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NIGHT EDITOR: HOMER SWANDER
The editorials published in The Michigan
Daily are written by members of The Daily
staff and represent the views of the writers
only.
An Isolationist
Replies To Swander ...
THERE APPEARED in these columns
yesterday an editorial by Homer
Swander concerning Philip Murray and the
miners' strike; an editorial which we consider
to be significant.
Swander, who is/known on the campus for his
strong interventionist attitude, came to the de-
fense of the miners' demand for a union shop.
He is also president of the local chapter of the
Student Defenders of Democracy. Besides being-
a member of the 'War Now' ilk, the SDD states
its belief in a liberal domestic policy, its support
of labor's rights.
Here is an example of their liberal domestic
policy, or Swander's at any rate. Fine. However,
there is a question which should be raised to all
liberal interventionist's throughout the country:
Aren't they defeating their own purpose by
backing a strike now, no matter how justified it
may be? There is no doubt that the steel com-
p ny's management is taking advantage of the
fact that strikes are unpopular in time of war.
But Swander, as a supporter of this war, is in
no position to come to the union's rescue.
Swander's declaration in favor of the CIO is
to us the first test case of whether or not a
"liberal warmonger's" group can actually exist.
We think not. As a matter of fact, we don't see
how Swander can remain an interventionist and
a liberal at tle same time. Especially when he
sees that if this war were really for democracy,
the miners' strike could still be settled without
labor being squashed. It is this fear of unnec-
essary suppression of labor's rights that pre-
vents us from seeing eye to eye with interven-
tionists.
On the contrary, we foresee a split in the SDD
unless the liberals such as Swander come around
to the "defenders' "way of thinking, and that, in
a group of idealists, would be intellectually dis-
honest.
- Harry Levine
An Interventionist
Replies To Swandere.
WITHOUT JOINING those constitu-
ency-conscious legislators who have
long had their'eye plastered on the spot in labor's
back where the knife would go in easiest, I think
that the tim6has come when every person inter-
ested in the welfare of the CIO should urge it
to follow a different course than the one appar-
ently embarked upon by the Detroit convention.
Its declaration of absolute all-out aid was, as
Homer Swander said in these columns yesterday,
an admirable indication that-American labor is
beginning to travel the same sensible road chosen
by Ernest Bevin and British-labor at the begin-
ning of the war.
But, as Mr. Swander failed to add, they have
followed that declaration by turning back from
the road of British labor. In supporting the
strike in the 'captive' mines they are refusing to
recognize by action that the defeat of Hitler is
the paramount mission of American labor, and
instead are asking to both have and eat their
cake.
There is, moreover, a way in which the CIO
can pass through this crisis with both its 3ri-
h marv- and seonarv obioetives' achieved: that
The Reply Churlish
by TOUCHSTONE
PERSONAL Thanksgiving notes. (1) that
there are so many serious people in the world,
even on the balmy days, and so I can sit back
on my chair and smile Buddha-like and not be
involved to the extent of not realizing they are
balmy days. (2) that they aren't all balmy days,
because if they were there would be more col-
umns like this than you would care to read.
(3) that once in awhile I run into names like
Prince Dharmarkumarsinhjj of Bhavnagar, self-
styled "Bapa." (4) that as long as I carry my
draft card with me I can shake the dust of this
town from my heels once in awhile and get
somewhere nicer which isn't very hard, believe
me. (5) that I am a wonderful dancer and
much sought after by the female sex ha ha ha ha
ha ha. (6) that maybe this stuff is bad, but I'm
not dissecting popular songs for a gag anyhow
and what some people won't do for a laugh well
it's a shame.
(7) my lucky number. Natural. (8) that I did
not have the misfortune to be born in Europe
and am so enabled to loaf around and suffer
personal problems instead of starvation or bul-
lets, but to all you gas station patriots, I don't
mean the same thing you do when you have
those signs tattooed on your chests saying
"Thank God I'm an American." (9) that in
spite of a fancy stomach I don't have many
bodily discomforts: (10) that my colored wool
socks look so nice when I put my feet up on
the desk and that Perspectives came out without
too many typos. (11) that I have a girl, blonde,
and also since she won't be reading this, that
there are so many other beautiful women in the
world and I can look at them because nobody
notices or cares when I turn around and stare
unless I also whistle, and as a corollary of this
blessing, that they are wearing skirts shorter
this year. (12) One dozen.
(13) that I heard a story the other day about
a kid in the Engine School whose physics prof{
assigned a problem for outside work which was
the same problem the West Point cadet had been
working on the cover of a recent issue of Life.
and so the local boy wrote the cadet and how
were things at the Academy, and football, and
everything was all right here, and by the way,
that problem he had been working in the Life-
whatinhell was the answer, and how'd he work
it? By return mail came the whole thing nicely
worked out. Grade, 100 percent. (14) that I'm
to be Queen of the May. (15) that' everything
comes out in the wash, and whenever I get
into a jam now, I believe I have reached a suf-
ficiently adult stage to realize that in the long
run, it won't matter, and this under heading of
advice to young and buffaloed writers whose
sins catch up with them. (16) that I am feeling
smug enough right now to really believe that
last one, but just between you and me, it's a
lot of journalistic hokum, and everything that
happens bad is bad and don't let anyone kid
you, and (17) I am now leaving the office after
a hard day's work, and will have a good dinner
for Thanksgiving, for which I am also thankful,
and so long until soon.
RECORDS -
Sisters Andrews and King,
Freddy Martin, Sammy Kaye
WE HAVEN'T HEARD many of this week's
releases but here go some opinions on the
few we did get an opportunity to hear:
THE ANDREWS SISTERS: Two really satis-.
fying ballads: Honey and, en verso (that's
French), Elmer's Tune. That Elmer's Tune's
really got something, and it should be right up
there pretty soon (Decca).
FREDDY MARTIN: Whistling In The Night-a
good arrangement, a better-than-average
tune, mushy words, with some pretty fine 'whis-
tling by Eddie Stone. Has the slight edge over
the flipover side, Who Are You?, a sweet num-
ber with piano by Jack Fina, the Concerto man
(Bluebird).
SAMMY KAYE: Up goes Sammy and down
he falls with an earful of corn. Honeyhunch and
This Is No Laughing Matter (Victor).
THE FOUR KING SISTERS: Side A is Rose
O'Day, known also as the filla-de-gusha song.
and with plenty of double talk. If you liked the
Hut-Sut, you should go nut-sut over this one.
The B side is a modernish version of Jack and
Jill, in which the nursery rhyme is taken away
from the children and Jill breaks Jack's crown
for "boogie-woogie'in with the farmer's daugh-
ter." (Bluebird). What will they think of next?
D. L.
run, will gain; with Lewis gone, the MediationI
Board which must now be labor's only appealI
will undoubtedly continue its logical recognition
of labor's claims.
The Lewis issue aside, the fact remains that
the moment labor strikes-no matter liow just
the cause-it is forgetting that this nation is
committed to one thing above all else, the de-
feat of Hitler.
There is a chance that if labor retreats now
it will lose a few of its hard-gotten social and
economic gains. But, even more important,
there is a chance that if labor does not retreat,
it will lose centuries of democratic progress.
Labor, fast losing its popularity in this coun-
try because of its blindness, can do labor itself
and this democracy an everlasting favor if it
will oust the man who has placed himself astride
the road which we have chosen to travel, if it
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Robert S.Aten
WASHINGTON-Though he has stayed out
of the limelight, few men have played a more im-
portant role in the recent war effort than Maj.-
Gen. James Burns, the man Roosevelt is picking
as our new ambassador to Russia.
For about a year Gen. Burns has been attach-
ed to the White House to expedite Lend-Lease
goods to Britain and Russia. He has done a
hard-driving, efficient job.
More recently, when he accompanied Averell
Harriman to Russia, Gen. Burns was the one
man in the mission who got out of Moscow and
had a look-see at the long Russian front ex-
tending south to the Caucasus.
ONE STORY he brought back from that trip
was how the Russians had picked up an en-
tire airdrome from in front of the Nazi at-
tack, transported it well behind the lines, and
set it up with underground machine shops and
hangers in thirty days.
The man who really discovered Burns was
Louis Johnson, ex-Assistant Secretary of War.
Burns was a low-ranking colonel buried in the
War Department when Johnson recognized his
ability and put him in charge of industrial mob-
ilization.
As Johnson was about to retire as Assistant
Secretary, Gen. Marshall asked if he had any
final requests to make.
"There is just one thing you can do for me"
Johnson replied. "Promote Colonel Burns to the
rank of major-general."
BURNS got the promotion, and also was as-
signed to the White House where he has
been almost ever since.
Note-National Defense would be far better
off today if the War Department had followed
the industrial mobilization plan worked out by
Burns and Louis Johnson.
Congressional Lubricants
CAPITOL NEWSMEN were joshing Represent-
ative Henry Steagall of Alabama, chairman
of the House Banking Committee, about a pub-
lished report that a bottle had been passed
around while the committee was holding its
final closed-door meeting on the mutilated price-
control bill.
Steagall raised his right .hand and said sol-
emnly:
"Boys, I can't remember when I took my last
drink - it's been so long ago."
At this point Price Administrator Leon Hen.
derson walked up.
"How about you, Leon?" asked Steagall.
Henderson, who has little time for the flow-
ing bowl during his 16-hour working day, also
raised his right hand.
"I can't remember either," he grinned, "but
for a different reason. I am too busy."
The Ark Royal
THE BRITISH had good reason for carefully
holding back some of the story regarding the
sinking of the Ark Royal. All of the facts still
are not out, and will not be for some time. But
the best inside information is that the sinking
was a far graver event than appeared on the
surface, because it marked the beginning of a
whole-sale Nazi submarine campaign in the
Mediterranean.
Not published was the fact that the British
had six destroyers guarding the Ark Royal at
the time it was hit.
Airplane carriers of this kind are not heavily
armored, are extremely vulnerable, and are so
hard to replace that they are carefully guarded
day and night.
Therefore, the Nazi submarine which sent
the giant carrier to her grav'e probably was one
of a nest of subs which lay in wait with engines
muffled.
With France fully in the Nazi embrace, this
kind of warfare is what the British will have to
face in the Mediterranean. Counting Italian
submarines, and the undersea craft which the
French fleet will doubtless add to Germany's,
Hitler will have a total of about 200 subs in the
Mediterranean.
A LMOST EQUALLY IMPORTANT, he will
certainlyhave the advantage of French naval
bases, which with the Italian, Spanish, and Afri-
can bases he already commands, will provide
a total of 35 Axis submarine bases sprinkled
strategically around the Mediterranean.
In contrast, the British will have only Gibral-
tar, Malta, Cyprus, and a few ports in Egypt,
Palestine and Syria.
Hitler Carves Turkey
THE REPORTED new French hook-up with
Hitler comes at an especially bad time for
the British - which undoubtedly is why the
Nazis put the screws on Vichy so vigorously.
Under these circumstances the Nazi squeeze on
Turkey can be expected to tighten almost mo-
mentarily.
In fact, the more the Nazi drive in Russia bogs
down with weather, the more likely is Hitler
to take the easier, warmer, short cut through
Turkey toward the oil fields of the Caucasus -
and also toward the British oil fields in Mosul
and the Euphrates Valley.
For months. the Nazis have been bringing
small boats down to the Aegean via the Balkan
railroads and. the Danube, and are- reported
almost ready for landing party attacks on coastal
Dlrew PaVro
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"Judge or not, Clem Perkins, stop eatin' my pickles-come
judgin' time you won't have any appetite!"
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1941
VOL. LH. No. 461
Publication in the Daily Official{
Bulletin is constructive notice to all
members of the University.C
Notices
Library Hours, Thanksgiving Day:
Today the Main Reading Room of the
Pericdical Room of the General Li-
brary will be open from 2:00 p.m. to
9:00 p.m. The Departmental Librar-
ies will be closed.
W. G. Rice, Director1
Faculty, School of Education: The1
regular meeting of the faculty will bes
held on Monday, Novemberc24, in the
University Elementary School 'i'-'
brary. Tea will be served at 3:45 p.m.C
and the meeting will convene at 4:15
p m.
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 consideredt
dropped unless it has been reported
in the office of the Registrar, Roomr
4, University Hall.t
Students, College of Engineering:j
The final day for removal of incom-f
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, School of
Music, College of Architecture and
Design: Midsemester reports indi-
LETTER
TO THE EDITOR
To the Editor:
(who we hope can dance),
ALL WE CAN SAY is that it's a
shame,-it's disgraceful--it's pa-
thetic. Scholastically, Michigan real-
ly rates, but why, oh why must the
Michigan man skate on a dance
floor?
A typical Saturday night finds my
roommate and me glamorizing our
pusses for a dancing date, and don-
ning our field shoes-the ones with
the spikes-in order to gain a firm
grip upon the floor, so that we will
not be knocked over in the tussle
that is inevitable.
LAST SATURDAY NIGHT, my
roommate got the personality kid
who waltzed to everything, including
Chattanooga Choo Choo. I got the
drip who jittered to Missouri Waltz.
We don't ask much, we don't even
hope for a smooth New York dancer.
All we ask is that he be able to keep
in time with the music and also not
to make it necessary to visit the chi-
ropodist Sunday morning. If this
horrible state of affairs continues to
exist, we will simply have to commit
suicide . . . by throwing ourselves in
front of a conga line.
HERE'S TO bigger and better danc-
ing classes for over-energetic
males.
- Pavlova and Sadie
From Foglanld . e
eating students ,enrolled in these
units doing unsatisfactory work in>
any unit of the University are due in
the office of the school on Satur-e
day, November 22, at noon. Report
blanks for this purpose may be
secured from the office of the school1
or from Room 4, U. Hall.
Robert L. Williams,
Assistant Registrart
Freshmen, College of Literature,c
Science and the Arts: Freshmen may
not drop courses without E gradet
after Saturday, November 22. Inf
administering this rule, students with1
less than 24 hours of credit are con-
sidered freshmen. Exceptions to this
regulation may be made only in ex-F
traordinary circumstances, such asr
serious or long-continued illness.
E. A. Waltert
Faculty, College of Literature, Sci-
ence, and the Arts: Midseester re-
ports are due not later than Satur-t
day, November 22.
Report cards are being distributed
to all departmental offices. Green
cards are being provided for fresh-1
men reports; they should be returnedr
to the office of the Academic Coun-
selors, 108 Mason Hall. White cardst
for reporting sophomores, juniors,I
and seniors should be returned to
1220 Angell Hall
Midsemester reports should name
those students, freshmen and upper-l
class, whose standing at mid-semes-J
ter is D or E, not merely those who
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 Deanl
Registration Blanks: ALL Students
are reminded that Friday, November
121, is the last day to return blanks for
registration in the Bureau of Appoint-
ments without having to pay a late
fee.
All blanks should be returned. Stu-
dents who have decided not to register
should return their blanks with that
information, since they will be held
responsible for them.
Bureau of Appointments and
Occupational Information
A cademic Notices
Bacteriology 111A (Laboratory
Course) will meet Monday, November
24; at 1:00 p.m. in Room 2562, East
Medical Building.
Each student should come provided
with a $5.00 Hygienic Laboratory
Coupon procurable at the Treasurer's
Office.
English 201 will meet in Room
1018 A.H. on Saturday, November 22.
A. H. Marckwardt.
Doctoral Examination for Mr. An-
gelo Sylvestro Miceli, Chemistry; the-
sis: "The Kinetics of the Exchange
Reaction Between Bromine and Car-
bon Tetrabromide in the Gaseous and
Condensed Phases," Friday, Novem-
ber 21, 309 Chemistry Building, 3:15
p.m. Chairman, J. H. Hodges.
By action of the Executive Board
the chairman may invite membersof
the faculties and advanced doctoral
candidates to attend the examination
lidbiys n h
Always.,in his interviews with thel
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and he may grant permission to those
who for sufficient reason might wish
to be present.
C. S. Yoakum, Dean
Concerts
Faculty Concert: Several members
of the faculty of the School of Music
will appear Sunday, November 23, at
4:15 p.m. in Lydia Mendelssohn The-
ater. Those participating will be
Mrs. Maud Okkelberg, Mrs. Ava Case
and Professor Joseph Brinkman,
pianist, Mr. Mark Bills, baritone, and
Mr. William Stubbins, clarinetist.
The general public is invited, but
young children will not be admitted.
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.
Exhibition, College of Architecture
and Design: Student work of the
member schools of the Association of
Collegiate Schools is being shown in
the third floor exhibition room,
Architecture Building. Open daily 9
to 5, except Sunday, through Novem-
ber 25. The public is invited.
4 Lectures
University Lecture: Jacob Crane,
Assistant Coordinator, Division of
Defense Housing Coordination will
lecture on the subject, "The Place of
Public and Private Enterprise in
Housing," under the auspices of the
College of Architecture anc Design,
on Monday, November 24, at 2:00
p.m. In the ground floor lecture room
Architecture Building. The public is
cordially invited.
University Lecture: Mr. Hubert
Herring, Executive Director of the
Committee on Cultural . Relations
with Latin America, will lecture on
the subject, "Latin America, Ger-
many, and the United States," un-
der the auspices of the Committee on
Latin-American Studies, on Monday,
November 24, at 4:15 p.m. in the
Rackham Amphitheater. The pubs
lic is cordially intited.
University Lecture: Lieutenant
Paul A. Smith, Chief of the Aero-
nautical Chart Section, U.S. Coast
and Geodetic Survey, will lecture on
the subject, "Lands Beneath the
Sea," (illustrated) under the auspices
of the Department of Civil Engineer-
ing on Thursday, November 27, at
4:15 p.m. in the Rackham Amphi-
theater. The public is cordially in-
vited.
UniversityhLecture: Lieutenant
Paul A. Smith, Chief of the Aero-
nautical Chart Section, U.S. Coast
and Geodetic Survey will lecture on
the subject, "Preparation of Aero-
nautical Charts," under the auspices
of the Department of Civil Engineer-
ing, on Friday, November 28, at 1:15
p.m. in Room 348 West. Engineering
Building. The public is cordially in-
vited.
Lecture: Professor Chalfant Rob-
inson, Curator of Mediaeval Manu-
scripts at Princeton University, will
lecture to the junior and senior stu-
dents on Friday, November 28, at 1:30
p.m. in the main Hospital Amphi-
theatre.
The subject of the lecture will be,
"The Case of Louis 11th-A Study
in Historical Pathology."
Classes will be dismissed for the
seniors and juniors during this hour
in order that they may attend.
Events Today
First Church of Christ, Scientist:
Special Thanksgiving Service this
morning at 10:30.
Coming Events
The Research Club will meet in the
Rackham Amphitheatre Wednesday,
November 26, at 8:00 p.m. The papers
to be read are: "Ethnological Field
Studies among the Pueblo Indians"
(illustrated) by Professor Leslie A.
White, and "The Structure of the
Earth's Crust in the Central Rockies,"
by Professor A. J. Eardley.
Religious Drama: Students inter-
ested in a study of religious dramatic
art looking toward the creation of a
marionette theatre should be at Lane
Hall on Friday evenings at 7:30 p.m.
Coffee Hour: All students are wel-
come at the Student Religious Asso-
ciation Coffee Hour held in the library
of Lane Hall on Friday afternoons
from 4:00 to 6:00.
Ushering, Committee Theater Arts:
Sign up Friday and Saturday to ush-
er for "The Puritan," a Cinema Art
League movie. You may also sign up
for the movie Sunday; four Charlie
Chaplin films.
Lists are posted in the Undergrad-
uate office in the League.
"Instruction periods for the Rifle
Club will begin Monday, Nov. 24, at
4:00 p.m. Girls should be sure to
come to the period for which they
signed.
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