ICHIA DAILY THE MICHIGAN DAILY _ i,,:o 1 , rl PM eitJ,6 T TH e~r e OrsTt4T raPurUm , IWrOn iAm fl4M .....,..- Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer session. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newpaper. All tights of republication of all other matters herein also6 reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, is second class mail matter. Subscriptions during the regular school year by carrier $4.00; by mail, $4.50. REPRE§ENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTIING 1V National Advertising Service, Me. College Publisbers RePesetative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. C'HICAGO * BOSTON . Los ANGELES * SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1940-41 FC Promotes Cooperative Effort ... COHESIVE though a single fraternity may be in its group friendship, scholarship and living, it is comparatively rare when a group of campus Greek Letter societies will band together to work for their common in- terest. Collective action means that the frater- nities much push to one side their petty, juvenile disputes tending towards movie-like collegiate # rivalry, and recognize that they are strengthen- ing their position in the eyes of their members, the independents and the University. Michigan's Interfraternity Council, composed of representatives of all of Michigan's social fra- ternities, is making an important move in this direction, important not only because it is a step. that is economically wise, but because it repre- sents a principle of friendly cooperation. AKING ADVANTAGE of its collective pur- chasing power, the IFC has appointed a five- man committee to form a collective purchasing system for the purchase of meats. Under this plan, not yet put into effect, the purchasing com- mission will deal directly with a national meat packingconcern, through a local outlet. Thus all fraternity meat purchasing will go to one Anti Arbor store, causing no change in the present method of ordering. Payments will be made on a iercentage of cost-the middleman will lose his financial bargaining power. This will mean a 5 per cent to 7 per cent saving for the fraternities, a saving that will be passed on to the members of the fraternities. The com- mittee expects to cut $350 from the fraternities' monthly meat bill of $5,000. If successful, the plan will be expanded to cover fraternity pur- chases -of canned goods, coal, fresh vegetables, milk and laundry 'services. Twenty-three fraternities have already given their unreserved approval to this cooperative plan; eleven more houses are now awaiting a vote of confidence from their members. Lack of cooperation can spike this plan. Clearly it is one of the most worthwhile actions of the Interfra- ternity Council and deserves support from all sides. By this action Michigan's fraternities have proved that they are alert to reason, that they recognize the responsibility of their position on campus and that they refuse to permit an injuri- ous weapon like racial differences to interfere with a sensible, well-organized effort towards general improvement through collective action. - Will Sapp FIRE & WATER by mascott f r . /r -- 11Letls Keep It Going. Editorial Staff. Hervie Haufler' Alvin Sarasohn aul°U. Chandler Karl Kessler Milton Orshefsky Howard A. Goldman Laurence Mascott Donald Wirtchafter Esther Osser Helen Corman S. . Managing Editor . . . Editorial Director . . . . city Editor . . . Associate Editor . . . Associate Editor . Associate Editor * . . Associate Editor Sports Editor * . . Women's Editor * . . Ekchange Editor Business Staff Business Manager . Assistant Business Manager Women's Business Manager Women's Advertising Manager Irving Guttman Robert Gilmour Helen Bohnsack Jane rause NIGHT EDITOR: DAVE LACHENBRUCH the editorials published in The Michi- gan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Why Not Radio Critics?,. . EVERY "ART" and "art medium" to- day, whether it be boogie woogie music, needlepoint tapestry, the motion picture or the third rate novel, has its critics. There is one notable exception-there is no bona-fide, mature professional criticism of our greatest medium, our most popular art, by far the great- est educational influence on the lives of Ameri- cans-the radio. Admittedly poor books that scarcely run into 400 copies find their way into the book sections. The crudest "Western" cin- ema will be featured in the movie reviews. But, Robert J. Landry, editor of Variety, claims in Princeton's Public Opinion Quarterly, "the only art medium with a universal audience, the one conduit for ideas that must be kept un- clogged if democracy is to survive i practically without any organized, extensive, general criti- cism." Landry explains that critics would be- come "professional radio watchmen" who would strive to keep radio as the country's greatest editorial force from destroying democracy by presenting false ideas of life, and possibly from propagandizing a nation away from its demo- cratic form of government. THIS CRITICISM would in no way be censor- ship-no more than drama critics exert cen- sorship'over the theatre. There is no doubt that ~Father Coughlin was vicious-but he could not be removed from the airlanes. The network would not eject him, nor would the politicians, but an impartial, influential critic, would not have been fooled or intimidated so easily. The radio industry, although it is managed by private commercial enterprise, is a part of the public will. The radio critic will be able to ob- serve and point out to the public how well the stations maintain their promises to serve the people. Politicians too frequently gain control of the material the public is to consume, through lobby groups or ownership, and radio becomes a viciously destructive tool. The professional critic would, with experience, be able to debunk false claims and see through propagandistic and dis- guised programs. The critic would be able to evaluate clearly the significance and importance of incidents which stir up radio sentiment, such as the Orson Welles and "obscene song" cases. RADIO COMMENT IN NEWSPAPERS, other than notes on what Kate Smith does on her vacations, has never been encouraged, firstly because radio has not heretofore beenconsidered a mature art, but a mixture of hillbilly and jazz music and slapstick comedians, and secondly be- cause of the commercial nature of the industry. A newspaper does not want its critic to take a slap at an afternoon soap drama if the soap concern is one of the paper's largest advertisers. This obstacle is still to be combated, but unnec- essarily, because constructive criticism is some- thing to be welcomed by the sponsor. It is not like the motion picture industry. If the program is poor, if his advertising approach is insulting, his manner propagandistic, he can readily change his approach and soar higher, rather than sink lower, in public opinion. The commercialized radio system in the United States has been a success to date, but now the fundamental concepts of the radio sales approach seem to be changing and breaking down. Radio is more and more getting into the habit of asking RcbetS. Ates THE CASE of democracy vs. Henry Ford is rapidly coming to a show-down. The participants will not be democracy as an abstract but rather as legitimately represented by the CIO. And it will not be Henry Ford and his son Edsel that will be on trial, but rather a whole system of organized brutality. We refer particularly to the labor-spy-service-man net- work, the speed-up, and the "rugged individual- isms" which attempts to maintain itself by vicious propaganda and force even when that "rugged individualism" is socially out-dated and con- trary to the law of the nation. THE CASE specifically deals with the CIO de- mands for an election in the Ford River Rouge and Lincoln plants. It is a demand that is en- tirely justified under the Wagner Act. Today, March 26, is the critical day in which Dearborn Democracy will be given its first test. That test will be the willingness of the Ford Motor Com- pany to accede to a general election among its employes. It is quite possible, however, that the Ford Company will only accede to. an election after extensive litigation. It is quite probable, more- over, that when that election finally takes place, the CIO will easily win a substantial majority of the Ford employes. At that time will come the second test of Democracy in Dearborn: Will the Ford Motor Company be willing to enter in good faith into collective bargaining with the CIO? We already have Harry Bennett's answer: "We'll bargain until hell freezes over, but we won't give in." Unfortunately, Mr. Bennett fails to realize that there i' more than mere letter to law, there is also a spirit. It is a recognition of the spirit of the law, a recognition of "give and take" in the democratic process which makes democracy. But excessive legalism is always the last refuge of the anti-democrats and can be expected from that company which, in the past, by some as- sumption of "divine right" unto itself has always stood above the law. FORD DEMOCRACY has been tested before. It has been tested by the LaFollette Commit- tee; it hasbeen tested by NLRB in Texas; it has j been tested by countless union agents and sym- pathizers. In most cases this democracy has been found to be a brutal record of broken skulls and battered men. In the days of the NRA, it was revealed as a total disregard of the national law. In the period since the 1920's, it has often been revealed as a record of intolerance and reaction. But the battle for Democracy in Dearborn is not only the battle of the CIO. It is, curiously enough, the battle of the other automobile manu- facturers who must compete with Ford and Ford conditions (which are poor when compared to the rest of the industry.) It is, above all, the battle of all those who envisage democracy in Michigan and in the United States and rightly see the policies of the Ford Motor Company as one of the greatest obstacles to that democracy. THOSE POLICIES of the Ford Motor Company deserve a far more ample and savage attack than we have given above. Unfortunately, we are limited by space considerations and the real- ization of the power of the Ford Motor Company in the state of Michigan. But though we may "pull our punches," we hope that the CIO and the U.S. Government will not. Those punches deserve the full support of everyone who believes in democracy. There can be little democracy in Dearborn or in the United States unless those punches are effective. jRECORDS Victor has gone music-hall, too, for one of its recent feature popular releases. Patricia Gil- more, regular vocalist with Enric Madriguera, is singing with appropriate stridency the pathetic tale ("I've Got To Get Hot") of a would-be opera star who has to keep on shakin' to make her eggs 'n' bacon. It apparently is a ballad that has'been making the circuit for quite a while in summer vacation-camps, but Miss Gilmore breathes an appealing freshness into it. She is less success- ful, however, with the reverse side, "Give Me Time," a heated plea which needs something more than an exaggerated shrill. In both cases, the orchestra provides an excellent background, featuring in the first number a remarkable mocking trumpet in answer to Miss Gilmor'e lyrics. "NE THING about Mercer Elhngton's composi- tions, whether you like them or not, they will be different. Recall his first number, "The Girl In My Dreams Tries To Look Like You," and then listen to his latest, "Blue Serge" and "Juinpin' Punkins." As Father Duke does them for Victor, the first is all mood, minor, low and weird; the second, carefree with a rhythmic jump led bX Barney Bigard and Ben Webster. Both are inter- esting, although you may have to play them sev- eral times. Wayne King makes his first local appearance this year with a softly-smooth version of "We Could Make Such Beautiful Music Together," one of the better moonlight-and-roses songs. Someone unidentified, probably Wayne King, does a romantically pleasant vocal. The other side, coming after Goodman's interpretation of the same tune, is an unfortunate rendition of "These Things You Left Me." FOR THE RECORD: Tony Pastor has turned out for Victor a solid, rocking "Oh Marie" that keeps your feet going all the way, even while Tony is squeezing out the vocal. The platter- _ n 4- Yn l r'ac +. b. vwinYtY itwYa e- m C nrt ... "tif FEEAL/ I 4 k /S. , / .e /y j ..OS) / . DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN A WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1941 VOL. I.. No. 125 I f WASHINGTON --Colonel "Wild Bill" Dono- van, semi-official observer who has been touring the Near East, brought a decidedly gloomy report back to Washington. Donovan told Secretary of the Navy Knox and Secretary of War Stimson, the two Republican members of the cabinet who were largely respon- sible for sending him, that British chances were anything but rosy in the Balkans. The Greeks, he found, were riding the crest of the wave but were successful more because of their super- humAn bravery and the weakness of the Italians than because of their real military strength. Against a strong, well-equipped foe, such as the Germans, it would be a different story. The Turkish army, Donovan also reported, is poorly equipped when it comes to modern weap- ons of war and is worried over Russia. In North Africa he found that General Wey- gand was not disposed to act independently of Vichy, and the French in general seemed de- spondent, floundering in their policy and almost completely lacking in leadership. Note-Colonel Donovan got his name "Wild Bill" in the famous Rainbow Division where he was wounded three times, was awarded all three U.S. medals for bravery. He later served as assistant attorney general under Coolidge. saleslady, Luck. This includes diamond ring con- tests, the distribution of $1,000 at random via the phone book in order to sell stomach pills, and you know the others. Because radio is largely influenced by the in- terests of the advertisers, its powerful educational potentialities can be so abused as to approach the point of destroying democracy entirely. This commercialism must be held in check-if un- checked, it may lead to what Landry terms "monopoly of the medium by the most unprinci- pled, hardest-hitting, best financed merchan- disers. This would be a further step in the tyr- anny of the few over the many." The critic must assume several points of view and judge the airings from as many standpoints as possible, for instance: theatrical perfection, educational connotation, propagandistic charac- ter or social impact of programs. The critic must do more than act as a critic of the acting ability of Pa Thomson on the after- noon Bachelor's Wives' Children program or any of the other tools of escape-living America. He must be a bonafide defender of social democracy'. He must be "neither too serious, the glaring fault of pedagogs, nor too flippant, the natural ten, dency of journalists." He should not have an axe to grind, and should adapt radio-criticism as a bona fide career, not as a stepping-stone to one. ECOGNIZING the value of this service, The Publication in the Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Notices To Members of the Faculty, Staff and Student Body: Attention of everyone is called to the Lost and Found department of the Business office, Room 1, University Hall. In- quiry concerning lost articles should be made promptly at the above men- tioned office. Articles found on the campus and in University buildings should be turned over immediately. Those articles not called for within 60 days will be surrendered to the finder. Shirley W. Smith. Greek War Relief: The local com- mittee of the Greek War Relief Asso- ciation has requested that those of us on the Campus assist in their drive for funds this week. Identifying but- tons at $10 eachkmay be had from the following: Angell Hall, Professor Carlton F. Wells:1Haven Hall, Professor Robert C. Angell Tappan Hall, Professor Charles L. Jamison; Law School, Pro- fessor Paul A. Leidy; Natural Science, Professor Frederick K. Sparrow; Chemistry, Professor Chester S. Schoepfle; East Medical, Professor BradleyM. Patten; Museum, Dr Josselyn Van Tyne; East Physics, Professor Ernest F. Barker; West Engineering, Professor Arthur D Moore; East Engineering, Professor Orlan F. Boston; Library, Mr. Samue W. McAllister; Dentistry, Dean Rus- sell W. Bunting; Information Desk Business Office. Herbert G. Watkins, Assistant Secretary. Students, College of Engineering: The final day for REMOVAL of IN- COMPLETES and for DROPPINC COURSES WITHOUT RECORD wil be Saturday, April 12. A course ma: be dropped only with permission o9 the classifier after conference witY the instructor. A. H. Lovell, Secretary Freshmen in the College of Litera ture, Science, and the Arts may ob tain their five-week progress re- ports in te Academic Counselors Office, Room 108 Mason Hail, from 8:00 to 12:00 a.m. and 1:30 to 4:3 p.m. according to the following sched. ule: Surnames beginning I through C Wednesday, March 26. Surnames beginning P through 2 Thursday, March 27. Surnames beginning A through 1I Friday, March 28. Arthur Van Duren, Chairman, Academic Counselors Biological Station: Applications for admission for the coming Summer# Session should be in my office before1 April 15, when they will be consid- ered. An announcement describingc the courses offered can be obtained at the Office of the Summer Session or from the Director. Application forms can be secured at Room 10731 N.S. from 2 to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. A. H. Stockard, Director . Students, College of Literature, Sci- ence, and the Arts: Courses dropped after Saturday, March 29, by students other than freshmen will be record- ed E. Freshmen (students with less than 24 hours of credit) may drop courses without penalty through the eighth week. Exceptions may be made in extraordinary circumstances, such as severe or long continued illness. E. A. Walter Assistant Dean Bronson-Thomas and Kothe-Hild- ner prize competitions will be held on, Thursday, March 27, from 2 -5 p.m. in Room 203 U.H. Members of faculties and staff of the University willing to accommo- date visiting high school students at, tending the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association meeting, for the r nights of May 1 and 2, are urgently requested to get in touch with Prof. John L. Brumm, 213 Haven Hall, as soon as possible. Owing to the usual Ann Arbor room shortage, all pos- r sible cooperation will be greatly ap- preciated. Engineering College Faculty and Students: By action of the Executive Committee, classes and laboratory sections in the college, excepting those in use for demonstration pur- poses, will be dismissed on Saturday, March 29, in order to facilitate the operation of the 1941 Open House. A. H. Lovell, Secretary. Metal Processing 4-Section 3: We have been informed that a fee of $0.50 will be charged as admission for students to the Tool Show at Con- vention ,Hall in Detroit. For this reason, no students are required to make the trip. , However, a trip will be made'for those who care to go at the scheduled time. International Center Vacation Tours: Two inexpensive conducted bus tours are being planned by the International Center for foreign stu- dents, American 'students, fachilty and townspeople: 1) To Mammoth Cave, the Lin- coln Country, the Tennessee Valley, and the Smokies National Park. 2) To Washington, Tidewater Vir- ginia, and the Shenandoah National Park. For details inquire in the Trave1 Bureau, Union Room 18, of the Inter- national Center, where Mr. Ochs; tour planner, will hold office hours between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. every day except Sundays and Mondays. Summer Jobs: A settlement house ,amp located in New York is in need of young men to act as counsellors next summer. Applicants should be over 20 years of age, seniors, with two years camp experience in some spe- cial field. There is also an opening for a head counsellor, 25 yrs. of age. There is a salary offer above main- tenance for the head counsellor, but none for the counsellors. Further (Continued on Page 6) RADIO SPOTLIGHT WJR WWJ CKLW WXYZ 750 KC - CBS 920 KC - NBC Red I 1030 KC - Mutual 1240 KC-NBC Blue Wednesday Evening 6:00 News Ty Tyson Rollin' Bud Shaver 6:15 Hedda Hopper Newscast; Tune Home The Factfinder 6:30 Inside of Sports Bill Elliottm Conga Day In Review 6:45 Melody Marvels Lowell Thomas Time. Baseball Extra 7:00 Amos 'n Andy Fred Waring Happy Joe Easy Aces 7:15 Lanny Ross Royal Review val Clare Mr. Keen-Tracer 7:30 Meet Cavalcade Carson RobisoA The Lone 7:45 Mr. Meek Of America Serenade; News Ranger 8:00 Ed. G. 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