M,1941 TH MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE 8EVEN __ _ . , 'HE MICHIGAN DAILY Viva La France DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN 36 I Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. P'ublished 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 tights 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, $4.50. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVE.RTI3ING 6V National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON Pva. NEW YORK. N. Y. CHflICAGO * BO N LOS ANGELES * SAN FRANCiSCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1948.41 t i ~'°+- "'"',. ' ., I 7 . r' . ' " r r' C . . t . - . ,, L x , I 1 ' . 11 [ v fir'' f = ;". P ei " . -. c '. sr # .: s .. MAYI THE "V 9,>. ' -- * LOWS 2$ ~F Editorial Staff rvie Haufler yin Sarasohn ul M. Chandler arl Kessler iton Orshefsky )ward A. Goldman urence Mascott )nald Wirtchafter ther Osser elen Corman . . . . Managing Editor . . Editorial Director . . . City Editor Associate Editor * . . . Associate Editor . . . . Associate Editor * .. Associate Editor . , . . . Sports Editor . . . . .Women's Editor . . . . Exchange Editor Letters To The Editor P Business Staffj isiness Manager sistant Business Manager omen's Business Manager omen's Advertising Manager r Irving Guttman Robert Gilmour Helen Bohnsack Jane Krause * t ±.~~* i" y1 ' K\ NIGHT EDITOR: A. P. BLAUSTEIN- The editorials published in The Michi-. gan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the, views of the writers only. Victory For Labor . .. HE REFUSAL of the army to award a trucking contract to the Ford Company because it refused to agree to the labor clauses is a big step forward in labor's struggle for recognition of its rights. Awarding the con- tract to the Fargo Motor Coapany at a $250,000 high!r bid than the Ford Company is a major victory for Sidney Eillman and everyone else interestedin the future of American labor. Ford did notget the coitract because it re- fused to recognize the clause which states that, in national defense orders, the company must comply with all labor laws. The Ford Company has long been accused by labor as unfair to workers, but the' Company has said that it pays better wages than the average automobile fac- tory. I. A Capizzi, attorney for the Company said that the labor clause is just a "sop to labor" and that the Ford Company would not accept any orders from the government as long as it insisted on inserting this clause.° N DEFENSE of this stand the Ford Company claims that its workers are better paid than the average automotive worker and that there is no need to insert such a clause in contracts awarded to the Company. Recently Ford has published full page ads with the headline, "Does Ford Pay Good Wages?" The accompanying copy undertook to prove that Ford laborers are paid the best wages, or near best in the industry. A recent investigation by PM has disputed these ads and has published figures to prove that Ford workers do not get wages on the same scale as those of Chrysler and General Motors Corpor- ations. The PM disclosure shows that wages at Ford's are from 10 to 25 cents less per hour than comparable jobs at the other factories men- tioned. Perhaps this will explain to the Ford Company why such a clause was put in the national de- fense contracts. The government expects that those to whom it awards orders will act in com- pliance with existing labor laws. If the Ford Company sees fit, to disregard the labor laws, it will have to do without the government's business. Eugene Mandeberg. VoX Pop Virginio . T SEEMS, according to Virginio Gayda, one-man Italian vox pop, that the United States has initiated a "vast, militaristic, imperialistic offensive plan," the object of which is to keep Europe under perma- nent surveillance. Specifically, Signor Gayda says that we expect to seize the Azores from Portugal, thereby equipping ourselves' with an observation post in the mid-Atlantic and a con- venient base for interfering in European affairs. How does the signor know? Pure deduction. Wendell Wilkie paused in the Portugese Islands ostensibly because of a gale that grounded his Pan American Clipper on the way to Lisbon. Actually he was a spy! He was ferreting out the military defenses of the islands, investigating social conditions, and otherwise preparing for the day of our invasion, along with fomenting a revolution. t is headt i a nt. n+. i2ni, m im.n. __ t Dominic Says "THE ECONOMISTS, alas, did not protest very loudly when they found themselves pro- moted to the status of oracles," says Walter Lippman in his reference to the Ricardo school. Which dominant group served a former genera-* tion and now is living like an oracle? If we could answer accurately and expose the oracles we would be performing a rare service. Originally it was the priests of religion who utilized theAsocial standing of a former period to slow up the creative ideas in the present. Not so always. The leaders of the Anglican Church of England, represented by two hundred laymen including some of the most dynamic figures of this decade, twenty-three bishops and the deans of several cathedrals, recently stepped forth with some startling post-war goals. "Christian doc- trine must insist that production exists for con- sumption. The profit emphasis tends to treat human work and human satisfaction alike, as a means to a false end - namely monetary gain becomes the source of unemployment at home and dangerous competition for markets abroad." These leaders, living largely on ancient pre- requisites whereby the toiling miners in the north help pay fat salaries and sustain elaborate ceremonies in the centers of British culture, evi- dently have been shocked into thought. THERE ecclesiasts and laymen advocate "uni- fication of Europe," "communal ownership of the means of production," and "better ethical training instead of emphasis upon liturgy." They state, "In international trade a genuine inter- change of materially needed commodities must take the place of a struggle for so-called favor- able balance." The document of this Malvern College conference states, "We must recover rev- erence for the earth and its resources, treating it not as a reservoir of potential wealth to be exploited, but as a storehouse of divine bounty on which we utterly depend." Prior to this con- ference a preliminary gathering of English Catholics, Free Church leaders and Anglicans agreed upon four majors: (1) access of all peo- ples to the materials, (2) the right of all children to health and education, (3) reclamation of the family as the vital unit in civilization, and (4) the sacredness of a man's vocation. Thus re- ligious leaders in England, however belated their action, at least have forged ahead of the gov- ernment. BUT here is the significant issue. Those strong words, that critical conference, those assem- blies of free speaking persons are permitted in England when her back is against the wall. There is a virility in the democracy of Britain which should inspire other great people and give drive and precision to each little democracy living in abject fear of mechanized, totalitarian powers. How to strengthen that heroic people at a time when her life as well as these democratic values are endangered, and at the same time carry out the high ideals of the Malvern conference, is the issue today in every nation. It is the higher edu- cation leaders and other intellectuals within each country who should be able to select goals, accommodate the means to those ends, discrim- inate between hollow achievements and genuine ones, and cause economics, trade, politics and C~e RobetS.Atles" WASHINGTON- Harry Hopkins went to Brit- as the personal emissary of the Presi- dent, but he also had a private assignment from Mrs. Roosevelt. She asked the ex-cabinet member to make a first-hand survey of the activities of .English social welfare agencies, both private and public, under blitz conditions. Hopkins is particularly fitted to make such a study because of his many years as a New York social worker. Mrs. Roosevelt is very much interested in the war's effect on British social welfare agencies, and had a long discussion on the subject with the late Lord Lothian, following his 'return from London just before his death; also has ques- tioned U. S. newsmen and others returning from England. Note: Mrs. Roosevelt has decided to break her recent self-imposed plan to stick closer to Wash- ington. Following the election last November, she made up her mind to abandon her speaking tours. But on the strong advice of friends she will resume her practice of getting out in the country, feeling the pulse of public sentiment, soon will visit the Midwest. Nineteen Wallaces The size of the President's family is an old story, but the size of the Wallace family is a new one. There were so many Wallaces in town on inauguration day that the committee was hard pressed to find seats for them all. Counting all noses - brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, and in-laws - there were no fewer than nineteen Wallaces Washington knew that Iowa had come to town. In addition to the Vice President and Mrs. Wallace, there were the three children, Jean, Robert, and Henry, and Henry's wife. Add Wal- lace's two brothers, James and John, and their wives (James from Des Moines, and John from St. Petersburg, Florida.) Also Wallace's sister Annabelle, and her hus- band, Angus McLay, and their daughter Anna- belle, all from Birmingham, Michigan. Also sister Mary was there, with her husband, Charles Bruggmann, the Swiss Minister to Washington. Sister Ruth, wife of Swedish diplomat Per Wijkman, was absent; Wijkman is serving in the Swedish legation in Finland. Then on the side of Mrs. Wallace, there was her brother, Harry Browne, and his wife, with their daughter Harriett - all on hand at the swearing in. There was one notable absentee. Wallace's mother was ill in Des Moines, and couldn't make it. The Wallaces had a regular old-fashioned re- union, with a dinner at the Wardman Park Hotel, where Henry lived as Secretary of Agri- culture, and will remain as Vice President. Out Of The RagT To the Editor: T Well, the cat, as might have been expected, is out of the bag. Mr. Epsteinand Mr. Mascott finally gotp around to revealing the "results" of y the "vote" after the recent debate g on the Lend-Lease Bill. The vote w was by the door method-one labell- d ed "yes", the other "no". The easiest way out was "no." The method wasI different from former ones, I un- t derstand, where the one door was E divided and people at least had to d express their opinion. This time t they just walked out. To be sure, t the result would have been about t 6 to 1 anyway. I imagine, because r all the members of the opposition-- t speakers, contributors from the floor, s et al.-called each other by their first names. The poll was, as the w gentlemen say, not "an accurate re- a flection of student opinion". But it a has been published now to protest b a count of thirty which was at least i impeccable in method and not pack- t ed. I don't think anything good has a been accomplished. Especially not p by the editor's note which gracious- w ly bows out a poll no better and no t worse than most such surveys and 1' says "Readers Epstein and Mascott t are right". It seems to me that a t very fine thing for the Daily to do right now would be to conduct a good t general survey of opinion by having S an interviewer in the Library, as has p been done before, to ask simply "Do IT you favor the passage of the Lend- t Lease Bill?" with the answers "Yes, - No, Undecided." This would be a d project of considerable significance, t and everyone would welcome it. I Just a note on the general argu- v ment. Almost every other letter op- i posing aid to England and the pres- ent Bill has brought up the argu- i ment-England's hands are not clean, s therefore we should not aid Eng- w land. Aside from the fact that this b is a logical fallacy and aside from n the absurd drivel which equates the e problem of modern India with the Z Thirteen Colonies, there is the strong n argument that we shouldn't help w wash someone's dirty linen. Well, to F many of us, the argument itself isn't a valid, beause we see that England f represents something pretty close to E our own institutions-with our own s faults. But quite apart from that, t the main problem is that of expedi- ency of self-defense. In other words, v we do not believe that with England r gone we stand a very good chance in a an economic and military way of i surviving the Axis. That is the question. Why not argue on that t bfasis for a while. That's what Con-g gress is doing now and what the g President and the Cabinet and the b armed forces have been doing for e quite a tine. d Frank Ryder p t Editor's Note: Epstein and Mascott t were right in that no conclusions are permissible in a poll of only 30 stu- dents, and Mr. Ryder is right in that the Forum poll also was no criterion of the way in which Michigan stu- dent feel about the war. Only ac- curate judgment that could be made is by the SRA's Student Opinion Poll, which has so far been inactive this semetser. [RECORDS ' SINCE the first time Benny Good- man appeared in this column with his new band, he has been doing at regular weekly stint with Columbia. Some of his more interesting re- leases. t Taking a Chance on Love andc Cabin in the Sky. Two hits from Ethel Waters' current Broadway mu- sical with Helen Forrest substituting for Miss Waters on the vocal. Muted trumpets, flexible saxes, and Benny's clarinet transitions give the first side immediate appeal. The second, you may have to listen to for awhile. Yes, My Darling Daughter and These Things You Left Me. No one seems more aware than Benny that too much of the familiar Russian question-and-answer melody is likely to cloy. His preventative is versa- tility: skillful questioning by Helen Forrest; varied answering with voice and instrument by the band; and a typical Goodman rocking orchestral background. The "B" side is a catchy ballad, a la Thanks forsthe Memory, rendered by Miss Forrest. To its list of Jazz Masterworks Columbia has added an Eddy Howard disc: Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams and Exactly Like You. Despite the names in the orchestral background -Teddy Wilson, Bill Coleman, Bud Freeman, Benny Morton, Yank Port- er- it is pretty much all Eddy How- ard displaying his vocal talent over a range of mood, tempo and pitch. And for the most part it is an appeal- ing display. For the Record: Another Columbia regular, Xavier Cugat, has waxed two more of his specialties: Cuatro Vidas, a slinky bolero, and "Echale Cinco Al Piano," a spirited Mexican nn1ka . nth vocals are handled by a the Only Way? o the Editor: When I sit back and tink over the last year, and think of what this ear will bring at the rate we are oing, I think it won't be long before b e'll be speaking of the "good o1' u ays" before the war. I have yet to t ear anyone say we can keep out: hat is, among those of military age.a very day that goes by we are oneh ay closer to the war, one step fur- s her along the road that I have been t aught to hate and despise for some i wenty years. A road that has no t eward at the end; a road that leadso o nothing but misery and depres- C ion; where there are admittedly no c winners; a road where no person s ith common sense dare step. There t re many things about this road we i .re taking that I can't understand, ut of one thing I am sure, and that s that I can never believe that it is he right road. It is an insult toC person's intelligence to teach andA reach to him that something is t wrong for twenty-odd years and then t urn around and tell him that it isa ight and ask him to believe it ath he end of six-months of preachingd hat it is right. When men who are the intellec- uals take a complete turn about as ome of our leaders have done in the t ast year - men who have taught ( ne that war leads to nothing except b hose things I have mentioned above -agree with a policy that is every n lay leading us into war, and that hey know can only end in war, itb eaves me with an empty feeling and cry depressed. But, they say, this A s different! This is an emergency. This is for defense. But, I wonder,S s it different? Isn't it the same old e tory that we had before the last war? I can't speak from experience, U ut from reading about it, it seems to f me that even those Uncle Sam post- rs, "I WANT YOU" are the same. E The cigarette ads are taking it up ow, and the uniform appears every- E where you look. This is for defense! E Haven't we learned yet that every 1 war is a defensive war? Hitler is P ighting a defensive war, says Berlin. England is fighting a defensive war; ( o is Japan. Each of these countries hinks it is fighting a defensive war. C Short months ago the sentiment t was that we would never make the nistake that we did in the last war nd get nothing for it, except dis- illusion and plenty of creditors. I suppose the first retort to reading r his will be to say, "Well, what are weF going to do, sit by and let HitlerF gobble us up?" The thing that bothers me is: Does the threat really xist? and if it does, is the only way lemocracy can meet that threat anic and war hysteria? Is a peoplep hat can only do something when V hey are in fear, a democratic peo- ple?d "P.N" P.S. I'm not a Nazi or a C.O. s Destructive'b To the Editor:p In Mascott's letter in the Friday Daily he mentions his "disgust forc their (the interventionists) stupid-n ity." As one of said interventionists 1 I feel that I might apply the sameg phrase to Mascott when he classest Joe Kennedy among the interven-t tionists as any person with any in- terest in the international pictureC would know that Joe Kennedy is any-1 thing but an interventionist. Mas- cott states that most of the active interventionists are our most ardent reactionaries. Would he class Co-t nant of Harvard, Neilson of Smith, President Roosevelt, and Frederics Schuman as arch reactionaries? It hardly think The Nation and the New Republic can be classed as journals of the . reactionary world and yet both these magazines are for all out aid to the Allies. Mascott shows a surprising ignorance o fthe Consti- tution of the United States when he says that the rejection of the no- convoy clause by the House Foreign Affairs Committee was "significant"; the President, as Commander-in- Chief of the Army and Navy can, at his own discretion, send the United States Navy anywhere he sees fit. It appears to me that as regards the composition of the two groups, inter- ventionists and non-interventionists, the shoe is on the other foot. Would not Mr. Vandenberg, Henry Ford, Hamilton Fish, Father Coughlin, and the Hearst Press be classed as re- actionaries? And, for that matter, Mascott mentions that Joe Kennedy does not seem to understand Democ- racy well. Mr. Kennedy classes him- self as an anti-interventionist, I have read the Daily off and on for a period of some eight years, and I am sorry to see that the Daily is still leaning towards the self-destructive appeasement point of- view. Charles Elwyn Karpinski, '42 SUNDAY, FEBRUARYU( q 1941 VOL. LL No. 94 Publication in the Daily Offieial Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Notices President and Mrs. Ruthven will e at home to members of the fac- ilty and other townspeople this af- ernoon from 4 to 6 o'clock. To all those using Parking Space at the Rear of Mason Hall: A light as been placed at the North Univer- ity and Thayer Street entrance to he Campus, which, when burning, ndicates that the parking space at he rear of Mason Hall is completely ccupied. The University Council's Committee on Parking requests your ooperation with the hope that this ignal will be of assistance to all hose who ordinarily use this park- ng area. Herbert G. Watkins To Members of the Faculty of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: The fourth regular meeting of the Faculty of the College of Litera- ure, Science, and the Arts for the academic session of 1940-1941 will be held in Room 1025, Angell Hall, Mon- day, Feb. 3, at 4:10 p.m. Edward H. Kraus AGENDA 1. Consideration of the minutes of he meeting of December 2nd, 1940 (pp. 699-702), which were distributed y campus mail. 2. Consideration of the reports sub- mitted with this call to the meeting. a. Executive Committee, prepared by Prof. I. L. Sharfman. b. University Council, prepared by Associate Prof. Clark Hopkins. c. Executive Boara of the Graduate School, prepared by Prof. E. F. Bark- er. d. Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, prepared by Pro- fessor A. W. Bromage. e. Deans' Conference, prepared by Dean E. H. Kraus. 3. Reports on the January Teacher Education Conference by Professors H. M. Dorr, B. W. Wheeler, J. E. Dun- ap, Hayward Keniston, and P. S. Welch. 4. Evaluation of Faculty Service (Exhibits A-E). 5. Centennial Celebration of the College of Literature, 'Science, and the Arts. 6. New Business. 7. Announcements. Faculty, School of Education: The egular luncheon meeting of the Faculty will be held Monday noon, February 3, at the Michigan Union. Automobile Regulation: Permission ;o drive for social and personal pur- poses during registration period and he weekend of the J-Hop from Wednesday noon, Feb. 12, until Mon- day morning, Feb. 17, at 8:00 a.m. may be obtained at Room 2, Univer- ity Hall, through the following pro- cedure: 1. Parent signature cards should be secured at this office and sent home for the written approval of the parents. 2. Upon presentation of the signed card together with accurate infor- rnation with regard to the make, type and license number of the car to be used, a temporary permit will, be granted. It is especially important to designate the year of the license plates which will be on the car dur- ing this period. 3. Out-of-town cars used for this period must not be brought into Ann Arbor before 12 o'clock noon on Wednesday, Feb. 12, and must be taken out before 8:00 a.m. on Mon- day, Feb. 17. . The foregoing will not apply to those students who possess regular driving permits. The above permis- sion will automatically be granted to this group. Office of the Dean of Students Faculty, College of Literature, Sci- ence, -and the Arts: It is requested. by the Administrative Board that all instructors who make reports of In- completeor Absent from Examina- tion on grade-report-sheets give al- so information showing the charac- ter of the part of the work which has been completed. This may be done by the use of the symbols, I(A), X(D), etc. Residence Halls Applications: There will probably be a few vacancies in the Residence Halls for the second semester. Students who wish to apply for- such vacancies as may occur should file their applications immedi- ately. Women students should make application in the office of the Dean of Women, and men students in the office of the Dean of Students. Karl Litzenberg J-Hop Parties: All material neces- sary in connection with requests for House Parties or other entertain- ment during the J-Hop week-end should be in the hands of the Dean of Students by February 5, at 4:30 P.M.