TIHE MICHIGAN D AIYILTT1URT, ?NOVE IWIN U^j~g £izI4 ja hitILJ -Q , -. ;li Edited and managed by students of the University 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 carrie" $4.00, by mail $5.00. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTIaING Y National Advertising Service, Inc. 14College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CHICAGO - BOSTON - LOS AJGELUS - SAN FRANCISCO !'ember, Associated Collegiate Press, 1941-42 i Editorial Staff Emile Ge16 . Alvin Dann David Lachenbruch Jay McCormick Hal Wilson Arthur Hill. Jnet Hiatth grace Miller. Virginia Mitchell . . . Managing Editor . . . . Editorial Director * . . .City Editor Associate Editor . . . . Sports Editor . . Assistant Sports Editor s Women's Editor * . Assistant Women's Editor * . * .Exchange Editor Business Stag Daniel H. Uuyett James B. Collins Louise Carpenter Evelyn Wright . so. at Business Manager AssociateBusiness Manager . Women's Advertising Manager Women's Busines Manager 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 {/47 a 77 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 ' "Judge or not, Clem Perkins, stop eatin' my pickles-come judgin' time you won't have any appetite!" DAILY OFF I C IAL BULLETIN 4U wr, - - - wr f 'I 1 1 '4 Ai1 3 Ef fw +jk I ~i, i, ne FIZ.CA llf., t tR" ' GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty 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 i 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. I 4 . 4 4 1