THE 'MICHIGAN DATTLY

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1940


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Editorial Staff

Hervie Haufier
Alvin Sarasohn .
Paul M. Chandler
Karl Kessler
Milton tOrshefsky
Howard A. Goldman,
Donald Wirtchafter.
Esther Osser
Helen Corman


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. . . . Managing Editor
. . . . Editorial Director
. . . . . City 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 Maliager

Irving Guttman
Robert Gilmour
Helen Bohnsack
. Jane Krause

NIGHT EDITOR: S. R. WALLACE
The editorials published in The Michigan
Daily are written by members of The Daily
staff and represent the views of the writers
only.
Propaganda
And History .. .
ROPAGANDA! With this one word
P. the current film "The Howards of
Virginia" was roundly denounced. It was a one-
word sneer at all the highly colored pictures
recently released dramatizing incidents in the
growth of America. It summarized the general
feeling among many young people that the cin-
ema industry has become inflamed with jingoism.
Considering the facts published about past
wars, youth has plenty of reason to be leery of
drums and bugles. The causes and results of
the World War have been hashed and rehashed
in millions of arguments, and always out of the
confusion rises the one great question - What
good did it do? With this justly cynical atti-
tude youth greets the overtures to militarization
and stands with a blue pencil ready to scrawl
"propaganda" on anything tinged with the emo-
tional idea of patriotism.
The wordI "propaganda" has not always been
the synonym of prevarication. Once it meant
a doctrine or idea spread and fostered by a con-
certed group. The doctrine did not necessarily
have to be debased and permeated with untruth.
On the contrary, it could represent a way of life
built on the loftiest ideals of ethics and human
conduct. But this meaning of the word has long
since gone down the river with the meanings of
other lost words such as "national honor" and
"international law."
Propaganda, therefore, is the epithet hurled
at the host of grandiose westerns depicting the
growing pains of American expansion. Drama-
tized sketches such as "San Francisco" and "In
Old Chicago" illustrate the stages of filth
through which great cities must grow. Sus-
piciously patriotic are the short features on
United States statesmen and the full length ex-
travaganzas such as "Northwest Passage" and
"Uprising in the Alleghenies." To this latter
group has been added "The Howards of Vir-
ginia."
All these films are glorified versions of Amer-
ican history. But the propaganda does not lie
in the glorification. Not by any means. For
American history, in the most critical and ob-
jective presentation, itself is pure propaganda.
Probably the greatest propaganda ever written.
- Emile Gele
Community Fund
Deserves Support ..
THE 20th Annual Community Fund
drive In Ann Arbor was launched
last week with its goal set at $56,000. Certainly
this. drive of all those conducted during the year
is of the utmost benefit to the unfortunate one-
third of the 'nation that is ill-housed, ill-clothed
and ill-fed.
As an immediate and sustaining aid to these
poor people the Community Fund, indeed, serves
its purpose. Not restricting itself to the bare
necessities, it goes on to prevent crime and moral
delinquency among underprivileged youths by
its sponsorships of many character building
organizations such as Y.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A., the
Boy Scouts Council, Salvation Army and Dunbar
Center, a community house for Negroes. Al-
though underprivileged youths are strongly en-
couraged, many others make use of these bene-
fits. Of course, miracles cannot be expected and
it is more obvious daily that something more

j WAS scarcely more than introduced
to the professor when he said,
bitingly, "Well, I see The Daily is running true
to form." I deduced from the glib way that his
words rolled out that he had been saying this
line to many people: "The Daily is running true
to form, following its same old Red, Communistic
bent."
I also deduced from the professor's words
that he had been waiting and watching for some
bit of evidence with which he could justify his
attitude toward this year's staff. He obviously
.wanted to believe that we of the Daily staff are
the paid agents of Moscow and he had pounced
upon my editorial as his shibboleth. That's the
way it seemed to me, anyway.
My editorial questioned whether the deliberate
whipping-up of patriotism was the wisest way
for Americans. I expressed my belief that when
my countrymen begin to respond unquestioning-
ly to the emotional appeals of the super-patriots,
then Americans are not thinking, they are not
keeping to reason, and they may be swept off
their feet by some catch-phrase which they
would laugh at in cooler moments.
Mind you, I am not against love of country.
I am against the blatant, excited, emotional ex-
hibition of Americanism that is gaining momen-
tum today. I think Americans can love their
country without shouting themselves into fren-
zied hysteria about it.
But the professor immediately concluded that
I had desecrated the flag, that I was a Red, an
un-American.
j DENY THIS. Neither I nor any member of
my senior staff has ever been a member of
any politically-minded faction-neither the
American Student Union, the Young Communist
League nor any other group. We hold no brief
for them nor against them. We are newspaper-
men before anything else. If a radical group has
a news story of legitimate news value, we will
print it. If the Willkie Club makes news, we will
print that. No free newspaper could do less.
I ask you older opponents of The Daily to try
to disprove this. Show me where a dispropor-
tionate amount of space and importance has
been given to any one group. I don't think you
can do it.ihs
If you do not think that a stand I take is de-
fensible, answer me as Professor Slosson's very
good letter did-with arguments, not with labels.
- Hervie Haufler
A Raise And A Call
Conversationally, at least, Japan has executed,
since the public announcement of a part of the
Axo-Jappo anti-American compact, one of the
most precipitous backdowns in diplomatic his-
tory. Whether the Nipponese will persist in
sneak aggressions and covert grabs under their
apologetic smoke screen remains to be seen. In
any event, prevailing ideas about the importance
of "face" in Oriental psychology need revision.
The City Editor's
SCRA4TCH PND
The morning papers told us that "Russia
Pledges Moral Support To Turks." Maybe to-
morrow they'll explain what "moral support"
means.
Have you heard the Michigan faculty
more apologetic than yesterday when they
were forced to give their little announce-
ment about conscription? Some of the
robed ones sounded almost sorry that they
were too old to register.
If you are puzzled by the news from the Bal-
kans remember that the Nazis still control the
communications in Rumania. Germany and
Russia may be fighting right now, if the truth
were out.
From the mail bag comes this poem,
signed "Olive Esthetic Enigma." We don't
get it. The Michigan Forum maybe?
1"10,000 placidly )hewing the cud,
1,000 acidly chewing the rag!"
Exactly Who

Is Alarmed? . ..
WE WISH Americans would under-
stand that ithere is nothing to be
alarmed about. These words are from an official
spokesman of the Japanese Foreign Office.
They will carry no weight as against the advice
by the American State Department to American
itizens-in the Far East to return to America.
This is a serious step. It is costly to individuals
concerned. It is the sort of official action which
is dictated only by a rapidly deteriorating rela-
tionship between nations.
All this is known not only in Washington but
in Tokyo, and to judge by Japanese press com-
ment it is being surmised by the Japanese peo-
ple. Because it is not possible to interpret this
move as the abrogation of the American-Japan-
ese trade treaty was interpreted by Japanese
officials-i.e., as mere preparation for bargain-
ing-two other courses were open to Tokyo.
One was, to admit frankly to the Japanese peo-
ple the growing rift between the two countries;
the other, to pretend that the United States is
unduly alarmed over the Axis-Tokyo pact.
The United States is not unduly alarmed over
that pact; Americans simply are aware that
Japan has come out openly to cooperate with
European aggressors whose victory in the At-
lantic would threaten the Western Hemisphere
just as Japanese aggression has threatened
American treaty rights in the Far East. A
Americans are preparing to take such steps
as they feel are necessary to their own vital in-

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WASHINGTON-Some of the most important
discussions ever held regarding the Far East are
now taking place behind the scenes in Wash-
ington. And as frequently happens, there is- a
division of opinion inside the Cabinet.
This division is not over firmness in the policy
toward Japan. There is complete unanimity on
that point. The debate is whether to impose an
almost complete embargo on the sale of raw
materials to Japan-particulary fuel oil.
One group within the Cabinet sees no reason
why we should keep on feeding the Japanese
war machine. The other group-and this includes
the entire State Department-fears that if we
cut off the sale of these supplies too abruptly,
Japan will strike back.
To get the full significance of the present
picture, one must compare it with an almost
identical situation which faced the Roosevelt
Administration when Japan invaded China in
1937. For the most partthe details of this story
have not been told.
When Japan first launched its invasion, a
series of conferences took place between Roose-
velt, Hull and the British Embassy during which
both sides agreed that a Japanese conest of
China, with its cheap labor and vast raw mater-
ials, would mean a new industrial empire in
Asia which eventually would challenge Australia,
New Zealand and the U.S. in the Pacific.
Secretary Hull went further than this, and
pointed out that the dictators of Europe-Hitler
and Mussolini-were just beginning to show
signs of going on the rampage, and that while
the United States could not afford to get mixed
up in Europe, it did have treaty obligations in
China. He felt that to invoke the peace ma-
chinery of the world in order to make an object
lesson of a dictator nation-Japan-might have
a very salutary effect upon Hitler and Mussolini.
Long Distance Blockade
AS A RESULT of these conversations, a plan
was evolved whereby the United States,
Britain and France invoked the peace machinery
of the League of Nations and the Nine Power
Pact guaranteeing the sovereignty of China.
Backbone of the plan was a long distance naval
blockade worked out by the Admirals of the U.S.
Navy and the British Admiralty. Under this
plan British war ships at Singapore and U.S.
ships along the California coast and Panama
undertook to starve out the Japanese military
machine by cutting off scrap iron, copper, cot-
ton, fuel oil and gasoline.
Japan, absolutely dependent upon these raw
materials, has to get them either via the United
States or via Singapore. And because of the
long distances between Japan and California,
and between Japan and Singapore, (seven days
sailing) it would have been impossible for the
Japanese fleet to attack either the British or
American navies.
The element of distance was the essence of the
plan. And Admiral Leahy, who helped conceive
it and was head of the Navy at that time, esti-
mated that the Japanese war machine would be
starved out in three months without the United
States or Britain losing anything save a few
gunboas on the Yangtze.
With some misgivings the State Department
finally OK'd the idea, and the British detailed
four battleships, twelve cruisers and twenty de-
stroyers to sail through Suez to Singapore.
But just at that moment-the summer of
1937-the dictators of Europe, playing just as
close ball with Japan as today, started their
submarine "piracy" campaign in the Mediter-
ranean, sinking two or three British merchant
vessels near Spain and causing the British to
keep their ships in the Mediterranean instead
of sending them on toSingapore
So the long distance naval blockade was

suspended.
Brussels Conference
HOWEVER, it was revived again a month later
after the Mediterranean crisis had calmed.
In preparation for the second attempt, President
Roosevelt delivered his famous Chicago speech
in which he warned the American people that
the time might come Wdhen they would want to
impose a "quarantine" against an aggressor
nation.
Shortly thereafter, a conference of the Nine
Powers which had guaranteed the sovereignty
of China-a treaty initiated by Charles Evans
Hughes and Warren G. Harding at the Wash-
ington Conference in 1921-was called at Brus-
sels. Norman Davis, who headed the American
delegation to this conference, stopped at Hyde
Park before he sailed. The President told him
to go the limit in molding public opinion and
putting into effect the original peace machinery
against Japan.
In conformity with these instructions, Davis
wrote the first draft of his speech while on the
steamer en route to Brussels, and radioed it back
to the State Department for approval. He was
amazed to receive back a completely rewritten
version from which all the teeth had been ex-
tracted. So his opening speech sounded like a
Sunday school sermon.
From that point on, every move Norman Davis
attempted at Brussels was stymied by the State
Department. The British one again proposed
the plan of cutting off Japan's war materials,
but Davis had to reply that his government ap-
parently had changed its mind.
When he returned he found that his speech

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IT ALL BEGAN during our eight
o'clock yesterday morning. The,
36-year-old prof strode solemnly, so--
berly into the room, cleared his
throat and read the cryptic message:
"I have been asked to advise all male
students in the College of Literature,
Science and the Arts that registra-
tion for national conscription shall
take place in the lobby of the Alumni
Memorial Hall between 7 a.m. and 9
p.m. tomorrow (Wednesday) ."
Our 79-year-old 9 o'clock prof
crawled into the room in the same
humble, impressive manner and re-
peated almost verbatim the same
message to lit students. Our 10
o'clock prof and our 11 o'clock prof
also put on the same act with the
same sympathetic gestures. When
we left Angell Hall at noon we felt
so dismally low that we wouldn't
qualify for any draft even that for
disabled housekeepers. It must have
been sympathetic insight, but we had
suddenly developed every physical
infirmity that can be 'listed as a
draft disqualification. In fact, we
don't even plan to show up for the
registration this morning. We're un-
der age. Ah, youth!
More seriously, however, we con-
sider the registration today and the
subsequent national lottery to be
one of the most momentous events
to face youth in these coming years.
The professors' announcements were
words that less than two years ago
we never expected to hear in the
United States.
Those words, today's registration,
more than any other action of the
last twentydyears, irrevocably de-
stroy the idea of the "college vac-
uum," the idea that we here on the
campus can live in an "ivory tower."
Registering for a national draft, an
appreciation of what consecrilition
means and the effect of future drafts
on the college population can only
result in the final realization by col-
lege students that they are an in-
tegral part of national life, that they
cannot exist in a separate corner of
their own, idly dreaming their
dreams, drinking their beer and
studying their specialized, sometimes
impractical, subjects.
WE LOOK with extreme perplexity
at Messrs. Gene Markey and
Artie Shaw. Their respective wives,
Hedy LaMarr and Lana Turner,
achieved divorces on the grounds
that their husbands seldom remained
with them for a quiet evening at
home.
To Messrs. Shaw and Markey: You
guys are either damn near-sighted
or totally lacking in aesthetic appre-
ciation.
To divorcees LaMarr and Turner:
We love to spend quiet evenings at
home.

DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN

(Continued from Page 2)
Complete announcement on file at
University Bureau of Appointments
and Occupational Information, 201
Mason Hall. Office hours 9-12 and
2-4.
School of Education Students: No
course may be elected for credit after
Saturday, Oct. 19. Students must
report all changes of elections at
the Registrar's Office, Room 4, Uni-
versity Hall.Membership in a class
does not cease nor begin until all
changes have been thus officially
registered. Arrangements made with
the instructors are not official
changes.
Choral Union Ushers: The follow-
ing men please report at Hill Audi-
torium lobby between 4:30 and 5:30
p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, for Main Floor
assignments: James Armstrong, Rich-
ard D. Atwood, Robert L. Benford,
Elmer G. Berry, James F. Bosma,
Chester Bradley, Roland Brandt,
Geo. Thos. Britton, Arthur W. Burks,
Philip C. Busche, Wm. B. Corlis, Phil
Dickinson, Alan H. Englander, Her-
man E. Erke, John H. Fager, Jerome
L. Fechtner, R. Ralph Felver, Shel-
don H. Finkelstein, J. Wade Flaherty,
Emery Freeman, .Joseph Gardner,
John L. George, Richard H. Had-
ley, Gordon Hardy, Richard Harmel,
Alfred W. Hewitt, Richard Hanau,
K. B. Hook, Howard P. Fox,
Wm. W. Jack, Herbert Johnson,
J. E. Keenan, G. H. Kissin, George A.
Kuipers, Paul Theodore Lahti, Aus-
tin Lamberts, Fred Liechty, Lawrence
B. Scott, Frederick Matson, Arthur
E. Mabbett, Leslie McCoy, Thomas
H. Moore Jr., Philip C. Vai Nord-
strand, Milton Orshefsky, Paul Park-
er, Wm. C. Parkinson, Richard W.
Pomeroy, Harry W. Reed Jr., Robert
Roelofs, George R. Rumney, Paul L.
Smith, Stanford Sobel, Russell L.
Steere, H. E. Warner, Leo G. Weiss,

Adolpf F. Voight, Irving Zeiger, Rob-
ert F. Ziegler.
Choral Union Ushers: The follow-
ing men please report at Hill Audi-
torium lobby between 4:30 and 5:30
p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, for First Bal-
cony assignments:
David Balfour, Theodore Balgoo-
yen, Karl Beu, Harold E. Britton;
Wm. D. Chase, Wim. Ross Conrad,
Robert George Craig, Anthony N.
Drake, Moss K. Fletcher, Don E.
Folman Jr., Cornelius L. Golightly,
Joseph M. Gornbein, Louis A. Green,,
Robt. A. Gregg, Charles Hills Jr.,rEd-
ward Jenner, Joseph F. Julian, Duane
L. Kenaga, Arthur Klein, Thaddeus
W. Kucharski, Theodore Leibovitz,
Murray Lilly, Murry -W. Lipschitz,
Robert L. Livington, Richard Lyons,
Chester Lyman, Kenneth P. Mathews,
Gerald Nitzberg, Harold Ossepow,
Harry E. Pickering, Alfred Reifman,
Charles Louis Reinsch, Kenneth W.
Rhoads, John Rieger III, George F.
Shepard, A. Paul Smith, John S.
Stamm, E. E. Stanton, Robert W.
Stevens, Robert J. Stoll, Robert M.
Warner.
Academic Notices
Chemistry Colloquium will meet
today at 4:15 p.m. in Room 303
Chemistry Building. Mr. Amos
Newton will speak on "Appli-
cation of Radioactive Bromine and
Sodium to the Study of Adsorption."
Dr. Kasimir Fajans will discuss "Me-
chanism of the Adsorption of Dyes
on Silver Halides."
Students registering in the Gradu-
ate School for the first time this sem-
ester who did not; take the GRADU-
ATE RECORD EXAMINATION on
October 4 and 5 must take the make-
up which will be held on October 18
and October 19, in the Amphitheatre
of the Rackham Building. If any
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