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;IGHT EDITOR: EUGENE MANDEBERG
The editorials published in The Michigan
Diily are written by members of The Daily
staff and represent the views of the w'riters
)minous News
'om Chile .
N OMINOUS NOTE came out of the
South last week with the announce-1
ent that President Pedro.Aguirre Cerda, Presi-
nr t of Chile, has "temporarily retired because
Xi health."
Any governmental change in a major South
rnrican country is important; any change
hih contains even the remote possibility of a
uit from liberal to fascist tendencies is still
ore important. Behind the apparently harm-,
ss retirement of Aguirre Cerda lies just such -
'possibility.
Auirre Cerda, who has headed the only genu-
e popular front government in the world,
e ded ill health, but the fact that,the news-
ier El Impartial, a rightist organ, has de-
anded a medical bulletin on him, leads to some
e1ing that political, as much as physical ill
'lt is to be blamed.
Cerda is a Radical Party member, although
at term does not mean the same in Chile that
m~eans here. The Communists of Chile con-
ir the president a bourgeois. He is, in fact,
"the left of the center," lather than an ex-
emne leftist.
riously, Aguirre Cerda was elected because
e Chilan Nazi party threw itssupport to him.
's does not mean that the Nazis loved Cerda.
was a site act, directed against the former
esident, the great Alessandri, whose candidate
s 6ustavo Ross.- It was Alessandri who beat
wn a Nazi coup d'etat in blood in September,
38, and for this reason the Nazis would have'
ted for anyone, even a Socialist, to beat' his
ndidate.
The relations of the United States with the
rda government halve been most cordial. The
esident is ,strongly pro-United States, and a
Ise friend of our ambassador in Santiago.
A change in those relations might be of serious
nsequence, although there is no telling at this
,nt what the-outcome will be. At present the
b*net is a patched-up affair, and the retire-
ent of the head of it may cause an about-face
Chile's policy. Certainly Chile was never
re important in hemispheric relations than
Fw. -Bill Baker
[azis May Use
as Warfare...-.
F OR THE FIRST TIME since it was
last used by the Italians in Ethiopia,
ereported use of poison gas by a belligerent
s been confirmed.
.r has been disclosed that a month ago in the
tle of Ichang, gas was used by the Japanese
ies beseiging that city and stationed outside in
e ills surrounding it, who wre able to use gas
;essfully because of both tl e suitable terrain,
,what is more impprtant, because it was a
:$le of relatively stationary positions. And,
te it was a stationary battle, there was no
'ier of the Nipponese troops advancing into
tir own gas attack. This latter danger of ad-
iing into their own gas has been the fear of
ighly mechanized armies whose main stra-
'has always been that of rapid movement.
e, strategy of the present German army has
led in all of its victories of the present war
j#ist such tactics of quick advance. Moreover,

Drewd4edrs t
RobertS.AllenZ
IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, as a result of num-
erous disclosures of members of Congress pad-.
ding their official payrolls with relatives, nepo-
tism has become classified in the public mind as a
peculiarly congressional institution.
However, this gravy-train practice is not con-
fined to the denizens of Capitol $ill. It also is
to be found in other high places.
One of them is the CIO.
John L. Lewis, whose captive coal mines strike
precipitated a national crisis and a boycott by
CIO leaders of the government's defense labor-
peace machinery, has one of the fattest nepo-
tism records in Washington.
In addition to himself, three of his close rela-
tives are drawing down paychecks that make a
mineus $7 a day look like chicken feed. The
total "take" of the family would make a bank
president envious.
BECAUSE of the closely guarded secrecy
cloaking CIO and United Mine Worker fi-
nances, it is not possible to state positively what
all four Lewises are paid. Requests for this in-
formation have been repeatedly refused. Ho.
eVe , from official reports and informed CIO and
UMW sources, the following figures were ob-
tained.
John L. Lewis, as president of the
UMW, $25,000
A. D. ("Denny") Lewis, brother, head
of the United Construction Workers, 10,000
Kathryn Lewis, daughter, secretary
of Local 50, UMW, 7,500
J. Raymond Bell, brother-in-law,
comptroller of the CIO, 6,000
Total "take" $48,500
All three relatives owe their jobs to John L.
who appointed them. Before being elevated to
secretary of Local 50, Miss Lewis for many years
was on the UMW payrol as her father's confi-
dential secretary. As CIO comptroller, Bell is
in a key position. He reports on the dues-paying
strength of CIO unions, which determines their
votein hthe annual convention, now in progress
in Detroit.
In addition to their salaries, John L., "Denny"
and Miss Lewis also have expense accounts. CIO
insiders say that these too run into big money.
Note-Webster defines nepotism as "favoritism
shown to nephews and other relatives in the line
of patronage, disbursements, cnferring of fav-
ors, etc."
An OPM Faux Pas
REPRESENTATIVE "J. HARDIN PETERSON
of Florida p'honed the OPM minerals division
requesting a steel priority for a phosphate plant
in his district.
"This metal is urgently needed for the con-
struction of a large phosphate washing machine,"
he explained to the young OPM official to whom
he was referred. "Operations in the plant are
being held up because the washer now in use is
old and constantly breaks down. As you probably
know, my state is one of the world's biggest pro-
ducers of phosphate."
"That may be so," was the cool reply, "but
you still haven't convinced me that a priority
should be issued in this case. After all, soda
water isn't essential to the national defense."
"Soda water!" exclaimed Peterson. "Who's
talking about soda water?"
"That's the principal use of phosphate, isn't
it - to make soda water?"
"Young man," said Peterson severely, "I don't
know where you came from or how you qualified
for your job at the OPM, but I thought every
school-boy knew that phosphate is the chief in-
gredient of fertilizer."

Ed Flynn Comes Through
THAT 18-VOTE House majority for the neu-
trality revision bill would have been a lot
less if it hadn't been for quiet-spoken Democratic
National Chairman Ed Flynn.
The President can thank his handsome politi-
cal lieutenant that the outcome on this mo-
mentous fight wasn't another skin-of-the-teeth
victory as was the draft extension measure last
summer.
It was Flynn's quiet behind-the-scenes work,
particularly, with the New York delegation, and
not Roosevelt's last minute letter promising for-
ceful action on the disturbed labor front, that
swung enough votes to save the Administration
from another hair-line majority.
the true importance of the gas shelling of the
city of Ichang comM in. For, the Japanese have
proved that gas can very effectively help to sub-
due a city. The Germans, always quick to adapt
any pew military tactics to their own use, will
probably gas shell the now almost completely
surrounded cities of Moscow and Leningrad. If
this will not make the latter surrender, then, the
Nazis will probably resort to aerial gas bombings.
This latter brings up the question why London
has not yet been subjected to this measure, par-
ticularly after it had become apparent to the
Germans that they could not invade and conquer
England with land and sea forces. The explana-
tion for this apparent omission on the part of the
Nazi High Command lies in the extent of Ger-
many's supply of poison gas and in its ability to
produce more when the present supply is ex-

LETTERS
TO THE E D ITOB
Answer To Keenan
To the Editor:
N your issue of November 12 you published an
article by Mr. Paul Keenan on Britain's atti-
tude to the war which demands an answer be-
cause it occupied such a prominent place in the
Daily. Mr. Keenan accuses Great Britain of
"begging off" and of breaking promises. But
Great Britain has made no promise except to
fight Hitler and she has unremittingly been do-
ing just that. 'She has conducted campaigns in
Europe, Africa and Asia, and instead of "beg-
ging off," threw away the fruits of her African
campaign in order to help Greece. She is pre-
paring for further great campaigns and at the
same time supplying Russia with enormous
quantities of material badly needed for her own
offensive.
Mr. Paul Keenan may be one of those naive
people who imagine that Great Britain- an is-
land power-has merely to press a button and
the Icampaign will begin. Oversea campaigns
can only be started after preparations that take
much longer to complete than those of land
warfare. Great Britain is fighting on every sea
in the world. The whole coastline of Europe
from the extreme tip of Norway around to the
heel of Italy is under constant attack. A million
tons of enemy shipping have been sunk in a few
months. Only this week two Italian convoys
with thousands of soldiers have been sent to the
bottom. This record is impressive but it will not
satisfy the critic of England, especially if he is
an arm-chair strategist.
IT IS DIFFICULT to estimate England's casu-
alties and shipping losses.. But to date the
army has lost 100,000 men and the navy 20,000.
*The merchant marine has been so depleted that
there are not sufficient crews left to man the
ships available. Civilian casualties in the air
raids amount to 95,000, including 19,556 men,
16,924 women, and 4,965 children killed. The
casualties are higher in invaded countries, but
Hitler has not yet had the guts to invade Eng-
land. When he does, there will be casualties on
both sides. I regret that I cannot present a tale
of much more than 41,000 British civilians killed.
That will not satisfy Britain's critics. But let
them take heart. The winter is young yet.
- Hereward T. 'Price
'Certain Notions' Clarified
To the Editor:
BECAUSE the Y.C.L. recognizes the great
danger to America that an Axis-dominated
Europe, Asia, and Africa would be, and because it
recognizes the U.S.S.R. as the first line of de-
fense against rampant fascism, it wishes to clari-
fy certain notions about the U.S.S.R. that have
crept into the editorial pages of The Daily this
last week.
The first concerns the goal of the Soviet
Union's war efforts. On November6, in speaking
in commemoration of his country's 24th anni-
versary, Premier Stalin defined the war aims
of the U.S.S.R. as twofold: () "Our first aim
consists in liberating our territory and our peo-
ples from the German Fascist yoke.- We have
not and cannot have such war aims as imposing
our will and our regime on the Slavs and other
enslaved peoples of Europe who are awaiting our
aid. (2) Our aid consists in assisting these peo-
ple in their liberation struggle 'against Hitler
tyranny and then setting them free to rule their
own land as they desire. No intervention what-
ever in the internal affairs of other peoples!"
Here is openly stated the sole goal of tlye U.S.S.
R.; it differs in no way from the war airs defin-
ed in the Atlantic Charter.
THE SECOND NOTION concerns a tendency to
make a distinction between the Soviet people
and their government, in which the efforts of
one are admired and the character of the other
imputed, flaunting all recent reports from ob-
servers such as Harriman, Beaverbrook, Bourke-
White, Hopkins, etc., who have just returned

from embattled Russia. This notion suggests
that the Soviet people are fighting valiantly in
spite of their leadership, that the people and the
government fight each from different motives,
rather than as one. It should be clear by now
that only a nation united behind a government
in which it has implicit faith could withstand
the Nazi onslaughts. Only a nation whose civil-
ian population has been made, aware of the
issues by their leaders could make such sacrifices
in men and material.
Lastly, a Daily editorial said something to
the effect that the writer respected, though dis-
agreeing in ideas, those Communists who do
not adhere to the Moscow line. There is nothing
hocus-pocus about Premier Stalin's speech; it
calls for a Western front to ease the 'pressure
in the East, and it defines war aims. The V.C.L.
agrees that diversionists tactics of a strong
military nature in the west are of paramount
importance, and the reason is simply that if
Hitler is successful by reason of the military
inactivity of Britain and the U.S., the United
States will be hard put to maintain its demo-
cratic institutions in the face of a hostile fascist
world. America is directly threatened. Who
then are those so-called "Communists" who do
not accept such a program? They are the count-
erparts of those elements in the U.S.S.R. who,
in the words of former Ambassador Davies, made
it necessary for "the Soviet Tfnion to cleanse
its house of treason . . . when the democracies
in the world indulged in wishful thinking and
slept in fa'lse security."
America has finally awakened to the menace of
a Hitler world conquest, and for the efficient
execution of a battle to the death with Fascism,
it is well to know the exact nature of the country

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1941
VOL. LII. No. 44
Publication in the Daily Official
Bulletin is constructive notice to all
members of the University.
Notices
Public Health Assembly:' An as-
sembly of all students in Public
Seath wifllbe held today at 4:00

receive D or E in so-called mid-se-
mester examinations.
Students electing our courses, but
registered in other schools or col-
leges of the University should be re-
ported to the 'school or college in
which they are registered. ,
Additional cards may be had at 108
Mason Hall or 1220 Angell Hall.
E. A. Walter, Assistant Dean

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m. in the Auditorium of the W. K. Freshmen, College of Literature,
.ellogg Foundation Institute. Dr. Science, and the Arts: Freshmen may
aven Emerson, Professor Emeritus not drop courses without E grade
SPublic Health Practice, Columbia after Saturday, November 22. In
rniversity and Lecturer in Public administering this rule, students with'
ealth Practice, University of Michi- less than 124 hours of credit are con-
an, will speak on "Urpiformity of sidered freshmen. Exceptions to this
roceaure in Communicable Disease regulation may be made only. in ex-
ontrol." Students are expected to traordinary circumstances, such as
e present. tserious or long-continued illness.
E. A. Walter
Detroit Armenian Women's Club

Scholarship: The Detroit Armenian
Women's Club offers a scholarship
for $100 for the year 1942-43 for
which young men and women of'
Armenian parentage, living in the
Detroit metropolitan district who
demonstrate scholastic ability and
possess good character and who have
had at least one year of college work,
are eligible. Further information
may be obtained from me.
Dr. Frank E. Robbins,
1021 Angell Hall
House Heads, Dormitory Directors,
and Sorority Chaperons: Closing
hour for Wednesday, November 19, is
1:30 a.m. and for Thursday, Novem-
ber 20, is 11:00 p.m.
Jeannette Perry
Assistant Dean of Wormen
The Automobile Regulation will be
lifted over Thanksgiving from Wed-
nesday, Nov. 19, at 12 Noon until
Friday, Nov. 21, at 8:00 a.m. Cars
which are brought into Ann Arbor
during this period must be taken out
of ,town by 8:00 Friday morning,
Nov. 21. Students are hereby noti-
fied that the Automobile Regulation
will be enforced as usual over the
Thanksgiving week-end and that no
additional driving privileges will be
granted.
Office of the Dean of Students
Choral Union Members: Members
of the Chorus whose records of at-
tendance are clear, may call for their
tickets for admission to the Marti-
nelli-Pinza concert today between the
hours of 10 and 12 and 1 and 4, after
which time no tickets will be issued.
Charles A. Sink, President
Students, College of Engineering:
The final day for removal of incom-
pletes will be Saturday, November 22.
A. H. Lovell, Secretary
Students, College of Engineering:
The final day for dropping courses
without record will, be Saturday, No-
vember 22. A course may be dropped
only with permission of the classifier
after conference with the instructor.
A. H. Lovell, Secretary.
School of Education Freshmen:
Courses dropped after Saturday, Nov.
22, will be recorded with the grade of
E except under extraordinary cir-;
cumstances. No course is considered
dropped unless it has been reported;
in the office of the Registrar, Room't
4. University Hall.,
Faculty, College of Literature, Sci-;
onee, and the Arts: Midsemester re-
Ponrts are due not later thanSat r-

School of Education, School of
Music,° College of Architecture and
Design: Midsemester reports indi-
cating students enrolled in these
units doing unsatisfactory work in
any unit of the University are due in
the office of the school on Satur-
da, November 22, at noon. Report
blankss for this purpose may be
secured from the office of the school
or from Room 4, U. Hall.
Robert L. Williams,
Assistant Registrar.
Academic Notices
Seminar in Physical Chemistry w ll
meet on Wednesday, November 19, in
Room 410 Chemistry Building at
4:15 p.m. Mr. Oliver Johnson will
speak on "Apparent Volume of
Aqueous Electrolytes." r
Concerts
Martinelli and Pinza will be heard
in a joint recital in the Choral Union
Series tonight at 8:30 o'clock in Hill
Auditorium. Compositions of 'the
following composers will be heard:
Schubert, Brahms, Puccini, Schu-
mann, Meyerbeer, Randall, Thomp-
son, Respighi, Verdi, Faure, Vidal,
Bizet and Masinin. Mr. Fritz Kit-
zinger will be at the piano.
A limited nmber of tickets for,
this and succeeding concerts are'
available at the offices of the Uni-
versity Musical Society in Burton
Memorial Tower.
Charles A. Sink, President
Organ Recital: Palmer Christian,
'University Organist, will include three
movements from the famous "Water
Music" by Handel in his next Wed-
nesday afternoon recital in Hill Audi-
torium. Other works to be presented
will be compositions by Rameau, Mal-
eingreau, Franck, Andriessen and Dr.
E. William Doty, an alumnus of the
University of Michigan.
The program, scheduled for Wed-
nesday, November 19, at 4:15 p.m., is
open to the general public.
Exhibitions
The Ann Arbor Art Association
presents an exhibition of "Contem-
porary Textiles" designed by Rodier,
Dufy, Dufresne, Poiret, Deskey, and
V'Saski, and from the School of De-
sign in Chicago, the Cranbrook
Academy of Art, the Taliesin Fellow-
ship, and the Commercial Market.
Textile processes,.with models, looms,
demonstration weaving and printing,
are included. Rackham Building Ex-
hibition Galleries through Nov. 24,.
2:00-5:00 and 7:30-9:00 p.m.

man Wilson Lecture in Cardiology
will be given by Dr. Roy Wesley Scott
on Wednesday, November 19, at 1:00
p.m. in the Hospital Amphitheater.
DP' Scott, who is Professor of Clinical
Medicine at Western Reserve [diver-
ity School of Medicine in Cleveland,
will speak on "Latent Syphilis as a
Cause of Heart Disease." It will be
given before the stu4ents of the
Junior and Senior Medical Classes
and Faculty of the Medical School as
well as the Staff of the University
Hospital. Classes will be dismissed
from 1:00 until 2:00 o'clock only on'
that day, for the above students to
attend the lecture.
Lecture on Chinese Literature:
The third in the series of lectures
on Chinese Literature by Gerald Tien
will be given today at 4:15 p.m. In
the Rackham Amphitheater. The
lecture this week is on "Chinese,.
Prose." These lectures are spon-
sored by the International Center
and the Chinese 3 lufdtm Club and
are open to the public.
French Lecture: Professor Rene
Talamon, of the Romance Language
Department, will open the series of
French lectures sponsored by the
Cercie Francais today at 4:15 p.m. in
Room D, Alumni Memorial Hall. The'
title of his lecture is: "Une heure de
prose et de poesie."
Tickets for the series of lectures
may be procured from the Secretary
of the Department of Romance Lan-
guages (Room 112, Romance Lan-
guage Building) or at the door at the
time of the lecture, for a small sum
Holders of these tickets are entitled
to admission to all lectures, a small
additional charge being made for the
:annual pjay. These lectures are opea
¢to the general public,
t Events Today
Army Ordnance Association meet-
ing tonight in Room 325 of the Union.
Col. Henry W. Miller, Chairman of
the Department of Mechanism and
Engineering Drawing, will address the
group on "Recent Research and De-
velopment in Army Ordnance."
Alpha Phi Omega pledges meet in
the Union student offices at 7:30 to-
night. Some actives will also be
needed for a short time.
.t
Aquinas Seminar: The" group
studying the writings of St. Thom-
as Aquints will meet at Lane Hall.
on Tuesday afternoons at 4:30 p.m.
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Religious Music Seminar: "The
Development and Use of the Chor-
ale as a Musical Form" will be the
subject of the lecture by Mr. Leonard
Gregory of the University School of
Music at the Religious Music Semi-k
nar, sponsored by the Student Re-
ligious Association, and held at Lane
Hall today at 4:15 p.m. The talk will
be illustrated by recordings of Pal-
estrina's compositions.
Sigma Rho Tau will meet at 7:30,
tonight in the Union. All members
are requested to be present.
The University of Michigan Flying
Club will meet tonight at 8:00 in the
East. Engineering Bldg. This will be
an important meeting and eVeryone
is urged to attend.
f
Decorations Committee for Pan-
hellenic Bal will meet today" and
Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. in the
League.
Spanish Tea today, 4:00-6:00 p.m.,
in the Grand Rapids Room of the
League. All interested students and
faculty are cordially invited.
The regular Tuesday evening con-
cert of recorded music in the Men's
Lounge of the Rackham Building at
8:00 p.m. will feature the following
program: Mendelssohn, Symphony
No. 4 (Italian); Franck, Prelude.

Choral and Fugue played by Egon
Petri an the Introduction and Al-
egr by avel.
Congregational Students: Come to
tea today at Pilgrim Hall, 608 E.
William, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Christian Science Organization will
meet tonight at 8:15 in the chapel of
the Michigan League.
Michigan Dames Swimming Group
will meet tonight in the Michigan
Union, 8:30-10:00.
Coming Events
Pre-Medical Society Meeting on
Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 8:00 p.m.,
Michigan Union. Dr. Miller of the
Anatomy Department will discuss the
film "Various Aspects of Cells in, Liv-
ing Tissues" (Cancer Cells Included).
All pre-medics invited.
All Political Science Students and
Majors: All male students, either ma-
joring in Political Science or taking
courses in it, who would be interested
in an organization in the Political
Science Department for discussion
and passing of mock bills on state,
national and international questions
similar to that of the United States
House of Representatives, with each
student representing a state, please
meet in Room 2203 Wednesday, Nov.
19, at 3:15 p.m.
Motor Mechanics: The next meet-


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day, November 22. Lectures
'Report cards are being distributed
to all departmental offices. Green University Lecture? John Garstang;