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New Food
Rating Plan .-.
FACED with increases in food prices
and a defense area population, the
Ann Arbor Health Department deserves com-
mendation for its action in instituting a new
system of health-scoring.
Sanitary Inspector Franklin Fiske, in charge
of restaurant rating, has set up an A, B, C or D
rating scale to replace the old numerical plan.
Fiske's action was justly taken, since the old
system allowed a restaurant to quibble for spare
points instead of trying for a general improve-
ment of the entire plant.
The new scoring system will not be put into
effect for the next three months, thus giving
proprietors an opportunity to remedy faults in
their businesses.
Although the Health Department is a city
organization its work is of greatest importance
to University students. The average student,
irdependent and living outside of dormitories
or League houses, depends on restaurants for
three meals a day. Thus we find business prop-
ositions completely entrusted with the health of
thousands of men and women.
IN THE PAST The Daily has been instrumental
in clean-up campaigns for certain local res-
taurants. The increase in general food prices
and the growing scarcity of labor may lead to
another lowering of standards, and The Daily is
ready to cooperate with the Health Department
in any preventive or punitive.,measures it wishes
to take.
Three months from inow, every local restaurant
will be obliged to post the rating given to it by
Fiske and his associates. It is your right, and
practically your duty to yourself and the com-
munity, to examine these ratings. If unposted
ramings are reported to the health authorities,
the student body may eliminate its traditional
grease and grits from too many local menus.
- Dan Behrman
No Peace
In 1solationisrn .
MR. OGDEN'S LETTER in reply to
Haufler and Mr. Gele's reply to Og-
den, though dissimilar in point of view, never-
theless seemed to agree on one fact: that a Hit-
ler conquest of the Eastern Hemisphere would
present the possibility of some sort of Nazi in-
vasion or domination of the Western Hemi-
sphere and that vast armament would be needed
for defense against it. It is for this reason that
I believe we shall fight an overseas war.
It stems from the character of the individual
American. We are all, everyone of us, these
days, like the draftees in the camps: we look
forward to the day when we shall return to the
comfort and security of normal life. We look
ahead to the end of compulsory military train-
ing, to the end of staggering taxation and prior-
ities, which vast armament necessitates, to the
end of fear and uncertainty about the future.
We are like a traveler to a foreign land who,
pressing homeward, eagerly awaits the renewed
contact with familiar places and customs.
LANAZI VICTORY in the Old World, however,
means the indefinite continuation of the
draft and everything else that goes with the
present national emergency. We would be ob-
liged to be ever-prepared for an invasion which
might never come, but which we must needs ex-
WASHINGTON-The real inside regarding the
indictment of George Hill, secretary to Con-
gressman Ham Fish, makes the grand jury's ac-
tion much more important than appears on the
surface. It may turn out to be the springboard
for cleaning up a situation inside Congress
whereby a small group has prostituted the use
of the Congressional franking privilege and
played into the hands of the Nazis-perhaps
without knowing it.
Worst of all, this group has besmirched the
name of Congress and lessened public confidence
in one of our great institutions at a time when
we need to preserve one of the few legislative
bodies left in the world.
George Hill, Ham Fish's secretary, was in-
dicted for perjury. This, in itself, was signifi-
cant, because witness after witness has appeared
before the grand jury (which is investigating
Nazi propaganda) and lied. The grand jury
finally decided on action.
Ham Fish's secretary admitted receiving $12,-
000 during the last five months, in addition to
his government salary of $2,000. But he would
not tell where the $12,000 came from.
HOWEVER, the records of the Govern-
ment Printing Office ban be examined
by -any newspaperman, and they reveal that
George Hill ordered hundreds of thousands
Oaf franked Congressional speeches and paid
for them in cash. These payments totalled
around $12,000.
In other words, Hill received the $12,000 from
someone, used it to buy reprints of speeches from
the Congressional Record. It happened that
these speeches all tended to help the Nazi and
isolationist causes. They were mailed all over
the country-at the taxpayers' expense.
Although Hill refused to say where he got the
$12,000, the Government Printing Office records
show where he spent it. It has been charged that
about one ton of mail bearing Congressman Ham
Fish's frank was rescued by Hill from the Make
Europe Pay War Debts Committee.
Since the Justice Department charged the
Make Europe Pay War Debts Committee with
being financed by Nazi agents, it would seem
that Congressman Fish's office-knowingly or
unknowingly-was playing into the hands of
Nazi agents.
TRAGEDY IS that instead of wanting to clean
up this mess and show who is guilty and not
guilty, many Congressmen are crying "Hush!
Hush!" and pleading with the Attorney General
to call off the dogs. They don't seem to realize
that one or two bad apples can spoil a whole
barrel, and that the reputation of Congress is
at stake.
Note: In Germany it was not until the Ger-
man people had lost confidence in the Reichstag
that they got a dictator.
Pique And Politics
One trouble with Congress today is that too
many people are voting according to personal
pique and prejudice. The question of whether
Roosevelt opposed them on this or that, or whe-
ther he gave them the patronage they requested,
sometimes counts more than important national
issues.
ABOUT THE TIME the extension of the draft
act came up, for instance, isolationist friends
of Congressman Martin Dies urged him to vote
against the Administration and veto a longer
period of service for draftees.
"Why should I do that?" asked Dies.
"Well, Roosevelt opposed you, didn't he?" was
the reply. "He ran Lyndon Johnson against you
in the Texas primaries, didn't he?"
"Yes," replied Dies, "but this isn't an issue
between me and Roosevelt. This is an issue in-
volving the country. It's a question of whether
Latin American
Import Agreement . .
THE PRESS carried a report on Sun-
day of a new agreement between
the Export-Import Bank and 20 South Ameri-
can nations. The purpose of the agreement is
to aid these countries in paying for goods im-
ported from the United States. It will allow the
Latin-American nations to purchase our prod-
ucts with lower cash down-payments.
This new step in hemispheric relations closely
follows the recently signed trade treaty with
Argentina. It shows an encouraging trend. The
United States government has long concen-
trated on the developing of the "good neighbor"
policy. There have been frequent ups and downs.
Groups, both within and outside this country,
have attempted to balk any semblance of Pan-
American unity. Inside the nation producers of
products competing with Latin-American ex-
ports have continually tried blindly to sabotage
trade agreements. Outside the nation the Nazis,
the Italians and even the Japanese have long
"warned" our southern neighbors of the "colos-
sus of the north."
THUS any new agreement between the United
States and Latin-American countries is en-
couraging. Of course,' permanent hemispheric
cooperation will take many agreements. The
task at times may even seem insurmountable.
But where there's a will, there's a way. The
policy before us should be clear. The problem of
the South American surpluses must be solved so
that there is no dependence on the European
market. Hitler's only trump card is the offering
of -a large agricultural market to South America.
As long as minority groups in the country pre-
vent trade treaties or other financial agreements
with Latin-America, his hand is merely strength-
ened.
we have an army or half an army. It's not a
matter of personalities."
So Dies voted with Roosevelt to extend the
term of service. The President won by a mar-
gin of only one vote. If the Congressman from
Texas had voted on personal pique, the army
today might be different.
Roosevelt Hatrr
Former Senator David A. Reed of Pennsyl-
vania, one of the big-name isolationist witnesses
against the ship arming bill during the Senate
hearings, entered the Foreign Relations commit-
tee room like a lion but departed like a lamb.
ADMINISTRATIONITES gave Reed, Pittsburgh
chairman of the America First Committee,
a working over he won't forget for a long time.
The fireworks started when he belligerently
declared that certain members of the Foreign
Relations committee "favor this country going
to war."
"To what senators do you refer?" promptly
demanded Chairman Tom Connally.
"Everybody knows who they are," retorted
ex-Senator Reed.
"Name them," snapped Connally. Reed
coughed, squirmed in his chair, finally blurted:
"Well-er-Senator Pepper, for one."
HE HAD barely got the words out when
Pepper jumped him, demanding that
Reed cite one instance in which he had
urged U.S. entry into the war. Reed had to
admit he couldn't.
The Reply Churlish
by TOUCHSTONE
AM NOW BACK IN SADDLE. Nobody seemed
to have missed me except some very nice
girls in Stockwell, and to them thanks, and I am
now an interventionist. Makeup finals came to
my consciousness with a jolt about one week be-
fort yesterday's deadline and if I sound a little
tired, you'll excuse me, I'm sure.
As usual, while I was en vacance, most of the
things worth writing about here got written
about somewhere else. I see by yesterday's paper
that Mr. Tillotson is going to readjust the ticket
situation, and I can get you two on the forty-
yard line for fifteen bucks. Only remark left for
me to make is that college students sometimes
display surprisingly adult attitudes when faced
with the realities of life. Got four in section 38
myself, and didn't recognize the game when I'
saw it at the mvies. Had refreshments. Didn't
care.
Also the Daily's Mr. Behrman tells on page
one yesterday that the restaurant rating system
will be here inside of three months. Kiddiegram
No.683, "Climb into bed, comb your hair, and
before you know it-" and in the interim, as the
pedants say, we can eat dirt.
Always this business in a college town. Trades-
people feel they are doing the kids a big favor.
Usually any innocent who tries to open a shop
where service means something besides Gram'pa
Joad's definition gets forced out of business, or
falls -in line with his fellow merchants. This
situation mainly because large colleges seem for
the most part to be located in small towns, and
the natives no like, except in an economic sort
of way, and if the collitch kids no like-well,
what can anyone do?
And there's always the Health Service.
Note with considerable interest that I have
started every preceding paragraph with an 'A'.
Hope this portends something good about those
exams. Foul intestines, or is it fowl?
TOM THUMB waxed merry at my expense dur-
ing the period of silence. He is avery funny
fellow, and I was not incensed' except that I
hadn't run that column about the worms yet
and now I must junk it. Thumb, like all the
real humorists-as opposed to the college kind-
is at heart a very serious person, and I feel great
admiration for him, almost to the point of total
destruction if he does it again.
Letter from Norman Anning recently which I
don't understand. Letter from F. A. S., still
number-one fan, which I don't understand. Let-
ter from Dennis Flanagan, says I misspell his
name, and other things, and he is now in New
York and reading the column. Isn't that swell?
Two bills. Card from Harvey Swados and how
am I and will I old pal review his sister's book
if he sends me a copy. You bet, send it along.
Several letters from Harper's saying they don't
want to high-pressure me, but if I don't renew
my subscription they will call out the Marines,
an besides I'll be culturally sorry for the rest
of my life. Subscription renewed. Memorandum:
Tell secretary to write nasty letter to Harper's,
sign my name to it. Not trying to high-pressure
me indeed!
BATHROOM READING. Alexander Woollcott
rewriting Le Jongleur de Notre Dame for the
biggest little magazine. How that fat man loves
to shed a tear. At twelve hundred. Life maga-
zine still battling the terrific problem of how
leg art and still sell the Bible belt. The results
make some of the funniest reading available.
Will review Gypsy Rose Lee's G-String Murders
any day now. probably in Perspex to give it that
lighter note.
Late flash on the dim past. Fly coppers in-
festing the Union before Minnesota game to ap-
prehend scalpers. Noticeable as usual by their
feet, hats, and jaws, most of the trade avoided
same like the plague. One kid approached,
; -
"Gee whiz, how CAN I get a job?--Every time I wanna look for
one somebody's using the car!
G-I-----IT
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Concerts
Choral Union Concert: Emanuel
Feuermann, violoncellist, will give the
second program in the Sixty-Third
Annual Choral Union Concert series
this evening at 8:30 o'clock in Hill
Auditorium. The program will con-
sist of compositions by Brahms, Bee-
thoven, Valentini, Hindemith, Faure,
Davidoff, and Chopin.
The next concert in the series will
be given by the Cleveland Symphony
O rh trn Artr Rdi nki C ndi.
are urged to show up for their ap-
pointments on time today. Bring any
necessary equipment you may need,
such as songs, lyrics, tap-shoes, etc.
The Girls' Intercooperative Person-
nel Committee will interview pros-
pective applicants for cooperative
houses atthe Muriel Lester House,
909 E. University today at 5:00 p.m.
All those interested will please at-
tend.
Cabaret Committee of Soph Caba-
ret will meet today at 5:00 p.m. in
fr1- c+sroa rur, 12 ns li, o~rn ucrtwl ettda t50 ~.i
LkOLrcnesu a, Z vu" U~z~' " "-, the League. The room will be posted
tor, on Sunday afternoon, November
9, at 3 o'clock. on the bulletin *board. All girls who
The concert-going public is re- are interested in working on the
minded of traffic regulations which Cabaret but did not sign up or were
provide that taxis and buses are re- not at the mass meeting are invited
quired to use the space in front of to attend this meeting. Please bring
the Auditorium, whereas private cars your eligibility cards.
may use the side entrances.
Charles A. Sink, President Women's Archery Club meeting to-
- daymat 4:15 p.m., rain or shine, at
LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
University Symphony Orchestra:
Sunday afternoon, November 2, will
mark the opening of the 1941-42 series
of University Symphony Orchestra
concerts under Thor Johnson, Con-
ductor. The program, consisting of
compositions by Haydn, Rabaud and
Hanson, will be presented in Hill
Auditorium at 4:15 p.m.
Exhibitions
Exhibition, College of Architecture
and Design: Sketches and water col-
ors of Bali, by Miss Jane Foster, New,
York City. Southwestern Indian pot-
tery from New Mexico and Arizona,
collected by Professor Gores and Mr.{
Cole. Textiles recently acquired for
the Interior Design program. Ground
floor corridor cases, Architecture
Building. Open daily 9 to 5, through
October 31. The public is invited.
Events Today
Graduate History Club coffee hour
today, 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the East Con-I
ference Room of the Rackham Build-
ing. All graduate students in history
are cordially invited to attend to
meet the faculty and fellow-students.
Regular meetings of the History Club
will begin in November.
perclass women and freshmen are in-
vited.
Seminar in Jewish-Gentile Rela-
tions: The seminar organized by the.
Student Religious Association for the'
investigation of Jewish-Gentile re-
lations on the campus anda compila-
tion of pertinent data will meet at
Lane Hall on Thursday afternoons
at 4:30.
The Inter-Guild Council will meet
at Lane Hall for luncheon and a busi-
ness meeting today at 12:10 p.m.
Council members should be present
since final plans for the Inter-Guild
Conference will be settled at the
meeting. The luncheon, a regular
Thursday noon affair, is open to any
Guild members, whether representa-
tives or not. 'Call Lane Hall for
reservations by 10:00 a.m. today.
Coming Events
German Faculty Table will meet
Monday at 12:10 p.m. in the Found-
ers' Room Michigan Union. Mem-
bers of all departments are cordially
invited. There will be a brief talk
on "Germanischer Matronenkult am
Rhein," by Mr. E. A. Philippson.
The International Dinner on the
More On Haifler ...
To the Editor:
It would seem to many that one
reason why Messrs. Slosson, Wells
and Ogden have always of late re-
ceived so much recrimination for
their oft-expressed views is because
they so constantly insist on sticking
their necks out and asking for it.
And now it Prof. Dawson wants to
:oin that outfit--fine!
R DAWSON states that Mr.
Haufler in his letter nowhere
descends to the level of reasoned
argument. I challenge anyone to
find even the faintest semblance of
a reasoned argument in the rest
and or in any of Mr. Dawson's
article.
. There is merit in his letter, how-
ever. For instance there is this: "The
American people, alive, and articu-
late. as never before, are slowly rous-
ing themselves to the crisis that con-
fronts mankind." Now that is good!
-A gem I shall always treasure.
Yeah Michigan!-reasoned argu-
ment"?? . . . And then more: "They
are listening to many voices and are
themselves engaged in a great de-
bate." --A nation of Jeanne d'Arcs
no less! But, and this may or may
not be "reasoned argument" but it
isn't personal opinion either. It is
rather personal observation made in
and about Ann Arbor. It has been
my experience of late that whereas
many people for example used to
listen to President Roosevelt just on
general principles if for no other rea-
son-almost all of that group in
my acquaintance now adopt the at-
titude that they've had enough-
they don't want to hear any more-
other things are too important. Then
too I've noticed that whereas a year
ago the war news was invariably a
topic of conversation at every student
dinner table and at that time the
same always wound up in a strenu-
ous debate on the merits of the issues,
now no student diner ever even
mentions either the war news or the
war issues. All of this would tend to
bear out Mr. Haufler when he con-
tends that the country has simply
thrown up its hands to the fair-
haired boys who deem it their duty
to sell their country down the river
in the interests of a foreign govern-
ment. -A. W. Nuts
On Ben Stol berg .. .
To the Editor:
Harry Levine's glance at Ben Stol-
berg's history in Sunday's Daily is
refreshingly lively, though somewhat
superficial and misleading. It is full
of the propaganda which he views
with so much alarm.
LET US LOOK at Levine's charges
one by one:
1. Stolberg has written a sym-
pathetic biographical account of
William Green, in spite of the fact
that Green excused the A. F. of L.'s
refusal to investigate Jim Crowism
because "It takes time to break
down prejudices."
It is difficult to see how Green's
"It takes time to break down preju-
dices" should prevent us from being
sympathetic to the man. To para-
phrase Roosevelt, Green can ouly go
s fast as his members will let him.
Certainly, he has never said what
John L. Lewis' labor leader brother,
Denny, recently said, "We gonna kick
out the sheenies." Nor has he made
the kind of speech which John L.
made at the Atlantic City convention
in which he attacked Hillman, Du-
binsky, and Zaritsky by waving his
hands and inflecting his voice in
anti-semitic gestures. This soeech,
incidentally, caused C.I.O. general
counsel Lee Pressman to say after-
wards, "I'm the most disappointed
man in the world."
2. Stolberg has changed his atti-
tude toward middle class democracy
from an antagonistic to a more
sympathetic viewpoint.
The fact that Stolberg thinks more
of middle class democracy now can
be interpreted by many as a compli-
ment to his ability to learn from ex-
perience, rather than as an insult.
3. Stolberg's account of the ne-
cessity and origin of the C.I.O. is
different than it was in 1936.
THIS IS TRUE, but Levine offers
no proof that Stolberg's revised
version is incorrect.
3. Stolberg is a "red-baiter." It
wasn't popular to be a John L.
Lewis supporter in 1938 so Stol-
berg deserted him and wrote a
Scrips-Howard series exposing the
communist influence in the C.I.O.
Today it is even less popular to
support the C.I.O., so Stolberg
writes for the Saturday Evening
Post.
It is interesting to see that there
is still a person who thinks that to
call an anti-communist a "red-
baiter", is to automatically put the
"hex" on him.
AS TO THE ACCURACY of Mr.
Stolberg's charges in the series
"Inside the CIO," the following can
be said:
a. Research for the series was
constantly checked by high CIO
officials.
b. Four union presidents read
the copy before it appeared.
c. Two unions put their research
1TIU 11 c 1 1t vnia"l "AUL V11r Afl fh
La Sociedad Hispanica conversa- eve of Thanksgiving, Wednesday,
tion group will meet tonight at 8:00 November 19, will be open to the gen-
in the Michigan League. Mr. Long- eral public. The proceeds are to go
hurst will be in charge of the group to the Emergency Fund for Foreign
and everyone who is interested in Students. Only 450 tickets are avail-
practicing Spanish is invited. See able, and reservations must be made
Bulletin Board for room number. on or before November 6.
Tickets are priced at $1.25 and are
Varsity Glee Club rehearsal to- on sale in the office of the Center
nightat7 o'clock, and will be over in duringregular office hours beginning
time for members to attend the Chor- Thursday morning, October 30, at 9
al Union Concert. o'clock. Tickets may be purchased
and resrvations made in person, by
Hiawatha Club lifeeting tonight at mail, but not by phone.
7:30 in the Michigan Union. Profes- The Dinner will be complimentary,
sor Craig, of the Forestry School is as in previous years, for all strict-
to be the guest speaker. All Upper ly foreign students, provided they
Peninsula students invited. secure reservations bofer November
6. All such students should have re-
Phi Delta Kappa will hold a coffee ceived their invitations through the
hour today at 4:00 p.m. in the West mail by tonight.
B ldin g ce Ro wcom ofthe eR So All Graduate Students are invited
to listen to the broadcast of the Ilh-
ology Department will be the speaker. nois football game in the Men's
Lounge of the Rackham Building on
Drum and Bugle Corps: Practice Saturday afternoon. There will be
tonight at 7:30 in Waterman Gym. tea and conversation between the
Everybody out in uniform. Last halves.
practice before parade.
Ushering Committee of Theatre
Michigan Outing Club will meet Arts: Sign up in the League Under-
today at 4:30 in Room 304 of - the graduate Office for ushering for the
Union. Plans will be made for a Children's Plays. Performances at
hostel trip this weekend to Pleasant 3:45 p.m. on Friday and at 1:30 and
Lake. Anyone interested is' urged 3:30 p.m. on Saturday. 'Sign up as
to attend or to telephone Dan Saul- soon as possible,
son (9818) or Libby Mahlman