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Y. cHIcAGO "* SToR " LOS ANGELES °SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1940-41 Editorial Staff Hervie Haufler Alvin Sarasohn Paul M. Chandler Karl Kessler Milton Orshefsky Howard A. Goldman Laurence" Mascott Donald Wirtchafter Esther Osser Helen Corman . . . . Managing Editor , . . . Editorial Director . . . . . City Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor . . . . .Sports Editor . . .Women's Editor . . . . Exchange Editor Business Staff Business Manager . . Assistant Business Manager Women's Business Manager Women's Advertising Manager . . . . Irving Guttman Robert Gilmour Helen Bohnsack Jane Krause NIGHT EDITOR: EMILE GELE_ The editorials published in The Michi- gan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. After The War - What Is Our Course. .. 1NOW ANOTHER WAR worse than before. Then another depression worse than before-and what's the world com- ing to? Purely aside from any supposition that we .may be drawn directly into the European con- flict, the very magnitude of our defense pro- gram is so great that it leaves many flounder- ing in confusion as to how we are ever going to pull through, whether we shall be able to re- sume anything like a normal economic life. This view assumes that our defense program is creating and will create so many severe dis- locations in our industrial system that, accord- ing to most economic theorists, later readjust- ments cannot be made except at tremendous delay and cost. T ET'S take a few phases of this problem and try to determine where we are. In the first place, there is no good reason to assume that the gigantic defense program will be suddenly halted even with an abrupt end of the war comparable to that of Nov. 11, 1918. A considerable portion of what we are now under- taking as defense will be long continued. Peace- time uses have been announced for new arms plants being constructed, and for bomber as- sembly plants. The same principle underlies other parts of defense, notably naval and ship construction. The building of a two-ocean navy requires five or six years. Irrespective of the war's duration, this plan will be put through because of the unsettled state of the world which will not be ended suddenly. In addition, we have a shipbuilding program of vast proportions. Plans already made, for constructing 200 ships, call for an estimated increase of more than 500,000 jobs by Novem- ber, 1942. THISSUGGESTS the constantly enlarging role of the Un'ited States-not necessarily a voluntary role-in world affairs. It requires long-continued and constantly broadened ef-, forts to match that role in our commercial life, to say nothing of the necessary naval and other defense roles. But what of this peacetime crisis, the years after the war? Take an example here. The Na- tional Resources Planning Board finds a pres- ent need of two and one-half million new homes. Despite a growth in homebuilding in the past two years, we have the shortage from the ten years previous. With a fair expansion, to make up this shortage after peace comes should re- quire ten years. In a study of "Fundamental Economic Issues In National Defense," Dr. Harold Moulton, pres- ident of the Brookings Institute, takes note of the fact that "after the World War the existing backlog of productive requirements in such lines as railroads, public utilities, and housing served to shorten the period of depression and propel us into a period of rehabilitation and expan- sion." THE EXPANSION, however, proved unsound. In this emergency we have an even greater backlog, as well as the experience gained after th lacemw. hma mv h usd. Dr. Moulton WASHING'TON-While the Senate is prepar- ing to enact the lend-lease bill committing this country to vast outlays for Great Britain, certain American firms are paying out hundreds of thousands of dollars monthly to Germany and Italy, which funds are being used to fight both the United States and Britain. This secret Axis aid is being delivered in the form of royalty payments on industrial formulas, trademarks, copyrights and patents. The money is paid in dollars and is deposited to German and Italian accounts in New York banks. The Justice Department, which has conducted a secret investigation, has uncovered these in- teresting facts: 1. That the royalty payments are now running around $500,000 a month, of which Germany gets at least 80 per cent. 2. That a considerable portion of the money was used by Germany last year to buy U. S. goods for delivery to Latin American buyers, to make good on contracts that Germany confi- dently had signed after the fall of France but was unable to fill, because of the unshaken Brit- ish blockade. 3. That Nazi and Fascist agents have drawn on the funds to finance racial and anti-defense propaganda in South America. 3. That while U.S. firms fork over their tri- bute in dollars, such royalties as Germany and Italy pay are in the form of blocked marks and' The Communists And Ford Agree.. . HE COMMUNIST PARTY has ac- quired a new and very strange bed- fellow in its efforts to influence American for- eign policy. He is none other than their favor- ite "bogey of capitalistic reaction"-Henry Ford. In an interview with the Associated Press in Georgia last Saturday, Ford declared that he wants neither England or the Axis to win, be- cause "they are both motivated by the same evil impulse-greed." He went on to explain that "it is not the little people who are doing the fighting and the suffering who are the greedy ones. They are innocent of that. Their only guilt is idleness. Idleness hasmade them stupid, and stupidity has made it easy for the big ones, the greedy ones, to lead them into any war." THAT IS PERFECTLY CONSISTENT with the latest Communist propaganda. "This is not a people's war, but a war of imperialism," they say, and Henry Ford seems to agree. The Communists' solution for the plight of the masses oppressed by the greedy tyrants on both sides is revolution. Ford is in accord with the party even on this point. He said Saturday that if both sides fight long enough the "little people will open their eyes. Then they can see that they have been dupes of this international clique of greed-and we have its members in this country too-who have tricked them into war." "MAYBE then they will revolt and free them- selves and save themselves from being led into destruction again as soon as they have rested and recovered for a generation or so." (Holy Joe in Moscow should have a warm spot in his heart for Henry.) THE AUTO MAGNATE even disposed of the Nazi-invasion-peril argument in the accept- ed party manner. "Any suggestion that the United States will be attacked if Germany wins the present war is pure nonsense, if not a hoax, with the sole purpose of getting us into war," he asserted. It will be interesting to watch how the Com- munists treat their inadvertant bedfellow. There are several illogical ways in which the Daily Worker can handle the situation. First, they can claim that this interview is merely a snare to distract the masses' antagon- ism towards him. They can warn their followers that Ford spreading C.P. propaganda is only a wolf stalking in sheep's clothing. THE SECOND APPROACH would be to ac- cept Ford as sincere. The Daily Worker can point out that Wall Street consorting with the Warmonger Roosevelt was too much even for Ford. "He couldn't stand it any longer and had to speak out to the American people" they can say. A third technique would be to warn the party followers that this interview shows how danger- ous Ford really is. They can write that because this enemy of the masses is capable of speaking the truth intelligently on occasion, the workers must be on their guard against him. On the other side of the fence what illogical things W.J. Cameron can say to justify his boss' new relationship to Earl Browder is beyond the power of our poor imagination. - Alvin Dann itself, aided by the great demand accrued dur- ing the past years and by the carry-over from defense programs, will be able to expand. But what of the period in between? Here the job is government's. There will be a demand for spending on public works and providing of relief jobs. The expense will be great, true, added to the vast debt we already have. But there is no alternative. A greater expense for a few years-then a more sound recovery and more lasting period of prosperity. We have no other choice. The outlook at times appears quite black. But export lira; that is, money that can be spent only in Germany or Italy. Secret Information Actually, the money levy is a secondary consid- eration. What really worries the authorities is how much vital military production information their royalty agreements betray to the Axis. Since most royalties on patents are paid ac- cording to the number of units sold, it should be a simple matter for the Axis to obtain de- tailed figures on types and rate of flow of im- portant materials to the U. S. Army and Navy and to Britain. Last year the Justice Department cracked down on Bausch and Lomb when it discovered that under a secret royalty agree- ment the firm supplied the German licensor with a detailed accounting of certain instru- ments delivered to the Navy. Authorities fear that this may not have been an exceptional case; that the royalty deals may be providing the Axis with a more accurate pic- ture of our defense program than any obtain- able by a whole army of spies. 'No Red-Tape' Knudsen Despite the importance of his position in the Office of Production Management, William Sig- nius Knudsen remains as unassuming as the Bill Knudsen who arrived as an immigrant lad from Denmark 40 years ago. So one thing in Washington gets under his skin-the bureaucrats who barricade themselves behind a maze of of- ficious secretaries, red-tape and push buttons. Knudsen himself is the opposite. He likes peo- ple. Also, he likes the "eel" of the place he works in. It is not unusual to see him strolling through the corridors of the new Social Security building, where OPM offices are now located, somewhat as he once strolled through the General Motors plant in Detroit hailing veteran employees. Instead of summoning a defense associate to his office, Knudsen frequently drops around to the other man's office. One of these errands re- cently took him past the office of OPM press chief Robert Horton, a red tape past master, where he encountered a yKvng reporter. "Good morning," greeted Knudsen. "Can I help you?" "Why - yes, sir," replied the newsman. "I was sent over here to get a story about the layout of your new office. But I have to get permission from Mr. Horton, and he is too busy to see me." "We'll fix that," said Knudsen; and he spent the next five minutes showing the newsman his office and explaining the various gadgets on his desk. . Secret GOP Meet The day before that GOP pow-wow in Omaha, where Midwestern chiefs debated Wendell Will- kie and his declaration for the lend-lease bill, another meeting took place that was not report- ed in the press. This secret confab of the inner group was at- tended by state chairmen from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colo- rado, Utah, the two Dakotas, and Florida. They discussed two matters: (1) Wendell Willkie; (2) Plans whereby the state chairmen would assume a greater control over the party's affairs. Sentiment was practically unanimous that Willkie, by going "all out" for Roosevelt's aid- Britain measure, had forfeited his right to lead the Republican Party. The basis for this, as ex- pressed by speaker after speaker, was as follows: It was entirely within Willkie's rights as an individual to take any position he wanted. But the GOP is a sharply divided party on this issue; therefore, as the titular leader, Willkie should have suppressed his personal feelings and pur- sued a course that would not have widened the party schism. Some of the leaders waxed pretty hot under the collar. Willkie was never too popular with most veteran regulars; so in private they talked freely and caustically. After letting off steam, however, they reverted to practical politics and agreed it would not help the party to spank Willkie publicly. So it was de- cided that the sound course to pursue at the conference next day would be to do no resoluting on Willkie and to middle-of-the-road on the lend-lease bill. And that was what they did. i. ,t THE REPLY CHURLISH By TOUCHSTONE OKING AROUND in one of those' frankness commonly found. only tomed to the methods of many introspective moods during the among the very young. Whether or politicians other than those of his layoff, and I got thinking about what not we are actually in the war as own faculty, he lacks a certain tough- was wrong with me, namely pride. a result of past and intended aid to Then I added a footnote to that, Britain is not, I wish to remind these ness in his dealings, and is in fact teinI mdefdthatfwhentIw ausygentlemen, the equivalent of a dec- a rather pathetic figure, just as all telling myself that when I was busy lation of war and the sending of of us are at times. I wasn't too proud because I was armed forces outside of this country. People are not good or bad. I do too busy which is kind of simple. The 1 As things stand at the present, not think that these men would like times I am proud are between en- though we are certainly in this thing to see any of us get shot, nor let gagements, or when things start to deep enough, both as to our interests, me assure them, would I like to see lag. That's when I start telling my sympathies, and acts, we are not at Britain defeated. But though they girl what a hell of a great guy I war, and whatever interested parties proceed in all sincerity, and though am. She is very nice about it. She may claim, it is not yet our war. The their idealism is certainly a thing of says, "Yes, you are." But in those war is one to determine European beauty in the abstract, even my ten- few honest times, when I am neither balance or unbalance of power, the der years cannot see the war which working nor bragging, I see that same war which has been fought has aroused them as a thing so sim- all such talk is a result of either not since nationalism and commercialism ple. Theirs is a point of view which getting into what I should do, or came to be in Europe. The war is, does not admit past mistakes, nor not doing a good enough job of it. I am perfectly sure, not a war to provide for what is to come. I am When work stops talking for itself preserve democracy, not at least to sure that we potential infantrymen it is time for the guy who should do the leaders, for if those leaders had and all would march off behind the the work to start talking to himself, wished to preserve democracy they colors to right the world's wrongs, like a dutch uncle. could and would have done so during if we were sure the world's wrongs I think it is this lack of enough the past twenty-odd years. were going to be righted. But, gen- to do, or of enough silent satisfac- tlemen, you and your contemporaries tion, which makes men (and women BUT TO PEOPLE LIKE ME, and have given us very little assurance too, oh you bet you) leave off what anyone else who doesn't see much that the wrongs will be righted. It they should be doing and enter other right around here to do, the issue seems to me, allowing you the God- fields in which they are far less loses its clarity, it becomes a personal given American privilege of meddling capable, and far far more vulnerable, thing, a matter to be fervent about, in matters which you have neither than on the home grounds. It is the a new interest in life. A man is able the power nor the information to act need for self-bolstering which is re- in such a situation to think of him- upon, that you are guilty of essen- sponsible for most of our more ridic- self as a more sensitive person, as tially the same mistaken sense of ulous and badge wearing organiza- one who sees more clearly th'e hor- personal outrage at the impersonal tions. It is also responsible for men rors of what Britain is going through, working of international politics trained and adapted to the academic as one who sees all too clearly what which caused Adolf Hitler to brood, way of life, with its factors of se- will come if Britain loses the war. and set out building a military ma- curity, careful scrutiny of closely re- He enters into the spirit of the thing chine to smash the injustice of Ver- lated facts, research, and generally with a passion he has not felt since sailles. Your solution to war is war. in state universities, political emascu- he took his PhD. But as a result of And after this war? What about it, lation, entering 'into the apparently this commendable passion, a man al- gentlemen? British imperialism? remote matter of one small town's so loses his calm, and in losing his France? The rest of the continent? part in the national defense program. calm he becomes a tool for those per- Russia? Where will we stand in world I think there are a great many of sons who are able to remain disin- trade? How much will we have to us who favor aid to Britain. I do terested in the moral aspects of the say about peace? No, please, gentle- not think there are so many of us situation. He becomes, -well shall I men, let's not run into this war just who favor going to war, for as aca- say somewhat ridiculous? He may yet. Not until you have figured out a demic gentlemen know, and as most become dangerous, if he is smart few more of the answers. War is a students of history know, the diplo- enough, . but ordinarily, because he time of emotionalism. You, gentle- matic relations of nations are not has led the sheltered life of the aca- men, are intellectuals. So long until based on idealism or that utter demic, because he is not accus- soon. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1941 VOL. LI. No. 95 Publication in the Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Notices Notice in re University Property Re- moved from the City or off University Property: Any University representa- tive having charge of University pro- perty should give notice in advance to the Inventory Clerk, Business Office, University Hall, when such property is to be taken outside the City of Ann Arbor or off University property for use in any University project, as, for example, the W.P.A. A loss recently occurred on which the University had no insurance because of the fact that no notice had been given to the In- ventory Clerk that such property had been taken to the location where it was in use, and the property was therefore not covered by the insurance policy. Shirley W. 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Senior Agricultural Program An- alyst, $4,600 a yr. Agricultural Program Analyst, $3, Ann C 1 p /'1( The City Editor's £ic~atcA 121d THERE'S ALWAYS' a sleepy crew of students when the second semester begins. That's because it comes so soon after the J-Hop week- end. University officials have a way of being unreasonable about that sort of thing some- times. Perhaps that drowsiness can be blamed on the reckless way in which many of the folk drift into some of the tougher courses. Or why they don't wander out before it's too late. JUST IN CASE the younger folks have for- gotten, part of this semester runs through the spring of the year. Plan ac- cordingly, most veterans advise.