PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1941 I THE MICHIGAN DAILY Washington Merry-Go-Round Long Winter Ahead i C Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session. Member of the Associated Press The Assolated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class mail matter. Subcriptions during the regular school year by carrier $4.00; by mail, $4.50. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING SY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AvE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CHICAGO IBOSTON * LOS ANGELES . SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Colegtatc Press, 1939-40 Editorial Staff Hervie Haufler Alvin Sarasohn, Paul M. Chandler Karl Kessler Milton Orshefsky Howard A. Goldman Donald Wirtchafter Esther Osser . Helen Corman - -- sor . . . Managing Editor * , Editorial' Director . . . . . City Editor . . . Associate Editor . Associate Editor * . Associate Editor S . . . 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 The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: DAVE LACHENBRUCH The Third Voter Who Does Not Vote ..:. MOST EVERYONE knows that you can't operate a six-cylinder car on four cylinders for long, but they expect that democracy will go right on percolating on the same basis. Even the presidential candidates aren't in- terested in the problem. For while FDR and WW go busily about digging up hoary traditions to base their campaigns on, they entirely forget the reliable tradition of voting. The third term receives more attention than the third voter-- the one out of every three Americans who failed to vote for a candidate for Presdent in 1936. And although there is much more patriotic flag waving in 1940 we don't expect the above figure to change appreciably-that is, not unless we see a great many more projects similar to the Union drive to have all absentee voters of the University exercise their electoral privileges. The Union is providing every possible service to enable absentee voters to cast their ballot accurately-including the services of a notary- complimentary to those who will but use them any afternoon from 3-5 in the Union lobby. Many states require that ballots be requested 30 days in advance. So let's hurry up and make certain that that which we are 'all steamed up about defending is still functioning when all the defending is over. - Robert Speckhard A Study In Orientation .. . ORIENTATION WEEK is over. OY But most new students have not yet oriented themselves. Many of these will not yet be oriented when summer calls them from their studies next June. These are the students who will transfer to other colleges, "drop out" of school or return bearing the prospect of eight more aimless months of imprisonment within the academic walls of Ann Arbor. These are the students who have not "found themselves." They have no strong interests. There is no true reason for ,"going on." They are tremendously disappointed with their first year at college. It is exceedingly difficult for students to or- ieAt themselves at a large college. The most important requisite, the priceless ingredient for self-orientation, is something material-some- thing to cling to-an object about which the student may encircle his college life. The cooperative movement at Michigan pro- vides many students with that needed direction of activity; it helps orientation. In any of the 12 cooperative living house on campus, the stu- dent experiences a stimulating sensation of in- dependence mingled with interdependence. His interdependence with each other house member lies in the principle that every man has a specific task to perform in a highly integrated work schedule. He is independent in that he has no boss. He has as much voice in the operation of the house as anyone else. He is exhilarated that he has no one working under him, nor is he working under anyone. He has not "bought his way" into the house; therefore the house owes him nothing. Rather he feels that he owes the house muci. He feels it his duty to repay the work put into TASHINGTON-The new iron and steel scrap embargo finally shut off one of Japan's key mnilitary supplies. But few know that the door still is wide open for another equally vital war material which is supposed to be under a drastic ban. On July 26 the President set up a licensing system on exports of high-test aviation gasoline. Aimed chiefly at Japan, this move has been ef- fective-as far as it goes. It has stopped the flow of top U.S. aviation fuel to Nipponese war planes. But through a loophole as big as a barn door, Japan has been able, despite this supposedly stringent embargo, to obtain all the U.S. gas it needs for the bombers that are raining death and destruction on helpless Chinese cities and villages. This loophole is the little-noticed pro- vision that limits the embargo only to a certain super-grade of gas-87 octane and over. This type of fuel is essential for modern aerial warfare. Without it planes are not able to at- tain the great speeds necessary in dog fights and raids such as take place night and day over Britain. But Japan is not up against that kind of bat- tling. Its bombers and fighter planes face no aerial opposition. They have the skies to them- selves. They don't need super-gas. They can do just as well on lower octane fuel. Their job is no different than an ordinary transport plane's. They haul out a load of bombs, dump it and fly back. And so, with high octane gas barred, the Japs ha~ve been using what they could get-and have continued their ruthless bombing without inter- ruption. Thestory is told in the following unpublished government figures. In the month after the imposition of the so-called embargo, Japan im- ported from the United States 187,026 barrels of lower grade gasoline, or more than 20 per cent of all such exports during that period. Military experts say that Japanese planes, if necessary, can use ordinary motor fuels as long as they are not required to operate at very high speeds. REAL INSTIGATOR of the airtight scrap em- bargo was not the War, Navy or State De- partment. It was a civilian-Defense Commis- sioner Leon Henderson. Also, although the embargo coincided with European and Far Eastern developments, its original motivation was not diplomatic but eco- nomic. On August 30, Henderson sent the President a memorandum strongly urging acomplete em- bargo on exports of all grades of iron and steel scrap." He advised this on two grounds: (1) to meet the rapidly mounting demands of the de- fense program; (2) to combat a sky-rocketing of prices. Roosevelt agreed with Henderson on his argu- ments, but held up action in order not to offend Japan. Aware that the Axis was secretly pressuring Tokyo to enter an alliance, the President pur- posely allowed Japan to obtain several hundred tons of scrap in the hope of warding off a Nazi- Jap tie-up. Not until it became clear that this appeasement policy was futile, did he turn to Henderson's proposal and crack down on scrap iron shipments. s* * s For 21 years Justice Felix Frankfurter and his wife, the former Marion Denman, have led a very happy but childless married life.' Now, however, they are taking three refugee The City Editor's SCRATCH PAD WINTERGREEN FOR PRESIDENT, or is it Wendell Willkie? The GOP challenger's ap- pearance here might have been something from a stage play. "Of Thee I Sing" couldn't have produced a better train than W. W.'s as it rolled up to the station full of reporters, mimeograph mnachines, and beer bottles. , * , W. W. seems to be completely wrapped up in this campaign. Any man as fatigued as he was should go to bed and forget it. Ann Arbor hasn't heard a dryer tonsil in a long time. The scribes should wet their whis- tles a little less, maybe, and Willkie a little more. Ann Arbor's police "counted" the crowd, ar- riving at the "estimate" of 20,000. Actually 5,000 was closer. children into their home. They are the grand- Frankfurter taught at the Harvard Law School his home was the meeting place of students. And as a Supreme Court Justice in Washington, young people still come to his home. But the Frankfurters have no children of their own. children of Gilbert Murray, famous English writer and scholar. The children are aged 3, 11 and 12-consider- ably younger than the young government at- torneys whom the Frankfurters are accustomed to entertaining. THE NEW STRATEGY of the Axis powers is to concentrate against British forces in the Mediterranean during the winter months when gales lash the shores of the United Kingdom. Mediterranean moves probably will take the following lines: 1. Hitler will occupy the rest of France, which will give him important French ports on the Mediterranean, such as Toulon and Marseilles. 2. Acting in cooperation with Spain, Hit- ler and Mussolini will launch a drive against Gibraltar and probably will be able to take it. 3. Italian forces will bomb the Suez Canal from the air in an attempt to damage it sufficiently so that British ships cannot pass through. This would bottle up the British fleet in the Mediterranean. 4. Italian and Nazi forces will attempt a drive through the Near East, cutting off British oil supplies in Mosul and Iraq. While U.S. observers abroad have pretty good information that this is the Axis program, the question of whether it will succeed is another matter. The proposed operations in France, Spain and Gibraltar probably will be successful, but the drive on Egypt and the Near East is not so simple. So far the Italians have not shown the ability to do it alone, and if they are to succeed they will need major support from Hitler. SAM RAYBURN is a bachelor, but he owes it to a woman that he wasn't late for his swearing-in as Speaker of the House. The morning of the ceremony the courtly. Texan arrived at his office arrayed in a cutaway and striped trousers. Everything about him seemed in sartorial order until his secretary, Miss Alla Clary, noticed a smudge on his collar, the result of a shaving mishap. The discovery greatly perturbed the meticulous Rayburn. "What am I going to do?" he fretted. "I can't wear this collar and it will take a half hour to get to my apartment for another. And I'm due to be sworn in in ten minutes. What a mess !" It looked as if Rayburn was going to have to wear the collar regardless of the smudge when Mr.s G. A. Appell, a relative, took charge of the situation. "What size do ypu wear, Sam?" she demanded, and by the time he answered' "15%" shie was half-way out of the door. Seven minutes later, with a collar purchased at a nearby store, she dashed up to the House entrance of the Capitol. The husky form of a policeman barred the way, demanding her pass. "Got to have a pass to get in today," he said. "This is my pass," shot back Mrs. Appell breathlessly, waving the collar. "If Sam Ray- burn doesn't get it right away there won't be any ceremony." Grasping the situation, the cop seized her by the arm and ran interference through the crowd, rushing Mrs. Appell to Rayburn's office. 'He donned the collar and arrived for the swearing- in on the dot. - - l 4 1 -q ;- .z w ,-. tom. N ... . krf ': - 1 jip j 1 1 \ , ._ . . --- .. -::- --: .. 1. ui ^ / Ri . " r' , a el," . % '. f '" f r' I ' } f ~ r. --- ^ .. . _ ~~ N ' 1 i M' n 'C"\\\h II t / / 4 Dakar, A nd-Points West l I F z M A straight line from Dakar to Natal might not only be the shortest distance between those two points but between Berlin and all Latin Amer- ica. Doubtless that is why Washington has per- mitted the feeling to spread that the United States understands and rather sympathizes with the action of the British and Free Frenchmen under General de Gaulle at Dakar. The British explain their part in the incident in French West Africa by alluding to reports that the Third Reich has been trying to get control of Dakar. With the Battle of Britain sliding into the debit column for Germany, and with plans for a wider war under discussion in Rome and Ber- lin, such reports do not seem far fetched. One other reason why German interest in West African bases might at any moment take the form of action: the United States, in leasing bases in British possessions in the New World, has prepared to increase its influence greatly in South America. A Great Power's political and commercial influence in any region is affected by the proximity of its naval bases to that re- gion. If German influence in the Western Hemi- sphere is not to decline abruptly in the near fu- ture, the Third Reich needs such a base as Dakar would provide. Dakar is only a little more than 1,600 miles from the South American coast. The question of its control is no academic one for Americans. The incident involving French authorities and the fighters for a Free France, backed by British naval units, at Dakar, is one more sharp lesson in a broad problem of national defense which too few Americans have adequately understood. -- Christian Science Monitor Blissful Ignorance Charles Kettering, inventor, has his own ver- sion of the old saying about blissful ignorance. In an interview in Boys' Life he says he has seen young men in the General Motors laboratories handicapped because they had read somewhere War News More Hopeful To Britain? By KIRKE L. SIMPSON London's announcement that Ger- man U-boats took their heaviest toll of British shipping in the week ended1 Sept. 23 has both hopeful and om- inous significance for bomb-battered Britain. It indicates anew that Hitler may lave reluctantly abandoned untilj next year the hope of successful in- vasion. It also implies that at stepped-up Nazi campaign to starve England will supplement a winter of direct bombardment from the air.- The Admiralty admitted losses of substantially 160,000 tons of British and British-used merchant tonnage in the week. This is roughly three1 times the previous weekly average inr this war. It is perilously near thef peak attained by Germany in thet World War, when Britain was faced with possible starvation. Chance alone cannot account for so sudden and steep a rise. An in- crease in the U-boat force assigned to harry Britain's convoys and sea1 lanes seems a more logical explana- tion. If this is so, German undersea craft previously assigned to guard the flanks of a Nazi invasion have been put on the offensive. The mighty British home fleet with its huge battleships has been held in leash for months by the in- vasion peril. German U-boats and submarine mine layers offered it a more deadly damage than Nazi air power if and when the invasiorr test came. The British naval command could; not have doubted that a close-drawn screen of U-boats would have lined both sides of the invading ships car- rying legions of German troops to England. The heaviest British naval losses of the war almost certainly would have resulted, whatever the outcome of the invasion attempt. The only capital ship losses ad- mitted by London in thirteen months of war were due to submarines, not aircraft. It follows that submarines and their special preparations to screen an invasion were as vital to the Nazi scheme, perhaps more vital, than aircraft. If they have been re- leased for other duty it is convincing evidence the invasion idea has been shelved in Berlin. If the British Admiralty became, convinced this was the case, prompt concentration of counter-bombing attacks on targets in Germany no doubt would follow. Bombardment of the so-called "invasion ports" across the Channel is an element of England's defense against invasion. The bombing of Germany proper takes on an offensive nature. (Continued from Page 2) which applications may be filed until June, 1941. Complete an- nouncement on file at the University Bureau of Appointments and Occu- pational Information, 201 Mason Hall. Office hours: 9-12 and 2-4. Textbook Lending Library, .1223 Angell Hall, will receive applications for textbooks and issue textbooks already applied for on Wednesday, October 2, from 10:00 to 12:00 o'clock and from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. See page 16 of the "Announcement of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts' for further details. Freshman Glee Club: All freshmen men and first-year ,transfer students are eligible for membership. It meets every Tuesday at 4:00 p.m.in the Glee Club room, 3rd. floor of the Union The first meeting and try-outs will be herd today. The Stalker Cooperative House for boys has two vacancies. Anyone in- terested phone 7902, or call at 333 East Ann St. Applications for the Hillel Hostess Scholarship may be obtained at the Hillel Foundation any day until Sat- uxday, Oct. 5. Announcement of the interviews will be made next week. Academic Notices German 151: All applicants for German 151 (Teacher's Course) will please communicate with me today at 9-10 or 11-12 in 303 SW (Tel 689) to arrange schedule of hours. Norman L. Willey German 253. Historical German Grammar: All applicants for Ger- man 253 will please communicate with me today at 9-10 or 11-12 in 303 SW (Tel 689) to arrange sched- ule of hours. Norman L. Willey German 253, Historical German Grammar meets Monday from 7-9 in 303 Library. Norman L. Willey History 105: Today at 11:00 a.m. Come to 231 Angell Hall. P. A. Throop Math. 120, Life Insurance Account- ing,, will meet Wednesday evenings from 7:30 to 9:30, first meeting Wed- nesday, October 2, in 3201 A.H. Mr. Raymond F. Reitter, consulting actu- ary and accountant in Detroit, will. be the instructor for this course. Math. 327, Seminar in Statistics. Preliminary meeting to arrange hours Philosophy 130 will meet in 205 M.H. W. Frankena ; All graduate students who expect to enter the Hopwood contests this year must enroll in a course in com- position this semester. R. W. Cowden English 300A will meet today, 4-6 p.m., 2208 A.H. C. C. Fries English 197 (English Honors): Members of this class will meet for organization on Thursday, Oct. 3, at 4 p.m. in 2235 A.H. W. G. Rice English 211b. This class meets with English 267 on MWF at 9 in 2219 A.H. W. G. Rice English 211g will mdet on Thurs- day, 2-4 p.m., 3217 A.H. J. L. Davis English 293 (Bibliography). The first meeting of this clast will be held today at 4 p.m. in 2235 A.H. W. G. Rice English 230, Studies ,in Spenser: There will be a meeting on Thurs- day, Oct. 3, at 4 p.m. in 2211 A.H. to arrange class hours for the sem- ester. M. P. Tilley English 297: There will be a short meeting of the students in my sec- tion of English 297 at 4:00 p.m. in room 3216 Angell Hall. E. A. Walter English 31, Sec. 2 (MWF 9) will meet in 3231 A.H. John Weimer M.E. 33 and M.E. 38 will meet to- day at 4:00 p.m. in Room 209 En- gineering Annex. Semester arrange- ments will be made at this time. W. E. Lay C.P.T: Students: The first meet- ing of the Primary Ground School will be held tonight at 7:30, in Room 1042 East Engineering Building. Aero. Eng. 14: Students who have elected this course, for research in aerodynamics, with Professor Stalk- er or Professor Thompson, will meet to arrange hours, in Room B-47, East Engineering Building, at 4:15 today. Today's Events Michigan Sailing Club meeting on DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Prof. James Pollock was going the the political train, keeping his hand Of course he's "Jim" to those boys. , * * - rounds of pumping. It was "Jim" who passed the word around that Sen. Lodge was aboard the special. But the crowd was more interested in spry Gov. Dickinson. may do the minimum amount of work or he may exert extra effort purely for the satisfac- tion he derives from it. He is responsible only to University regulations and himself. In short, the cooperative is a reflection of the student himself. When he does some work for the co-op, he is enriching himself as mirrored by the house. The satisfaction he derives work- ing for the cooperative quite naturally inflates his ego. And yet he is being altruistic. He is -ot working selfishly. And so when the house is clean and shiny ; -- c ...4 ,.--A n + qr' .a *1 nan. re al vninarr onyar..