HE-MI I4A D AIL R A , ;WE4%MFA 19, -1944 __________________________ U I THE MICHIGAN DAILY 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 Lights 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 ADVERTI3ING B National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADiSorN AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CHICAGO . BOSTON " LoS ANGELES *"SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Editorial Staff Press, 1940-41 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 . . . . A City Editor Associate Editor . . . . Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Sports Editor . . . . .Women's Editor . . . Exchange Editor THE REPLY CHURLISH By TOUCHSTONE MANY YEARS AGO, when I was a grammar Clauses on every corner, and kids reach their school kid. this time of the year always small arms up to hold onto their fathers' hands, found me sitting in the orchestra pit of the and want to go to the toy department or the little auditorium, blowing hard on an old Albert bathroom or just over there, over there, dad, please. Men stand soberly before an electric system clarinet, while the swelling final chords train display, watching it all during their lunch of Come All Ye Faithful boomed out into the hours, and go back to the office to tell the boys dusty echo of the place, and the glee club re- * there "There's the damndest complete train laxed and started to scratch and the' music outfit over at Schmaltzes you ever saw in your teacher said "That was fine, now let's do it life." Then the boys gather around, and starting just once more." I would feel like crying. with we used to be glad to get an apple or an would feel like my throat was going to break orange and maybe a new suit of underwear, and like I was part of the most beautiful music they proceed to, boy I'd like to get Jimmy one ever written. I would feel like going home and of those trains, why it's an education just to singing to my mother. watch the damn things. They try to smuggle their wife's gift into the house, knowing she EVER SINCE then I have felt pretty much as always comes to meet them at the door, and if I were obliged to tell people how I feel they blush and stammer like kids when she about Christnias. I am better at it than Wooll- asks them what's in the parcel, and then she cott. I am as sentimental as a Christmas card, smiles and goes away, and they hide it where and as sincere as Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep. it will be easy for her to poke at it and wonder If ever anyone was Christmas cheer personified, during the rest of the days until Christmas I am, as much so as Charles Dickens, as much morning. so as an old man with a bright scarf and a redsend nose singing God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen on is a tough letter to start anythng wth and Christmas Eve to the neighbors, as much so as by this time you will have begun to see a cup of Tom and Jerry, or a flustered mother what I am doing, so suppose I just say there acup ofrTomsan Jerisn't space to spell out Christmas. X stands for Jesus Christ, and non-churchgoer that I am, I EALLY, I'm not trying to be funny. I know am also a guy who gets to one of the midnight that there are a lot of things I am nasty services, Catholic or Episcopalian or Methodist about. I know it is unusual, and perhaps mushy or whoever has one, on either Christmas Eve or and out of place to write about Christmas the just before. If you want to know what that way it was in the nineteenth century or before, strange feeling of being washed clean again I know there aren't many of us who haul a yule means, and I don't try to describe or analyse log in covered with snow. Most of us are more it intellectually, try the effects of a hymn and used to the metallic banging of a steam radiator a choir and organ, a priest's or minister's voice than the hissing crackle of a fireplace. But this talking about the things you want yourself, is the way I like Christmas, and this is my last peace, decency, the good in men. column before vacation begins, so laugh at me M OST OF ALL, I like Christmas Eve. I like if you want to, but believe I am sincere. the way it is at my house, everybody coming RIDINGHOME AT NIGHT when vacation be- for a drink and to hang an ornament on the gins, I like it to start snowing. I like to stamp Christmas tree that is so much grief to set up, my way up on the ,front porch, and know that and always looks-crooked to somebody after it my dad and my mother hear the noise, and will is all set, so I say all right, fix it yourself. I like be coming to the door, as I open it, smiling at the rush up to the hardware store tobuy bulbs me, my dad talking too loud to cover up what for the blankety-blank strings of colored lights he feels, my mother getting herself all wet from that never work. I like to totter back and forth the snow on my coat. I like to hear dad say, while everbody holds his breath, putting the "What the hell you been doing up there at spearhead ornament on the very top of the tree. college?" and my mother say "Do you want something to eat?" And I like to stand there ND I LIKE FINALLY, when the tree is all in the living room that never changes, the chairs trimmed, to turn all the lights off in the room, and st there, all of us, nobody talking and rug that never know any change in me, that much, lng t the ea uy oo y tekind are the same or almost the same as they were much, looking at the beauty of the tree ande when I used to lie flat on my stomach reading the serenity of the fire in the fireplace beside kid books a long time before I ever had home- it, and maybe somebody with a poor voice starts wok oosaongltimegbefosinging Silent Night, Holy Night, and it is, it work to do on cold nights, certainly is. I like the chuckles, and I like the YOU KNOW HOW IT IS in your town those tears of Christmas my way. I hope all of you last days before Christmas. Downtown all like Christmas your way. I hope it is a good the store windows are lighted up, and people time for you. are packed tight together, and everybody is O LONG UNTIL SOON trying to get through a revolving door with ten L large bundles in his arms. There are Santa - Touchstone Washington Merry- Go-Round Business Staff Business Manager . Assistant Busirkess Manager Women's Business Manager Women's Advertising Manager Irving Guttman Robert Gilmour Helen Bohnsack Jane Krause LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Teachers And Mann To the Editor: I may be mistaken. Mr. B.B., but my guess is that you, like the Horace Mann you quote are a teacher. As one teacher to another. I wish to ask a question about some of Mann's re- sounding phrases. Mann asks for "at generation of men who were educat- ed, from childhood, to seek for truthx and to revere justice." A reasonable request, forsooth! Where is the man. or the generation that would delib- erately seek the lie instead of the truth-that would consciously reverer injustice? As teachers, devoted to the cause of true education, we give readyt assent to the principle that our pupils should be taught to love truth. But let me quote Mann once more: "We want men capable of deciding, not merely what is right in principle, that is often the smallest part of the case;l -but we want men capable of decid- ing what is right in means, to accom-t plish what is right in principle." Would you mind telling us, Mr. B.B.,t what is the right means to use onj our students to instill in them a lovef for truth? Shall we merely tell them' to love truth and let it go at that?{ Or should wax eloquent and thus persuade them to prefer justice to injustice? Every once in a while I get to thinking that something must be done about the inveterate student habit of cherishing all manner of vicious error and spurning winsome truth. Then I let fly a radiant verbal paragraph of star-reaching idealism. How far do you suppose I get? May- be it is better, after all, just to re- print every once in a while these four paragraphs of fine language by "one; who spoke when America was prom- ises"-Horace Mann (1838). So doing,, we shall never know how many stu- dent are capable of discovering ques- tion-begging circularities couched in purple prose. - A..S. Student Vacations .. . To the Editor: Another college vacation time is nearing, and I feel it my duty to ex- press my feelings (which are feelings of all the merchants who help to send some student or students thru college) toward the college employee. Every year before the college se- mester begins, we are swamped by students who bring tears to our eyes with their tales of woe. Their college careers will terminate lest we help them earn their room or board or both. They ask, they beg, they plead with us for help. They have had ex- perience as clerk, waiter, bar tend- er, office helper, etc. (most of which must have been when they were sleeping). We spend weeks of our time teaching them what we want done, and things run smoothly for a while. Vacation time comes. There will be homecoming parties, good dates, etc. So Joe College dashes home; for this is vacation time, and he doesn't need to work. He never thinks that his employer might need him. In fact, he seldom thinks more of his employer than that the em- ployer is a meal ticket while he is at college. When vacation time is over, his job just must be there lest his col- lege career be terminated. Now, Mr. Editor, I ask you is this fair to us? Business in Ann Arbor exists during college vacation as dur- NIGHT EDITOR: S. R. WALLACE The editorials published in The Michi- gan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represen the views of the writers only. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1940 VOL. LI. No. 69 Publication in the Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Notices General Library: During the vaca-a tion period the General Library will be open daily from 8:00 a.m. till 6:002 p.m. from December 20 until New Year's Day, except on December 25 and January 1, when it will be closedc all day, and on. December 24 andr December 31, when it will close atc noon. From January 2 throughr January 4 the hours will be 8:00 a.m.r till 10:00 p.m.- The Graduate Reading Rooms will close at 6:00 p.m. Friday, December 20, and observe the usual holiday schedule thereafter: 9:00-12:00 a.m. and 1:00-5:00 p.m. Monday throughl Friday, and 9:00-12:00 a.m. on Sat- urdays and on the days precedingt the two legal holidays.r The Departmental Libraries will be open from 10:00-12:00 a.m. on Sat-t urday, December 21, and regularly each day from 10:00-12:00 a.m. and 2:00-4:00 p.m. Monday through Fri- day, beginning with the week of De- cember 23. They will be closed on the afternoons of December 24 and# December 31. Wm. W. Bishop, LibrarianF Freshmen and Sophomores, Col-f lege of Literature, Science, and the Arts: Elections for the second sem- ester are now being approved by the Academic Counselors. You will be] notified by postcard to see your Coun- selor and it will be to your decided1 advantage to reply to this summons promptly. By so doing, you will be able to discuss your program care-I fully with your Counselor and avoid the rush and confusion at the end1 of the semester. Remember that there will be no opportunity for youI to see your Counselor during the fin- al examination period. Arthur Van Duren I Chairman, Academic Counselors The Dictaphone Station will re- main open during the University Christmas Vacation. It will be, ap- preciated if those desiring work to be completed during the first week of the new year will leave their copy with instructions before December 21. Your co-operation in this matter last year was of much help. Applications in support of research projects: To give the Research Com- mittees and the Executive Board ade- quate time for study of all proposals, it is requested that faculty members having projects needing support dur- ing 1941-1942 file their proposals in the Office of the Graduate School by Friday, January 10, 1941. Later re- quests will, of course, be considered toward the close of the second semes- ter. Those wishing to renew previous requests whether receiving support or not should so indicate. Applica- tion forms will be mailed or can be obtained at Secretary's Office, Room 1508 Rackham Building, Telephone 331. International Center: Foreign Stu- dents' Attention: All foreign students holding student's visas who plan to enter or to pass through Canada dur- ing the Christmas Vacation should see the Counsellor to Foreign Stu- dents at once. Because of the war, special arrangements are necessary. Househeads, Dormitories, Sorori- ties and League Houses: Any student' desiring to remain over night Friday, December 20, can be accommodated in the houses but the closing hour will be 8:00 p.m. Closing hour Thursday will be 10:30 p.m. as usual. The University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information has received notice of the following Detroit Civil Service Examinations. The application must be filed on or before one week prior to the date of the examination which is given be-' low: DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Guard, salary $1.740. Jan, 4. 1941. Electrical Inspector, salary $2,640. Jan. 7, 1941. Lineman, salary, "prevailing rate," Jan. 8, 1941. Complete information on file at the University Bureau, of Appointments and Occupational Information, 201 Mason Hall. Office hours: 9-12 and 2-4. The facilities of the Women's De- partment of Physical Education will close for the vacation period begin- ning Friday. Decemebr 20. This in- cludes the bowling alleys at the Wo- men's Athletic Building and the bad- minton courts in Barbour Gymna- sium. Academic Notices Teaching Candidates interested in Pittsburgh schools: Teacher exam- inations for the Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania schools will be held Marph 14 and 15. All persons seeking teaching positions in Pittsburgh must take these examinations. Requirements: Bachelor's degree, three years teach- ing experience, qualifications for Pennsylvania teacher's certificate. Registration for the examinations closes February 15. Those interested in taking the examinatons may write to S. E. Weber, Associate Superintend- ent of Schools, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania. Further information may be obtained at the University Bureau of Appointments and Occupational In- formation, 201 Mason Hall. Doctoral Examination for Hugh Daniel Clark, Zoology; Thesis: "The Anatomy and Embryology of the Hemipenis of Lampropeltis, Diado- phis and Thamnophis and Their Value as Criteria of Relationship in the Family Colubridae," Friday, 1:15 p.m., 3089 N.S. Chairman, P. Okkel- berg. By action of the Executive Board the chairman may invite members of the' faculties and advanced doctor- al candidates to attend the examina- tion and he may grant permission to those who for sufficient reason might wish to be present. C. S. Yoakum Exhibitions An Exhibit of contemiorary paint- ings from 79 countries, formerly at the San Francisco World's Fair, will be shown at the Galleries in the Rackham Building until Friday, December 20. The Galleries are open from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. and from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. 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. Events Today The English Journal Club will meet tonight at 8:00 in the West Con- ference Room of the Rackham Build- ing. Mr. E. M. Halliday and Mr. James O'Neill will speak on Miltonic criticism. J.G.P.'dance rehearsals today, 4:00- 5:00 p.m., in Women's League. Notice as to room will be posted on bulletin board. Seminar in the Bible meets today at 4:30 p.m., Lane Hall. The Association Coffee Hour will be held today rather than Friday of this week, 4:00-5:30 p.m., Lane Hall. All students are welcome. Lutheran Student Association will meet in the Trinity Lutheran Church this evening at 8:00 for a caroling party. After singing throughout the neighborhood, the group will return to the church where refreshments will be served. All are invited to attend. Initiates of Phi Kappa Phi who did not receive pins may secure them at Room 3123 Natural Science Bldg. to- day and Friday between the hours of 10-12 and 2-5. How Good Are You, Mr. American Voter? . . . E VERY NOW AND THEN something comes up that makes us wonder about Mr. American Voter, about those who se- lect the men to govern our country. Election is only a month past now, and you will remem- ber all the exhortations to intelligent voting. That was what American Democracy needed, they said. A campus reporter got the saie idea, and decided to check up on the situation. Everyone would know who the President is, he thought; only a month ago they voted for him. And the same for governor. How about local officers, though? If the voters had voted intelligently, they would remember who their local officers are, or would have interest enough to check up on those they had placed in' office. So this reporter questioned several of the county people, some from Ann Arbor, some from Ypsilanti as to who their county clerk was. He contacted thirty in all, a fairly representative group-a WPA worker, a bank employee, a law- yer, and others of varied occupations. Of this group of thirty only fourteen could tell him the name of the county clerk. This was rather discouraging, so he decided to question some of those connected with the Un- iversity, faculty men who cast their votes in Washtenaw county. He asked the same question of twenty of this group, supposedly intelligent American citizens, the teachers of our youth, political scientists, mathematicians, engineers. And of the twenty only eleven could give the name of their county clerk. There was only one group left, students who live in Washtenaw and cast their ballots here. He found fifteen of these, and only seven an- swered his query correctly. The groups were fairly representative. They represented a large class of people, rich and poor intellectuals and non-intellectuals. The answers were nearly the same in every group, runing about fifty per cent who did not know the name of their county clerk, whom they had elected only a little over a month ago. The county clerk, Luella M. Smith, was re- elected to serve another term at the last election. She has done excellent work, and came near leading her slate in the county. Yet at least fifty per cent of those who voted for her don't even remember her name. What does it mean, this apparent ignorance on the part of the average American voter? Some might convert it into an argument for the short ballot. If it isn't worth while knowing who holds the office, they say, it, isn't worth while making it elective. Others might claim it in- dicates too much local government in America, that our government should be more centralized. But to us it points out something much more important. This ignorance, this indifference pre- sages evil for American democracy. Decay of government starts _ that way, from down under- neath, with little, unimportant things. Indif- ference lethargy, taking their government for granted-too often of late the American people have been characterized thus. It's something worth thinking about. - William Baker No Thanks, Mr. Mussolini After Mussolini seized Albania he renamed WASHINGTON - The inside story of how the career boys nearly put over the $100,000,000 cred- it to Fascist Spain indicates the strength of,"the croquet clique" inside the State Department. This is the group which plays croquet almost every evening with Cordell Hull, and is equiva- lent to the "Cliveden set" in England. As a matter of fact, it was a part of the old Cliveden clique -Lord Halifax and Sir Samuel Hoare - who started the idea of helping General Franco. Sir Samuel Hoare is now British Ambas- sador to Spain, and it was he who sold the idea to American Ambassador Weddell, long famous for his ability to follow rather than lead. Lord Halifax and Hoare apparently thought it would be smart politics to get the United States to lend a hundred million dollars to Spain, in which case Britain might win a few months of Spanish neutrality and certainly could not lose -since only American money would be invest- ed. So Ambassador Weddell has several talks with General Franco and later sold the idea to some of his friends in the State Department, notably Assistant Secretary Breckinridge Long and James Dunn. Jimmy Dunn, advisor on political rela- tions, today has become one of the most im- portant figures in the State Department. For he is Cordell Hull's chief croquet partner. In fact, it is on Jimmy Dunn's lawn that many of the cro- quet matches take place. So Jimmy Dunn sold the idea of the Spanish to his croquet partner, and for a time it looked as if Mr. Hull would put it across. It was at this point that Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles stepped into the picture. He communi- cated direct to the President who at that time was away on his Caribbean cruise. Roosevelt agreed with Welles that to throw a hundred million dollars into the lap of Fascist Spain would be extremely unwise. However, a compromise finally was worked out, largely for the purpose of saving Mr. Hull's feelings, since he had already gone rather far out on a limb in favor -of the Spanish credits. Therefore the Red Cross will send a certain amount of food and medical supplies to Spain. How much this will be remains to be seen, but the croquet clique will see that it is enough to keep Franco in power despite the rising tide of discontent among the Spanish people. NOTE-To send these shipments to Spain. Roosevelt will have to dip rather deeply into the emergency fund voted him by Congress, and Jones paused. "Well," 'he said, "I'm not so sure of my geography, but we're lending seven and a half million to Uraguay." NOTE-Uraguay is not in Central America and Jesse's geography was pretty weak, but everybody who deals with him admits he has a shrewd sense of investment values. It might look as if Jones were throwing the money around loosely but the Cubans, who have been put off for fully three months, will tell a different story. Safe Christmas Trees A Christmas tree can be a serious fire hazard, but it needn't be. You can fireproof yours by following these simple directions from Martin Leatherman. crack 'chemist of the Department of Agriculture: 1. At a drugstore buy a quantity of ammon- ium sulphate equal to one-fourth the weight of the tree. That is, if the tree weighs 12 pounds, you need 3 pounds of the chemical, which is cheap and readily obtainable. 2. Put the chemical in a glass jar, or some other container with a narrow mouth to lessen evaporation, and add 111% pints of water for each pound of ammonium sulphate. 3. While the tree is still fresh, saw off a small part of trunk at the bottom, preferably at an oblique angle or in a V shape, then set the tree in the solution in a cool place, away from direct sunlight and leave it there until the solution is absorbed. The degree of fire resistance of your tree de- pends upon the amount of solution absorbed, so the more absorbed the safer your tree. Also, the increased moisture content acts to keep the tree green and preserve it for a longer time. Merry-Go-Round When arrangements were being made for the Lothian funeral services the entire diplomatic corps was invited. Only at the last minute did anyone remember that Germany and Italy were at war with England, at which point Dr. Hans Thomsen and Prince Colonna, the two Axis diplomats, were stricken from the list . . . For its ultra-modern Army, the Quartermaster Corps actually is buying tomahawks. This is the proper catalogue term for a certain type of small hatchet used in the Army . . . Like carry- ing coal to Newcastle, the Army is sending re- frigerators to Alaska. New Army quarters there ing college. If we give Mr. lege consideration and help wants it, couldn't he give when we need it? Sincerely yours, An Employer of Joe Col- when he us some Students, J.K.W. Mr. Babson Passes Out As the Prohibition party's candi- date in the late presidential cam- paign, Roger Babson was not exact- ly a ball of fire. Murmurs of dis- appointment were occasionally heard as the day zipped past with never a front page communique from the great statistican. At times it almost seemed as if the stock-market pro- phet had become inarticulate. In the feeblest gestures his pre-October slump, Wendell Willkie wasa voice of thunder compared with Mr. Bab- son's inaudible purrings. Yet the Nemesis of the Demor Rum was out there swinging all the time. That truth is established in the official count reported by the Associ- ated Press. True, he didn't "win, place or show," as the idiom has it, but he finished an admirable fourth. The next entry, wearing the scarlet silks of Moscow, was necessarily Earl Browder. Wherever the comrade; may have been on Nov. 5, they as- suredly were not stuffing the- ballot boxes. Across the continent the3 managed to pile up a total of 48,78i votes. A mere whiff of arithmetic breaks down the Communist strengtl into 1016 and a fraction of comrade, in each state. 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