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Adjustments
After The War .. .
THE NATIONAL RESOURCES PLAN-
NING BOARD'S six-year program
to meet the need of preparing for post-emergency
adjustments indicates that the Administration
recognizes the grave problems that will face this
country after the armament boom is over.
It would mean certain depression if nothing is
done immediately to maintain the flow of na-
tional income after the ten or more billion dol-
lars of defense investment has ceased. Most
economists are agreed that a sound public works
program is the best answer to the problem. Such
public investment could stimulate the economy
until private investment assumes a satisfactory
level. At the same time the nation would be
enriched if the public works projects were them-
selves beneficial to the community. Low-cost
housing developments, for example, would be
one the best places for public investment.
IF GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT is to be suc-
cessful, however, it must be intelligently
planned and not just a haphazard emergency
scheme to distribute public funds. By success-
ful, we mean that it should have the confidence
of business which is necessary for a proper level
of private investment.
Even in the long run a large public works pro-
gram is necessary if the views of such an eminent
economist as Alvin Hansen are correct that the
tendency to save in our dynamic economy runs
ahead of investment opportunities so that gov-
ernment must step in to maintain a suitable
national income.
A SOUND PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAM should
be planned in advance so that it can take
effect immediately. Also it should be self-
liquidating.
The Board's recommendation that a revolving
be established immediately by the President for
the inauguration of surveys, investigations and
preparations of engineering plans and specifi-
cations for selected projects certainly deserves
commendation.
Plans for this type of activity are not incon-
gruous with present defense efforts. As the
President declared, "We must focus public
thought on the ideals and objectives of our
national life. We must seek a wider understand-
ing of the possibilities for that future we pre-
pare to defend."
A member of the economics faculty in a recent
discussion of this subject pointed out the sig-
nificant consideration that "our hopes for the
future depend on the plans we make now."
-Alvin Dann
Who's Spending More?
As the national defense and lend-lease pro-
grams moved into high gear, the United States,
which hasn't declared war on anybody, may
soon find itself in the curious position of spend-
ing more money for military purposes than Great
Britain, which is fighting a war on a half-dozen
fronts. Observers at Washington figure it this
way:
By Jutne, arms plants will be turning out de-
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well performed, proper replacements for old men
and outmoded practices cannot be made, either
in peace or war. I submit, therefore, that even
in a crisis it is important to examine proposals
and measures for defense as they relate to and
involve institutions of higher learning and the
services which these agencies are capable of
rendering. At its best, war, including prepara-
tion for war, is a highly wasteful activity and
every effort should be made to reduce the losses.
."The Present Situation"
"We now have compulsory military training.
Our able-bodied young men between twenty-one
and thirty-five must spend a year in military
service. At a very general estimate, a half mil-
lion of our youth in this age range are in college.
The conscription act defers the induction of
these men into the service until the close of the
present school year. Unless the provisions of
the measure are modified by interpretation or
legislation, those preparing to be doctors, den-
tists, engineers, chemists, teachers, with all oth-
ers, must leave school for the camps as their
numbers are called. Their training will be in-
terrupted, in many cases never to be resumed.
They will spend at least a year learning many
things not at all related to the services they were
preparing to give to their country. The stream of
skilled men flowing into society will be checked
at the source, to the loss of important arms of
the military service and of the civilians who
must support the armed forces.
"School authorities may endorse student appli-
cations for deferment under the section of the
act which provides for deferment by occupa-
tion. It is doubtful if this provision was meant
to apply to men in college and certain that it
will not be consistently effective when used. The
final decision as to men to be accepted at given
times is left with full authority to the draft
boards, and in their diversity these agencies are
not likely to give the applications equal con-
sideration. At present some students are de-
ferred upon their own representations, while
others are refused deferment even when their
applications are endorsed by college and univer-
sity authorities.
Nation's Health Endangeed
"Another feature of the present situation
which should be noted is the dearth of trained
men in several professions which guard the
health of the army and the nation as a whole.
The army needs doctors, dentists, and pharma-
cists, but too few are now being produced for the
needs of the general population. If the number
is still further reduced by taking men out of
training, great suffering will result. In some
measure this also applies to men preparing to
give skilled service in other walks of life.
"A third condition to be considered is the drive
being made by industry to induce men of college
age to foi'ego or shorten their college training.
Admittedly the defense program has resulted in
a great demand for men in plants making wa
materials. It would, however, appear to be short
sighted practice to sacrifice the supply of trained
men to secure a limited number of unskilled
workers.
"Finally, it should be observed that, as in the
first world war, skilled teachers are being called
into service eifher as reserve officers or for other
reasons, to the great detriment of instruction.
Conceivably, this is sometimes unavoidable, but
there is little evidence that, when they are
called, consideration is, or will be, given to the
need of these teachers for the operation of ade-
quate training programs. If history repeats it-
self, as in some respects it seems about to do, the
schools may soon be aked, as they were in 1918,
not only to raise new generations of experts but
also to give instruction to men in the service
with badly depleted staffs.
"All in all, our schools are not being allowed
to give their best to the country.
NO CAREFUL ANALYSIS of present conditions
can safely ignore student attitudes. They
are at present, as might be expected, as con-
fued and diversified as those of the older gen-
er ations. At the same time, one discerns a deep
and growing dissatisfaction, not to say distrust,
with a social order which forcibly interferes with
the training of college men preparing to serve
the "national health, safety, or interest." The
students realize they are caught in a cataclysm,
not of their own making, and are reasonably
resigned to the situation. They also see, how-
ever, an enormous standing army in the process
of construction and want to know where it is to
be used, especially since the country is not at
war. Even if the nation were at war, they can-
not see how a large army could be of real service
to the United States in anything like the present
conflict. Why, they ask, are they called away
from work that is highly important both in war
and peace to perform less important tasks in
alien lines of activity.
Rising Student Discontent
"These questions are being asked by students
in all schools and colleges. They recognize that
those specializing in the health sciences, engi-
neering, and allied fields, the "necessary men"
in the terminology of the selective service act,
may be more efficiently used in the present
process of building an army, but they also ob-
serve that it is equally important to the nation
not to delay or terminate the training of those
who are preparing themselves for other kinds
of service.
"I believe the rising tide of discontent, misun-
derstanding, criticism of democracy, and indict-
ment of the present order of the world is likely
to be serious, since the men who are now study-
ing of a musket becomes necessary, the social
scientist is quite willing to do his part as any
other member of society, but until that time,
clearly arrives, are we not making a mistake so
seriously to interrupt and disrupt the developing
patterns of thougt of the rising generations of
citizens?
Michigan's Position
Michigan will try in every way to work with
the military authorities in the materialization
of the defense program. At the same time, she
will continue to voice objections to provisions
and interpretations of the conscription act which
take men out of training, at least in certain pro-
fessional fields. Further objection will be made
to the withdrawal of teachers when this means
the depletion of staffs of instructors needed to
train citizens who can efficiently serve the coun-
try in peace and war-behind the lines as well
as in the trenches. In every possible way stu
dents who can do so will be urged to remain in
college until their course of training is finished.
"Michigan will agree that, if a large army is
necessary, if many men are needed to carry rifles
and operate machine guns, then mass training of
all the available man power is essential and no
right-minded person would for a moment object
to turning his hand in any way that will assist
his nation. However, until the time arrives when
mass training is essential to the national wel-
fare, she will continue to ask if there is not a
better way to give basic military training to men
at the college level than that which is now in
prospect. She will suggest that it would be far
wiser to work out a plan involving extensive use
of summer encampments and stepped-up winter
training in the R.O.T.C. programs, and will insist
that co-operation between educational institu-
tions and the military forces will produce better
citizens both for peace and war than an isolated
year of instruction in military science. She will
point out that, while sacrifices are demanded and
will be made, there is no good reason why they
should be unnecessarily expensive.
Schools Are Defense
"The general position of the University will be
that the safety of the nation in war as in peace
requires that the schools as well as the indus-
tries be kept at peak production.
"The University expects criticism of her stand
as just outlined, for there are people who still
think of war and defense chiefly in terms of
marching men, fighting machines, arms, and
ammunition. Specifically, it will be claimed that
a proposal for deferment of men in college is
undemocratic and tends to create a privileged
class. The argument is, of course, absurd. An
efficient military organization cannot be demo-
cratic, and to attempt to give to a war machine
the appearance of being so by methods of con-
scription which really rob it of the men and
services it needs to operate successfully is merely
trying to fool the public at great cost.
"Another misinterpretation of the position of
the University which may be heard is that her
officers are minimizing the dangers and are
chiefly concerned with protecting their institu-
tions against loss of students and income. Such
an assertion or inference would be false and
unworthy of straight-thinking, public-spirited
citizens. There is no thought that the colleges
should be places of refuge in a time of trouble.
The sole desire of the institution is to utilize
fully its resources in an adequate program of
defense, to make clear that the army cannot stop
the production and at the same time have the
needed number of training men, and to empha-
size that, while military forces must be strength-
ened when the country is threatened, the civilian
population also must not be neglected in such
times if we are to preserve the American way
of life.
"STUDENTS who have asked for deferment to
complete their training have already been
accused of lack of loyalty and a desire to avoid
the sacrifices which other young men must make.
This is the unkindest cut of all. These men are
not asking for exemption, and they should not
have their lives scarred by false accusations.
They are only trying to do what every good citi-
zen should aspire to do-get themselves prepared
to give the best they have fortheir country.
"As I have said before, you have on numerous
occasions come to the assistance of your Univer-
sity. You have seen Michigan not as a school
devoted to the training of narrow specialists and
good technicians, nor as an asylum for young
people between the ages of eighteen and twenty-
one. To you she is a great international institu-
tion of higher learning, which, through a well-
rounded program of research, formal training,
and informal instruction, endeavors to increase
knowledge and produce well-informed, broad-
minded, clear-thinking, honest, able, conscien-
tious citizens for our democracy. Because you
have this concept of the objectives of Michigan
and higher education, we ask your aid in this
trying period. By understanding the difficulties
confronting her and properly interpreting her
stand, you will be assisting not only your school
but others to give the best service to our people."
See You Again
At the signing of the treaty partially dismem-
bering French Indo-China, Japanese Foreign
Minister Matsuoka ceremoniously said:
By this signature, friendly relations between
France and Thai have been restored, and a bond
of co-existence and co-prosperity between Japan
on one side and those two nations on the other
has been further cemented, thereby contributing
in some measure toward the establishment of
peace in Greater East Asia and the world.
CHILDREN are simple people. They
are also selfish people. They are
Wise. To a child the world is subjec-
tive. It is a place designed to give him
pleasure or pain. Yet at the same
time the child recognizes certain
rules. He will allow that might is
right. He will dominate those whom
he is able to overcome in a fist fight,
and will accept the domination of
others on the same terms.
If he can run faster than another
child who can beat him up, the child
will mock the better fighter and run
away. If he gets caught, that's that.
If he is a better marble player,
or can throw a baseball better than
the other children of his set, he will
use his accomplishments for all they
are worth. He will expect certain
recognition of his prowess and
though he may not be a mighty
fighter, he will ask a certain respect
on the playground. He will feel that
marbles or baseball are the most
worthy occupations in the world, and
will say so at every opportunity.
YET HE WILL DREAM always of
being a great fighter in addition
to his own personal attainments. He
will observe and accept the fact that
even if a bully is beaten at marbles,
he can still grab up all the -mibs,
set himself for a fight, and none will
challenge him.
His dreams are mostly of two sorts.
Sometimes he dreams of becoming
great and famous by following along
the game at which he already excels.
Other times he dreams as I say, of
being big and strong, and coming
back some day, on a big black horse,
maybe, and cutting all the bullies who
have wronged him to shreds. But
for the most part, if he were not bul-
lied, the child would be content to
play marbles or baseball. And the
bullies, if they could do anything
else, would not bully. They are not
born bullies. They sink into that state
because they cannot do anything alse
well.
PLEASE YOURSELF, and-might is
right. Thus the child. He grows
older. He Becomes Educated.
Please yourself. The child reads
books, and meets more people, and
refines the first rule so that it is
obscured, but it is still there. Refined,
it reads, please yourself by pleasing
others. Might is right. Might, the
Educated Man says, is a relative term.
It may mean just what I am doing.
In my little field (playing marbles
or deciphering inscriptions or throw-
ing a baseball or studying the violin)
I am a mighty man, and none can or!
will overthrow me-says the Educat-
ed Man. And among his likenesses,
within the perfect internal logic of
the Intelligent People, the dreaming
set, right indeed is the Educated Man.
IN A BEER GARDEN, not in a col-
lege town but across the tracks,
by the factories maybe, some place
that needs its windows washed, some
place that has no pictures of foot-!
ball teams on the walls, a bully stands
up, kicking his chair over, and knocks
a man down for something. The man
fights and is beaten, or slinks away
onto the street outside. In a pool
room, again a plain dirty pool room,
a little guy who shoots a good game
of pool beats a big guy. The big guy
will not pay. What does the little
guy do?
. In an old stone school on the Hud-!
son River young men sit and study
Tactics and Discipline and Tra-
dition, and when they get out of
class they Build Their Bodies at the
very large gynnasium. On the side
they get a little French, some Eng-
lish, and often much mathematics
and chemistry of the more practical
sort, not indeed for the sheer love of
knowledge. They have square jaws,
these young men. The beer garden
bullies had better not try any of their
tricks with these young men. They
are Physically Fit.
Nor had any of those crazy, imprac-
tical, often Red college professors,
better try anything with a gentleman.
The trouble with those fogies is they
don't understand anything about
Discipline.
AND IN WASHINGTON there are
other young men from the old
stone school, men who have grown
a little older, with an orderly to black
their boots, and perhaps the mem-
ories of a day when they ordered
ten thousand men to Charge, and the
Officers' Mess serving choice bits.
during the campaign (behind the
lines, behind field kitchens, out of the
mud, the boots gleaming there be-
neath the linen table cloth). The
square jaws have gone to jowl a lit-
tle, but they are still square, Sir!
What are the young-old men doing?
They are planning, son. What are
they planning? They are planning
An Army, son. What is the matter
with the army they have? It is Not
Big Enough, son. Big enough for
what? Big enough For What?, son.
A COLLEGE STUDENT says he
other people, he says. Don't be fool-
ish, they tell him. This is an emer-
gency. We need Big Business' coop-
eration. They have to expand their
plants so we can equip you men.
What, is there not yet equipment for
us?, says the student. No, but you'll
be ready when it gets there, they
say. Ready for what?, says the stu-
dent. No, he says finally, I do not
think I will join the army. I am a
specialist. I have certain accomplish-
ments in my own line, but my line is
not yours, it has nothing to do with
an army. All right, they say. They
put the student in jail. Think it over,
they say.
RIGHT YOU ARE, says the beer
garden bully. That guy's a slack-
er. The bully gets a wage raise. He
is working in a Key Industry. His
boss also gets a raise. Nobody seems
to know just how much. In a free
economy, you have to pay for what
you want. That is the democratic
system. All have an equal voice, and
if the beer gardens and the old stone
schools and the patriots past the age
say so, then go it is, unless there are
enough who say not go. But there are
indeed many who say, donot go. Don't
be so smart, son. Get in line. This
is An Emergency.
Indeed it is, nods the child who
reads and thinks. Indeed it is.
Four years, studying under the
lamp that does not make enough'
light, reading until the eyeballs are
red, worrying about examinations,
finding a work that gets holds of the
mind and forces such work as would
never have been expected from the
mind. Four years, often more, chas-
ing after a dream of respect and
knowledge and peace some day.
THE EDUCATED MEN look at one
another. We- are Mighty Men,
they say. Their voices and their eyes
are not sure. We have Accomplished
Things, they say. They cannot take
all this away from us: There is a
(?) in their brows. This is not just,
say the Educated Men, and poor
children watching their marbles go
into the big guy's pocket, they mean
it.
Indeed, are not children terrible
people? So long until soon.
ing at
24.
7:00 p.m., commencing March
The lectures, which are without
academic credit, are designed to pre-
pare students who are candidates for
commissions - in the United States
Naval Reserve for possible active serv-
ice through acquaintance with the
provisions of the Naval Code and
Customs of the Service. The series
will include two lectures delivered by
officers of the Bureau of Ships at
4:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 27, and
Tuesday, April 8, and two lectures by
officers of the Bureauof Aerohautics
at regularly scheduled times on May
5 and 19.
The lectures are open to interested
members of the Faculty.
-Lyal A. Davidson, Captain U.S.
Navy. Professor of Naval Sci-
ence and Tactics.
Lecture: "Techniques for Securing
a Position," to be given by Mrs. Roxie
A. Firth, Assistant to the Director in
Teacher Placement, University Bu-
reau of Appointments and Occupa-
tional Information, at the Michigan
League on Tuesday, March 25, at 7:30
p.m. Sponsored by Pi Lambda The-
ta, and open to the public,
Events Today
Graduate Students and others in-
terested are invited to listen to the
broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera
Company this afternoon in the Men's
lounge of the'Rackham Building. The
opera will be "Aida."
International Center: This after-
noon two roundtable groups at the
International Center will convene as
follows: the Science Round Table at
:30 in Room 23; Mark Dresden of the
Netherlands will lead the discussion
of the subject, "The Development of
the Concept of Elementary Particles."
At 3:30 the Social and Pblitical ?rot-
lems Group will be led by Fakhri Ma-
luf in the discussion of the subject,
"Cosmopolitanism versus Interna-
tionalism."
Women's Glee Club: Rehearsal to-
day at 1:00 p.m. in Rehearsal Room,
League, for performance for tne Wo-
men's Club, Tuesday, March 25.
Outdoor Sports Club: There will be
a reorganization meeting today at
2:00 p.m. in the Women's Athletic
Building for all people interested in
biking, canoeing, hosteling, hiking,
roller skating and cook-outs. Come
dressed for hiking or roller skating, if
weather permits. If interested but
unable to attend, call Elizabeth MTahl-
marl (5558 Stockwell).
Coming Events
German Table for Faculty Mem-
bers will meet Monday at 12:10 p.m.
in the Founders' Room, Michigan
Union. Members of all departments
interested in German conversation
are cordially invited. There will be a
brief talk on "Die japanische Buehne
imt 18. Jalirhundert."
Pre-Medical " Society: The trip' to
Eloise Hospital will take place Wed-
nesday, March 26. All members de-
siring to go are asked to pay sixty-
five cents each to cover the expense
of the trip. Payment of fee with pre-
sentation of membership card may be
made to Clayton Mannry, Klaus Deh-
linger, Gene Fairbanks, or Gordon
Haaxma, preferrably by today, in
order that final plans for transporta-
tion may be carried out.
Oratorical Contest: Preliminary
contest wvill be held at 4:00 p.m. Mon-
day, March 24, in 4003 Angell Hall.
Five-minute talk based on oration
may be used. Participants should
register at the Speech office, 3211
Angell Fall, if they have not already
done so.
International Center Vacation Tours
Two inexpensive conducted bus tours
are being planned by the Interna-
tional Center:%
(1) To Mammoth Cave, the Lin-
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R. RUTHVEN'S SPEECH last
night will probably be remem-
bered as the most courageous of his
career. He spoke plainly and elo-
quently about something he feels
deeply. He spoke with full knowl-
edge that his words will be battered
by a storm of opposition.
Dr. Ruthven was pleading for
the case of students on campuses
throughout the nation. We appre-
ciate this from the bottom of our
hearts, and there are thousands
more like us.
SINCE LAST SUMMER we have
been waiting for someone to say
what the president covered in one
paragraph:
It will be claimed that a pro-
posal for deferment of men in col-
lege is undemocratic and tends to,
create a privileged class. The argu-
ment is, of course, absurd. An
efficient military organization can-
not be democratic, and to attempt
to give to a war machine the ap-
pearance of bein so by methods
of conscription whch really rob it
of the men and services it needs to
operate successfully is merely try-
ing to fool the Public at great cost."
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