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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
FRYDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1940
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Letter Cites Necessity,
Of Business Conscription
Is That Shatterproof Glass?
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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
S . . .Associate Editor
* . . . Associate Editor
. . . . . Sports Editor
Women's Editor
Exchange Editor
To The Editor:
September 16, 1940 will be a red-letter day in
American History. For on this day the Conscrip-
tion Act became a law. For the first time in
our history American manhood has been ren-
dered liable for compulsory military service in
time of peace. With the passage of the conscrip-
tion bill 400,000 of our best young men will be
occupations and their home, for a year' ervice
snatched from their careers, their occupations
and their homes, for a year's service at a nom-
inal pay of $21.00 to $30.00 per month.
Billions have been appropriated to produce
planes, guns and battleships.
The drums" of war-time emergency have been
beating. The Administration, the majority in
Congress, most of the press and many of our,
leading citizens have told us that the safety of
this country is in jeopardy. We have been told
that the defense of this country will require
the utmost effort and sacrifice of every citi-
zen.
Yet for three months, the national defense
drive has been badly bogged down. The produc-
tion of urgently needed armaments and equip-
ment has been hamperede, delayed and saba-
toged. Why? Not, as we might have expected,
because of governmental red tape, nor as yet
because of foreign agents and fifth columnists.
The American people have been confronted
with a sit-down strike of big business against
the defense effort. While our young men were
being asked to give their lives for their country
at $30.00 per month, Big Business has been hag-
gling and bickering over thep rofits to be made
out of the country's danger.
Consider the following revelations. In August,
Secretary Stimson reported in a Senate hearing
that only 33 planes had been contracted for
out of the 4200 appropriated for. An employe
of the National Defense Commission was re-
ported to have testified before the Senate Af-
fairs Committee that there would be no pro-
duction, in the opinion of the Commission, un-
less Congress removed profit restrictions. Corrob-
oration came when Irving S. Olds, president of
U. S. Steel, announced his company was delay-
ing the purchase of armor plate until proper
tax legislation was passed. J. B. Woodward of
Newport News Shipbuilding company testified
before a Congressional Committee that the air-
craft carrier Hornet would be launched without
necessary side-belt armor plate until the gov-
ernment assured them of satisfactory profits
and paid for new machinery needed by the
plants. The aviation industry has joined the
Big Business sit-down as evidenced in the Wall
Street Journal for August that "Although con-
tracts for some 4,000 planes have been drawn
and are awaiting signature, it is understood
that the industry has declined to accept the
business until definite regulations are forth-
coming on amortizing new plants."
These episodes are in line with the best tradi-
tion of Big Business in time of war, summed up
by Pierre DuPont when he wrote in 1917: "We
cannot assent to allowing our patriotism to in-
terfere with our duties as trustees."
What lay behind this sit-down strike of Big
Business? The armament makers want the
government to loan them the money for new
plants and equipment, charge off part of the
tax on their profits to amortization, and then
pay them enough for planes, tanks, guns and
other equipment so that they will completely
pay off the debt for the new plants and ma-
chinery at the end of five years. In practice,
the story of the Curtis-Wright deal is most illu-
minating. In 1940, the company was worth
eighteen millions of dollars. The government
loaned it ninety-two million to build a new plant
for the production of airplane motors. The
government further agreed to pay enough for
the motors to enable the company to repay the
loan in eight years. The company was to have
a lease on the plant for eight years, subject
to renewal for another eight. If it chose not to
renew, it could sell the plant back to the govern-
ment, in which case the government would be
paying for the plant twice. Nevertheless, the
Wright Company, when last heard from, was
holding out for five years amortization.
Businesses cooperating fully in the defense
program must of course be assured of a fair'
profit. Such businesses cannot be expected to
assume the cost of plant expansion in indus-
tries where new plants will not be profitable
after the defense emergency is over. But, this
does not mean that they shoud be allowed un-
limited profits or permitted to escape their fair
share of taxation. Nor does it mean that the
government should make free gifts of plants
and equipment to private companies. In pro-
duction for national defense, manufacturers
should assume reasonable risks and 'be content
with reasonable profits.
If this sit-down continues, it is to be hoped
that the section of the Conscription Act pro-
viding for the conscription of recalcitrant wealth
and industries will not prove to be merely so
much eye-wash to make compulsory military
service acceptable to the American people. If
necessary, let the government retain the owner-
ship of new plants and equipment and lease
them, as has been done in some cases, to pri-
vate manufactureers for short periods. If neces-
sary, the government must take over monopoly
industries and others that refuse to cooperate
in the defense effort.
The lesson of conquered France and desperate
Britain demonstrates that no country can allow
monopoly to dictate the terms of defense. We
must not, we cannot, allow sit-downs in defense.
-- Martin B. Dworkts
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NIGHT EDITOR: ALVIN DANN
The editorials published in The Michigan
Daily are written by members of The Daily
staff and represent the views of the writers
only.
Washington Not Opposed
To Third Term .. .
W HETHER Wendell L. Willkie or
Franklin D. Roosevelt would make
the better president is no concern of this editor-
ial and.neither is the question of the advisability
of a third term. The only thing we are con-
cerned with is the popular misconception that
George Washington was against any president
serving more than two terms.
In a letter written by Washington to the Mar-
quis de la Fayette on April 28, 1788, the first
president declared that "there cannot in m,
judgment be the least danger" in having a chief
executive serve more than a certain number of
years. He closes his letter by writing:
"Under an extended view of this part of
the subject, I can see no propriety in pre-
cluding ourselves from the services of any
man, who in some great emergency, shall be
deemed, universally, most capable of serv-
ing the public."
The publicity directors of the Republican
Party are fully aware of Washington's stand on
this subject and thus have never actually as-
serted that he was opposed to a third term.
However, the fact that Washington declined the
presidency when he was asked to accept it for
a third time has become an American tradition
and thousands believe that he was opposed to
three terms.
Little or nothing has been done by either
major political party to date to reveal the true
situation. The copy of Washington's speech ap-
peared in the August, 1940 issue of The Demo-
cratic Digest, a publication which does not pos-
sess a large circulation.
r The time has come when the third term ques-
tion must be considered objectively. Does the
voter believe that another four years in office
will give Roosevelt too much power? Or does
t the voter believe that such a consideration should
not be considered in the choice of the chief ex-
ecutive?
When Calvin Coolidge was considered as a
candidate of the Republican Party in 1928, the
president made the famous statement, "I do
not choose to run," after being informed that
the country would not stand for another term.
I At that time, as in times before and today, the
.stand of Washington was discussed-and Coo-
lidge walked out of the White House.
On Nov. 5 the big question of whether or not
Roosevelt will remain at the head of the govern-
ment will be decided and it must be decided
upon the record (either good or bad) which he
has made in office. It must be remembered that
Washington was not opposed to a third term,
although he declined one, and that the tradition
t he established was not affected by a sort of
"fear of power."
- Albert P. Blaustein
Democratic Student
Body In Disuse .. .
THE DEADLINE for filing petitions
y of candidacy for the Student Senate
falls at 6 p.m. today, but as yet there are but a
few more candidates than positions to fill.
a This is indeed a sad commentary upon the
regard with which university students hold their
heritage of democratic ideals. While censorship
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DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN
THE REPLY CHURLISH
By TOUCHSTONE
QHERWOOD ANDERSON looks like your uncle
John from Ohio. His hair is going pretty
thin on top, but it's still dark. He has ordinary
glasses, his clothes are just brown tweed with
the wide cuffs of a man who doesn't follow
Esquire except in a literary way, he smokes
his cigarettes in a holder part of the time, but
when he's talking he doesn't bother. His voice
is like all the Middle West voices, a little husky,
a little nasal on the twangy words. He says
"drama" through his nose. When he says it.
He is nervous as hell when there are a lot of
people around. His hands shake, and his voice
dies back into his chest sometimes. He'll talk
about modern writers, but he knows them too
well to do much more than tell stories about
them. He calls all the greats by their first names,
and gets away with it because when he does it
it doesn't sound like some cafe society flippit
trying to register. He doesn't seem to like to talk
literary stuff much. He said in his lecture that he
is still much too busy writing to do much reading.
By hanging onto coattails and ignoring my own
fear of gate crashing and anxiety not to be the
kind of guy who drops casual airy remarks about
"me and Sherwood" (wow, this sentence is get-
ting away from me-fresh start) I got a chance
to sit in a booth at the Parrot with Anderson
and Allan Seager and Jim Jackson, all of whom
are pretty good writers, and I listened. They told
dirty stories. The waiter brought coffee a couple
of times, and the talk went from women to Irish
cops to how much Collier's pays Damon Runyon.
The three o'clock coke rush was on, all the
bridge players and gray flannel boys were there,
and nobody came over to ask for an autograph,
nobody paid any attention to the short man
with glasses, the tall man with the shoulders,
the tall kid with the bushy hair. Mr. Anderson
wasn't nervous, except when one of us looked
at the clock and he remembered about the lec-
ture. He hates to lecture.
Nobody excited. The literary people and the
ladies who go to lectures were all over at the
Rackham Building, or getting ready to hear the
democracy can be innocuous, but that isn't ex-
actly an original criticism. Plato said the same
thing over 2,000 years ago; and agreeing with
Plato isn't going to save our democratic ideals
today.
The only way a people will appreciate democ-
racy enough to fight for it is by putting demo-
cratic ideals into practice, rigorous practice. The
only thing that will make our Student Senate
a vigorous and significant body is the determina-
leader of modern American writing, and the gang
at the Parrot shouted to each other and played
the jeep and carried their glasses back to their
booths. Anderson told how the woman named
Tennessee started to be a sculptor, and happened
to do the illustrations for "Triumph of the
Egg." It started out, "Well she kept hanging
around while I was working on this book down in
Virginia, and there's a lot of clay around there
-." No side to Sherwood Anderson. No display
of brilliance. A guy who looks like just what he
was thirty years ago, a small factory owner. A
guy who lets his work speak for him. One of the
nicest guys you ever met. The father of a
school of literature. The man who wrote stories
that changed writing. An ordinary looking per-
son. A great man. Reach your own conclusions;
make your own comparisions.
The City Editor' s
SCRHTCH PRD
THE MICHIGAN ALUMNUS comes forth with
the information that a U. of M. grad is the
man who is keeping Wendell Willkie's throat in
shape for the campaign. He's Dr. Harold Bar-
nard, '19M, born in Constantine, Michigan,
and a practicing specialist:. in Beverly Hills,
'Calif., for the past 18 years.
* * *
What's the social significance to the re-
port from Detroit that there are more girls
seeking hostess jobs in the Army than males
enlisting for service?
This headline might have caused a little alarm
in some quarters: "Home Ec Coeds to Have Real
Home, Baby and All." Actually the newspaper
story described a new plan to be enacted at the
University of Washington. The baby was adopt-
ed for "practical training."
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SHED NO MORE TEARS for John Barrymore.
A judge has given him his $1,000 a week
allowance again. The rest of his resources still
go to the creditors, however.
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Robert R. McMath, of the University's
McMath-Hulbert Observatory, is receiving
motion picture honors. The Society of Mo-
tion Pictures Engineers in Hollywood gave
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 19404
VOL. L. No. 23
Publication in the Daily Official
Bulletin is constructive notice to all
members of the University.
Notices
The University Bureau of Appoint-
ments and Occupational Information
has received notice of the following
Civil Service examinations. The last
date for filing application is noted
in each case:
United States Civil Service
Principal Field Representative, sal-
ary $4600, November 18, 1940.
Senior Field Representative, salary
$3800, November 18, 1940.
Field Representative, salary $3200,
November 18, 1940.
Assistant Field Representative,
salary $2600, November 18, 1940.
Junior Tabulating Machine Oper-
ator, salary $1,440, November 12, 1940.
Under Tabulating Machine Oper-
ator, salary $1260, November 12, 1940.
Junior Alphabetic Accounting Ma-
chine Operator, salary $1440, Novem-
ber 12, 1940.
Under Alphabetic Accounting Ma-
chine Operator, salary $1260, Novem-
ber 12, 1940.
Border Patrolman, salary $2000,
November 4, 1940.
Detroit Civil Service
Supervisor of Tenant Relations,
salary $3300, October 26, 1940.
Complete announcements on file
at the University Bureau of Appoint-
ments and Occupational nformation,
201 Mason Hall. Office hours: 9-12
and 2-4.
Academic Notices
German Make-up Examination:
Saturday, October 26, from 9-12 a.m.
in room 204 U.H. All of those stu-
dents entitled to take this examina-
tion must report to the German de-
partmental office, 204 UH, at least
three days prior to this examination
unless they have already done so.
Written permission from the instruc-
tor is also necessary.
Latin 50, Make-up Examination
for this course will be held today at
3:00 p.m., in 2014 Angell Hall.
Political Science 1 and 2 make-up
examinations for students absent
from the June, 1940, examination,
will be given Saturday, October 26,
9-12, Roome2014 A.H.
Events Today
Assembly Banquet Decorations
Committee meeting today at 4:00
p.m. in the League. All girls inter-
ested in helping are invited.
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Hillel Players: Final tryouts for
two one-act plays to be presented by
the Hillel Players will be held at the
Hillel Foundation today from 1:00
to 5:00 p.m. Several men's parts, as
well as girls' parts, are available.
All those interested are urged to at-
tend.
Student Senate election candidacy
petitions must be turned in from 4
to 6 p.m. today in Room 302 of the
Union to be considered for the ballots.
Petitions must be signed by at least
six students and must be accompan-
ied by a registration fee. Designek-
tions, to appear on the ballot, may be
submitted with petitions, and must
not be more than three words. The
election, open to all students of the
University, will be held from 8 a.m.
to 6 p.m. Friday, November 1.
Student Tea at Harris Hall today
4:00-6:00 p.m. All Episcopal stu-
dents and their friends are cordially
invited.
Conservative Services will be held
at the Hillel Foundation tonight at
7:30. Mr. Kenneth Morgan, direc-
tor of the Student Religious Associ-
ation ,will speak on "This Changing
World."
Westminster Student Guild of the
Presbyterian Church will have Open
House tonight, 8:30-12:00. The pro-
gram will include a hard times party.
Refreshments. All students are in-
vited.
Wesley Foundation at the First
Methodist Church: Bible class tonight
with Dr. Brashares in Room 214 at
7:30. Subject for discussion: the
book of Amos. At 9:00 o'clock there
will be a hard-time Hallowe'en party
for all Methodist students and their
friends. Meet in the Lounge.
The Lutheran Student Association
will go on a hayride tonight, leaving
at 8:00 p.m. from the Zion Parish
Hall. Games and other entertain-
ment. Refreshments. Small charge.
All are invited to attend.
Coming Events
Freshman Roundtable will be held
at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday in Lane
Hall. Mr. Kenneth Morgan will lead
the discussion on "The Nature and
Existence of God."
Graduate Outing Club will meet,
Oct. 27, at 2:15 p.m. in the north.-
west rear of the Rackham Building.
Election of officers will be held, and
all members must have paid their
dues prior to voting. A hike and
bicycling will follow, with supper at
the clubrooms. All graduate students
and faculty invited.
Suomi Club meeting Saturday, Oct.
26 at 8:00 p.m. at the International
Center.
Saturday Luncheon Group will
meet Saturday at 12:15 p.m. at Lane
Hall. Make reservations at Lane
Hall.
Michigan Wolverine will sponsor a
social hour Saturday, Oct. 26, 8:30-
12:00 p.m., instead of on Sunday as
in the past. Small charge per couple.
Single admission tickets for Miss
Draper's "Character Sketches" will
be placed on sale Monday morning
at 10:00 o'clock. It is suggested that
patrons wishing Season Tickets for
the full Lecture Course purchase
them before Monday to assure bet-
ter seat locations. Box office, Hill
Auditorium, open daily.
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