THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, THE MICHIGAN DAILY V. .1 We'll Sit This One Out' THE REPLY CHURLISH By TOUCHSTONE I Edited and managed by students of therUniversity 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 allrnews 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 BY National Advertising Service, Inc, College Publishers Representative 420 MADIsoN AVE. ' NEW YORK. N. Y. CHICAGO * BOSTON * LOS ANGELES * SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1940-41 Editorial Staff He vie 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 . .Associate Editor * . . Associate Editor . Sports Editor . . . . aWomen'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: ROBERT SPECKHARD The editorials published in The Michi- gan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of-the writers only. Beginning Of A New Regime . . . N A FEW BRIEF WEEKS Murray D. Van Wagoner will be inaugurated as the new Governor of the State of Michigan. Students who are interested in progressive gov- ernment will be watching the opening months of his regime; with critical attention. In the past, Mr. Van Wagoner has been chiefly concerned with the problems of highway con- struction. It will now be necessary for him to acquire a broader conception of the whole' governmental process in the complicated mod- ern world. WE HOPE that Mr. Van Wagoner does not support the: static concept of state govern- ment upheld by his immediate predecessor. Rigid adherence to partially outmoded govern- mental practices and an undue emphasis on a policy of' retrenchment will never result in an improved state government. Governors must be constantly aware of the opportunities to extend the social function of state government. They must realize that state government is a great service institution, not merely in its con- ventional routine operations but also in such activities as introducing a system of industrial compensation. It is important that state gov- ernors do not become bogged down in a mass of administrative detail and thus neglect the infinitely more important positive functions of their governments. Mr. Van Wagoner's appointments. will be crucial. The character of his executive assistants will partially determine thee success of his whole administration. Particularly is this true of his appointment of a State Civil Service Commis- sioner. For this administrator, will face the responsibility of effectuating the terms of the civil service amendment to the state constitu- tion, accepted by the voters in last November's election. But his responsibility will be coun- tered by his unusual opportunity to insure the efficiency of a long-needed political reform. A real civil service system, not a mere pretense, would be a credit to any state administration. W E HOPE that Governor-elect Van Wagoner will consider the recommendations of po- litical science authorities for streamlining the machinery of state government. We hope that he will consider human needs, such as those of crippled children, above the demands for a balanced budget. We hope, that he will see that labor has proper representation on the board which arbitrates labor disputes. In brief, we hope that the new governor will stress the dy- namic obligations of social reform which all governmental units in the twentieth century must strive to fulfill. It is clear that the political complexion of the state legislature will hamper Mr. Van Wagoner's plans. Tactfulness in dealing with a legislature controlled by the opposition will be a fundamental necessity of his administra- tion. But he still retains the power of appoint- ment. And he can still determine the essence and tone of governmental procedures in Mich- igan for the next two years. -Chester Bradley Who's Scapegoat Now? When so many of a dictator's right hand men must step down, the dictator himself is in a nestionnah nosition. This must be the reac- APROPOS of nothing in particular, I was flip- ping through the pages of a picture maga- zine the other day, and there were some shots of interiors of modern houses, including one under which the cutlines said something like "This charming modern library combines beau- ty of line with ample book space" and so forth. There was one set of bookshelves visible in the picture, also a silly looking desk, a radio, an easy chair, a lamp, tables and various womanly touches. Now what kind of a library is that? I have seen too many of these libraries without books; it is beginning to make, me sore. I know some people at home who spent twenty- five thousand dollars on a house, and the li- brary in the thing consists of two small sunken shelves, a soda siphon, and a very expensive and large radio, on which you can get Shanghai or Berlin or London with a flick of the wrist. Most of the time the people sit and listen to Jack Benny or the American Album of Familar Music. The books are those large, colorful publishers' remainders which sell for a dollar and an amount of cents that ends in nine al- ways. They are uncut for the most part, though a few novels have been read. I hate to scream about the good old days, but by the lord Harry what has happened to people and books? If people were not buying anything these days, if they had lost that sense of pride in possession, I couldn't say much, but when I look at a cheap car garnished with extra bumper guards, sixteen various colored lights and mud guards bejewelled flapping in the wind, when I see houses filled with small figurines and whatnots or more antique chairs than anyone could possibly ever sit on, or a whole closet devoted to the storage of twelve bridge tables and their accompanying uncomfortable folding, back breaking chairs, I cannot but wonder at the American public's capacity for cheapness' and distortion of values. I say this in all snob- bishness, for indeed I am a book collector my- self, not in a superficial tooled leather binding way, but by virtue of a strong conviction that most of the best things of good living are cen- tered around an oversupply of good books, books which overflow shelves everywhere in a house, books which are old or new and worn but read by the older people, by. the kids, maybe even, though I personally hate the habit, borrowed by friends. BUT BOOKS have become strange things to moderns. There are a few stupid bores who LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: We think that it's about time some people besides the ASU expressed themselves publicly about democracy and civil liberties on this campus. We, members of History 41, have formed a committee within our class to register our dis- approbation of the disciplinary action which has been taken against a recognized student group and two senior editors of The Daily and the loss of Margaret Campbell's scholarship. This committee is entirely independent of any organization, and was formed to give voice to a common feeling. We realize that there may be reasons which justify these actions, but the coincidental re- lationship of the steps and the weakness of the technical charges seem to indicate that there may have been unjust discrimination in these cases. We suggest that members of other classes form committees on this broad basis, with a view mainly to consolidating opinion and es- tablishing a definite voice in defense of aca- demic freedom. - The Committee of History 41 The City Editor's '5000tcA THERE'S a Michigan coed leaving for Miami, and she wants one companion to drive down with her, "preferably male." If you are inter- ested, it tells all about it on the Union travel board. "Take A Number" was abbreviated by half an hour on the second night . . . a smart step and a favor to the customers. It's really a funny show, when they cut those intervals between laughs. The Duke of Windsor flies to see FDR con- cerning the ambassadorship. It's rumored Wally doesn't like him to leave her .. . it's just pulling teeth. ,OU MAY NOT KNOW IT, but women are being cut out of the collegiate flight train- ing program all over the U.S. because "they have no military value". All prospective en- rollees have td pledge themselves now to enter the army or navy air corps. That let's the coeds out. make as if to be literate on the basis of buying a book selected for them by a famous and con- servative national committee every month, but for the most part people today will wait to see it in the movie, or read it condensed in a nifty little magazine, or by spending fifteen minutes a day staring at a five foot shelf of stuff be- come broadened in the head, or just let the whole thing go and figure there is some very good stuff to be heard on the super-heterodyne, thirty-tube, special speaker. beautiful walnut cabineted radio, and perhaps there is, but cer- tainly it is not radio serials or the half hour romantic comedies of famous soap companies. As a nation, because I think our newspapers, the only thing people ever read, have become more intelligent or sophisticated if you will, we are better informed than ever before, but as a nation too we have a gift for the obvious, an affinity for bromides that springs directly out of none of us ever having read enough serious literature to get out of the day to day groove we were born in. It's a tough state of things when the only people who buy books are rich old men who like to brag about how many firsts they have in their locked bookcases, uncut, unread, unthought about. I hear much about the educational contributions the cinema and radio have made to our civilization. What are they, please? So long until soon. Ced Robert S.Aleu WASHINGTON - In the momentous strug- gle over foreign policy that will be fought out in the new Congress convening in a few weeks, the spearhead of the isolationist side will be an organization about wich very little has been disclosed. Its name is the America First Com- mittee. Except for some full-page newspaper ads and radio speeches after the destroyer-base swap, covertly attacking aid to Britain and the de- fense program, the organization has operated largely in the bactground. At present it is concentrating on raising money and building up a nationwide network of local units, similar to the opposition William Allen White Com- mittee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. THIS RESTRAINT is not due to modest America First is 'merely biding its time. Plenty will be heard from it when the rhetorical guns begin to roar. America First is well fitted for the leadership of its cause. Under its banner are united the spokesmen of the various elements that con- stitute the chief opposition to the Government's foreign policy - isolationists, big business ap- peasers, pacifists, fellow-travelers, and sub rosa Fascists.. The origin.of the committee is as interesting' as its membership. America First is the product of Yale University, the brain-child of R. Douglas Stuart, Jr., 24-year-old law school senior and son of the first vice-president of the Quaker Oats Co. The Conception STUART got his fledgling movement off to a rousing start by staging a meeting for Colo- nel Lindbergh, with the aid of a group of class- mates and the faculty element that sponsored a speech by Earl Browder, head of the U.S. Communist Party. The same argument of free- dom of speech was used t defend both affairs. Lindberh's talk was a big success, and Stu- art's movement attracted the notice of certain business and social leaders in Chicago. Chief among them were General Robert Wood, head of Sears, Roebuck; Edward L. Ryerson, director of Inland Steel, and a number of other large concerns, including Quaker Oats; Mrs. Janet Ayer Fairbank, wealthy socialite, and Chester Bowles, chairman of Benton and Bowles, one of the biggest advertising firms in the country. P THROUGH these potent contacts Stuart quickly met others who also were keenly interested in the possibilities of his move- ment. Among them were William Castle, Under Secretary of State in the Hoover Cabinet, one of the closest intimates of the former Pres- ident, and the original master mind behind Lindbergh; Senator Burton K. Wheeler, isola- tionist Democrat, and Senator Bob Taft, run- ner-up for the GOP presidential nomination at Philadelphia. Stuart became so enthusiastic about Taft and his isolationist views that at the Philadelphia convention he refused to swing over to Willkie even after he was nominated, because Willkie advocated aid to Britain. The Birth INEXPERIENCED and somewhat naive, young Stuart and his movement were quickly taken in hand by skilled veterans. Wood, Bowles and other interested business men put their firms' publicity staffs to work on a big-scale promotional drive. They also ob- tained the crack services of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, of which GOP Representa- tive 'Bruce Barton is president; Ruthrauff & Ryan, and several other big-shot advertising outfits. It was this aggregation of master minds that planned and placed the newspaper ad campaign. -....--- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2)j Principal Translator, salary $2,600, Dec. 30, 1940. Accounting and Auditing Assistant Salary, $1,800, Dec. 30, 1940. Junior Warehouse Examiner, sal-f ary $2,800, Jan. 6, 1940. Junior Airway Traffic Controller, salary $2,000, Indefinitely.- Complete information on file at the University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information, 201 Mason Hall. Office hours: 9-12 and 2-4.' The Married' Couples' Cooperative House announces one vacancy. All interested call 7350 evenings. The. house will be in operation beginning January 1. Academic Notices Bacteriology Seminar, Monday, De-1 cember 16, at 8:00 p.m., Room 1564a East Medical Building. The subject will be "Immunological Studies of Certain Tumor Viruses." All inter- ested are invited. English 149 and 85 (Playwriting): The classes will meet on Tuesday, Dec. 17, at 8:00 p.m. in 4300 Angell Hall for a laboratory production. They will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in 3212 A.H.yfor dis- cussion of the play. Pre-Medical Students: The final set of tests in the series of aptitude tests for members of the Pre-Medi- cal Society will be given today at 1:30 p.m. in Room 300. West Medical Building. Doctoral Examination for Charles William Clapp, Physics; Thesis: "An Acoustic Wattmeter for Measuring Sound Power Density," Monday, 1:00 p.m., 3063 East Physics Building. Chairman, F. A. Firestone. By action of the Executive Board the chairman may invite members of the faculties and advanced doctoral candidates to attend the examination and he may grant permission to those who for sufficient reason might wish to be present. C. S. Yoakum from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. and from 7:00l to 10:00 p.m. Events '-Today Suomi Club meeting tonight at 8:00 at the League. Saturday Luncheon Group meets today at 12:15 p.m. Lane Hall. Ski Movies will be shown tonight at 7:30 in the Rackham Amphithe- atre, in sound and color, of Dick Dur- rance and other world famous skiers, showing the fundamentals of skiing. All interested are invited. No charge. Coming Events International Center - Saturday Round Table will convene at 3 o'clock this afternoon. "The Nature of His- toric Causality." Everybody interest- ed is welcome. The Graduate Education Club will meet Tuesday, Dec. 17, at 4:30 p.m. in the University Elementary School Library. Dr. Paul Harrison will be the speaker. All graduate students in Education are invited. Refresh- ments. Alpha Lambda Delta: Initiation of new members Tuesday, Dec. 17, at 4:00 p.m. in the League Chapel. All active members call Lorraine Jud- son or Gertrude Inwood before Mon- day, Dec. 16, whether or not you can come *and make arrangements for paying dues. There will be a tea afterwards. The Densmore Culb of Detroit will meet Alpha Nu Tuesday, Dec. 17, in the Michigan Union. Subject: "A decrease in the power of the federal gov't is advisable." Religious Music Seminar meets Monday at 4:15 p.m. Lane Hall. All-Campus Carol Sing will be held Sunday at 9:00 p.m., Lane Hall. J.G.F. eligibility cards which have been signed for the Music Committee will be tacked up on the bulletin board in the Undergraduate Office of the League. Outdoor Sp r-s: There will be no skating or skiing this weekend. Hobby Lobby: No new work will be started until after vacation. Stu- dents may finish their work before vacation on the regular days. Fol- lowing vacation, the group will start on leather work. The Karl Marx Society presents Joseph Clark. prominent Marxist writer and editor of the "Youth Re- view" who will speak on "Trends in the Socialist Movement on Mon- day, December 16, at 8:00} p.m. in the Michigan Union. Every one in- terested is invited: Bethlehem Evangelical-Reformed Student Guild: All members are cor- dially invited by the Student Relig- ious Association to attend the All- Student Carol sing at Lane Hall, Sun., Dec. 15, at 9:00 p.m. Refresh- ments. No meeting at the Church. Avukah, student Zionist organiza- tion, is sponsoring a technicolor sound film produced in Palestine, en- titled "Our Promised Land," in the League on Sunday, Dec. 15 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets on sale at the League desk, Lane Hall, and the Hillel Foun- dation. 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