TUE MICHIGAN DAILY Daily Washington Merry- Go-Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN GRIN AND BEAR IT By lachty i ra -r Edited and managed by students of the Vniversity 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 newspaper. 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 $5.00. REPRESENTRD POR NATIONAL ADVERTB/NG BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Pubishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CHICAG0 * BOSTOR .LOS ANGELES * SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1941-42 Editorial Stafff Emile Gel . Alvin Dann David Lachenbruch Jay McCormick Hal Wilson Arthur Hill Janet Hiatt . Qa'ace Miller . Virginia Mitchell . . . Managing Editor . . . . Editorial Director . . . . . City Editor . . . . Associate Editor . . . . Sports Editor . . Assistant Sports Editor . . . . Women's Editor * . Assistant Women's Editor . . . . Exchange Editor usiness Staffl . . . Business Manager * Associate Business Manager -Women's Advertising Manager . Women's Business Manager Daniel James Louise Evelyn H. Huyett B. Collins Carpenter Wright NIGHT EDITOR: BILL BAKER The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. 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 ByLct I (Continued from Page 2) 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