THE MICHIGAN DAILY MICHIGAN DAILY II Edited and managed by students of the University of .chigan under the authority of the Board in Control of ident Publications. Published every morning except. Monday during the niversity year alid'Sunlmer "Session. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is. exclusively 'entitled to the e for republication of all news dispatches credited tq or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. Ali hts of republication of all other matters herein alsOf served. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as cond class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, 00; by mail, $4.50: REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL. ADVERiti N4 BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Rejresentatsve 420 MADISON AvE. NEW ORK, N. Y. CHICAGO ' BOSTON - Los ANaELEs - SAN FRANCISCid ember, Associated Collegiate Press, 1939-40 Editorial Staff Carl Petersen . . Elliott Maraniss Stan M. Swinton . Morton L. Linder Norman A. Schorr Dennis Flanagan John N. Canavan Ann Vicary . . Mel Fineberg . Managing Editor Editorial Director City ,Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor *Associate Editor . Women's Editor . Sports Editor RB . Sclssoe *J54 vuszness talf ness Manager . . Business Mgr., Credit Manager fen's Business Manager fen's Advertising Manager ications Manager r . 'Paul R. Park Ganson P. Taggart Zenovia SUoratlw .*J ane Mowers . Harriet S. Levy NIGHT EDITOR: KARL KESSLER - The editorials published ini The Michigaf Dlailyare written by member of The Daily I staff and represent the views of the witers ohly. - The Rediscovey x F-, Of America . . . VER SINCE Van Wyck Brooks . started his search in 1916 for a "usable past" in American life there: have been numerous attempts to derive from American his- tory justification for' certain contenpor-ary practices and ideas. Receorrse to tradition ha's, of course, always been the most successful mnethod. of appeal in any country -an1d at every stagein bistory: but in:America, despite the'coiiparative recency of the settlement of the 4fl0tizient : method has had particular success because of the persistent belief here that American Iii ti- tutions and the American psychology are sign- ficantly distinctive. For the most part this diligent conjuring up of the past has resulted in a noisy nativism and an arrogant disregard for the basic similarities in the problems confronting people all over the World. If, for example, racial and social Intol- erance has engulfed Germany, it is not at all a result of some ineradicable inhumaniity in-the German character, but rtJer the result of cer- tain economic and political cUses-causes which would undoubtedly affect Americana 1i the same way if they became pronounced here. There however, a distinct advantage in remindlt Americans of some of the democratic principles upon which this country was founded, if only to remind us of how far we have recently traveled from some of them. In this respect the recent announcement by the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom, consisting of scientists and educators pledged to protect and extend intellec- tual freedom and to combat propaganda for racial and religious discrimination or- intoler-. anee, that it has designated the week of Oct. 8th as American Rediscovery Week, will be of -inter- est to all who are concerned about our democ- racy. The project has already been endorsed by many public officials,; churchmen aind -educa- .tors, including Governors Townsend, Jones ari Carr of Indiana, Arizona. and' Colorado, respec- tively, the Rev. Samuel.McCrea Cavert, executive secretary of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, Miss Kathryn MHale, execu- tive director of the American Association of Uni- versity Women, Bishop Alexander Mann of Pitts- burg, Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton Utni- versity, and hundreds of others. The Commit- tee's proclamation states that our traditional rights are "once again being challenged by pow- erful foes of equality and liberty, both at home and abroad through attempts to curb freedom of speech and suffrage, through false racial theories, and through attempts to deny to the foreign born and alien the equal protection of the laws." The feature activity of American Rediscovery Week, the committee announced, will be a nation'. .wide series of meetings on Columbus Day, with the master meeting in the Court of Peace of the New York World's Fair. It would be entirely fitting for the Michigan meeting to be held here in Ann Arbor. This, we believe, is an excellent opportunity for the various groups of student and faculty organizations at the University to perform a real service to both democracy and education. -Elliott Marniss AS OTHERS SEE IT... Congress Must Choose.. To the Editor: Editors Maraniss and Petersen deserve high praise for their words of Sept. 26. They are virtually alone, among the opponents of cash and carry, in accepting the full consequence of their position. True, consistent, honest opposi- tion to President Roosevelt's recommendations can only come from people who abandon the anomalies of the status quo. The present hodge- podge itself contains more of the ,evils which righteous anti-repealers abhor than does the President's proposal. There are, tgough, very strong arguments against the "consistent" stand of The Daily editors. Those arguments will be suggested in a later letter. But what must first be stressed is that even if Messrs. Maraniss and Petersen were entirely correct, they would still have only given a solution characteristic of a pseudo-scientist who forgets to regard his actual data. Right or wrong, gentlemen, Congress is apparently not going to give any attention to your stand. Yours, and not "the entire debate concerning the neutrality act," is a "sham battle." There are not three alternatives: i.e. (1). Mr. Roosevelt's plan, (2) the status quo, and (3) the Daily editors' plan. The actual battle in Congress, and among the people, is being fought primarily between supporters of Mr. Roosevelt's revisions and supporters of the status quo. Not a single anti-repeal Senator, not even such influential supporters as Henry Fiord, Lindbergh, and the Bund, have dared pro- pose complete non-intercourse. The reasons why such political and economic celibacy can- not be considered will be suggested in a sub- sequent letter. The outstanding matter to be stressed now is that, apparently, we do not have your alternative to chose. A fundamental weakness seems to be that your chief criterion (the moth-eaten, single-thread explanation 'that "profiteers and munitions - makers are intent on getting us into the con- flict") is disproved by your own admission that "there is no easy and epigrammatic explana- tion. . ." So it seems at least fair to ask you to reexamine your stand along three lines. (1) Discover whether your proposal has any chance of becoming a factor in the situation. (2) Dis- cover whether Mr. Roosevelt's proposal or the status: quo is to be preferred, should these be the only effective alternatives. (3) Discover whether your non-intercourse panacea, though *dnittedly safer ground than the status quo can be for a i anti-repealer, is actually prefer- ableto the- President's proposals. In answering the first, -as has already been suggested, you are quite sure to ru into diffi- culty. The second reexamination may leave you even more uncomfortable for the following reasons. (1) There is more danger of an "inflammable in- ciden now than with cash and carry. All but processed military goods can now be carried In ouif ships to belligerents. ° Mr. Roosevelt would have all goods, of any kind, sent to the belliger- elts in their own bottoms. Travel of American ctizens on belligerent vessels would likewise be restrained. (2) There is nothing any more un- neutral about shipping finished war materials than there is in shipping the raw materials and in shipping the basic commodities necessary to the subsistence of belligerents' populations. You tacitly admit that when you retreat into your shell of isolation, of complete' non-intercourse (3) Shipment of raw materials to the allied bel- ligerents means that they must just lose time and energy, in processing them, which might . otherwise be spent in hurrying along the war. -This status quo condition subjects us to all of the dangers of helping the allies, without mak- ing that help effective. This consideration be- 9cmes especially significant if you can agree that the' character of American mass psychology is sucb- tlat, regardless of present protestations, we would be drawn in on. -the side of England and France if they were losing drastically. That is. whether we like it or not, an eventual defeat,° or near defeat, of the Allies must bring us in. If 20 per cent of our people would be willing to give military assistance now, in the event of allied losses; as Dr. Gallup reports, how long would it take for 31 per cent more to swing that way if disastrous defeat did actually seem imminent. Like it or not, that is a datum which may have to be accepted and reckoned with. Therefore it Is to our best interest to do all that we can under the guise of neutrality to help the allies to help themselves. The least this can do is postpone our entry into the war; the most it can do, and this is not at all unlikely, is remove the necessity for our ever having to participate in fighting. (4) Th danger of involvement in order to protect American loans abroad is greater un- der our present arrangement than it would be under cash and carry. With cash and carry the only pressure would be eventually that seeking to loosen the restriction on granting of credit. This pressure could be evaluated on its own merits, much later on, when many of the con- trolling factors in the scene might have been altered into others of those perplexing combina- tions and permutations which keep all of us from framing tight-fitting -analyses. The third reexamination would be only what debaters call an "even if" affair. Even if there were any chance of complete non-intercourse being the policy, would it be worthwhile? In spite of the length of your able and sincere treatment of this point, it may possibly be that there are reasons to make you falter here as well. However it would be asking too much for. you to consider more than what has just been said, for today. One possible economic analysis of the consequences of your "non-intercourse" will follow tomorrow. -James Duesenberry, Grad. -Robert Rosa, Grad. QLLIVER'S CAVILS BIy Young qulliver We're off! Gulliver does not like: (1) Hervie Haufler's editorial in Wednesday's Daily. (2) The "Cold Shoulder For Mooney" piece under Hervie's editorial. (3) Professor Slosson's letter to the editor. In order to finish off the editorial page, Broun's piece acted as. a mild irritant, ,orty Q was OK, and the DOB left Gulliver cold. Now let us apply ourselves to the task of analyzing the three major annoyances at yesterday's breakfast table. Hervie thinks our debt is too big. So does everybody else, including FDR. But Hervie has a new way of getting rid of it. We just tax everybody until we get forty billion dollars extra, and then we haven't got any debt. Now Hervie is a good boy and his heart is in the right place, although you'd never suspect it from his edi- torial. He knows perfectly well that the Federal Government has already cut down to the point where there is going to be a lot of suffering this winter; ex-WPA workers are going to have a tough time feeding the family. Why? Because the National Association of Manufacturers, the Chamber of Commerce, and other disinterested groups of small business men don't even want to pay for the WPA as it stands. They have th clever idea that the people who make just enough to keen off WPA should carry the WPA on their shoulders. This is what they mean by "restoration of confidence, "freedom from gov- ernment interference," "less bureaucracy," and so on, ad nauseam. Now Hervie, how do you expect these gents to pay off the forty billion? Or are the WPA lads supposed to chip in? The trouble with the liberals around here is that they don't read the Wall Street Journal carefully enough., Next comes the St. Louis Post-Dispatch story about Tom Mooney. They think it's a fine idea that the AFL unidns are giving Mooney the cold shoulder. Why? ' "Tom 'Mooney and his old- school radicaism have nothing to offer organ- ized labor today. What labor needs is not con- trovers but a unifying force, and the only thing Tom Mooney has ever united on was his camptign to gt himnslf out of jail." Well, boys, We might as well "chalk th'e Post Dispatch off our rapidly dwindling lit of decent American news- papers. Ifi Moo ney were still in jail, we might call the Dispatch artile kicking a man while he's down. But since he's out of jail, we'll call it kiciing a nan while -he's -just getting up off the floor. Mooney' has .dedicated the remainder of. his lif$ to fighting for the freedom of Warren K. Billings and' working for unity between the AFL and the CO. But the Dispatch evidently has another kind of unifying force in mind. It looks to ulliver as though -they'd like to see Mooey in the role of ''a stooge for Weeping William Green, John Frey, and the whole crew that runs the AFL. Rtinning the AFL seems to consist of collecting dues, attending dinners, giving speeches 'on historic occasions, and con- sorting at various times with big-time indus- trialists, finks, labor rats, strikebreakers and other assorted citizens, as well as defending the purity of the parent body with shouts of "Red!" at the -barest- whisper that there may be times when altal and labor do not see eye to eye. Dear Editors of the Post-Dispatch: Shame on you. Please cancel my subscription. Now Gulliver shall proceed to alienate Profes- sor Slosson. His letter boils down to an attack nn isolation and a defense of collective security. Gulliver shall overlook his factual errors (we rln't export Ford cars to Canada. The Ford Motor Co. Ltd. of Canada makes them there) and concentrate on his defense of collective security. With whom are we to collect? Regard- less of what we may think of the recent actions of. the USSR, they were willing to play ball with Britain, and it has been proved that Chamberlain blew his chances sky high by sending a couple of lance-corporals and a clerk from the Foreign Office to negotiate. Chamberlain doesn't want collective security with us. What he will want from us in the near future may be far more sin- ister. Ditto Daladier, who has tied France to the tail of the British Tories and reduced it to the. status of a second-rate pqwer. So we can't have collective security. Once Professor Slosson admits this, he may counter with the statement that he wants the U.S. to help England and France, since he has already linked our sympathy with Loyalist Spain, Czechoslovakia, and Ethiopia, with the future of England and France. To Gulliver this compari- son is extremely invidious. For England and France share the guilt for the fate of those three countries with -Hitler and Mussolini. This is no time to forget (1) the Hoare-Laval agreement, (2) the Non-Intervention agreement, (3) Munich. led the struggle against the fatal policy of appeasement, who insisted that genuine aid be given to Poland, and who today condemn the prosecution of the war under Daladier and Chamberlain as an imperialist slaughter. In America our own Hoovers and Tafts and Garners are pursuing a course similar to Dala- dier's. Their attack on the New Deal and every- thing progressive, their misrepresentation of the actions of the Soviet Union, their slanders and threats against the Communists-these are tactics calculated to pave the way for cracking down on the ,living standards and rights of all the people, for drawing America into the war on one side or the other in the interests of American imperialism. These tories are leveling their heaviest fire against the Communists and the Communist Party in America. They do so because here C~he Drew Person RobertS.Allen WASHINGTON-An reports from Europe indicate that the present war- time censorship is far stricter than during the World War. This is espe- cially true on the Western Front. From diplomatic dispatches not subject to censorship, however, it is now possible to draw a pretty good picture of what actually is happening on the Western Front. Most important fact is that the French are moving with extreme cau- tion and there have been no major gains. So far they have not pene- trated any part of the actual Sieg- fried Line. All of the towns and vil- lages which the French have cap- tured are located in a sort of no man's land between the Maginot Line and the real beginning of the Ger- man fortifications. The French have developed a heavy mountain tank which has been suc- .cessful in blowing up pill-boxes. But these pill-boxes hold only machine- gun nests, and are the outposts of the Siegfried Line. The heavier fortifi- cations have not been reached. Most of the French offensive so far has been artillery fire. Infantry has not been thrown into great action, largely because the losses from in- tantry charges against machine-gun nests are bound to be terrific. And th French are not anxious to have heavy casualties reported to the civil- ian population behind the lines. The shock to public opinion might be disturbing. Even so, French losses have been greater than the censored reports in- dicate. French advances in the Saar, while not great, have had one important effect. They have either taken away from Geimany or put out of commis- sion a vital coal-mining and indus- trial area. British Air Mystery On the British side, most important behind-the-scenes military develop- nent is in the air force. This has been mysteriously inactive. Reason is the disastrous result of the British air raid upon the Nazi naval station at Wilhelmshaven in the first days of the war. The -cen- sor failed to disclose that the British lost five of the twelve planes which participated in that raid. They were shot down by German anti-aircraft guns. This is a terrifically high cas- ualty rate, especially in a surprise bombing raid. The twelve British planes -ap- proached Wilhelmshaven at an alti- tude of 6,000 feet, then dove to 800 feet to release their bombs. Ordin- arily bombers count upon their div- ing speed of over 300 miles an hour to protect them from anti-aircraft guns. But the Nazis shot down five, an amazing record for anti-aircraft gunnery. All this has caused the British to do no more bombing themselves until they can work out new tactics. Until they do, they cannot afford heavy airplane losses, since Britain is far behind Germany in air strength. Raskob's Ranch For some time New Mexico has been speculating over the sudden purchase of 100,000 acres of land by John J. Raskob, director of General Motors and former head of the Demo- cratic National Committee. Raskob, it was rumored, had struck oil. Other rumors had it that he had found gold. No one, however, had the temerity to ask him until Evie Robert (Mrs. Chip Riobert), glamour girl of the Democratic Na- tional Committee, visited Santa Fe this summer. Evie lost no time in popping the question. "What are you going to do with all that 100,000 acres of New Mexican desert," she asked Raskob. "I'm going to run cattle on it," was his meek reply. Note: Patrick J. Hurley, ex-Secre- tary of War, also experimented with a brief New Mexican residence, there- by starting rumors that he would run for the Senate. German Cables Inside fact regarding the Nazi cablegrams urging neutrality letters to Congress is that they were picked up by British intelligence agents. The British got them from the transatlantic cables, virtually all of which are British controlled. The messages were decoded and given to Ambassador Joe Kennedy, who sent them to the State Department. In each case, a name and address accompanied the cable, and it is these addresses which J. Edgar Hoover's G-Men are now investigating. The cables asked various groups in the United States to deluge Congress with letters urging that the arms embargo be retained. Here is the text of one, cable sent from Germany in cipher and decoded by the British: "In view forthcoming meeting of Congress and possible amendment of neutrality laws following the alleged Athenia incident and bombing of open towns of Poland please ask alla our American friends at once to ap- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Copy received at the office of the Summer Session until 3:30 p.m.; 11:00 a.m. Saturday (Continued from Page 3) 1, University Hall. If you are expect- ing mail which you have not received, please call at - Room 1, UniversityC Hall, and make inquiry. - Rooms With Pianos: Residents of Ann Arbor who have pianos available for student practice, are respectfully requested to list such rooms at the office of the School of Music. Pleaset call Mrs. Farkas, phone 7513. . Union Registration: In order to serve students who, due to special working hours, are not able to regis- ter at the regular hours of 3-5, the registration time is being extended from 1-5 for this week only. Regis- tration service will also be available today from 7-9 p.m. at the student7 offices. -. The University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information] has received notice of the following Civil Service examinations. Last date for filing application is noted in each case:y United States Civil Service: Senior Oyster Culturist. Salary: '$2,000. Oct. 2. Senior Aquatic Physiologist. Sal- ary: $4,600. Oct. 2. Senior Plant Anatomist. Salary: $4,600. Oct. 2. Senior Soil Physicist. Salary: $4,- 600. Oct. 2. Assistant Physiologist (lant Hor- mones Investigations). Salary: $2,- 600. Oct. 2. Biochemist (Nut Investigations). Salary: $3,800. Oct. 2. Pomologist (Fruit Breeding). Sal- ary: $3,800. Oct. 2. Pomologist (Physiology). Salary: $3,800. Oct. 2. Associate Agronomist (F r ag e Crops). Salary: $3,200. Qct. 2.. Assistant Agronomist (F o r a g e Crops). Salary: $2,600. Oct. 2. Assistant Agronomist (Catto). Salary: $2,600. Oct. 2. .- Assistant Pathologist (Corn In- vestigations). Salary: $2,600. Oct. 2. Head Scientist-Astroiomert be Director, Nautical..Almanlai.. Salary: $6,500. Oct. 9. - Galley Designer, U.S. Maritime Comm. Salary: $3,800. Oct. 9. - Chief Engineering Draftsman (Me- chanical). Salary: $2,600. Oct. 9. Principal Engineering .Draftsman (Mechanical). Salary: $2,390'. Oct. 9. Senior Engineering Draftsman (Mechanical). Salary-: $2,00. :Oct. 9. Air Carrier Inspector (Radio). Sal- ary: $3,800. Oct. 9.. Junior Domestic Attendant (Seam- stress). Salary: $1;320 Oct. 9. Michigan Civil Servce:' Social Worker A and- B. Salary range: $105-150. Oct.'4. Social Work Administrators I, .II, III. Salary range: $150-310 Oct. 4. Attendant Nurse C2, B2 and B. Sal- ary range: $75-125. Oct. 8.. Detroit Civil Service: Auto Repairman. Salary: Prevail- ing rate. Sept. 30. J u n i o r Architectural- Engineer (Housing Analysis). Salary: $2,580. Oct. 7. - Junior Accountant. Salary: $2,580. Oct. 7. Senior Technical Clerk .(Account- ing). Salary: $1,860. Oct. 7. Complete announcements on file at the University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information, 201 Mason Hall. Office hours: 9-12 and 2-4, Academic Notices Ph.D. Examinations in Chemistry. The next preliminary and qualifying examinations will be held as follows: Analytical Chemistry, Friday, Oct. 6; Organic Chemistry, Tuesday, Oct. 10; Physical Chemistry, Friday, Oct. 13. All examinations are held in Room 151 Chemistry Building and start at 1 p.m. Those planning to take any one of these examinations are requested to consult with the Chairman of the Graduate Committee in Chemistry not later than Sept. 30, 1939.; School of Education Students- Changes of Elections: All changes of elections of students enrolled in this School must be reported at the Regis-. trar's office, Room 4 University Hall. After Sept. 30 such changes may be made only after payment of a fee of one dollar. Membership in a class does not cease or begin until all changes have been thus officially registered. Ar- rangements made with the instruc- tors only are not official 'changes. Classes in Speech Correction: Stu- dents interested in obtaining the services of the Speech Clinic for the correction of speech defects are re- quested to call at the Clinic, 1007 East Huron Street, sometime during this week for the purpose of leaving class schedules. Announcement of time of classes will follow latcr.- ~- Students Interested in Actuarial' Examinations: There will be a meet-' ing today at 4 p.m. in Room 3011 AstrQnoiny 53 will be held tonight at 7 p.m. in Room 5006 A.H. Mathematics .235, Differential Ge- ometry. Will meet Tuesday, Thurs- meeting today in Room 3010 A.H. day, and Saturday at 11 o'clock. Next G. Y. Rainich. Math. 327, Seminar in Statistics, There will be a meeting of those in- terested to arrange hours today at 12 noon in 3020 4.H. C. C. Craig. Math. 349, Seminar in Applied' Mathematics. Preliminary meeting to arrange hours, Friday at 2 p.m., in 319 West Engineering Building. R. V. Churchill. German 11: Will meet from 5-6 in Room 225 Angell Hall. Frank X. Braun. German 167: Will meet in 301 U.H. from 4-6 on Friday, Sept. 29 J. W. Eaton. Speech 25, scheduled to meet in the Speech Clinic, 1007 E. Huron St., will 'meet hereafter in 212 Angell Hall, English M, Sec. 3 will meet in 302 S.W. instead of in 2219 A.H. H. V. S. Ogden. English 211g; Pro-seminar in Amer- ican i terature meets this af- ternoon, Sept. 28, 2-4, in 3217 A.H. Basic text -is- Miller and Johnson's "The Buritans." J. L. Davis. English 230, Studies in Spenser and His Age. A meeting at 4 p.m. today, in 2213 A.H., will be held to decide upon the class hours of English 230. M. P. Tilley. English 300H. The class will meet today at4 p.m. in 3217 A.H. -M. L.. Wllllanms. English 45, Sec. 2 will meet in 2219- -A.H. instead of 302- SW-. - M L. Williams. Lectures Pharmacy Lecture: Dr. Ralph W. clark, MPirmacy Service Depart- rnent, Merck a nd Company, will speak on t!-top1c,' ."Developing 'a Prescrip- tion Depatnent," at 4:15 p.m., Fri- day, Sept. 29, in Room 303, Chemis- try.Building. Pharmacy students and others interested are cordially invit- ed to'attend. Toays Events Union Tryonts: There will be a meeting -fal men desiring to try out for the Union staff in Rooms 319-325 at 5 p.m. today. If for any reason it is impossible to attend this meeting, notice of intention to try out may be left in the student of- fices from 3-5 p.. -All sophomores and eligible seond semester fresh- mhen are urged to attend. Union Executive Council. Varsity Glee Club: Rehearsal and tryouts for new members, tonight at 7:30 p.m. Varsity Glee Club Rooms, 3rd floor, Union. Physical Education for Women: Exemption tests in baseball, hockey, volleyball, basketball and soccer will be given at the Women's Athletic Building today at 4:30 p.m. Ann Arbor Independents: There will be a very important meeting this af- ternoon, at 4 p.m. in the League. Be there. Archery Club, Women Students: The omen's Archey Club will meet in the lounge of the Women's Ath- letic Building today at 4:15. Ali those interested in joining the Club this fall please attend. Both novice and advanced archers are welcome. Sociedad Hispanica will hold a meeting of all officers today at 3 p.m. in 302 Romance Languages building. Thursday Afternoon Tea at the International Center: The first of a series of teas to be given each week at the International Center will be held this afternoon, from 4 to 6. All foreign students of the University are invited to attend these teas and at any time. bring. with t hem their American friends. J.. Raleigh Nelson. Coming Events Candy Booth Committee: There will be a meeting Friday, Sept. 29, at 4 o'clock in the League for all girls interested in working on this committee this year. Physical Education for Women: Exemption tests in dancing will be given at the Women's Athletic Build- ing on Friday, Sept. 29, at 4:30 p.m. Children's - Theatre Production: Tyouts for the first'Children's The- atre production of the year, "The Stalin The Winner