seniors which were not used at the
Annual Senior Engineers' Banquet
can be obtained in the Secretary's
Office. These lists include the name,
department, home address, and plans
for next year of each senior.
Academic lNotices
Final Doctoral Examination of Mr.k
Lowell F. Bailey will be held on
Saturday, May 27 at 1 p.m. in 1139
Natural Science Bldg. Mr. Bailey's
field of specialization is Botany. The
title of his thesis is "The Water Re-
lations of Some Western Grasses and
of Robinia Psuedo-Acacia."l
Professor F. G. Gustafson, as chair-1
man of the committee, will conduct
the examination. By direction of ther
Executive Board, the chairman has
the privilege of inviting members of
the faculty and advanced doctoral
candidates to attend the examination
and to grant permission to others
who might wish to be present.
C. S. Yoakum.
Final Doctoral Examination of Mr.t
Leon A. Wilber will be held on Sat-
urday, May 27 at 2 p.m. in the East
Council Room, Rackham Bldg. Mr.
Wilber's field of specialization is Edu-
cation. The title of his thesis is "TheI
Relation of Knowledge of Facts to
Power: A Study of the Relationship
between the Growth-which Secon-
dary School Pupils Make in Factual
Knowledge of History and the Growth
which They Make in Power to Solve
Civic and .Social Problem ."
Professor S. A. Courtis, as chair-@
man of the committee, will conduct
the examination, By direction of the4
Executive Board, the chairman has1
the privilege of inviting members of1
the faculty and advanced doctoral
candidatesrto attend the examination
and to grant permission to othersa
who might wish to be present.
C. S. Yoakum.
Students expecting to concentrate
in English: On Monday, May 29; the
examination in foreign language willc
be given at 7 p.m. in Room 2225 A.H.t
and the examination in English at1
8 p.m. in Room 2225 A.H.
Earl L. Griggs.
Psychology Master's Comprehen-
sive Examination will be held todayf
at 2 p.m. in Room 3126 N.S.
English 102, Make-up for second ex-
amination wlil be held today at 11
a.m. in Room 1025 Angell Hall.
J. L. Davis.
Fine Arts 192. Wednesday, May 31.
Special meeting at Museums Building
front door, 5 p.m. (Bring your own
equipment); followed by Special Re-
view 7 to 9 p.m., in Architectural
School Auditorium.

Final Examination, German 1, 2,
31, 32. June 7, 2-5 p.m.
German 1.-
25 Angell Hall. All sections.
German 2.-
1025 A.H. Schachtsiek, Sudermann,
Pott.
West Lecture Physics. Willey, Ry-
der, Diamond, Gaiss.
101 Economics. Philippson, Eaton.
B Haven Hall. Striedieck, Graf.
German 31.-. -'
C Haven Hall. All sections.
German 32.-
301 University Hall. Scholl.
West Lecture Physics. Diamond.
201 U.H. Wahr.
C Haven Hall. Van Duren.
101 Economics. Eaton.
101 Economics. Philippson.
306 U.H. Reichart.
West Lecture Physics. Gaiss.
B Haven Hall. Graf.
Biological Chemistry Seminar: To-
day from 10-12 a.m., Room 319
West Medical Bldg. "Nucleic Acids
and Nucleotides-The Alloxazine-
Adenine-Dinucleotide" will be dis-
cussed. All interested are invited.

its regular meeting today at 3 p.m.
in the West Conference Room of the
Rackham Building. The following
concert will be played: Beethoven;
Symphony No. 5 in C minor: Tschai-
kowsky; 1st Piano Concerto: Ravel;
Daphnis and Chloe. All students are
invited to enjoy these concerts, which
may be heard from the terrace as well
as in the Conference Room itself.
The Michigan Christian Fellowship
is sponsoring an open lecture on "The
Bible-To Believe It-Or Not," to be
given in the North Lounge of the
Michigan Union tonight at 7:45
p.m. The speaker is Dr. Wilber M.
Smith, Associate Member of the
American Schools for Oriental Re-
search. The Michigan Christian Fel-
lowship, under whose auspices the
meeting is being held, invites the stu-
dents and faculty to attend. If time
permits at the close of the meeting,
Dr. Smith will answer questions from
the floor.
The Lutheran Student Club will go
to Clear Lake this weekend. The
group will leave today at noon
from Zion Parish Hall, and will re-
turn Monday morning in time for
classes. All those wishing to attend
should make reservations with Carl
Guldberg, 9445.
Coming Events
The Graduate Outing Club will
meet at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, May, 28,
and will go for a hike. A picnic sup-
per will be served at Lookout point,
and the group will return by 7:30.
All graduate students are welcome.
All University Women: There will
be a steak roast on Monday evening,
May 29. The group will meet at the
Women's Athletic Building at 5:15.
The cost will Je approximately 35
cents. Please sign up -at WA.B. or
call Jane Brichan at 6944.
Bethelehem Student Guild outing
to Pleasant Lake's Club on Bass Lake.
Cars will leave the church at 3 o'clock
Sunday afternoon. Please make res-
ervations by calfing 7840 before Sat-
urday noon.
The Michigan Christian Fellowship
will hold its regular Sunday after-
noon meeting in the Fireplace Room,
Lane Hall at 4:15 p.m. Visitors are
welcome..
Churches
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Sun-
day: 8 a.m. Holy Communion; 9:30
a.m. Junior Church; 11 a.m. Kinder-
garten; 11 a.m. Morning Prayer and
Sermon by The Rev. Henry Lewis;
4 p.m. Students' and Young People'
Picnic at damp Newkirk. Cars leave
Harris Hall at 4 p.m.
First Baptist Church, Sunday, 10:45
a.m. Dr. John Mason Wells will preach
on "America Faces the Future." The
music will be in harmony with Mem-
orial Day. The Church Schools meets
at 9:30 a.m.
The Roger Williams Guild, stu-
dent organization, will hold its cus-
tomary Arboretum meeting on the
hill at the east side of the Arboretum.
The group will leave the Guild House
at 5:30 p.m. A picnic supper will be
served and a devotional meeting- will
follow.
First Church of Christ, Scientist,
409 S. Division St.
Sunday morning service at 10:30
a.m. Subject: "Ancient and: Modern
Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and
Hypnotism, Denounced." Golden
Text: Ezekiel 13:9.
Sunday School at 11:45.
Unitarian Church, State and Hu-
ron Sts. 11 a.m. Last of forum series,
on the topic "Relief and the Public
Good," discussed by Mr. Howard

Preston, county relief administra-
tor, and others. Cello solo by Miss
Gratia Harrington.
First Presbyterian Church, 1432
Washtenaw Ave. 10:45 a.m., Morn-
ing Service. "The New Past" is the
subject of Dr. W.,P. Lemon's sermon.
Palmer Christian,,at the organ and
directing the choir.
6 p.m., The Westminster Guild,
student group, supper and fellowship
hour. This will be the last meeting
for this school year. Weather per-
mitting, the service will be held in the
out-of-door theatre. A discussion on
"Our Ideas of God" will be led by Dr.
Lemon.
Disciples Guild (Church of Christ)
10:15 a.m., Morning worship, Rev.
Frederick Cowin, Minister.
4:45 p.m., The Guild will meet at
the Guild House, 438 Maynard Street,
to go for a picnic and vesper service.
If weather conditions are unfavorable,
the meeting will be at the Guild
House at 6:30 p.m. This is the last
meeting of the school year.
Reformed and Christian Reformed

More Accomplishments
Of The WPA .. .


SINCE its inception in 1935, the WPA
has served as a butt for stock jokes.
There are thousands who look upon it as a form
of New Deal extravagance, expending millions
to accomplish little or nothing. These "knockers"
who are so quick to find fault would do well to
investigate just what work the WPA is accom-
plishing.
Marking another milestone, the WPA Sewing
Project has established a Detroit factory for
the production of clothing to be distributed to
40,000 needy people. It is one of the most modern
power plants of its kind in the United States,
and will give employment to 2,000 certified WPA
workers under the supervision of a staff of 12
non-certified men and women.
Just as important as the, garments being
manufactured, is the .fact that 2,000 WPA work-
ers are being trained to do work through which
they will be able to find means of supporting
themselves for life. Instead of having 2,000 men
and women sitting idly by, perhaps sustained
by a dole, they are industriously employed, mak-
ing garments needed by others out of employ-
ment. In this way, the self-respect of the workers
is maintained and at the same time, they are
taught a real trade.
Garments distributed through the Project
help rehabilitate the recipients. In many cases
suits given to men were the first new garments
they had received in 10 years. The effect of a
new suit under such conditions is bound to be
helpful.
Social workers equipped to make studies of