THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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HE MICHIGAN DAILY
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onvoys Are
The Next Step .
H OW TO AID BRITAIN without in-
volving ourselves in a war, is the
question of the moment. Proponents of the idea
have stressed the fact that while they believe in
sending England all the materials that can pos-
sibly be sent, they are in no way in favor of the
United States entering the fight. All we want
to do, they say. is supply England with the
necessary implements of war. England will do
the rest.
ND A MAJORITY of those who sponsor this
policy have thought no further. There are
obligations which we must invariably undertake
if we supply Great Britain with materials. The
most pressing of these problems is, how are the
materials which we manufacture over here go-
ing to get to England? The people who demand
all aid short of war have also said that we
should not use convoys, it's much too dangerousl
a method. The chances of our getting into war
will increase many times with American ships.
transporting war materials across the subma-
rine-infested Atlantic. No, England must supply
the ships to carry the goods she needs home.
BUT are the American people going to sit by
quietly while the materials which England
needs sit on the beach here, waiting for trans-
portation across the ocean? The fact must be
realized that if we are going to aid Britain, we
shall have to see that she receives our goods.
And that means we must get the materials over
there, even if we have to do it ourselves. There
is no other method of transportation but con-
voys.
N THE LONG RUN, one cannot advocate aid
to England without assuming that convoys
may have to be used. One without the other is
no aidto Britain at all. So, if we want to supply
England with the materials she needs, we must
be fully aware that convoys are the next logical
step. If we stop thinking halfway through the
problem, we shall be flying blind half the trip.
No country can afford not to see where the road
leads.
-Eugene Mandeberg
From Automobiles
To Defense . .
N ATIONAL DEFENSE HEAD William
K. Knudsen's recent announcement
of a 20 percent curtailment of automobile pro-
duction during the 1942 model year, the result
of the voluntary agreements made by manu-
facturers in their desire to serve the defense
program, is not entirely the patriotic and altru-
istic move it might appear to be at first glance.
The curtailment is not actually such a monu-
mental step.
THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY at present is
reaping the profits of a big selling year
based, not on expert salesmanship, but upon
the public's desire to buy. This rush for cars
has resulted in the fact that purchasers are
borrowing from next year's market-they are
buying cars they would not buy under ordinary
conditions until next year. This abnormal boost-
ing of the 1940-1941 sales will serve to equalize
the drop during 1941-1942, preventing any finan-
Moql 1r, that might sem 'unaoiable with the
"0 N FIRST IMPULSE I would like, on gradua-
tion day, to pick up my textbooks and throw
them as powerfully as I could, right smack at
the center of the center door of Angell Hall. In
that gesture I should finally be able to express
my disgust at the failure of the University to
turn out thinking students. In that futile, foolish
pitch I would articulate my contempt for an
educational system which swallows adolescent
children from the high schools and disgorges
them unspoiled and unchanged after four years
of so-called higher training.
"When I look at the gigantic buildings of
Michigan, when I watch the thousands of stu-
dents filing merrily along, blankly oblivious to
any purpose which could give their day-by-day
existences meaning and direction, I feel a murky,
black despair. Where can one start, what can
one change, how can one overcome the all-
permeating indifference which sabotages Spring
Parleys and Student Senates, peace rallies and
protest meetings, which permits an outmoded
curriculum to persist in its ineffectiveness,
which allows incompetent teachers to prattle
away their ill-digested and disorganized subject
matter, which carries along with the utmost
nonchalance a time-wasting, if harmless, system
of extra-curricular inactivities."
Thus two years ago did a previous Dailyman
write his valedictory, indicate his disgust with
his four years of education. And we, in this,
probably our last column, can only censure his
summation because we feel that it is not bitter,
not savage enough.
W E ARE BITTER at the University of Michi-
gan (and at all the whole education system)
because in the hour of democracy's greatest
struggle the University has not taught us democ-
'racy. We are bitter at the engineers and law-
yers and we have already expressed that bitter-
ness. We are bitter at the social scientists be-
cause they stick to their false ivory towers, learn-
ing their-petty specializations, loving their petty
details, failing to attempt any correlation be-
tween their respective fields, failing to strike out,
to demand action consistent with their research.
Our social scientists have no guts, no imagina-
tion. The history of the U.S. and the world in
the past few decades proves the point. Our apa-
thetic student body, lit students et al., who re-
fuse to participate, who take no action in
perpetuating democracy and seeking its better-
ment, are the result. Our chaotic world, fast
going to hell, is partly the world our supercilious
social scientists have not really tried to destroy.
NOR HAVE WE HERE LEARNED HONESTY.
I personally never learned honesty from the
extreme leftist groups who double-crossed me
and many others at any time it was expedient
for them to do so. Their word was just as value-
less as that of some of the goody-goody boys in
the clean white shirts and well-pressed home-
spun-looking suits who proclaimed their faith in
a democratic god and then would blandly violate
their word and solemn promises in the name of
political tactics. But they too got much of their
education from some university officials who
would state that some particular action is not
even contemplated -hen it has already been
passed and officially decreed.
Possibly this column is not specific enough-
but if anyone cares for specific instances, I can
cite them endlessly. Possibly this column is not
too rational, possibly badly organized, but it is
sincere-and sincerity is a little known trait
when we see hypocrisy practiced by almost ev-
eryone including the President of this country.
We refer you to Walter Lippman's recent columnn
on that score.
JF, HOWEVER, we are incoherent, blame it on
the sheer, deep, bitter hate we have for the
hypocrisy practiced by many in Ann Arbor and
blame it on the disillusionment created by an
educational system that has so apparently failed
(look at the present state of the, world) that
does nothing to improve itself and that main-
tains its smugness, its pettiness behind the very
same walls that hold in and smother ideas and
action rather than create them.
So today we write our last column and thus
bid farewell to The Daily which has been to a
very large extent our college education. The
Dailymen are a swell bunch of boys and girls.
The only trouble with them is that the poor
fools actually believe in democracy and wish to
express that belief with sincerity. And those
who know democracy only as a name, a catch-
all for perpetuating their petty tyranny, try to
suppress active youth in their legitimate desire
to understand and better the sordid world in
which they unfortunately live.
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0 MY NAME is Samuel Hall, Samuel Hall,
Samuel Hall.
And I hate you one and all,
You're a bunch of muckers all.
Damn your hide.
The last little ditty is addressed to the people
who are too stupid to see that the world is fall-
ing apart and that the status quo, both in
education and economics, cannot be maintained
because it has failed, miserably failed, failed in
a bath of tears and in an era of hate, blood and
iron. It is addressed to those who talk in plati-
tudes of "maintaining free economic enterprise"
and "individual liberty" when free economic
enterprise and individual liberty died when un-
regulated capitalism began creating the world
for many of the functions of both types of manu-
facturing are similar and will require, for most
employes, only two or three weeks' training in
basic work.
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But all the pleasant things are drowned under
the welter of dishonesty and disillusionment
that we've seen in Ann Arbor and in Washing-
ton. We probably shall soon enter a war in
which we have no understanding of the peace
we desire, in which we cripple the democracy
we are seeking to save.
We've said before "You can't put democracy
on ice." We say again that when we enter this
war by signing a blank check, with no aims and
purposes revealed, we will have lost all hope.
Hope for democracy.
BUT LET'S END IT ALL on a constructive
note. We do have guts, and imagination and
initiative. We can shape our own destiny and
that destiny can be one of peace and compara-
tive plenty. We can fulfill the promises under
which America was created.
We'll have to scrap a lot of our old ideas, how-
ever. We'll have to re-shape our educational
scheme so that all with the ability to attend
college can attend college, so that our competent
professors are enabled to leave their ivory towers
while the incompetent ones are fired.
TE'LL HAVE TO MAKE DEMOCRACY MEAN
SOMETHING. Freedom of speech and press
meant very little to the people when they never
had the economic means to express themselves.
We'll have to regulate our industries by having
our government go into competition with them
in an attempt to find a "yardstick" and in a
test of "survival of the fittest." We may have to
go even further.
But let's have the courage to experiment and
the sensitivity to build in the interests of the
people. We may seek Utopia, although, we know
we cannot find it as yet. But we can try, and in
that attempt, we shall undoubtedly progress far
beyond the rotten stage in which we find our-
selves now.
"THE FOOL tries to climb the mole-hill and
though he may succeed, he will not climb so
far as the wise man who attempts to climb the
mountain." Quote Mohammed or Confucius or
Anonymous. But the idea is sound. Let's try
that mountain. We need only use democratic
tools, and use our intelligence and initiative
and guts.
LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
in its own image. It is addressed to those who
in the name of freedom wish to destroy freedom.
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NTOSTALGIA for the University of Michigan
and Ann Arbor. Some, yes. For the good
times, for the beer, for some swell people whose
friendship we will always cherish, for all the
screwy things we've seen and done. I hope I
die laughing.
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(This is the third in a series of arti-
cles describing army life by a former
Daily man, John Schwarzwalder, who
is now serving his year's training. The
articles have been passed by army
censors.)
THE QUESTION of how much leave
a soldier gets and when and how
he gets it, is one which apparently
has the civilian population of this
country in a state of complete be-
wilderment. Nor is this surprising.
Most of the soldiers are bewildered
too. The subject is one which only a
first rate mathematician should at-
tempt to master, although a few of
the easier fundamentals can, per-
haps, be grasped by a few hours of
complete concentration.
To begin with, army regulations
state that both officers and men are
entitled to thirty days leave per year.
This, as one officer remarked, applies
only if you can get it. One sergeant
told us he had but sixty days leave
in twenty-four years. It is entirely
probable that he was such a good sol-
dier that he didn't want any more
leave than that, but even so it gives
a rough idea of the situation. More-
over, since the selectees are engaged
in intensive training, leaves are by
no means so freely granted to them
as might be the case in less urgent
times.
There are also post regulations ofj
each particular camp to be considered
and in many cases rules are set up
either to keep the men in camp or to
facilitate their going home to see rel-
atives and friends, depending upon
time, place and circumstances. Spec-
ial passes for urgent business or per-
sonal reasons may usually be gained
providing good cause is shown.
is that he seldom knows when he is
going to get a weekend pass until the
day before it arrives. This makes the
going a little difficult when you have
to ask Mary to give up her oppor-
tunity to go to the Firemen's Ball
on the chance that you may be able
to get to town. In general Mary
seems pretty willing to bold her plans
in abeyance in the interests of na-
tional defense, but life can get rather
complicated for all of that.
Once given his pass the soldier is
away from the post in a hurry. Us-
ually he wears his uniform since that
has to be in repair and what civilian
clothes he may have in camp are less
likely to be. And woe to that soldier
who goes home in civilian clothes
when his family is anxiously awaiting
to see him in his uniform. Regulations
allow and even encourage the soldier
to wear civilian clothes off the post
but few soldiers do so. To begin with,
no man now wearing the uniform is
ashamed of it. By a trip to the tail-
or as tight a fit as desired may be
gained and there is no real reason the
soldier should not look well in it, or
at least as well as he can look in any
clothes. Besides, that old line about
the uniform and its effect on women
still holds good and in these troublous.
days a man needs all the help he can
get. We are also told that very shortly
a reduction in railroad fares is to
be given to men in uniform and any
reductions are gratefully accepted
when you are earning but twenty one
a month.
THE MOST disagreeable thing
about leave is the habit older
THEN there are passes which allow members of the family, casual ac-
the soldier when off duty to leave quaintances over the age of fifty and
the post from five p.m. to eleven complete strangers have of saying "If
p.m. and other passes allowing the I were only thirty years younger I'd
older and higher ranked men to leave be right with you. Yes sir, there's
after retreat and return in time for nothing in the world I'd like to do
the next morning's reveille. These better than go back to the army and
latter are rather rare and usually are do my time all over again." About
given only to men with some ten three members of the American Le-
year's service behind them. gion in any given night club can
The greatest inconvenience a sol- make life pretty glum for the selectee
dier suffers in regard to these passes' who wishes devoutly that all the old
boys COULD do it again if only they'd
stop bothering him.
The family's reaction is always that
Johnnie looks wonderful in the uni-
form and that his eyes are clearer
and his muscles bigger and his step
more elastic than they ever were be-
fore. Whether or not this is the case
the reaction is always the sae. There
IS something about olive drab that
has nothing whatever to do with logic.
Mary's reaction is always much the
same and she and mother 'both in-
quire about the food with real inter-
est. You can tell them whatever you
like, good or bad, and it doesn't make
any difference.. They still think you
look healthier than ever in your life
before. Which is all right, I suppose.
Another annoying thing soldiers on
leave have to contend with is the
question of promotion. Civilians in
this peace-loving country seem to
have no idea or army ranks or grades
and the experience of the selectee
who -went home after twenty-one
days' service and was seriously asked
how soon he thought they'd make
him a major is by no means rare.
This sort of thing is especially an-
noying when a man has worked like a
dog for three months and been given
his first stripe (Private, First Class)
and comes proudly home to be asked
how much longer it will be before
he is Ja captain.
F MEMORY serves (as it so sel-
dom does) there is a provision in
the Selective Service Act that pro-
motions are limited to three .grades
during the year of service. No Of-
ficers Training Courses are open until,
the expiration of six months 9f ser-
vice and then an additional minimum
of three months is required before
a commission is granted, if then.
Moreover, promotions are under-
standably given first to regular army
men who have had more training
than the selectees and who will be
in the armed forces for a longer per-
iod of time. Hence, it is extremely
doubtful if any of your sons or neigh-
bors are going to coaie home as ma-
jors and if they do you'd better look
for rodents in somebody's woodpile,
It can't happen here.
DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN
(Continued"from Page '4)
of the
May 3.
League by noon,
Saturday,{
To the Editor:
T HERE IS NOW and always has been a great
deal of argument as to the real nature of
education. As usual, the older generation tells
the younger generation what is good for them to
read, what they must learn, what jig they must
dance to in order to become an educated per-
son. And the young listen to them-that is,
most of the young listen to them.
One of the stock situations in the monotonous
drama of the classroom is a scene such as the
following:I
A PROFESSOR sneezing gently over the moth-
ball aroma of his secluded existence begins
to castigate one or several of the young writers
out in the world. Last year an English professor,
because he did not fully understand it, took
time to deplore the University Lecture given by
W. H. Auden. Last year an instructor in the
,English department wrote an article on Auden
for Perspectives without having read Auden's
most important, and most representative work,
Journey To A War. Last Wednesday, an English
professor took time in class to direct a tirade
against Auden. Mr. Auden, he argued, is a sexual
pervert and therefore should be ignored, his
authority denied. Mr. Auden, he continued, has
a distorted perception of the world. About 50%
of our modern writers are a bunch of perverts
and are rotten through and through, he orated.
Why should we pay attention to such a bunch of
abnormal snobs, he asked.
WVELL, my dear professor, that is the question.
You asked it and no one in class was given
a chance to answer it. May I answer it now?
Your intolerant remarks on Auden and other
young writers merely unveils your own ignor-
ance. You need not memorize Freud to know
that it is only the neurotic, only the exceptional
person who can judge and interpret the world.
Like a few more of our professors-but not all
of them thanks to the law of averages-you
imagine that the world is something like the
regions adjacent to the diagonal. You are snooz-
ing in a lethargy of book-learning, or perhaps
suffering from constipation of awareness if you
think that the world that Auden describes and
interprets is not the most characteristic part of
the real world.
VOu ARE SAFE in Ann Arbor, in the sheltered
life of a college town and in your professor-
ship. And you are also safe from my indigna-
tion. I have no intention of either lampooning
you or listening to your philosophy of medium
smugness.
W. H. Auden, and many of the young writers
you advertise as being too rotten to listen to
v 4 4 f a naeT,_n c- nin- n" l-. - ar r
The University Bureau of Appoint,
ments and Occupational Informationt
has received a notice from the Schoola
of Applied Social Sciences at West-t
ern Reserve University, Cleveland,
Ohio, that they are offering various
opportunities in the field of social
work in their professional graduate
school of social work. Applications
for the September, 1941, class may
be submitted during the month of
May. Further information on file at
the Bureau, 201 Mason Hall. Office
hours: 9-12 and 2-4.
The University Bureau of Appoint-
ments and Occupational Information
has received notice of the following
Michigan Civil Service Examinations.
Last date for filing application is
noted in each case:
Civilian Conservation Corps Selec-
tion Supervisor III, salary $250, May
16, 1941.
Liquor Store Clerk C1, salary $95,
May 21, 1941.
Liquor Store Manager A2, $115,
May 21, 1941.
Liquor Store Manager Al, $140, May
21, 1941.
Liquor Store Manager I, $150, May
21, 1941.
Wholesale Liquor Store Manager II,
$200, May 21, 1941.
Institution Dental Hygienist B,
$105, May 16, 1941.
Institution Barber B, $105, May 16,
1941.
The Bureau has also received notice
of the following United States Civil
Service Examination. Last date for
filing application is May 28, 1941.
Principal Training, Specialist, sal-
ary $5,600.
Senior Training Specialist, $4,600.
Training Specialist, $3,800.
it Traivnine ecialist. 3-
tats," Saturday, May 3, at 8:30 a.m.
in 3089 Natural Science Bldg. Chair-
man, L. R. Dice.
By action of the Executive Board
the chairman may invite members
of the faculties and advanced doc-
toral candidates to attend the exam-
ination and he may grant permission
to those who for sufficient reason
might wish to be present.
C. S. Yoakum
Concerts
A carillon recital will be presented
by Percival Price, University Carillon-
neur, from 7:15 to 8 p.m. Sunday,
May 4, in the Burton Memorial
Tower. Prof. Price will play Scandin-
avian folk songs, works by J. S. Bach,
and some of his own compositions for
the carillon.
Exhibitions
Exhibition, College of Architecture
and Design: A collection of color
prints by Van Eyck of an altar piece
in the Ghent Cathedral, loaned by
Professor Eunice Wead, is being
shown in the ground floor corridor
cases. Open daily 9 to 5 except Sun-
day through May 10. The public is
invited.
Lectures
Problem in the United States," under
the auspices of the Division of Social
Sciences, at 4:15 p.m. on Monday,
May 5, in the Rackham Amphithe-
atre. The public is cordially invited.
University Lecture: Mr. Alden Dow,
architect of Midland, will lecture ,on
the subject, "The Modern House,"
illustrated, under the auspices of the
College of Architecture and Design,
at 4:15 p.m., on Tuesday, May 6, in
the Rackham Amphitheatre. The
public is cordially invited.
University Lecture; Professor Ralph
E. Cleland, Chairman of the Depart-
ment of Botany, Indiana University,
will lecture on the subject, "Chromo-
some Behavior in Relation to the
Origin of Species" (illustrated) under
the auspices of the Department of
Botany at 4:15 p.m. on Thursday,
May 8, in the Natural Science Audi-
torium. The public is cordially 'in-
vited.
University Lecture: Professor O.
Neugebauer of Brown University will
lecture on the subject, "Problems and
Methods in Ancient Astronomy," in-
der the auspices of the Department
of Mathematics at 4:15 p.m. on Wed-
nesday, May 14, in the Rackham
Amphitheater. The public is cordial-
ly invited.
University Lecture: Dr. J. Allen
Scott of Ohio State University, will
lecture on the subject, "Manson's
bloodfluke, a public health problem
(Continued on Page 6)
University Lecture:
Professor of Sociology
Dean of the Division
ences, University of
lecture on the subject,
Louis Wirth,
and Associate
of Social Sci-
Chicago, will
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