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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1941

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Editorial Staff

Emile Geld .
Robert Speckhard
Albert P. Blausteit
David Lachenbrucl
Bernard Dober
Alvin Dann
Hal Wilson .
Arthur Hill
Janet Hiatt
Grace- Miler
Daniel H. Huyett
Jaies B. Collins
Louise Carpenter
Evelyn Wright


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h . . . Associate Editor
. Associate Editor
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Sports Editor
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. . . . Women's Editor
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NIGHT EDITOR: HOMER SWANDER
The editorials published in The Michi-
gan Daily are written by members of The
Daily staff and represent the views of the
writers only.
A Common
Defense *"
RESENT INDICATIONS point to the
fact that the United States is finally
swinging into full gear to secure Western Hemi-
sphere unity and permanently win Latin America
from the Axis. Currently movie actor Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr. is making a good-will tour of
South America. Vehemently active has been
the committee under Nelson A. Rockefeller, Co-
ordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations
between the American Republics -for National
Defense. Rockefeller has encouragedprivate
business to make loans to infant industries and
has generally tried to improve cultural relations.
Cultural relations of course, are merely a small
part of Pan-Americanism. There is always the
language barrier to cultural unity, and to facili-
tate a real exchange of culture years of educa-
tion programs in United States on South America
will be required. Such a program has already
been introduced in New York City schools. The
immediate needs, however, are the settlement of
Latin America's economic problem and the coun-
teracting of Axis propaganda.
UR GOVERNMENT has been attacking these
'two problems with vigor. Secretary of State
Cordell Hull is trying to break the Gordian Knot
and make a trade agreement with Argentina.
With this in view IDr. Enritue Ruiz-Guinazu,
Aigentine Minister of Foreign Relations, was
entertained royally throughout Washington two
weeks ago. One heretofore insurmountable bar-
rier to be reckoned within any trade agreement
with the Argentine is the question of its canned
beef exports. Western beef producers in this
country are gradually coming to the realization
that the canned beef from our Latin neighbor
is of the highest quality and not merely the
scraps of lower grade beef which is used in our
own cagmed beef. They also are finally real-
izing that their market would not be injured by
some imports.
Department of Commerce statistics show that
both exports and imports with South America
generally are on the up-swing. This is indeed
encouraging. South America must turn more
and more to United States for aid because of the
loss of the European market. The government
is purchasing raw materials for defense and
making loans to stabilize currency so that the
nations may keep up imports even if exports
decline. $50,000,000 from the Treasury and
$60,000,000 from the Export-Import Bank to re-
move the pressure of beef, wheat and corn sur-
pluses on the currency were loaned to Argentina.
For the same reason $25,000,000 has been loaned
to the Bank of Brazil because of coffee and cot-
ton surpluses in Brazil; $11,300,000 to the Cuban
Sugar Stabilization Institute; $10,000,000 to the
Bantk of Peru; $5,000,000 to kxe Bank of Chile;
and $2,000,000 to Nicaragua. $20,000,000 has
also been invested in the Brazilian steel industry.
STEPS LIKE THESE are alleviating the pres-
ent economic emergency. Post-war problems
will depend to a large extent on the outcome of
the war, but closer Hemisphere economic ties
are inevitable. Doing their best to stop this
growing collaboration are the Axis propagan-
dists. Shortwave radio, movies and newspapers
are their mediums. Better American movies
that appeal to the Latin audience are part of the

: " Thomas Goes
To Hollywood
 By To THUMB
HARMON OF MICHIGAN - a Preview
T HIS Harmon of Michigan picture ought to
get a good laugh when and if it comes to
Ann Arbor. According to yesterday's Daily, "ad-
vance background shots have already been made
of the campus - a set of The Daily is being built
in Hollywood."
This iS the last Daily of the year, and we can't
get any kicks from readers till next September, so
let's use our foitle imaginations to vision a scene
in Movie-Michigan (Michigan is a swing campus
located on the shores of picturesque Huron River).
THE SCENE is the editorial office of The
Michigan Daiy. The walls are covered with terse
framed messages, "Be Complete," "Accuracy,"
"Who, What, When, Where, Why, How," "Ex-
cept February, which has 28," "Be Explicit" and
"Keep Smiling."
THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, tall, curly-haired.
handsome Don Blake runs into the office
with a handful of galley proofs.
BLAKE (To plump stooge wearing freckles and
frosh pot): Kill that story! Stop the presses!
We're going to run a seven-inch headline tomor-
row - with a nine-column cut of Harmon!
, FRECKLES: (Who stutters, incidentally) Well,
b-b-bless my Phi Beta Kappa key, what's hap-
pened?
BLAKE: The men from Minnesota have pois-
oned Harmon's athlete's foot bath ! ! !
FRECKLES: Oh, analytic calculus! That's bad!
(Enter Gorgeous Gorgeous Gorgeous Girl With
Glasses).
G.G.G.G.W.G.: Oh, Freckles, are you going to
take me to the J-Hop?
FRECKLES: G-g-go away, you annoy me! We
got important things to do.
(Exit G.G.G.G.W.G.).
FRECKLES: What a goon. Wish she'd let me
alone. Four out of five girls are beautiful and
they come to Michigan. And I get the only goon.
BLAKE: We've got to do something about this
Harmon business.
(Enter "Scoop" Ward, who is none other than
our own coed, Anita Louise).
WARD: "Scoop" Ward reporting for duty boss.
BLATfE: Ah, good. Can-you do some detective
work for me?
WARD: If you take me to the J-Hop.
BLAKE: O.K. I guess it's all in the line of
business. Here's $195 from our expense budget.
Travel to Minnesota immediately and worm your
way into the confidence of the football team.
Find out what they intend to do with Harmon
once they kidnap him. (Of course they're going
to kidnap him. Have you ever seen a B picture
without at least one kidnaping?)
WARD: Righto, chief! (She vanishes).
BLAKE: Where the gosh darn did she go?
OF COURSE handsome, curly-haired Don Blake
is in love with "Scoop," but Tom through
his superior ability to bring honor to the name
of dear old Michigan, finally gets the girl. In
fact she's loved him ever since he kicked her
in the head during spring practice, mistaking her
for a football.
The ending is fairly happy, with "Scoop" Ward,
who no longer goes to college (she is graduated
somehow), the happy wife of Coach Tom Harmon
at Michigan. She is wheeling a baby carriage
and in it are three little Tom Harmons, each
completely equipped with headgear, 98 jersey and
small football. Everybody's happy. Don Blake,
having won a major Hopwood for his write-up
of the Minnesota game, is now the University
of Michigan's press agent. Freckles has passed
his integral calculus and got an A in speech.
In fact, the whole thing ends in a splurge
of ecstasy. And if they also show a Don-
aid Duck; a travelogue, a Pete Smith short,
some shots of Jimmie Lunceford's orchestra,

a Robert Benchley picture, episode three of
"The Flaming Death," a Grantland Rice Sport-
light and an associate feature, the audience
might be happy too.
* * *
This is my last colurin of the school year.
Goodbye. I hope you all rest in peace.

The Year Ends-
A Reaffirmation
Of FaithY
IT'S JUNE 8-the last Daily-and the end of
another school year. It's been a turbulent,
troublesome and discouraging year, from which
the only reassuring comfort we can find is that
men are still striving in the world for things
that are good and fine.
Ideals have been trampled on plenty this last
year, with a ferocity hardly equalled. Youth es-
pecially has taken a beating, for they bring their
ideals to the world-fresh and clean. Many of
them have turned and stopped under the im-
pact, grown old before their time like sweet
cream that has soured in a putrid air. Few have
taken kindly to a heritage marked by war and
strife . . . . some are still beating their heads to
the world like the crazed inmate against, the
stone walls of his prison cage . . . . others, veter-
ans of more summers, have tried to keep their
hearts and heads together and face the world.
ONE'S NOT WRONG, the others right; but all
.must learn to face the world together-youth
must find strength in each other. Of all things
youth must stand united, not by decrees and
orders-for these have held their fathers in the
world's worst miseries-but by the common fund
of good that is man's growing heritage down
through the ages. Each must come to know
that good, interpret, and shape his life upon it.
THIS is not a sermon, nor was it intended to
be-but one speaks because, somehow, one
feels that the world is breaking up below, as if
moved by a centrifugal force that is sending and
scatterinig men in all directions. World states
have their tariffs and armed borders, and so-
cieties have their classes, and their professions,
and trades, and sects, realists, absolutists and
pragmatists, and more and more. Men must be
free is the cry! .....but men will not be free,
but only worn by strife and confusion if they
continue on their atomistic ways ever outward
in their frantic individual efforts to be free.
That is the history of our world states, and that
will be the history of individual societies unless
the mad spinning which throws men always
apart is halted. Yes, it must be halted, not by
the Nazi decree or armies, but by a knowledge
and adherence to th common fund of good. It
will be an effort, and a discipline, but it must
be done.
OLD MEN, worn and tired, lack the vigor for
that effort. They may teach the good; but
they lack the vigor. It is up to youth; they do
have the vigor and must have the inclination or
the world will fly apart-only to be hammered
together by the forces of a Hitler. That is the
alternative; experience has shown it to be so.
That is why a year spent in watching your fel-
low students and seeing many of them become
cold and cynical, others frustrated, yourself con-
fused, is such a discouraging thing. Doubly dis-
couraging has been a University whose general
pubc policy has added to those feelings. If a
University will not teach and be consistent to
our heritage of justice and good, who then can
we trust?
BUT there are people we can trust; one cannot
name them-each individual must know them
himself. Some are in the University-students
and faculty; and there are others in churches,
and others are working back home in the fac-
tories and on farms. They are the people who
are striving in the world for things that are good
and fine. And we join with them and they are
our faith and we theirs. And so we end another
year. - Robert Speckhard
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WASHINGTON-Behind the appointment of=
Harold Ickes as National Oil Administrator was
a significant inner° circle fight over the vital
question of whether the New Dealers should edge
out the One Dollar Men in bossing the huge job
of national defense.
O FAR, the One Dollar Men, loaned by big
business, have had the inside track-in fact,
an almost complete monopoly. Roosevelt has
argued among his friends that if anyone can
speed up industrial production it is the men who
have spent their lives running factories. This
is also the theory of Harry Hopkins, who sees
Roosevelt more than any other living man.
But this policy has left the old group of hard-
hitting liberals, who did most of the open-field
running for Roosevelt in the first seven years
pretty much on the sidelines. And now Ickes,
after one year on the bench, is the first out-
standing member of the old squad to get into
the game.
Reasoa for this were delinquencies on the part
of the oil industry which the President could not
overlook. One year ago, Ickes warned the Na-
tional Defense Council that there would be a
serious shortage of oil on the Eastern Seaboard
unless something was done to increase transpor-
tation facilities. But nothing happened.
Oil problems of the Defense Council were
handled by Robert E. Wilson, a One Dollar Man
who is president of Pan-American Petroleum and
Transport Company, also of the American Oil
Company and many subsidiaries. During half
the week, Mr. Wilson worked for the Government

As Others
See It....

To A

Vietory Over Smoke
st. Louis's experience shows that solution.has been found-
social and economic gains of a cleaner city isted-a com-
munity achievement.
Ralph W. Cessna in Christian Science Monitor


A PEACH TREE bloomed in downtown St. Louis the
other day. It was the first time such a thing had
happened there since 1904.
Why is that news?
Because when a peach tree blooms in downtown St.
Louis, it means that it hasn't been blighted by smoke.
And that means St. Louis must have solved its smoke
problem.
St. Louis has solved its smoke problem. Winter
fires are burned out. The heating season is over.
The whole story can now be told. Perhaps it will take
another winter or so toy determine precisely just how
much good has been done, but it is certain from the
experience of this past winter that the solution has
been found.
That solution is embodied in a smoke ordinance
which is very simple-almost elementary: it makes
it illegal for anyone to burn fuel or to stoke fires so
as to cause heavy smoke.,
More specifically, the law says in effect: "That all.
those burning high volatile fuels must employ mechan-
ical burning equipment to burn it smokelessly. That
in case of emergency or necessary control, the city
administration be authorized to engage in the pur-
chase, sale and distribution of fuel. That railroads
shall conform to these suggestions."
One who had not visited St. Louis before the winter
of 1940-41 might not appreciate what has been done.
Just citing the mere figures that during this past
winter there were but 17 hours of thick smoke, a re-
duction of 85 per cent, and a drop from 610 to 186
hours of moderate smoke, doesn't tell the story.
But when you go at it in terms of having to crawl
through the city streets with your lights on, in mid-
day; of having to wash your curtains as often as your
bed clothes, and your shirts as often as your hands,
a more understandable picture appears.
* * *
NO PEACH TREE, nor any other kind of fruit tree,
would bloom downtown there before. Fruit was
killed even in the residential areas. Smoke palls hung
over the city regularly during the winter, bringing
darkness and leaving a coating of soot on streets,
buildings and people.
Folks began moving out to the suburbs. Many hotels
and apartment houses were depopulated. Downtown
stores began to feel it, not only in damage to goods,
but in the falling off of business.
And this is to say nothing of the harassed mothers
having to scrub and re-scrub their youngsters, who
needed but to venture out of doors for a few moments
to turn up soot-black.
Weather experts made much of the fact that St.
Louis. because of its situation in a sort of huge hollow,
hadn't the advantage of winds that ordinarily carry
away or scatter impurities in the air. The root of the
troubles though, most everyone agreed, was that St.
Louis used a cheap, low-grade coal, coming mostly
from the soft-coal mines across the river in Illinois.

This coal, burned without special apparatus, went up
the chimney mostly in a semi-solid form.
To the St. Louis Post-Dispatch goes much of the
credit for bringing about real action. Folks here had
talked about the smoke nuisance for years. But the
Post-Dispatch proposed a solution and then saw it
through.
COINCIDENTALLY, this paper's initial editorial on
Nov. 26, 1939, was followed two days later by the
famous "black Tuesday" with a smoke pall so thick
that citizens clamored for action.
It took a lot of organizing and persuading, but with
the help of business men, industrialists, railroads and
the city administration of Mayor Bernard F. Dick-
mann, the ordinance finally was put into effect in
April, 1940. It specified "smokeless" solid fuels as
those of 23 per cent volatile content, which includes
coal from many fields in West Virginia, Arkansas and
Oklahoma, but excludes Illinois:coal, which runs from
30 to 45 per cent in gas and tar oils, the smoke-pro-
ducing factor.
April was too late to do anything about it for that
heating season, of course, but during the summer the
enforcement machinery was put in order and full
cooperation assured.
A proposed boycott of St. Louis business, fostered by
Illinois mine operators and workers ,and business ele-
ments in the Illinois mine region was a serious threat
for a time. But this move failed to gain ground.
Many, it was said, saw that a smokeless, growing city
would ultimately increase coal consumption ( improve
all business.
More than 6,500 sto'kers were installed in homes
and small business places, making it possible still to
use the Illinois coal in a prepared, cleaned form.
* * *
I EANWHILE, some opposed the move because they
felt it would be an added burden on those who
could not afford stokers or the higher cost of the
smokeless fuel. It was shown, though, that while the
smokeless coal cost more, it gave more heat. Develop-
ment of small packages went far to meet their prob-
lem. The added cleanliness is appreciated in the hum-
ble homes as much as any.
All the savings won't be counted up for awhile. But
it is known that one hotel has had a 30 per cent
increase in occupancy. Curtains - and draperies sent
to laundries and cleaners have dropped 30 per cent.
The electric company estimates-perhaps tearfully
-folks who previously had to burn their lights during
the day have saved $35,000.
Is it any wonder that a score of other cities which
have similar smoke problems have gone to St. Louis to
see how it was done?
The city has quite a reputation. Recently a letter
addressed to a person in "Smokeless Town, Mo.," was
delivered, without any fuss at all, to the addressee in
--St. Louis.


AMONG the idealists of the world there is bewilder-
ment. This is the price one must pay for his
luxury of having vision and emotion to sustain it.
Professor Ralph Barton Perry of Harvard in an arti-
cle in Yale Review in August, 1834, and later usejd by
Professor Erich A. Walter in his collection for 1935,
makes the issue very definite: "The ideal of social
democracy implies a magnanimity which will respect
genuine superiority wherever it appears, and prefer
a pyramid of excellence to a plane of mediocrity; and
will encourage eminence for the enrichment of the
common life." Here is a text for every University man
and woman to carry in the soul as he leaves the cam-
pus to resume contact with home, community, and
general society.
No one of the other traits of Christian living-such
as vision, love of righteousness, faith in the friendli-
ness of the universe, forgiveness, sensitivity to the
needs of others, dominant purpose, and Christian
courage-is more difficult of attainment than mag-
nanimity. Yet this is the word which the careful prag-
matist has used in his reference to the ideal of social
democracy. University students are not set on a pedes-
tal in our decade, but the fact that the privilege of
freedom to study during the recent difficult years has
been ours, places us under heavy obligation. He alone
is living up to his best who can take his place in so-
ciety with a grace which will assure his non-campus
associates that he is sensitive to this fact and finds
delight in the obligation which is spiritually imposed.
Magnanimity begins to be attained by such indirection.
BUT the suffering we refer to on the part of idealists
is at the point of confusion as to goals rather than
at the point of social practice. Idealists are able to
make sacrifices, to take the grief of defense of labor to
stand up to cruelty in a war-torn world, to take sides
where there are real issues demanding specific deci-
sion and to pay the price of death if need be, if only
they can get a clear, clean-cut statement of issues.
He needs only a sufficient goal of performance, a
challenge which has meaning, and a comradeship in
things of infinite worth. Intellectual and religious
devotion they can always supply 'if once they can be
satisfied that the ends in view are worthy. They only
ask that ends are such as will lift mankind above a
mere political plane or an economic plateau where
our children's children will have to struggle again in
vain. They crave spiritual values, not political ones,
though they can talk in political terms. These ideal-
ists long for ethical and hplmanistic ends, though they
can state the case in economic phrases. Give us the
social freedom, they say, which will assure our younger
brothers and sisters a life in which true excellence can
serve its sacred purpose.
pRACTICALIY the task before us as we leave the
,'amvr1,c , to alrPa w~ ise senf the npr.snective

Comptometers, avows one sage,
Epitomize our day and age.
Whate'er the contents of life's cup
We ask, just what do they add up?
Let millions be on billions lumped
Cbmptometers are still not stumped.
Howe'er we're treated, then by fate
We know just what 'twill aggregate.
Tho fat our wallet or quite lean
It's summed up by this deft machine
Which multiplies, adds and subtracts
Revealing always concise facts.
So, striking symboltof our time,
Comptometers, .you rate this rhyme!
- Arthur II. Ortmayer,
t Indianapolis, Ind.
ically spread before us by each daily paper, but that
injustice is redressed in governmental effort on every
hand; when the right to worship in accordance with
conscience is denied in various parts of the world, but
is definitely set before us as an American privilege
which every idealist may embrace; there is satisfac-
tion in group action. By such action each can clarify
his own thinking, and perhaps find supreme values.
At least in this he will make his personal specific con-
tribution. Every lover of ultimate truth by the quality
of his life may thus impart strength. In so doing,
great and good men turn mental tensions to social
putrpose.
- Edward W, Blakeman,
Counselor in Religious Education
Pilot Training Progra"
On all fronts the CAA Civilian Pilot Training pro-
gram is refuting its critics and distinguishing itself as
one of. the most worthy experments undertaken by
the government in recent years. We commented re-
cently on the fact that 362 colleges and universities
had decided to give regular scholastic credits to stu-
dents taking CAA courses, thus testifying to the pro-
gram's educational value. We have also emphasized
reports showing that 11 per cent of CPTP's graduates,
as of March 1, had volunteered for ou' fighting serv-
ices, and that both military and naval authorities, re-
versing earlier opinions, had concluded that CPTP
grads make excellent pilot material for the armed
forces.
Now comes word of a voluntary underwriters' re-
duction of 20 per cent in the rates for life and acci-
dent insurance, public liability and property damage
premiums covering the Civilian Pilot Training program.
CAA primary students now will pay only $7.20 per
$1,000 of hospitalization and medical reimbursement
plus $3,000 of accidental death or dismemberment in-
. surance. This is the third reduction the underwriters
have made since the program was instituted and repre-
sents a 66 per cent cut in the original charges. It re-
flects with fair accuracy the excellent safety record of
C'PTP. whichx in .training more than 50.000 pilots has~

to all and regards to Ajax.
- Tom Thumb

Much love

France's Anniversary
YEAR AGO, France surrendered. It was a
beaten France, but it could have continued
the good fight with its fleet, and from its col-
onies. It declined to do so. It broke its solemn
pledge to Britain, and made a separate peace,
promising at the same time never to turn against
Britain and the cause that had been its own.
For Fighting Hitler, France had no heart. But
today, for fighting Britain, their old ally, the
men of France are finding new courage.
-The Chicago Daily News
The dining hall at Farmville, Va., State
Teachers College uses 240 dozen eggs, 525 gal-