TIE MTICHiGAN DAILY TL'ES AY, DECE1MER 14, 1940 .... . ..... - ~ - -- ----- ~ THlE MICIGAN IiAftt Letters To The Editor DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN 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 Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newpaper. 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. Subscriptions during the regular school year by carrier $4.00; by mail, $4.50. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING 6V National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. rNICAGO - BOSTON * Los ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Editorial Stafff Press, 1940-41 Paul M. Chandler Karl Kessler Milton Orshefsky Howard A. Goldman Laurence Mascott Donald Wirtchafter Esther Osser Helen Corman . . . . City Editor . . . . Associate 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 Manager Irving Guttman Robert Gilmour Helen Bohnsack Jane Krause NIGHT EDITOR: DAVE LACHENBRCH The editorials published in The Michi- gan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Merchants, It's Up To You . . OME 5,000-ODD Ann Arbor school kids are going to get their first taste of the 1940 Holiday Season Friday afternoon abk the annual Iriterfraternity Council Christmas Party inHill Auditorium. Members of the IFC staff have been working on plans for the affair during the last three weeks. Students - as individuals and as mem- bers of organizations - are busily preparing en- tertainment. In fact, the entertainment pro- gram is complete - or will be by Friday morning. Yet, in spite of everything that students, and particularly the IFC workers, can do, the suc- cess of the party depends in large measure upon the cooperation of Ann Arbor's merchants. Can- dy, cookies and ice cream for more than 5,000 kids must be proviIed. And only through the merchants can the refreshment quota be filled. In past years, the IFC was greatly aided by the businessmen and fraternal organizations of the city, and the party's success was ensured. Help them out, merchants - give the kids a top-notch preview of Christmas. -- William H. Newton Please Explain, Benito .. A LITTLE INCIDENT down on the border the other day not only caused considerable embarrassment to the Italian lega- tion in Mexico, but also forecasts that trouble may be brewing south of the border. This slip in the well-oiled diplomatic channels of Mexico presented the Western Hemisphere with notice of the secret circulation of huge sums of money by Fascist envoys for whatever undercover pur- pose the Fascist governments of Europe may desire. This "slip" presents a rather amusing story. A diplomatic messenger was on his way from the Italian legation in Washington to see Count Alberto Marchetti, Italian minister to Mexico. At the border he was politely but firmly halted by a Mexican official, who calmly went through his diplomatic pouch. In the pouch he discovered two million dollars in American money. The official immediately returned the money to the courier, and with diplomatic politeness the Mexican government tendered an official apology to the irate Italian minister, explaining that it was an "inexperienced" officer who had made the search. The Italian legation had no course other than to accept the apology, and, since the money had been returned, could claim no damages. But the incident involved much more than the two million dollars, and the damage had already been done. From official sources a report has come that the tip on which the Mexican official acted came from the United States. The Italian legation had a great deal of explaining to do. WHY was the two million dollars sent to Mex- ico? The Italian legation issued a statement saying that it was merely to meet the legation's routine expenses. No one was expected to believe this, and no one did. But if this were so, why was the money sent secretly by courier, rather than openly, by bank draft, the usual way for such matters to be handled? There the Italian minister is up against a stone wall. He admits that he is puzzled by the procedure himself. And he has attempted no explanation. It is not hard to imagine, however, for what Concern, Not Hysteria To the Editor: The American Student Union and other "lib- eral" groups on campus have been doing their part in keeping us students aware of the dangers of war hysteria. But, in our attempt to avoid hysteria, we have failed to concern ourselves with what is happening, not only abroad but in the United States as well. Many of us have naively assumed that, because we have been admonished not to be hysterical, neither dare we be concerned. This is an appeal for more concern about the war - a concern that will help Americans to direct their defense preparation, their foreign policy and their domestic legislation program into more clearly defined, more logical channels. It is neither a plea that we stereotype our views on the war nor that we declare war on the fascist states. This is a plea that, for the mo- ment at least, we students de-emphasize those lighter concerns that have come to be our stock- in-trade: our marks, our "social activities" and the like. It is, in short, a plea that we come down from our ivory towers and make known our concern in this world revolution. These are no days for sloppy, inaccurate think- ing. This is no time for, sheer opinionating - enough other people are seeing to that. It is a time for surveying objectively the impending dangers to Democracy -and European fascism is not the only one of those dangers. Under the guise of a national emergency, men like Representatives Dies and C x and groups like the American Legion and fie Communists are even now trying to erect their "American" De- mocracy, with all its dangers to the real Democ- racy. Under this same shelter, some of the na- tion's colleges and universities - witness only Brooklyn City College, Montana State and Ten- nessee --have their "witch hunts" well under way. (Michigan - despite what the local "civil liberties" groups may say -is not, I think, among them.) This concern, then, which we must develop will be an aid to our ferreting out these evil elements from the good. Now--today! -a greater number of us must avail ourselves of our capacities to think. We - no less than any other group - are obliged by the very nature of our Democracy to concern ourselves in these matters. Let not our reaction to admonitions against hysteria dull our appre- ciation of the giganticism of this struggle. And let not our concern direct us into an hysterical "witch hunt". In many ways the ASU's foreign policy platform is just as valid as that of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. - Robert Copp Observation By Fasting To the Editor: I have decided to impose on myself a complete day of fasting, silence and-contemplation in sym- pathy with my 50 friends and compatriots who are suffering the life of prison and concentration camps. I have set the day of Dec. 19 for that purpose and have already wired my intention to my home in Syria. It is my deep conviction that the present strug- gle in Europe is essentially a moral one. The spirit of violence and complete disregard to human values which we witness at present, can neither be resolved nor interpreted in any but moral terms. The unity and independence of Syria is a prerequisite to any peaceful and stable settle- ment of the problems of the Near East. The cause of Syria is also the cause of a world order in which small as well as big nations can live in peace and justice. I quote from Saadeh, the leader of the Syrian National Party: "The Ideal before the Syrian nation is the realization of our unity and independence, and the cooperation They're Not All Fifth-Columnists.. . ITH RESPECT TO the growing con- cern about foreign activities of a subversive character in this country occasioned by recent discoveries of the Dies Committee in- volving even official representatives of some countries, it is important to keep in mind an- other type of foreigners who live among us in the United States. All non-Americans are not Fifth Columnists; as a matter of fact, the great majority of the foreigners now in America are real friends of American democracy. They are rendering, and can render, valuable service to the American public opinion and to the world. These "guests" in our democracy are people of high ideals, whose very presence here is an indication of their active participation in the attempt towards an establishment of a more just world order. This should serve to awaken us to the type of persons, activities and sacri- fices that were building our democracy at the time when it was still more dynamic and less secure. This is a valuable stimulus against the temptation to take our democracy for granted and accept it passively. Another contribution is the enlightenment of our public opinion to the real situation and the problems and issues in various parts of the world. The influence of living witnesses is more effective than the abstract information by ra- dio, newspaper, and other organs of publicity. FINALLY, let us remember what a great service America can render to the world by protect- ing, in these times, a legion of intellectual leader- ship that entertains our best ideals, ultimately to help to us in the reconstruction of a desperate and disheartened world. towards the establishment of a peaceful world order". The sentence passed against me by the Petain Regime is another evidence of the moral issues involved in the present world situation. I am not an agitator by temperament nor by leanings, and my writings are all of a detached and philo- sophic nature. The fact that they had some in- fluence in awakening the youth of my country to a new vision of a better life and served as a criterion for criticism of the present state of affairs is only part of my conscientious duty which I could not help but perform. It is with this profound faith and conviction in the justice of our cause that I impose on my- self this voluntary fast. I hope to use it as an opportunity to keep in touch with the ideals and principles for which I stand, and I am sure that this decision of mine will have its effect on my friends who zre suffering actually and not merely symbolically for our common ideals. I am confident thatthe salvation of our human cul- ture rests in the hands of people who still have this profound conviction in the spiritual values of man. - Fakhri Maluf Petition System Unfair? To the Editor: It is with considerable interest that I have ob- served events leading up to the forthcoming Frosh Frolic elections. So far as I understand the elections, a candidate must obtain a petition with at least 25 signatures of members of the freshman class in the candidate's school in order to have his or her name placed on the ballot. But, it is with much regret that I have found out that the ballot will contain only a minor per- centage of those who have fulfilled the above requirement. In any democratic election in which the peti- tion system is used, all candidates who have their petition signed by the required number of names are automatically plaed on the ballot. This is the very basis of the petition system in our present form of government. For this rea- pon, it grieves me deeply to find that a great proportion of the candidates are eliminated merely by the arbitrary decision of the Women's and Men's Judiciary Councils. If a person receives the necessary number of signatures on his petition, the final decision should be left entirely to the voters at the elec- tion. Let the student body decide their own dance committee. As a member of the Student Senate, still be- lieving in the principles of democracy and free elections whose outcome is determined by the student body, I heartily protest the above action taken by the Judiciary Councils and hope that conditions will be remedied this year. - Robert A. Krause Drew as Robert S.Afle . WASHINGTON - During the week before his Caribbean cruise, the President held a series of private conferences which were of prime im- portance in -connection with his plans for the new Congress. In them he disclosed that he is doing a lot of thinking about domestic problems along two lines -- 1. Youth. 2. Old-age pensions. Roosevelt told his callers that he considered these the most pressing problems facing the country and that he was determined to do some- thing "fundamental" about both. It was essential to deal with the youth prob- lem, Roosevelt held, if the nation's democratic system is to be preserved. If youth is allowed to lose hope in the future, to be cut off from a sense of "belonging", it is certain to become an easy prey to destructive "isms". DEMOCRACY can resist these subversive ide- ologies, the President held, only by convincing youth that it does have a stake and a future in the existing system. The history of Germany and other countries which have fallen under the heel of totalitarianism proves this, and the United States has no time to lose in coping with the problem. The President indicated that he had no par- ticular program in mind. In fact, he asked for suggestions and ideas. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1940 VOL. LL No. 61 Pubication in the Daily official Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University.x Noticesl Student Tea: President and Mrs. Ruthven will be at home to students Wednesday afternoon, December 11, from 4 to 6 o'clock. First Mortgage Loans: The Univer- sity has a limited amount of funds to loan on modern, well-located, Annq Arbor residential property. Inter- est at current rates. F.H.A. termsc available. Apply Investment Office, Room 100, South Wing, Universityf Hall. Public Health Assembly: Dr. W. W. Bauer, Director of the Bureau oft Health Education of the Americant Medical Association, will speak on 'The Interests and Activities of the American Medical Association in Health Education" today at 4:00 p.m.1 in. the Auditorium of the W. K. Kel- logg Institute of Graduate and Post- graduate Dentistry. All professional students in public health are expected to be present. The lecture is open to the public and all interested are cordially invited to attend. Choral Union Members: Members of the Choral Union in good stand- ing will please call for their courtesy tickets on the day of the Boston Symphony Orchestra concert, Wed- nesday, December 11, between the hours of 9 and 12 and 1 and 4, at the offices of the University Musical Society, Burton Memorial Tower. After 4 o'clock no tickets will be giv- en out. School of Music Senior and Gradu- ate Students with major in applied music who expect to receive the Ba- :helor or Master of Music degree be- fore the end of the current academic year must check at once with the School of Music office for (a) Ap- proval of past and current elections. The Revply Churli1sh By TOUCHSTONE YESTERDAY was one of those days. It should have been all right, because I took a sleeping pill Sunday night, and slept late, yes even through a class, and when I got up I shaved, which usually makes me fell pretty good, but the minute I hit the soggy streets of good old Ann Arbor, and began my daily rounds I began to be annoyed at people, so by the time I had been exposed to the cold gray light of day for a half hour I was inwardly a seething mass of hot rage. Which in turn caused me to speak nastily to more people who in turn spoke nastily to me, and things can go on like that for quite awhile be- ore anything good happens, and at the time of this writing it has not happened yet except that I have something to write about. NAMELY the dash dash woman at the post office who edged her way into the long line waiting at the money order window, a blank smug look on her silly face, thick flesh on her ugly ankles, and an air of righteousness about her which would have meant a scene if anyone had said "pardon me but-" to her, a scene terrible in the minds of the average male, but welcome and en- tirely unfeared by almost any wom- an. From what hidden store of cal- lousness, from what apparently com- plete lack of self-consciousness do these females draw their abilities, if I can grace them by such a term, to do without ever having it bother them the completely rude thing? Is it because they trust in the training given to each man by his mama, the code of the matriarch which says always give a lady your seat in the bus, and let the ladies go ahead of you when you are entering a door, and do not ever speak harshly to a lady because she is the noblest crea- ture on earth even if she does some- times seem flustered or red with bristling bellicosity or lost in a little world all of her own as sweetly she digs her elbows into your ribs, steps on your toes, forces her way past you, bumps squarely into you and says in an injured tone, "Stop crowd- ing, young man", to the world at large? AND as the lady wrote after my column on clubwomen, is it only because I have become a superior creature, too good for my own mother and girl, that I can write thus of the dear, lovable ladies? Does it have to get that personal? Do my mother and my girl have to be dragged into a more or less impersonal discussion of women? Ah, yes, they must, for that is the way of argument with the womnn Tn defenso nf the sey there (b) reservation of date for gradu- ation recital. The University Bureau &f Appoint- ments and Occupational Information has received notice of the following United States Civil Service Examin- ations: Last date for filing applica- tion is noted in each case: Printer, Slug Machine Operator, salary: $1.26 hr., Dec. 12, 1940. Printer, Monotype Keyboard Op- erator, salary $1.26 hr., Dec. 12, 1940. Printer, Hand Compositor, salary: $1.20 hr., Dec. 12, 1940. Senior Medical Technician, salary: $2,000, Dec. 30, 1940. Medical Technician, salary: $1,- 800, Dec. 30, 1940. Assistant Medical Technician, sal- ary, $1,620, Dec. 30, 1940. Complete information on file at the Bureau of Appointments and Oc- cupational Information, 201 Mason Hall. Office hours: 9-12 and 2-4. Orientation Advisers: All those who have petitioned to be orientation ad- visers and have not been interviewed should come for an interview Decem- ber 10, 11. or 12 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. International Center has undertak- en to sell for foreignstudents,need- ing money, three rugs. They can be seen in the display case in the lobby of the Center and details regarding them may be obtained by inquiring in the Office. Academic Notices Biological Chemistry Seminar will meet in Room 319, West Medical Building, at 7:30 tonight. Subject: "Biological Oxidation-Reduction. Part II. Cytochrome and Coenzyms." All interested are invited. Math. 370, Seminar will meet today at 4:00 p.m., 3001 A.H. Professor Rainich will spegk on "Generalizations of Analytic Func- tions to Higher Dimension." Aeronautical Engineering 6: Grad- ed reports are now available in the office of Professor Thompson. There will be a lecture blue book on Thuys- day, December 12. Graduate Students: Preliminary French and German examinations for the doctorate will be given Fri- day, December 13, at four o'clock in the Rackham second floor Study Hall. In the second semester the ex- aminations will2be given only once -on February 28. Concerts Choral Union Concert: The Bos- ton Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitsky, Conductor, will give the sixth program in the Sixty-Sec- ond Annual Choral Union Concert Series Wednesday evening, Decem- ber 11, at 8:30 o'clock in Hill Audi- torium. Exhibitions Exhibition, College of Architecture and Design: An exhibit of ceramic processes including structure, form, color and glazing is being shown in the first floor hall of the Architecture Building through December 10. Open daily, except Sunday, from 9 to . The public is invited. Exhibition, College of Architecture and Design: The winning drawings for the Magazine Cover Contest spon- sored by DeVoe & Raynolds of Chica- go are being shown in the third floor exhibition room, Architecture Build- ing. Open daily 9 to 5, except Sun- day, through December 17. The pub- lic is invited. r An exhibition of Abstract Photog- raphy and a Survey of Drawings by American Artists is open afternoons, 2:00-5:00, in Alumni Memorial Hall, through Dec. 20. Lectures To Seniors and Juniors of the Col- lege of Engineering and others en- rolled for the lecture series on naval subjects: The third lecture of the series will be delivered at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 12 in the Naval R.O.T.C. Chart House, North Hall. Subject: "The Navy Afloat" Speak- er, Lieut.Commander W. L. Field, U.S. Navy. Events Today Mathmats Club will meet this evening at 8o'clock in the West Con- ference Room of the Rackham Build- ing. Dr. W. D. Duthie will speak on "Segments in Ordered Sets," Botanical Journal Club will meet tonight at 7:30 in Room N.S. 1139. Reports by: Florine Briscoe, "Contributions to the life history of a systematic fungous parasite, Cryptomycina Pteridis." John R. Hardison, "Physiologic specialization of wheat mildew in Germany." The inheritance of re- sistance to mildew. Diurnal cycle of certain powdery mildews. S. Wildman, "Review-Some prop- erties of plant viruses." The Student Branch of the ASME will hold its Annual Roast this eve- ning at 6:30, in the Michigan League. Professor Walter Sadler will be the "Roastmaster." Following the dinner six Engineering Faculty members will compete for the "Spoofuncup" Award. All engineers and others interested are invited. Men's Glee Clubs: Both Varsity and Freshman Glee Clubs will rehearse this afternoon at 4:00 sharp. Final call for eligibility cards of Varsity men will be made; no man may ap- pear in the Union Opera unless he has presented eligibility card. A.I.Ch.E.-A.LM.E. Joint Banquet Meeting today, 6:15 p.m., Michigan Union. Dr. Joseph D. Ryan, Assist- ant Direbtor of Research of Libby- Owens-Ford, will speak on "Automo- tive Safety Glass." Tickets can be secured from officers of either or- ganization. German Club: A Christmas party will be held this evening at 8:00 in Room 305 of the Union. There will be refreshments and all members are to bring a ten-cent gift for exchange. Alpha Kappa Delta initiation meeting at the home of Professor A. E. Wood, 3 Harvard Place, today at 6:15 p.m. Cars will leave from Haven Hall at 5:55. The Michigan Party judiciary committee will meet tonight at 8:00 in the Union. The room number will be posted on the bulletin board. League Dancing Classes: Tonight there will be an extra class for the beginners at 7:30 and the advanced class will start at 8:30 as usual. Next week on Tuesday the advanced class will have two hours of lessons, 7:30- 9:30 p.m. Discussion of "The Future World Commonwealth," to be led by Mrs. Dorothy Beecher Baker and Profes- sor Preston W. Slosson, tonight at 8:00 in the Michigan League. Spon- sored by Bahai Student Group. Social Service Seminar: Mrs. Elea- nor Cranefield, Associate Professor of Social Work in the University's Social Work Curriculum, will talk on "Case Work and Group Work" at the Student Religious Association's social service seminar at Lane Hall at 7:15 tonight. The meeting is open to all interested students. f Classical Record Concert this eve- ning at 7:30 in the Men's Lounge of the Rackham Building. Modern Dance Club: Because of the concert on Wednesday, the regu- lar meeting this week' will be tonight at 7:30 in Barbour Gymnasium. 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