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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Will Hitler Deelare War On Us
As Others
See It... .
New York Times writer gauges opinion of observers on
the question - doubts whether Nazis will attack unless tide
of battle turns.
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The Need For
A New 'U' Hall .. .
HERE ARE HOPES that the Gover-
nor will sign the long-sought ap-
propriation bill for the new Administration
building, which might be placed where the old
University, Mason and South-Wing halls are
today.-'
Some people may not realize what a fire
hazard these three buildings are. They are al-
most entirely constructed of wood, and the raft-
ers are of white pine-a wonderful fire trap.
The theatre would create a tremendous draft
for the flames.
Ten or eleven years ago the old theatre in
University Hall was condemned; the buildings
declared a fire liability by the State Fire Mar-
shal, and they still stand today. If one had an
armful of kindling and a match, within five
minutes' time one could start a conflagration
that all the fire fighting apparatus in town
could not stop, and in an hour the building would
be completely destroyed.
The set of fire escapes on the west side leads
out from the theatre on either side of the stage.
The adjoining structures have two doors on each
side which only take care of a limited number
of rooms, and it is difficult to go from one end
of the building to the other. On the ground
floor, instead, one must go out one door and in
another to get to the different offices.
IF IT were impossible to get out by going down
the stairs in case of fire, one would have to
go out on the roof and down into another build-
ing. In the wings, one is confronted by locked
doors leading up to the roof, and in the south
end of Mason Hall the door knob won't work.
Those who did get the door pried open would
have to climb over rafters, which involves a little
extra time.
Panicky rushing would only result in disaster,
because of the stairways. Those in the wings
are too narrow to allow people to go in both
directions at once. Some would fight to get to
the roof, while others might try to get down-
stairs. In University Hall the stairways are so
steep and wide that many would be injured by
being pushed down and trampled. The stairs
have only single, rather low railings-and it's a
long distance from the top to the floor if anyone
were pushed over.
Aside from the thought of lives lost, there is
the viewpoint of the University's business and
administration. One of its urgent needs is a
building to house all its records and offices.
Records are also kept in Angell Hall, Barbour
and Waterman gyms, and the Rackham Build-
ing. In University Hall they are mostly stored
in wooden filing cases, and in a concrete vault
resting on a wooden floor, as old as the building.
They would be irretrievably lost.
A T PRESENT, the offices need improvement.
They are divided into sections by thin walls
which mean no soundproofing. Also, they re-
quire much more vault and filing space.
At its nearest point, Angell Hall is about eight
feet away. The heat of a conflagration would
be so intense, that it would probably ruin the
back of Angell in short order. Burned brick,
melted glass, and warped wood are costly to re-
To Professor Crandall
To the Editor:
AT SOME PERIOD through the years a stu-
dent spends on this campus, he is fortunate
enough to meet an instructor or professor for
whom he has greater regard than he does for
the others of his instructors or professors. A
man, that is, who is a true friend as well as a
good teacher. Somehow this number never ex--
ceeds four or five.
Nor does the student think it important enough
an tevent to write a letter to The Daily about it.
When, however, the information becomes known
to him that one of that select group intends to
leave the campus, it becomes an event worthy
of public recognition. ,
In this particular care, the instructor happens
to be Frederick O. Crandall. Dr. Crandall in-
formed his classes recently that he had accepted
the position as head of the Department of
Speech at Mississippi State College for Women.
Congratulations are due Dr. Crandall for this
recognition of his ability as well as the expres-
sion of a genuine pleasure in having had the
opportunity to Ile a student in his classes.
-A Student
The University Scraps
Right Of Petition
To the Editor:
F OR THE LAST WEEK an embittered battle
(at least on my part) has been raged over a
matter which I had believed to involve only two
people-Miss Ruth Goodlander and myself.
However upon reflection it seems that what had
started to be a conflict of a personal and preju-
dicial nature (my being discharged because of
"incompetence") now emerges into a conflict of
social ideas in which, unfortunately, neither Miss
Goodlander or I play important roles.
The "Daily" has been making the story a
"Miss Goodlander says this-Cannastra says
that" affair, but it is certainly more funda-
mental than that. This letter has not been
written on an egoistic basis of proving my ability
as a bus-boy in the League cafeteria. To me and
many others involved, my dismissal is not the
important issue at stake.
THE ISSUE is the position of the student body
of the University of Michigan. Dr. Ruthven
in this year's "Ensian" says that "during the last
decade, Michigan has become . . . . more demo-
cratic in administration and spirit." If the treat-
ment of the Michigan League student petition is
any example of more democratic administration,
then I fear for the future position of Michigan
students.
A petition drawn up by student workers and
savoring of no Communistic, ASU, or CIO in-
fluences was presented to Michigan League offi-
cials (Miss Goodlander, because she had "for-
gotten" her glasses, had me read it to her). It
was immediately greeted as "underhanded." We
should have gotten up a petition to start a peti-
tion was their premise. Later in the day, I was
discharged because of "incompetence."
IY IMPORTANCE in the entire issue, how-
ever, is only in the idea I expressed-tlhe
right of a student petition on our campus. The
University has ignored a petition signed by
nearly 4,500 students, but this has been carried
even further. In this case University officials
have actually taken direct action against, the
right to petition by having me dismissed on
"trumped up" charges which could never be
proven. Our "student" publication has been told
to "keep out of the story." It was suggested that
I go about my studies and forget the entire mat-
ter. So there rests the fundamental right to
petition on our campus.
- William E. Cannastra
Also To Professor Reeves
To the Editor:
T HE ENDING of this semester marks the vale-
dictory of a scholar and a teacher in Mihi-
gan's finest tradition.
University courses have, in general, two po-
tentialities: they may furnish the knowledge of
the subject matter as such, or they may transmit
to the student a technique and approach that
may be applied to future problems. It is seldom,
that both these potentialities are realized, but we
feel that Professor Reeves has succeeded in pass-
ing beyond the confines of either category. His
fund of scholarship has been supplemented and
enhanced by the spirit of fair-dealing that per-
vades his philosophy, and it is in this respect
particularly, that he will exercise a lasting in-
fluence on his students.
- The Class in Political Thought, 1940-41
War Requires Just Cause
"Today as formerly, war requires a just cause,
a good to be obtained that will far outweigh the
evils which inevitably and necessarily follow. In
the modern world no search can reveal a cause
proportionate to the destruction wrought in ev-
ery order, physical, political, social, moral and
spiritual, by a war such as the last. A war, com-
pletely modern in character and universal in
scope, is, Pope Pius XI has said, 'so monstrously
murderous and almost certainly suicidal' that
for a statesman or government.initiating aggres-
sive war to attempt to assign to it a proportion-
ate cause is vain even to the point of folly and
To Professor Reeves
To the Editor:
pROFESSOR JESSE .REEVES of the political
science faculty is retiring. We, members of
his class in Constitutional Law, wish to express
our thanks and appreciation for the patience and
understanding that not only we but all of his
students at all times in his long and eventful
educational career have received.
We are well aware of the outstanding reputa-
tion deservedly held by Professor Reeves. As an
American delegate to several international con-
ferences, as William W. Cook Professor of Ameri--
can Institutions, as formed president of the
American Political Science Association and vice-
president of the American Society of Interna-
tional Law, as a judge advocate during the World
War and as the chairman of the political science
department at the University for many years,
Professor Reeves has brought prestige and luster
to the name, Michigan. .
No long recital of official titles, and we omitted
many, could be of any importance without the
tact and courage that we have seen on and off
the campus. Liberality of thought and a humor-
ous understanding of human weaknesses have
endeared us to Professor Reeves. We are sin-
cerely sorry that future students at the Univer-
sity will not have the opportunity to study under
and appreciate tlhe true greatness of so eminent
an educator.
ON BEHALF of all the students who in the last
thirty eventful years have had the good for-
tune to study under, and know and admire Pro-
fessor Reeves, we extend our thanks for the
teachings and advice that he has so generously
and excellently given us.
- Members of the course in Political Science 122
by TOUCHSTONE
FOR THE past few months Washington has been
asking whether the United States would go to war
with Germany. It is perhaps significant that this
question is now being turned around. The experts are
asking this week-end: Will Germany go to war with
us?
Nobody at this distance from Berchtesgaden is in a
position to know the answer to this question. It is,
however, the business of a lot of different people here
to guess at the answer, particularly before the United
States takes any action affecting Germany. This
correspondent talked to a few of these people. The rest
o' this dispatch is a summary of their ideas.
First, they listed five reasons why they thought Ger-
many would not go to war with the United States:
(1) A declaration of war by Germany on the United
States would probably rob Hitler of his one great
counterpoise against American intervention-the naval
power of Japan. Article III of the Tripartite treaty is
a paper decree that Japan will fight alongside Ger-
many and Italy if the United States declares war on
the Axis; it does not provide for Japanese intervention
if Germany takes the initiative in declaring war.
An Easier Way For Nazis
RATHER than make an open declaration of wat on
, the United States, the Germans could much more
easily attack our patrol vessels in the Atlantic and
create a casus belli which would provoke the United
States into the war. Such a move would at least give
them the opportunity to ask Japan to fulfill the terms
of the Tripartite treaty.
(2) More than anything else, a German declaration
of war would accomplish the one thing the Nazis do
not want. It would unite this country; it would imme-
diately spike all sectional and factional bickering, and
bring about those great economic, social, industrial
and personal sacrifices without which no nation can
defeat the regimented efficiency of Nazi Germany.
(3) The effect of any act which brought the United
States into the war would work to Germany's disad-
vantage in the proud and nationalistic territories
which he already has conquered. These people may
be resentful of Germany but they are impressed by
Germany's power. The obvious superiority of German
arms, the geographical advantage of the German army
and the German industrial machine; the growing evi-
dence that air power is a match if not superior to sea
power; the bojd'if specious promises of a new economic
order in Europe; the evidence that already the Ger-
mans have created the skeleton of a machine to run
the economy of the entire continent-all these have,
it is admitted in the highest quarters in Washington,
tended to move opinion in the occupied territories
toward the German point of view, or at least to create
in ihese territories a sense of helplessness.
iT WOULD BE a great mistake to think that the en-
trance of the United States into the war would im-
mediately lead, to revolution in Europe; the machine
gun and telephone have changed the technique of revo-
lution. But the entrance of this Republic into the
war would undoubtedly inspire hope among the con-
quered peoples, lead to more and more acts of sabo-
tage, which would make even greater demands on the
German armies of occupation and eventually raise
doubts in the minds of the great mass of people in
Germany, many of whom remember that American
arms brought about a great German defeat in 1918.
Handicap For War Of Ideas
(4) A German declaration of war would hamper
the war of ideas and industrial sabotage now
being waged by Nazi agents in this country. Once
at war, we would undoubtedly crack down on the
hundreds of anti-American workers who are now tol-
erated in the naval yards and machine shops of this
country. We would, further, probably examine a
little more closely the source of many of the ideas
which we pass along today-ideas which, in this phase
of the war, tend to divide labor against labor, labor
against capital and section against section; ideas
which originate in the bogey factories of Berlin, for
the puruose of reducing our war effort.
(5) Finally, a German declaration of war on this
country would in a very short time send a great part
of the air, land and naval forces of the United States
into the war against the Germans.
It would at this stage undoubtedly engage part of
our land and air forces in the battle of Africa; it would
send a great many of our long-range bombers to Brit-
tam for attack on German positions in Europe; it
would certainly mean the operation of more naval
craft in the active struggle for the control of the At-
lantic.
Damage We Could Do
THE GERMANS realize very well that there are ways
in which even a half-prepared United States could
be effective. Our old long-range bombers may not
be equipped with power-operated turrets and all the
ingenious gadgets devised in the past few years, but
in night warfare anything with big wings and big gas
tanks can be used. Even the commercial planes that
fly across this country have a great potentil utility.
It is small consolation to know that the bomb that
lands in your street was rolled out the door of a New
York-Chicago plane.
Against these five restraining factors, there ,are
several considerations which would seem to recoi-
mend that Germany should declare war. Admittedly,
thiey are not convincing considerations.
It is conceivable, although not likely, that ,Japan
might be induced at the right moment, say when Suez
fell, to implement Article III of the Tripartite pact and
bring her seapower to bear agaihst the United States.
The Germans have been presenting the following
arguments to the Japanese:
"The United States intends to fight an undeclared
war. If President Roosevelt succeeds, Japan, as a
member of the Tripartitegroup which cooperated with
the Axis, will be treated like a defeated belligerent.
The advantage always lies with the side which takes
the initiative. Therefore, it would be to Italo-German-
Japanese advantage for Japan to jump into the war
and neutralize the United States fleet before it can
be a factor in the war."
By taking the plunge the German dictgor would
also give his naval forces the opportunity to deal with
the United States naval patrols on equal terms. At
present the Germans are handicapped because the
fast United States naval craft engaged in these pa-
trols cannot,only report by radio the position of any
German craft on or below the sea, but can continiue
to follow that craft and keep radioing its positiorr ntil
the British naval forces arrive.
If the Germans fire on these "aggressive" patrols
they find themselves in the position of creating an-
other Lusitania incident; if they do not fire, their
freedom of action is clearly impaired.
Battle Of The Atlantic
THE REAL DANGER of a German declaration of
war undoubtedly lies in our attempts to secure the
passage of war materials from this country to Britain,
which President Roosevelt pledged us to do this week.
The general consensus in Washington is that the Nazis
are prepared right now to risk war with the United
States rather than let the United States Navy, by
whatever means, turn the campaign of the Atlantic in
Britain's favor.
Some observers believe that we could get away with
a defensive occupation of the Atlantic islands or even
a landing at Dakar or Casablanca without provoking
the Germans to action, but any naval aotion that
shows signs of succeeding will, in the opinio of ex-
perts in our own Navy Department, bring us into direct
and open naval conflict.
In summary, then, the experts here think that Ger-
many will go to war with the United States only when
we take major action with our armed forces that
clearly threatens the success of their war against Eng-
land. As one diplomat said:
"A German decision to go to war with us will be
taken for major military reasons by Hitler as Chief
of the German General Staff. They will not be moved by
speeches or by the provocative acts of a half-prepared
nation. ,But the minute they see our power threaten-
ing to turn the war against them, they will act and
act quickly."
So Long
Until Soon
LAST COLUMN OF THE YEAR. And so, with
a weepy but relieved feeling, so long until soon
at the head ofythings as well as the end. Good
luck to everybody including me on them ole deb-
bil finals, and about this time of the year, whether
or not you like the people in this town, it gets
hold of you so you realize it's going to be some-
thing of a wrench to go home, only home is so
much softer a life that maybe it'll be all right.
It has been a tough year for most of us, especial-
ly those who are trying the old army game come
July 1, and there isn't much consolation to be of-
fered. That is the sad part of this year. Nobody
can give out any of the old "you are now embark-
ing upon the sea of life" stuff, because you won't
be until it's tum tum "over over there." Tough
stuff for a farewell-but here we go, gang.
SOMEWHERE back in the past years I slid back
into the class behind me, so that the diploma
business won't loom on my neat little horizon un-
til a year from now, but all the kids I started
with are now renting caps and gowns, and here is
what I feel about them. You are not seniors, '41.
You are the old Washtenaw-State parties, the
last of surface politics around here. We were
afraid the State Streeters were going to fly ark
airplane over the Stadium at the football game,
remember? You are the kids I went to Botany
1 with. I flunked it, remember? You are the frosh
who ran through town without pants on ,Black
Friday, who wrecked the marquee of the Michigan
the night before we beat State for the first time
in several years, who tooks the wheels off the fire
engine and put the truck up on somebody's lawn,
remember? You are the sophomores I sat sweat-
ing beside during Ec 51, you are the kids who be-
gan to discover they didn't believe in things, you
are the tryouts who came around to the Daily,
the Union, the League, the Soph Cabaret, who
looked up at people named Parfait, or Mattes,
and others whose names you have now forgotten,
and they seemed very mature and knowledgeable,
and 'you would never be up there, not up in such
responsible positions where everybody would look
at you and envy and respect you-and now you
are there, '41, and you don't feel a damn bit dif-
ferent than you did when you were the frosh.
IT'S A STRANGE FEELING, isn't it, '41? Some-
how out of all the nights spent studying hard,
and feeling your own incompetence, feeling the
weight of the folks at home hoping for you, wish-
ing you had never come to this place, you have
emerged into nostalgia, and are about to take that
trip down to Ferry Field, and all the songs about
"I'll ne'er forget my college 'days" are coming
true. A strange business, because those freshmen
and sophomores that were you seem somehow
still to be alive and naive and trusting and wish-
ing, and yet you are hearing them bid you fare-
well. Best of luck, '41, and when you are an alum-
ni organization, try to remember those frosh
and sophs who were also you, with a little less
stomach, back how many years? Surely not that
many. The tag for this, a poem by Clarence Day,
and then walk away quietly-
Farewell, my friends, farewell and hail.
I'm off to seek the holy grail--
I cannot tell you why.
Remember please, when I am gone,
T'was aspiration led me on, _
Tiddley widdley, toodle-oo
All I want is to be with you-
But here I go-goodbye.
And from Touchstone, once class of '41, so long
until so'on.
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men for entire eight-week period,
$29.00 (luncheon and dinner, Mon-
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Civil Service Examinations. Last date
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case.
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of an examination to be issued in the
near future for the position of Student
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English I and II-Final Examina-
tion today, 9-12.
ENGLISH I
Calver, 101 Ec.
Robertson, 101 Ec.
ENGLISH II
Arthos, 231 A.H.
Bader, 1025 A.H.
Baum, 231 A.H,
Bertram, 25 A.H.
Boys, 1025 A.H.
Engel, 103 R.L.
Everett, 3231 A.H.
Fletcher, W. Phys. Lect.
Garvin, 205 M.H.
Green, W. Phys. Lect.
Greenhut, W. Phys. Lect.
Haines, 25 A.H.
Hart,T) Haven
Haugh, 1025 A.H.
Helm, 1025 A.H.
Martin, W. Phys. Lect.
McClennen, 2003 A.H.
McCormick, W. Phys. Lect.
Ogden. 35 A.H-