T HE MICHIG AN DAILY

TUESDAY, JANUARY 7. 1941

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Editor

Sees

Danger In Proposal

For Revising Publications Board

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Editorial Staff

Hervie Haufler
Alvin Sarasohn
Paul M. Chandler
Karli Kessler
Milton Orshefsky,
Howard A. Goldman
Laurence Mascott
Donald Wirtchafter
Esther Osser
Helen Corman


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; . . . Editorial Director
. . . 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: BERNARD DOBER
The editorials published in The Michi-
gan Daily are written by members of The
Daily staff and represent the views of the
writers only.
'Hitler -- And

By HERVIE HAUFLER
WE OF THE PRESENT DAILY STAFF learned
a lot recently when 400 former staff mem-
bers returned to Ann Arbor to help us celebrate
The Daily's fiftieth anniversary. We heard
well-mellowed reminiscences of how they used
to put out The Daily, how finances at times got
so bad that the staff had to set the type and
even deliver the papers, how the printshopused
to be so near the downtown beer section that
the average composition of a Daily was about
three parts journalism and about two part al-
cohol. Some of the men, very mild and respect-
able-looking now, assured us with a chuckle
that they had been accused of being radicals
and trouble-makers during their time on The
Daily.
On the night of our banquet, the first speaker
was former Daily man and ex-Regent Ralph
Stone. Although he insisted that he did not
want to throw a damper on the evening's fes-
tivities, Regent Stone attacked the present pol-
icies of The Daily and suggested that it volun-
tarily turn its eyes only to campus affairs or
that it submit to some form of advisory control.
Itwas, in short, Regent Stone's way of ex-
pressing the belief-often reiterated among the
older generation-that The Daily is a trouble-
maker and "something should be done about it."
Most of the other speakers on the program
good-naturedly chided Regent Stone for his
viewpoint, and he good-naturedly accepted their
banter, so that the banquet passed pleasantly
enough. The problem was, however, brought
into a sharp focus.
T HE NEXT DAY we received a telegram from
Des Moines, Iowa, where the national con-
vention of Sigma Delta Chi, professional jour-
nalistic fraternity, was being held. The telegram
stated that, out of four contests in journalistic,
excellence among college newspapers, The Daily
had taken firsts in sports, news and editorials,
and a second in feature-writing.
In deciding upon the entries, the judge in
each field had reached his decision without con-
sulting the judges in other fields. The awards
were made on a basis of the thought contained,
the originality, and the skill of expression.
What was more important to us, however,
was the fact that The Daily, where the stu-
dents set their ownstandards and run their
own paper, had convincingly outshone col-
lege papers which were faculty-advised or
were the laboratories of journalism schools f
In addition, the Associated Collegiate Press
every year picks The Daily as one of the
four or five pacemaking student newspapers
of the nation.
These judgments are the best answer we
know how to make to charges of the type
expressed by Regent Stone..
OUR STANDARDS on The Daily are tough.
Every February about 150 hopeful young
freshman journalists try out for The Daily, and
of this host only 12 will be given night editor-
ships in their junior year, yet we rarely have
to drop more than half a dozen from the staff.
The long hours and exacting requirements do
this for us.
We believe that the standards set by past
staffs are so exacting that they make news-
papermen and women out of us, without
benefit of journalism mentors or faculty
censors. We have gotten along, and can get
along, very well without them.
I would not express this eulogy of The Daily
if I did not think it were necessary. But kicking
around someplace in the immensely complicated
government of the University's faculty is a plan
which would institute, we believe, an unwelcome
change in the Board which governs The Daily.
It is a plan to increase the older genera-
tion's vote on the Board in Control of Stu-
dent Publications without a corresponding
increase in the student vote.
EVER SINCE the Board in Control was es-
tablished it has been composed of four fac-
ulty men, three student members, and two alum-
ni members who have no vote. The older gen-
, e

Infamous Lies'

.

N HIS ANSWER to President Roose-
velt's recent speech, Chancellor
Hitler stated that the charge that Nazi Germany
seeks world conquest is "an infamous lie." Herr
Shicklegruber's startling revelation brings to
mind some rather interesting statements made
by him at various times:
May 17, 1933 -"The German people have no
thought of invading any other country."
January 13, 1934 -"The assertion that the
German Reich plans to coerce the Austrian
state is absurd."
May 21, 1935 -"Germany has concluded a
non-aggression pact with Poland and will ad-
here to it unconditionally."
NOVEMBER 29, 1935 -"Germany is the bul-
wark of the west against bolshevism and
in combating it will meet terror with terror
and violence with violence."
March 7, 1936 -"We have no territorial, de-
mands to make in Europe."
May 1, 1936 -"The lie goes forth again that
tomorrow or the day after tomorrow Germany
will fall upon Austria or Czechoslovakia."
January 30, 1937 -"We look upon bolshevism;
as upon an intolerable danger to the world."
FEBRUARY 20, 1938 -"With one single coun-
try alone we have detested to enter into
relationships. Th4 state is Soviet Russia."
March 11, 1938 - Germany invades Austria.
September 26, 1938 -"We want to live our
own life and we want other peoples to do the
same . . .'We have assured all our immediate
neighbors of the integrity of their territory as
far as Germany is concerned. That is no hollow
phrase; that is our sacred will ... The Sudeten-
land is the last territorial claim which I have
to make in Europe. I have assured Mr. Cham-
berlain that when this problem is solved Ger-
many has no more territorial problems in
Iurope."
OCTOBER 1, 1938 - Germany occupies the
Sudetenland.
January 30, 1939 -"Only the warmongers
think that there will be war. I think that there
will be a long period of peace."
March 15, 1939 - Germany seizes Czecho-
slovakia and six days later annexes Memel.
April 28, 1939 -"Mr. Roosevelt believes that
the tide of events' is once more bringing the
threat of arms . . . These are monstrous accusa-
tions. All states bordering on Germany have
received assurances."
UGUST 21, 1939 - Germany signs pact with
Russia.
September 1, 1939 - Germany invades Poland.
September 1, 1939 -"I will not war against
women and children. 1 have ordered my air
force to restrict its attacks to military objec-
tives."
September 1, 1939 -Bombing of open Polish
towns begins.
April 9, 1940 -Germany invades Norway and
Denmark.
May 10, 1940 - Germany invades Holland,
Belgium and Luxembourg.
December 29, 1940 - British report 25,000
British civilians, mostly women and children,
killed in bombing raids on Great Britain.
THE RECORD brings to mind a statement

eration has constantly had a four-to-three ad-
vantage over the students.
The plan of revision now being considered
would give the two alumni members each a
vote and in addition would name two new fac-
ulty members, giving the older generation ana
eight-to-three advantage. .
An eight-to-three advantage is lopsided c
in any man's language. There will not be f
much sense in even electing students to >
serve.r
Here is the story as I see it:
For years there has been, among the con-c
servative members of the faculty and alumni,t
a constant clamor that "something must ber
done about The Daily." The Daily has madeN
mistakes; it has not been satisfied with thes
status quo; at various times it has given ex-s
pression to radical viewpoints. Every one ofs
these situations, instead of being weighed withs
The Daily's excellencies or of being considered
as the natural outgrowth of youthful impa-
tience, has been collected by The paily's oppo-
nents and added to a great backlog of resent-N
ment that has its outlet in labels of "red" and3
cries for censorship.1
"Something must be done about The Daily"
-that has been the bogey with which every
staff in the last ten years has had to contend.t
It has apparently gotten to the point where
the opponents of The Daily are so set in their
hostility that they refuse to taka notice of anyt
attempts at repair that Daily staff membersr
may make.-
This year's staff is not "red", has tried to;
present a fair and varied editorial outlook, has
sought to raise no undue antagonism. But thei
cries that "something must be done" are, if
anything, more raucous and insistent than ever. .
Despite all our attempts at repair, this 1
is apparently the year that the "something" r
is going to take place.
Probably the board revision comes not as a
result of anything we have done. It has been
a long time in preparation and is part of thec
broader revision of University by-laws. We are
only inheriting a hangover.t
Equally insistent appeals, however, have been
forestalled in the past, and I see no reason why
this one should not be.
WHAT IS TO BE GAINED by this amend-
ment?
One obvious advantage is that it gives sub-
stance to the role of alumni members. Under
the present set-up these men act only in an
advisory capacity-which is usially of too slight
significance to induce them to attend board
meetings hatce t en thethe significar
of the students members when they are out-
voted more than two to one?)
It is also argued that, on other boards-such
as the Board in Control of Athletics, such a
ratio has worked best. The proposed revision
would make all the boards on campus fairly
similar in form.
We are told also that, far from being a hos-
tile move toward The Daily, this proposal is
intended to give us staff members a larger and
more varied guidance group to which we can go
for advice.
As we see it, the real reason for this
amendment is that the four-three ratio has
not worked out to the satisfaction of The
Daily's opponents. If but one faculty man
sides with the students occasionally the
entire apple-cart is upset. The reason for
an eight-three ratio is to insure that the
faculty group takes a consistent stand.
In the past there have been times when the
faculty men of the board, acting as a unit to
over-ride the student-members, have appointed
students who were not interested in journalism
as their life work, who have qualified under no
technical standards of merit, who have received
the recommendation of no outgoing editor. Such
actions, whatever may be the reasons for them,
have caused staff members to feel that they,
if they hold any hope for appointment; must
conceal their true beliefs and express only the
"right" sentiments, and have caused others who
lack skill to toady to the Board in Control in
hopes that they will be selected in spite of their
journalistic deficiencies.

If an eight-three ratio will bring about a re-
turn to these unhealthy cleavages-and I see
a very strong probability of it, then I feel that
none of my protests can be too vehement.
GRANT that there are a number of things
about the Board in Control that need amend-
ing. And I know that several backers of the
proposal who have no desire to lessen the free-
dom of The Daily are convinced that it is the
best way to effect these needed reforms. Yet
as long as any proposal relegates students to
such a powerless minority as does this eight-
to-three set-up, then I will be suspicious of it.
If such a board should, sooner or later, fall into
the hands of those who think that "something
must be done about The Daily". it could serve
as a powerful weapon to cripple the paper's
freedom and effectiveness.
Sigma Delta Chi, the Associated Collegiate
Press and a large percentage of the faculty
and the students believe The Daily is doing a
pretty good job. It is only a small, but very
determined and very powerful, minority that
thinks otherwise.
How can we engender loyalty? The law of
loyalty is simpler than the law of- gravitation.
It is this: we love not those who do most for us,
but those for whom we do most.-President
George Barton Cutting of Colgate University.

1941 Candidates:; The Comprehensive
Examination in Education will be
NOW the ASCAP vs. BMI business. given on Saturday, Jan. 11 from 9 to
Having hashed the question over 12 o'clock in 2021 U.H.S. (and also
to the point of boredom and aw from 2 to 5 o'clock in 2432 U.E.S.)
what's the difference, in a heated Students having Saturday morning
argument with divers members of classes may take the examination in
the junior fourth estate, I'll follow the afternoon. Printed information
mILy I ricri'al i III niU nI 1U Wi I rhi

The Reply
Churlish
By TOUCHSTONE'
DEAR DIARY: So so so so so New
Year so so so so so what? Reso-
lution for all between or about to
attain the ages from 21 to 36; ha ha
ha while you may for tomorrow is
another deigh. How many ministers
of the gospel, senators campaigning
for reelection or aluminum pots and
pans, William Allen Whites resign-
ing under forced draft, or just plain
uncle - somebody - or - others writing
homely philosophy for news syndi-
cates, did you hear say as the church
bells factory whistles table pounders
rang in the old and rang out the
new, no that's not the way it goes,
well, how many of the great and
articulate class said "Though on the
surface, the new year may seem be-
set by cares, though half the earth's
surface be torn by strife and blood-
shed, though we may all have to
sacrifice certain of our pleasures,1
perhaps even certain privileges
which we have come through the
years to regard as our rights, NEV-
ERTHELESS-etc., etc."

DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN

(Continued from Page 2)
Wednesday, January 8. in Room 303
Chemistry Building at 4:15 p.m. Mr.
Elmer Leininger will speak on "Quan-
titative Microanalysis."
Zoology Seminar will meet Thurs-
day. January 9, at 7:30 p.m.. in the
Amphitheatre of the Rackham Bldg.
Report by Mr. William C. Beckman
on "The time of annulus formation
on the scales of certain Michigan
game fishes."
Directed Teaching, Qualifying Ex-
amination: Students expecting to
elect Educ. D100 (directed teaching)
next semester are required to pass a
qualifying examination in the subject
which they expect to teach. This
examination will be held on Satur-
day, Jan. 11, at 1 p.m. Students will
meet in the auditorium of the Uni-
versity High School. The examina-
tion will consume about four hours'
time; promptness is therefore essen-
tial.
Teacher's Certificate, February

my origmaliIntention and write iL
here too. All this from the con-
sumer's side of the fence. I'm for
ASCAP. BMI may have justice oni
its side, though I don't think so on
a basis of the information I have,
but having from time to time turned
on my radio and heard the very ap-
preciable corn of the BMI product, I
rise to protest. The fight certainly
seems to be between a couple of
monopolies, with both sides fighting
it out on angry, emotional lines, as
is the custom in all present-day
disputes, but baby oh baby from
where I sit, give me ASCAP tunes
to listen to and I don't mean Frenesi.
The latest angle on the scrap is
BMI's order to discontinue ad lib
solos, ride choruses to you wacky-
woos, on all network broadcasts.
They have turned the music game
back over to the paper men. Swing
it, union. Which is dandy for the
studio bands, whose members don't
like to work any harder than neces-
sary for their money, but plenty
tough on the boys who think good
dance music is an art. Again, stock'
arrangements are coming into their
own, lest in a moment of absent-
mindedness an individual band's ar-
ranger insert a lick borrowed from
an ASCAP song. The bottleneck in
BMI's production right now is in
one madhouse of a room in New
York where a hundred and fifty ar-
rangers sit all day turning out or-
chestrations of the 350,000 songs
their bosses bought up on the open
market in preparation for the long
siege. Now songs do not arrange nor
orchestrate themselves, and the
process, when it is any good at all,
is not mechanical. So there it is.
The results have not been prepos-
sessing. So long until soon.

regarding the examination may be d
secured in the School of Education s
office.i
s(
To students enrolled in Lecture
Series on Naval Subjects: A board of
naval medical examiners will meet
at Naval ROTC Headquarters, North r
Hall at 9:00 a.m on Thursday, Janu- c
ary 9, to conduct the physical exam-
ination of all applicants for a com-
mission in the Naval Reserve who 4
graduate in February 1941. Exam-
ination takes less than - half hour.
June graduates may have a prelimin- I
ary examination at this time if de- n
sired. All who desire to be exam- p
med please call extension 396 or 397
to arrange hours of appearance be-
fore the board.
Exhibitions
Exhibition, College of ArchitectureS
and Design: The work of Bruce Rog-d
ers,-books, including the Lectern
Bible, pamphlets, studies, bookplates,
labels, water color sketches,-is beingO
shown in the ground floor casesn
Architecture Building. Openhdaily,1
9 to 5, except Sunday, through Jan-
uary 16. The public is invited.
Exhibition, College of Architecture
and Design: Drawings made for the
Inter-School Problem "A Labor Union
Center" at Massachusetts Institute ofI
Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, the Universities of Minne-
sota, Cornell, and Michigan. Third
floor exhibition room, ArchitectureT
Building. Open daily, 9 to 5, throughx
January 11. The public is invited. C
Lecturest
University Lecture: John Lundy,
M.D., Head of the Section in Anes-
thesia of the Mayo Clinic at Roches-t
ter, Minnesota, will lecture on the
subject, "Anaesthetics," under the
auspices of the University of Michi-
gan Section of the American Chemi-;
cal Society at 4:15 p.m. on Thurs-
day, January 9, in the Rackham
Amphitheatre. The public is cordi-
ally invited.
University Lecture: Professor Oscar
Halecki, late of the University of
A year ago the manufacture of
munitions hardly existed in the
United States . ' . . the charge can
never be made that entry into any
war was occasioned by the selfish-
ness of munitions-makers. -Irving
I S. Olds, chairman, U.S. Steel Cor-
poration.
Two Italian ships escape British
with little damage, and with the
enemy failing to score, Benito chalks
up another moral vistory. -Ann
Arbor News.

racow, Poland, will lecture on the
ubject "The Problem of an Inter-
ational Order in European History"
onder the auspices of the Department
if History, on Tuesday. January 14.
Et 4:15 p.m. in the Rackham Lecture
[all. The public is cordially invited.
Events Today
Junior Research Club will meet to-
ight at 7:30 in the Rackham Amphi-
heatre.
Program: "Dynamics of Circula-
,ion" by R. H. Lyons tformerly of In-
ernal Medicine.)
"Measuring Surface Irregularities"
y E. J. Abbott formerly of Physics
3epartment).
Varsity Glee Club: There will be
n important rehearsal for the Jack-
;on concert in the Glee Club rooms
n the Union at 4:00 p.m. today.
Flying Club will meet tonight at
:30 in 1042 East Engineering Build-
ng. It is imperative that all those
who own a share or are interested in
>uying a share of the club plane
attend.
Record Concert tonight, 7:30-9:00,
n the Men's Lounge of the Rackham
School. All interested are invited.
A Classical Record Program will
e given tonight at 7:30 in the Audi-
orium of St. Mary's Chapel. All stu-
dents of Spanish are invited. Tryouts
hould prepare in advance to read
n Spanish a passage of their own
election. The play, Puebla de las
Vujeres, will be presented in March.
Christian Science Organization will
meet today at 5:00 p.m. in the Coun-
il Room of the Women's League.
J.G.P. Dance Rehearsal today at
4:00 p.m. in the Women's League.
J.G.P. Finance Committee will
neet today at 5:00 p.. in the Wo-
nan's League. Room number will be
posted on the bulletin board.
Michigan-Dames: The Child Study
Group will meet tonight at 7:45 with
other Child Study Groups at the
Michigan League to hear Dr. O. R.
Yoder, Supt. of Ypsi State Hospital.
Subject: "Mental Health for Chil-
dren."
The Bookshelf and Stage Section
of the Faculty Women's Club will
meet at the home of Mrs. Frank
Mickle, 1053 Olivia, at 2:45 p.m.
today.
The Bibliophiles Section of the
Faculty Women's Club will meet to-
day at 2:30 p.m. at the Michigan
League.
Coming Events
Political Science Journal Club will
meet Wednesday, January 8, at 8:30
p.m. in the West Conference Room
of the Rackham Building. Arch-
duke Otto will talk on a phase of
the war in Europe.
Institute of The Aeronautical Sci-
ences trip to Selfridge Field and The
Warner Aircraft Plant iyill be taken
Tuesday, January 14. Meet in front
of East Engineering Building at 7:30
a.m. Round trip fare is $1.70. Pay
Mrs. Anderson in th Aero. Depart-
ment. Bus has seats for 35 persons;
first paid, first served. Cars will have
to be arranged for, so pay fare as
soon as possible.
The American Student Defense
League will meet in the Michigan
League on Wednesday Jan. 8, at 7:30
p.m. Professor H. T. Price will talk
on "The Nazi World Revolution and
America." All students invited.
The Junior Division of the A.A.
U.W. will have a supper meeting

Wednesday, Jan. 8, at 6:15 p.m. in
the small ballroom of the Michigan
Union. Mr. Walter P. Nickell, from
the Cranbrook Institute of Science,
will talk on "Michigan Birds and
Their Calls" at 7:30 p.m. The lec-
ture will be open to the public.

C

The
City Editor's
illf'ctch
17,04

LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
To the Editor:
The recent news stories concern-
ing Mr. Thaddeus Szymanski have
not made it clear that he is opposed
to conscription for religious reasons.
Since this is the first case in which
a University of Michigan student has
been forced to face imprisonment
because he holds unflinchingly, and
without bitterness, to his religious
beliefs, it might help people to un-
derstand his position if you would
publish the enclosed statement which
he sent to the draft board.
- Kenneth Morgan
A Statement of My Position
Regarding Conscription:
I hold the ideals of fellowship an:
good-will toward all men of supreme
importance in the functioning ofa
creative society.
These values are eternal. They are
adhered to through the faculty o
conscience. The freedom of heart
and conscience, no man, no powe
on earth can touch. The realization
of this gives us confidence and cour
age to live by the dictates of our con
sciences, regardless of the physica:
forces which may threaten to en
gulf us.
War and its antecedent, prepara
tion for war, is a complete negatio:
of all that is good in life. Its fu
tility has been repeatedly demon
strated throughout man's history
Its greatest tragedy has been tha
in innumerable instances, the bes
in human nature has been tricke
into the service of the worst. Th
ends it has purported to attain hav
been rendered impossible by the ver
means it has employed.
The good society can be brough
about only by the positive means o

A GOOD NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION for
students would be to find a way to attend
the "Jackpot Hop" in the Union Friday night.
Sponsored by a few campus organizations, the
dance will offer an opportunity to win valuable
prizes, including such things as J-Hop tickets.
For the "Oh, But Afterward Department":
Tom Harmon has been photographed with
his face pressed to half a dozen Hollywood'
starlets in 'the last couple of days, in the
interests of a "screen test"; but if he should
gain a movie role it will probably be
wrestling kangaroos on an Australian hunt-
ing trip.
TUST IN CASE the joy of holidays is still up-
permost in your thoughts, remember that
final exams will wreak their disaster in another

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