THE MCHWAN DAILY THE MICHIGAN DAILY Letters To The Editor Ntm. tA TH 1 7 M h1Of $Th1 N .McAs,1I v 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 ADVERTIMNG 9 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 Hervie Haufler Alvin Sarasohn Paul M. Chandler Karl Kessler Milton Orshef sky Howard A. Goldman Laurence Mascott .. Donald Wirtchafter Esther Osser Helen Corman . .* . Managing Editor Editorial Director . . . . City Editor . ,. . Associate Editor Asso iate Editor . . . Associate Editor * . Associate Editor . . . . Sports Editor . . . .Women's Editor . . . Exchange Editor Business Stafff Business Manager Assistant Business Manager Women's Business Manager Women's Advertising Manager Irving Guttman Robert Gilmour Helen Bohnsack Jane Krause NIGHT EDITOR: DAVE LACHENBRUCH The editorials published in The Michi- gan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. A Long-Range Plan With Latin Neighbors 0 N THE tremendous stream of articles written about the need for solidarity between the United States and the South Amer- ican republics, scarcely any writers gave a pre- cise plan for action that would accomplish the desired end. And those that did took the short- est view of the situation, forgetting apparently that the suspicion of Latin Americans toward this country is too deeply rooted to be broken down in a month or two. Short-cut policies would only reveal more clearly that our sudden friendship is a result of necessity; what was needed was an outline for action that would remain in effect regard- less of the outcome of the war-a long term policy that would promote a real Pan-Amer- ican- friendship, not one based solely on ex- pediency. The program put into. effect should achieve both the immediate end of counteracting total- itarian propaganda and of forming commercial, cultural and communicatory ties with South America. According to President Roosevelt's budget message, the execution of plans, by means of an organization headed by Nelson A. Rockefeller, will cost about $5,000,000-about five-eighths the cost of a battleship. The first step taken by Rockefeller, whose imposing euphemism for what might be Amer- ican Minister of Propaganda is Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics, was to improve communi- cation facilities between the Americas. He has encouraged newsreels to show more articles of inter-American interest, while moving picture companies are putting out "educational" films concerned with inter-American topics. Special radio stations have been established whose sole purpose is to send broadcasts from here to South America, in Spanish, calculated to arouse sym- pathy and interest, toward this country. Rockefeller is forming commercial ties with South America that, while benefiting the Latin Americans, are not exactly proving unprofitable for United States interests. He has used money from here to stimulate imports from South America, especially in defense materials, as nitrates, copper and tin. He is also trying to develop production in Latin America of com- modities that are not produced in the United States, with the aid of finances from here. The general plan is not only to promote domestic industries, but to provide larger markets for United States products. k Other commercial projects that the Coordin- ator, etc., is working on are a schedule of rea- sonable transportation rates between here and Latin America, emergency loans, like the recent one to' Argentina, and exchange loans, of which eight have already been made. It is probably not coincidental that this part of the three-fold plan will be as great a boon to business in this country as to South Americans. The other activities of our South-American- friendship-bureau will try to develop some un- derstanding of North American culture in Latin America. This is the only phase of the plan that will actually provide for non-profitable. (in the commercial sense) relations between the countries. Rockefeller wants to promote inter- American sports, concerts and art exhibitions. He is also advocating that United States history hb rmnnhaized in South America while Latin The Cost Of Blood To the Editor: I read your Sunday editorial with warm in- terest and many doubts. You say that war- any war and particularly this war-is not worth its cost in blood and tears. Homes will be ruined, men with the capacity of unlived ecstacy will be blown to bits, and the realization of the -aorrows that comes of war must force us to ride the waves of the future-from whatever source they may come-instead of trying to control the flow. Before continuing, I must ask you some ques- tions. Can we think of war in terms of the individual soldier? In terms of the five human beings who were killed over Berlin or Rome or London? Do they represent the all-import'n' , entity or are they part of the greater whole? Should we consider the common grave in which the dead lie or the cause for which the dead have fought? Whose life, Mr. Haufler, do you consider the more important: the Englishman or the German, the Greek or the Italian, the Chinese or the Japanese, and, to look back, the Frenchman or the German, the Loyalist or the Nationalist? I would like to read your answer in a future editorial. Here is mine. I see two worlds in conflict-the Democratic and the Anti-Demo- cratic. To illustrate this, I shall substitute ex- amples for definitions. Spain after the Civil War:'Finland after the Russian invasion; Po- land, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and France after the German conquest: these are the clear exam- ples of the Anti-Democratic world. We see it again in the wanderings of the refugees, the Aryanization of science and culture, the disre- gard of the freedoms each man need possess to live a decent life-the freedoms of thought and expression and conscience; and the subordina- tion of the individual personality like a robot to the omniscient and all-powerful State. World, War II will destroy our present-day conception of Nationalism with the politically sovereign but economically dependent nation, and in its place will emerge a Europe organized on a federal scale. I cannot agree with you that "a destitute England is not going to make things much more paradisaical than a destitute Germany." (I think the word "paradisaical" is unfortunate but we won't quibble over it.) It makes all the difference to the world who wins this war, for to the victor goes the organization of Europe. That 'which we all desire-a demo- cratic world federation-cannot exist, I feel, un- der a Nazi-dominated Europe. When you sup- pose a German victory, you do not realize that there will be two worlds in conflict; and the blessings of a just peace shall never accrue to those who live in constant fear. You conclude that "either we pay the cost of keeping ourselves armed-a cost that will prob- ably become very burdensome if our living stan- dards should decline or we leap in now, sacri- ficing our arms and men and wealth in one throw of the dice, for which we may win a du- bious victory, a victory that will not be half so triumphant as the interventionists paint it." This raises questions in my mind I should like answered: aid to Britain; your either-or argu- ment; and the dubious victory we may win. Aid to Britain you conspicuously failed to mention. What about it? Do you feel that since paradise will flower from neither a German nor a British victory it makes no difference (allow- ing for the belt-pulling) who wins the war? If so, do you consider the Lease-Lend Bill un- necessary? Or do you approve of it only so long as we do not incur the dictators' wrath? You write in constant fear of an American entry into war. In terms of revolutionized mod- ern warfare, would there be another Flanders Field? What acts would result in a declaration of war against the United States? It is necessary to answer this question because aid to Britain is evidently dependent upon weighing all the possibly provocative acts. Either we arm, you state-or we leap into the war now! Are these the two only ways of action? If we arm, we arm so long as the enemy exists. Could we not do all within our power to see that a common enemy does not exist in the first place? And you speak of arming yet of not going to war? Would power without use be looked upon as an indication of weakness? And, again, assuming war in the long run, would it be to our military advantage to wait until Hitler con- trols Europe? Why would the victory be dubious? What would be the role of the United States in win- ning the peace-terms? Can you see, with Amer- ican aid and a totalitarian defeat, the making of a democratic world federation? What kind of a world would follow a German victory? Although you can see where my prejudices lie, I have tried instead to make this letter a springboard for another editorial. The questions raised here hardly can be called complete; how- ever, they serve to raise some issues that you have yet not considered. I would appreciate it if you would attempt to answer my general line of questioning with any other approach you see fit. - Newell Malter Comments On The 'Credo' To the Editor: At the first open meeting of the American Student Defense League, a temporary Credo was issued, two paragraphs of which I would like to quote here: "While not favoring an imme- diate declaration of war, we are open to the possibility that sometime in the not distant fu- ture it may be necessary and expedient to send U.S. armed forces out of the Western Hemi- sphere. Although our most immediate concern, and one of vital importance to us, is the defense of the Western Hemisphere by mtilitary, eco- nomic, and moral preparedness, on extensive plans of Hemispheric Co-operation, we are aware that 'defense' may take on added significance of military intervention against Germany, Italy,' Japan, Russia, and other exponents of force, and if such be the case, if it be prudent, diplo- matic, and to the best interests of the Demo- cratic Powers we advocate that we frankly ad- mit the best defense may be an offense." These words are not taken from the program of the William Allen White Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, although the ASDL has indicated its adherence in other matters to that program, The White Committee secured extensive popular support by deluding the aver- age American into thinking that more and more aid to Britain would insure certain peace for America. So great was, and still is, the senti- ment for peace in America, that Mr. White him- self was forced to leave off boasting of the way he could manipulate the Army, Navy and State departments at his will, and declare that "the Yanks are not coming" to a Scripps-Howard reporter. This obviously cynical bid for con- tinued public support caused a furor in the ranks of the Committee itself and Mr. White was forced to resign. That any man on such a committee should openly declare himself for peace was an outrage! Unless the supporters of the ASDL on this campus are exceptionally naive, they must realize that their organization, like the White Committee, has no possible con- nection with the- real peace forces in this coun- try, is, in fact, a committee not for peace at all but for war. Mr. White, their former idol, has proved that. They themselves, with their polite phrases about "we are open to the possibilit: that" or "defense may take on added signifi- cance," have shown us that equally well. Rus- sia, be it noted, a country that has made no hostile moves against either Britain or the United States, which, by its continual aid to China has kept Japan busy, and with which there is still the chance of achieving a unity more important for defense than any aid to Britain, is thoughtlessly linked with the fascist nations. Mr. Ryder indicated in a recent letter that this war is a conflict between two positive ideals, the one for evil, the other for good, Britain's ideal being "predominantly good" and Ger- many's "almost entirely evil." How beautiful this war would be if its ideals were stich black and white affairs! Unfortunately, there are few ideals concerned in this war, only on one side the profits of large industrialists in all coun- tries and the seizure of colonies, on the other the blood, sweat, and tears of the common people who do not love wars and who, more than ever before, are getting it in the neck in this war. If discussion at the recent Winter Parley proved anything at it, it demonstrated that England was not fighting for "the fate of human freedom, freedom of thought, of re- ligion, of individual initiative," as the White Committee puts it, but for the preservation of empire and economic sovereignty of the world. The ASDL is a committee for war and the war does not deserve the support of peace- loving peoples who demand jobs and security and a healthy life for their natural heritage - E. G. B. by mascott When, in "The Long Voyage Home" which appeared last week-end at the Maj, Driscoll yelled at one of the firemen "Get the Hell Out of Here", we received one of the great minor thrills of our lifetime. Realism had come to the "pitcher shows". Incidentally, the picture was, indeed, excel- lent and distinctive in many ways, especially the photography and the one burst of profanity This column today, however, is not going to become a brief for profanity in the movies. But we can say we were more than pleasantly surprised at Driscoll's outburst. Too many times have we sat semi-enthralled in a Hollywood production and seen a supposedly irate truck driver tell an equally irate hack- driver, "Please depart, you bounder," or some- thing almost as anemic. Too often have we seen the "good guy" double-crossed by his wife, his mother, his "best" friend and his dog and then finally run over by a truck, nimbly jump to his feet and then meekly exclaim "Oh, darn!" It seems that the worst epithet that can be hurled at a Hollywood villain is "oh, you bum" or "you heel"-not even a "cheap bum" or "All-Amer- ican heel." But, for what we believe to be the first time in the modern era of Hollywoodiana, a sailor, tramp, crewman, tar, bos'n or whatever you want to call him, finally addressed a fireman in somewhat natural speech-just for the kick we get out of it, we repeat: "Get the hell out of here." No, censor Hays, you refugee from the pristine purity of the U.S. Post-Office Depart- ment, Driscoll did not say "Would you kindly leave, dear fireman;" he did not say "Kindly quit the premises" or even simply "get out of here." Driscoll, Mr. Hays, you fugitive from a Jimmy Farrell book, said, yes he said, "Get the Hell out of here"-and 17 women did not swoon during the performance nor, as a result, c~h Dr" Pe~nos Rbet S.Atles 1 f'0r WASHINGTON-Wendell Willkie'sF deci ion to go to London to gather first-hand information to supportI the lend-lease armament bill broughtI him a grateful bow from the White House, but it cost him a hot verbal: battle with one of the most potent press backers of his presidential cand- idacy.. Roy Howard, of the Scripps-How- ard group of newspapers and an ar- dent "negotiated peace" advocate,. spent the better part of one night trying to persuade Willkie to drop the trip plan.i Back-stopping Howard in his argu- ments was Bruce Barton, former Newl York Congressman and defeated GOP1 aspirant for the seat of New Dealer Senator Jim Mead. Like Howard, Barton was one of Willkie's earliest and staunchest boosters and played at leading role in putting him over at Philadelphia. Howard and Barton strove mightily in their effort to win Wilkie over to their views. But the former GOP standard-bearer stood firmly by his guns. Will'ie Or Smith He contended that aiding Britain to beat back the Axis aggressors wasc crucial to U. S. security; that he had always advocated this and did not1 propose to change his position. Also, that while he didn't pretend to bet a friend of Roosevelt, Roosevelt was elected and if he was to function as President he had to have authority to do so. He (Willkie) would have de- manded this had he been elected, so he was not going to permit personal1 feeling or partisanship to prevent him from urging such a policy for his suc- cessful rival. This undercover battle occurred several days after another in whichj Willkie was the innocent bystander.- The scrap took place within the high command of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Alliest and was over the issue of electing him successor to William Allen White.- A group of Midwestern and New England board members came with- in a hair's breadth of doing this af-f ter Al Smith had turned them down.t The Man with the Brown Derby was their first choice, but shook his headI when asked whether he would accept.c The group then proposed Willkie, although they had not asked him and hadn't the slightest notion what he would do if offered the post. A count of noses showed that they had the voes to put over their spectaculart plan, but at the last moment theyt were blocked by a Willkieite. Lewis Douglas, co-chairman of thet Democrats for Willkie and a fighting advocate of "all-out" aid to Britain, took the floor and declared that as much as he admired Willkie, it wouldt be q strategical Mistake to put him9 in White's place. Douglas contended it would inject the Committee into partisan politics and he advised ar less political choice. This sound argument scored and the group dropped their idea in favor of Douglas' choice, ex-Senator Ernest W. Gibson of Vermont. Mrs. Roosevelt Receives A reception of a thousand people in a single day at the White House DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Continued from Page 2) the following sections. Each section vill meet at the same hour and day each week for seven weeks. Section No. 1, Monday, 4:15-5:15. Date of first meeting, February 24; Room: Natural Science Aud,. Section No. 2: Tuesday, 4:15-5:15. Date of first meeting, February 25: Room: Natural Science Aud. These lectures are a graduation re- quirement. Margaret Bell, M.D. Medical Adviser to Women Coit certs Chamber Music Concerts: The Musical Art String Quartet of New York, composed of Sascha Jacobsen first violin; Paul Bernard, second violin; William Hymanson, viola, and Marie Roemaet-Rosanoff, violoncel- lo: under the auspices of the Uni- versity Musical Society, will inaug- urate the First Annual Chamber Music Festival. with three programs to be given in the Main Lecture Hall of the Rackham Building, as follows: Friday Evening, Jan. 24, 8:30: Works of Mozart, Tansman and Brahms. Saturday Afternoon, Jan. 25, 2:30: Works of Haydn, Bloch and Borodin. Saturday Evening, Jan. 25, 8:30: Works of Schubert, Turina and Ravel. Reserved season tickets (three con- certs) at $2.00, and tickets for in- dividual concerts at $1.00, are now on sale at the offices of the Uni- versity Musical Society in Burton Memorial Tower. Preceding each concert tickets will be available in the main lobby (left) of the Rack- ham Building. Exhibitions Exhibition, Rackham Building: Photographs of Outstanding Ex- amples of Iranian (Persian) Archi- tecture, made by Myron Bement Smith and loaned by the Library of Congress will be on Exhibit in the West Gallery until Saturday, Janu- ary 25, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. ! Exhibition: Thirty etchings of de- tails of landscapes by Frank A. Waugh, formerly head of the De- partment of Landscape Architecture at Massachusetts State College, are on exhibit in the wall cases in the first floor corridor of the Architec- ture Building until Feb. 1. Professor Waugh is noted for his life-long efforts in the conservation of the native rural American land- scape. Events Today The Pre-Medical Society will meet tonight in the East Amphitheatre of the West Medical Building at 8:00. Two medical movies will be shown: "Good Hospital Care," and "Tonsillec- tomy under Local Anaesthetic." German Journal Club will meet today, Michigan Union Room 304, at 4:10 p.m. Zeta Phi Eta will hold a program meeting tonight at 7:30. Attend- ance is compulsory. Freshman and Sophomore candi- dates for R.O.T.C. Drum and Bugle Corps will receive tryouts at R.O.T.C. Hall today, 4-5 p.m. No experience required. Sigma Xi will meet tonight at 8:00 in the Rackham Lecture Hall. Dr. I JGP Make-Up Committee it 4:30 p.m. today in the Aitendance at this mee ing pulsory for any gills who participate later. The Art Division of the Publicity ommittee for J.G.P. will met outy at 5:00 p.m. in the 3rd floor Drat- ng Room of the Art School, 'heatre Arts Make-up Committee will meet today at 4:00 p.. in the League. Call 2-2936 after twelve if v:ou will not be able to attend. The Little Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Mr. Thor Johnson, will give a concert for the 'nembers of the Faculty Women's Club and their guests today at 3:0 ).m. at the Lydia Mendelssohn 'he- atre. Michigan Dames: The Drama Group will meet tonight at 8:00 at the home f Mrs. R. W. Cowden, 1016 Olivia Avenue. Coming Events Pi Lambda Theta will meet Thurs- day, January 23, at 5:15 p.m. for supper in the Russian Tea Room of the Michigan League, following the Slosson Lecture to be given at Rack- . am Building at 4:15. All members ire urged to attend. Anatomy Research Club will meet Thursday, January 23. at 4:30 p.m. in Room 2501 East Medical Building. Speakers and Titles: Dr. Robert J. Parsons: "Virus pro- luced oral papillomatosis of rabbits." Dr. Wilfrid T. Dempster: "The me- hanics of microtome sectioning," Tea at 4:00 p.m. in Room 3502. Everyone is invited. Latin American Journal Club: The visit by William Berrien to discuss fellowship possibilities has been post- poned until fall. The next meeting of the Journal Club will take place at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, February 18, in the West Conference Room of the Rackham Building. Nofice of this meeting will be sent out near the end of this semester. The Public Health Club will hold a semi-foi'mal dinner dance at the League, Friday, January 24, at 7:00 p.m. Tickets may be obtained at Waterman Gym, Room 2. Classical Students: Phi Tau Alpha will meet in the Rackham Building at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 23. Glider Club will meet Thursday, Jan. 23, at 8:00 p.m. in 348 West En- gineering Bldg. All members should attend. Phi Delta Kappa Coffee Hour will be held at 4:15 p.m. on Friday, Janu- ary 24, in West Conference Room, Racklham Building. Professor Calvin o. Davis will lead the discussion. Movies of Larynx: The -attention of graduate and undergraduate stu- dents in Speech and other depart- ments interested is called to a show- ing of color movies of the vocal folds at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 24, in room 231 Angell Hall. Author of the movies is Dr. Paul Moore, North- western University. The Deadline for JGP health re- checks is February 1. Appointments must be made by this date by any girl participating or wishing to par- ticipate next semester in JGP. J.G.P. Central Committee will meet Thursday, January 23, at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Room of the League. Dance Program: Tickets on sale at the box office of Lydia Mendels- sohn Theatre for the Dance Pro- gram to be presented on Friday, January 24, 8:30 p.m. All seats reserved. Kije; and Peter and the Wolf. interested are invited. NJ meeting League. is corn- want to mea: is big business, socially speaking. James Franck, Department of Chem- But on inauguration day, such a istry at the University of Chicago, crowd poured through the doors of will speak on "Fundamentals of that mansion that all recent records Photosynthesis." were broken. The total was between six anct seven thousand. The Theology Seminar will meet at Result was that the Roose.7:it child- Lane Hall today at 4:15 p.m. ren, who came to set Papa take the oath of office for the third time, International Center's Program of got lost in the crowd, and thought Recorded Music: This evening an all- they were in the Grand Central Term- Prokofieff program will be played inal in New York. In fact, the crowd from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. in the Lounge. was so great that even Mrs. Roose- The following numbers will be given: velt's brother, Hall Roosevelt, was el- Love for Three Oranges; Lieutenant bowed out to quarters in an adjacent _ hotel. The parying started on Sunday with a luncheon for 144 guests. That looks like plenty of people to have for lunch, but the figure pales into insignificance beside the number of} WJR WWJ Monday's lunchers. They were 1,600 750 KC - CBS 920 KC - NBC Re strong. And this figure was dwarfed by the 4,600 who came to tea, making Wednesda the total for that one day 6,200. The big job of receiving these 6:00 News Music; Oddities thousands fell not on the President 6:15 Hedda Hopper Newscast; Tune but on Mrs. Roosevelt. The President 63O Inside of Sports Bill Elliott 'OTLIGHT CKLW WXYZ d 1030 KC - Mutual 1240 KC- NBC Blu* ay Evening Rollin' Bud Shaver Home The Factfinder Conga Time Day In Review rceeived only a few hundred, but she received and shook hands with them all. Crisis March 15? Secretaries Stimson and Knox did not go into details when they told Congress they expected an interna- tional crisis in 60 to 90 days, bit ac- tualty their War D:hpartment experts have go so far as to fix the approxi-, mate date for the crisis to break.; This estimate is based not nly up-. on the already known fact that Brit- ish shipping and its convoys soon 6:45 Melody Marvels Lowell Thomas The Italian People Short Short Story 7:00 Amos 'n Andy Fred Waring News Easy Aces 7:15 Lanny Ross News Room World Today . Mr. Keen-Tracer 7:30 Mr. Meek Cavalcade Carson Robison The Lone 7:45 Mr. Meek Of America Serenade; News Ranger 8:00 Ed. G. Robinson Tony Martin Your Job & Mine Quiz 8:15° In Big Town How Did You Meet Interlude; News Kids 8:30 Dr. Christian Plantation Memoirs Manhattan 8:45 News at 8:55 Party In Music At Midnight 9:00 Fred Allen Eddie Star of Hope Yukon Challenge 9:15 Fred Allen Cantor Tabernacle The Old Traveler 9:30 Fred Allen Mr. District The Question I.John B. Kennedy 9:45 Fred Allen Attorney Box Win With Flynn 10:00 Glenn Miller Kay Kyser's National News To be Announced 10:15 Public Affairs Kollege of Britain Speaks News Ace 10:30 Where I'm From Musical BBC Radio .Doctors