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by abuse and prejudice to use the only weapon
at their command--violence.
FIFTY YEARS OF PROGRESS toward equality
for the Negro race is being wiped away with
one swift stroke. Companies whose production
is seriously handicapped by labor shortages still
stubbornly refuse to hire Negro workers even
though they are abundantly available.
Although every other class of American is prof-
iting tremendously from the defense boom the
plight of the Negro is becoming increasingly more
desperate. W.P.A. and relief of every description
has been drastically cut,,yet there is no place
for them in industry. Living costs have risen for
the Negro just as they have risen for every other
American. They alone, however, have no higher
wages to compensate for increased expenses.
IT WOULD BE UNFAIR to say that the Admin-
istration has done nothing to alleviate the sit-
uation. The war department has repeatedly urged
that Negroes be hired equally with whites and
the president in a speech made last July con-
demned the race prejudice of manufacturers.
The problem is, however-except in the case of
army camp conditions-not one which can be
dealt with by legislation.
The American people are infuriated by Hitler's
abuse of the Jewish people and yet they condone,
even share a prejudice which is equally cruel in
their own country. It is they alone-laws will not
help-who can destroy once and for all this pre-
judice which has darkened the democracy of our
country since slave days.
-H. J. Slautterback
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The editorials published in The Michigan
Daily are written by members of The Daily
staff and represent the views of the writers
only.
Appeasement Policy
Fails Again .
T HEY have done it again. Those ap-
peasement-minded members of the
State Department have failed once more in car-
rying out a policy which was doomed from the
beginning, which has miserably failed in every
major or minor test of its strength, which will
continue to fail until it is finally and completely
abandoned.
The appeasement policy did not work at Mu-
nich when the British tried it. Nor has it worked
any better for the United States. The State
Department has tried-and failed-to win Italy,
Spain and Japan away from the Nazi stronghold
by throwing them verbal bouquets and shipping
them valuable goods. In not one single case did
they succeed. Yet they tried again-and are
still trying-with the Vichy government. One
wonders if State Department diplomats ever
I learn by experience.
The recent "retirement" .of George Maxime
Weygand was just one more straw in a long list
of straws which have all been pointed in the
direction of closer and closer collaboration be-
tween Vichy and Berlin. There has been very
little doubt but that right from the start Petain
and his underlings were definitely pro-fascist
in character and intended to work hand in hand
with the Nazis.
Nevertheless, our State Department recognized
them,,extended them best wishes and sent them
an ambassador. It should be plain now, however,
even to our po-fascist appeaser-diplomats that
appeasement just does not work. And it should
be plain to the President that the time has come
to act.
His first action should be the immediate with-
drawal of our ambassador to Vichy. There is no
sense in dignifying the puppet government of
a nation and an ideology that we are pledged to
defeat.
Secondly, the President should formally recog-
nize and cooperate with the DeGaulle Free
French Government. This action would hearten
that large part of the French population which
still adheres to the ideals of liberty and freedom.
It would strengthen and encourage the deter-
mination so evident in the people of France to-
day to aid in bringing about the defeat of Hitler.
And next-7perhaps most important of all-
the Pfesident should begin a thorough, from-
the-bottom-up clean out of the appeasement
forces in the State Department. This country
cannot put its full strength into the world-wide
struggle against fascism if sucl a tremendously
important department of government continues
to be dominated by a determined group of ap-
peasement-minded old men. They should be re-
lieved of their official duties.
- Homer Swander
Race Prej d ce
Is Decried .. .
Robert S.Allen
(EDITOR'S NOTE-A brass ring and a
free, ride on the WASHINGTON MERRY-
GO-ROUND goes this week to John L. Lewis,
the man who has done more to build up
labor and tear it down than any man in
America.)
WASHINGTON-John L. Lewis was two years
old when his family, in Lucas, Iowa, participated
in a labor strike. He was seven years old when he
left schol toWork with his father in the mines.
He was 21 years old when he left home to roam
through the mining areas of the Far West, and
later to .become a tough union organizer.
Fabulous stories were told about him even at
that time: that he ate three raw beefsteaks for
breakfasts, that he had/once felled a mine mule
with a blow of his fist, that he pounded on the
desks until trembling state legislatures passed
the labor laws he demanded.
In this mythology was a certain core of truth.
John L. Lewis got what he wanted by letting no
man stand in his way, and he gloried in that
reputation.
FURTHERMORE, he was fighting mine owners
who were just as tough as he, and frequently
more ruthless; men who were culling the cream
of the country's coal without regard to the fu-
ture; men who would rather see entire cities
cave in than spend money 'on mine props; men
who made the green hills of Pennsylvania and
West Virginia dreary and desolate with piles of
black waste.
Roosevelt Saved Lewis
In 1933, however, John Lewis was very near
the brink. The depression had closed mine after-
mine. Almost half his miners were out of work.
Non-union miners had taken over great areas.
And his treasury was almost flat.
THE STORY of how Roosevelt saved him, and
adopted a liberal labor program, is too well
known to need re-telling here. And with that
new surge of power, John L.'s old egoism soared
to fuller and greater heights. He was crusading
for labor, it was true; but it was a personalized
crusade 'which was wrapped up in the glorifica-
tion of one man.
The fact that John L. bought out the Univer-
sity Club in Washington and transformed it into
a wood-paneled sanctum as ornate as any big
business office along Wall Street was relatively
unimportant. It indicated, however, his person-
alized rule over the miners. The United Mine
Workers always had been a one-man machine, \
but now John L. reached out and built up the
CIO. And the CIO became a one-man machine.
FOR INSTANCE, when Carl Holderman, head
of the New Jersey CIO, fired a suspected
Communist, the latter came to Washington and
got a job from John L. Lewis' CIO headquarters,
which promptly assigned him ridht back to New
Jersey as an organizer where he could embarrass
Holderman.
The miners liked to think of their chief as
sitting in a huge office and riding in a limousine
as long as any mine, owner's; but many times
during recent years they have sat in the outer
office holding their hats, while "Their John"
spent his time negotiating strikes in CIO unions
which had no relation whatsoever to the Mine
Workers.-
Lewis' C Empire
This is one thing the miners have not liked.
However, they have not known much about it.
They have not known in any detail, for instance,
that "Their John" has used miners' funds to
organize other unions. Probably they did not
know that he financed a man to operate inside
the Newspaper Guild, a union far removed from
the coal industry.
This was how John L. continued his great
personalized power. lie maintains it also Iyv
e Reply Churlish
by TOUCHSTONE
NOW I don't want anybody to sue me for libel,
but I don't see how a whole state can do any-
thing about it, and the football players can't
read, so this one's going to be about the state of
Texas. Of all the places in the world, including
Iceland, in which I would least like to live, you,
oh Texas, are in your large, spread out sort of
way, that place.
I have never been to Texas. God willing, I
never shall be. But I have been foced in the not
too dim past to sit through volume something,
number something of the March of Time where
Texas comes out for Democracy and Henry Luce
and Lee O'Daniel and football and the Lone
Star. I' have also read through a series of in-
teresting camera studies of the Texas football
team in Life magazine, which was apparently
thrown in on the deal between Hank Luce and
the proud old settlers who run the oil wells and
the chamber of commerce. And now, as bath-
room literature, I have just finished skimming
thr'ough a copy of the Texas Ranger, self-styled
humor magazine of the University of Texas. And.
fellows, I'm ready to let 'em secede by jingoes.
PERHAPS I am a jaundiced old man. Perhaps
my special End Zone senior tickets have
biased me on the subject of football. Yet I have
been known, upon occasion, to take a drink, and
several weak sisters consider me a Regular Fel-
low. I am proud of this appelation. It does my
heart good to have a certain collegiate knowledge
of the world, to know when I have reached the
limit of sobriety, and how many more it will be
until I fall down and am carried home by the
little men. I like girls, gosh yes. But oh you
Texas!
I haven't much to say about the Texas of Mr.
Luce's films and fotog-mags. My views on Mr.
Luce and his two-bit appraisals have frequently
been aired in this column. I am a religious but
dissenting reader of Life, and I don't like Henry
Luce, or his wife. They don't care. Anyhow this
is about Texas.
But on a basis of the Texas Ranger, here is how
life at the University of Texas appears to me.
In the first place, everybody is majoring in what
I shall delicately refer to as l'amour impropre.
The articles and stories in the magazine are well-
spiced with sly references to anatomy and Ovid-
ian techniques. Headline: Texas Discovers Se-
duction. Before this astounding discovery they
just hit 'em over the head. Add to this primal
urge, (copyright 1941, the Texas Ranger) a great
and Rabelaisan preoccupation with drinking as
an end in life, or at least another end. You have
heard the same sort of patter from those sopho-
more pledges in the house, when the small town
starts to wear off, and they Discover Sin. But
this is Texas. They do things in a Big Way out
there (read thar.)
NEXT, the running gag in the Texas Ranger is
a long-snouted animal called, with telling
irony, "Flybait." He sports a key resembling the
Phi Beta Kappa fob, and is quite evidently in-
tended to symbolize the Greasy Grind. Okay,
okay, Texas. Big old Texas, with the loud laugh.
the ten-gallon Stetson, the boots on the dormi-
tory bed. No grinds for Texas. No sir. Just
(read Jest) a gallon of hooch, a cutie, and a
back seat, eh Texas? Rah rah rah.
Hell-raising, gun-toting, raw, pioneer old
Texas. Bigger buildings, better scenery, greatest
little football team in the whole wide world
Texas. Five flags Texas. Texas, last home of
what made America the biggest damnfool coun-
try in the world, home of better plumbing, home
of loud shouts, home of Hooch, home of Wild
Women, home of the Pioneer, the guys withNa-
tions in Their Eyes, the-college drunks, the college
floozies, the latrine-wall Humorists. Terrific
Texas. Vitality oozing out all over you. Qet a
horse, Texas. So long until soon.
increased dues and see that the men stood be-
hind the expected strike in the captive mines.
tOHN L. has other means of keeping his glori-
fied ego in the driver's seat. One is elections.
When it pis announced to the press that the'
miners have voted to stand behind John L. Lewis,
it does not necessarily mean that the great mass
of miners have voted. It usually means that a
little group of hand-picked Lewisites at the top
have carried out orders.
Elections in the United States of America have
-come to be a sacred mandate, jealously guarded.
Even inside big corporations today there is su-
pervision of elections. Many state laws require
that when a corporation votes on an important
issue affecting the public, not merely a majority,
but two-thirds of the stock-holders must ap-
prove.
No Inspection Of Books
But the voting in John L. Lewis' powerful
organization is above state or federal regulation.
There is no public supervision to see how the
vote is taken.
TODAY, the head of every big insurance com-
pany is subject to state and government reg-
ulation. So are the banks. They are semi-public
institutions. The funds and fate of many people
are involved. The unions also :are great public
institutions. John L. Lewis has at his command
an army three times the normal peacetime army
of the United States. The U. S. Army is sub-
jected to the strictest supervision from the War
Department. Everything it does, every cent it
spends is checked and double-checked not only
by trained public servants, but by both houses
of Congress.
But John L. Lewis has a private army of his
own, subject only to his command and drilled
by the little group of district presidents whose
salaries he so conveniently raised.
In other words, the CIO czar, who calls Roose-
velt a dictator, himself has dictatorial powers
which no ohIler one man in this country can
IPuritan' Excellent
On Every Score...
THE PURITAN, by Liam O'Flaherty
with Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre
Fresnay, Vivian Romance. Directed
by Jeff Musso.
THE ART CINEMA LEAGUE has
yet to bring a poor picture to Ann
Arbor.
"The Puritan's" main claim to fame
was (1) that it has been banned in
New York, (2) that it is from the
book by Liam OFlaherty and (3)
that it is a French film. Either point
is enough of an argument in its favor.
O'Flaherty's explanation for the
censorship: "Obviously the picture
has been banned by what I' call a
religious racket in the church. They
.[think the picture would interfere
with their revenues."
In truth, this reviewer can see no
other reason for banning the film.
,unless the New York State Board of
Censors, in their own characteristic-
ally stupid way, completely misun-
derstood the production.
THE STORY of the film is excel-
lent, but only insofar as it is car-
r ied out by the acting, direction.
photography and musical back-
ground. In this respect the book
rivals "The Informer." In technical
aspects, the picture comes close to
the film "Crime, and Punishment."
The drama is a psychological study
of a puritanical fanatic, who mur-
ders a prostitute at the outset of the
film and then tries to justify his act
by calling it a blood sacrifice designed
to liberate man from evil. The re-
maiider of the picture consists of
how 'erriter, the title character, at-
tempts to free himself of guilt.
The French techniques of acting
sometimes seem strange, but it is
certain that they are more effective
than ours. Expert performances
were turned in by al members of the
cast, with special mention to the
star , Jean-Louis Barrault as the
sickly journalist and Piefre Fresnay
as .the police superintendent.
The photography was the same
feet-goiig -up -the -dark-stairs type
employed by the French in "Crime
and Punishment.' The control of
light,,and shadows in which the film
excelled is a rarely-exploited device
in American cinema. A word must
also be sai for the accompanying
music which forms such an integral
part of the production, paving the
way psychologically for climaxes and
helping to maintain the mood of the
entire drama.,
,,ND one vote against the imbeciles
in the audience who hee-haw
when something goes wrong with the
film. -D. L.
Textiles Featured
In Art Exhibition
ONE OF THE most important ex-
hibitions of its year's program is
the Ann Arbor Art Association's bril-
liant prelude to the new season. The
contemprary textiles which make
even the walls of Rackham's galleries
exciting should be seen by everyone
interested in an accurate representa-
tion of our present state of things.
The exhibition closes November 24.
We need only look at the beautifully
hung northwest corner of the print
'room to realize how an art form
like this can be as significant and
potent as the more "dignified" forms
of "fine" art. There, side by side,
in a fine sensitivity to line and color
relationship, hang French, German,
English and American prints. To-
gether with a similar group at the
opposite end of the room, these pieces
form the climax of the show, in unity
of expression and consideration for
basic humanisms and materialisms.-
There are nationalistic distinctions:
the English horses, groggy with roast-
l beef, the frivolous French "Facades,"
the intellectualized German Natur-
formen; but there are also those
unanimities of expression which make
for the universalities by which ma-
ture works of art must ultimately be
judged.
THE AMERICAN THINGS suffer
-most from the obvious devices of
adaptation, eclecticism, and naive
faith in composite solutions, leavkng
toe strengths with the European of-
ferings. In the weavings is sad evi-
dence that this vast art is near de-
generacy. Its few represented expo-i
nents are without simple understand-
ing of the raison d'etre of fabrics or
even of an appreciation of the loom
and.- its determination of significant
earth forms. The results, though in-
teresting technically or materially,
find mankind conspicuously absent.
In his place are silver-faced gods
and golden goddesses, lent through
the courtesy of their worshipful dis-
ciples at Taliesin, pale-visaged spirits
from the awed button;pushers at
Chicago's School of Design, shingle-
haired bearers of tradition from the
Nordic perspectives of Cranbrook. In-
evitable is a comparison with the ex-
quisite purple and orange Dufy near-
by, or with his black death, "The
Dancers," or Dan Cooper's living spi-
rals, among the prints.
However, in the exceedingly well-
planned educational portion of the
exhibit may lie an answer to the
sompber inadequacies of professional
work. The excitement and satisfac-
tion of the young people at work may
well revive our faith in creative ex-
perience as a way to self-confidence
and honesty.
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units doing unsatisfactory work in
any unit of the University are due
in the office of the school today at
noon. Report blanks for this purpose
ma y be secured from the office of
teschool or from Room, 4, U. Hall.
Robert L. Williams,
Assistant *Registrar
School of Education Freshmen.
Courses dropped after today will be
recorded with the grade of E except
undej extraordinary circumstances.
No course is considered dropped un-
less it has been reported in the office
of the Registrar, Room 4, University
'Hall.
Freshmen, College of Literature,
Science and the Arts: Freshmen my
not drop courses without E grade
after today. In administering this
rule, students with less than 24 hours
of credit are considered freshmen.
Exceptions to this regulation may be
made only in extraordinary circum-
stances,' such as serious or long-con-
tinued illness.
E. A. Walter
Academic Notices
Bacteriology 111A (Laboratory
Course) will meet Monday, November
24, at 1100 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.
Bacteriological Seminar on "Para
Amino Benzoic Acid and Microbic
Growth" on Monday, Nov. 24, at
8:00 p.m. in 1564 East Medical Build-
ing. All interested are cordially in-
vited.
Physics Colloquium will be held in
Room 1041, Randall Laboratory, at
4:15 p.m., on Monday, November 24.
Professor Duffendack will speak on
the topic, "The Use of a Geiger-
Mueller Photoelectron Color in Spec-
troscopic Research."
To Students Enrolled for Series of
Lectures on Naval Subjects: Cap-
tain Lyal A. Davidson, Captain U.S.
Navy, Professor of Naval Science and
Tactics, University of Michigan will
deliver a lecture on "The Naval Dis-
trict and Joint Operations with the
Army" at 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, No-
vember 25, in Room 348 West En-
gineering Building.
Concerts
Faculty Concert: The public is
cordially invited to attend a concert
given by several members of the
faculty of the School of Music at
4:15 Sunday afternoon, November
23, in Lydia Mendelssohn Theater.
Participating in the program will be
Mrs. Maud Okkelberg, Mrs. Ava
Case and Professor Joseph Brinkman,
pianists, Mr. Mark Bills, baritone and
Mr. William Stubbins, clarinetist.
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 ifileuded. Rackham Building Ex-
hibilion Galleries through Nov. 24,
Lestures
University Lecture: Jacob Crane,
Assistant Coordinator, Division of
Defense Housing Coordination will
lecture on the subject, "The Place of
Public and Private Enterprise in
Housinig," under the auspices of the
College of Architecture and 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 pub-
lic is cordially invited.
The Quiz Kids, nationally known
stars of radio, will match wits with
five prominent faculty members
Monday evening at 8:15 in Hill Audi-
torium. This is the third number
on the current Lecture Course which
is sponsored by the University Ora-
torical Association. Tickets may be
purchased today from 10-12 and
Monday from 10 a.m. to 8:15 p.m. at
the box office, Hill Auditorium.
Actuarial Lecture: Mr. J. E. Reault
of the Maccabees, Detroit, will speak
on "Departmental Supervision of In-
surance Companies," on Monday,
November 24, at 8:00 p.m.,.in 3.201
A.H.
Events Today
Saturday Luncheon Group: Stu-
dents interested in a discussion' of
the ethical issues. involved in current,
social, and political events are invit-
ed to the Saturday Luncheon Group
meeting at Lane Hall on Saturdays.
Bowling: The bowling alleys at the
Women's Athletic Building will be
open today, 7:00-10:00 p.m., but they
will be closed during the afternoon
hours because of the football game.
Coming Events
German Table for Faculty Mem-
bers will meet Monday at 12:10 p.m.
in the Founders' Room Michigan
Union. Members of all departments
are cordially invited. There will be a
brief talk on "Schweizer Soldaten-
lieder" by Mr. Hanns Pick.
International Center Sunday Eve-
ning Program: Mrs. W. Carl Rufus
will speak Sunday evening at the In-
ternational Center at 7:30 following
the regular supper hour. She will
give an account of some of her ex-
periences on her 7,000 mile solo
flight.
Graduate Outing Club will meet
Sunday at 2:30 plm. in the Rackham
School, west rear door, to organize
the winter sports program. All per-
sons interested in learning, teaching,
or just indulging in winter sports will
be welcome. The type of outing Sun-
day will depend upon the weather.
Supper in the clubrooms.
Michigan Outing Club will have a
breakfast cook-out Sunday morn-
ing. Any student interested in at-
tending contact either Dan Saulson
(9818) or Libby Mahlman (2-4471). *
The Bible Seminar, under the direc-
tion of Mr. Kenneth Morgan, direc-
tor of the Student Religious Asscoi-
ation, will meet on Monday after-
noons at 4:30 in Lane Hall.
AT FORT BRAGG, North Carolina, a
Negro soldier and a white military
policeman were kille" in- a fight which resulted
from the M.P.'s having unjustly beaten a soldier
companion of his slayer. In Washington 50,000
Negroes led by the union of sleeping car porters
have threatened a march on the capital and all
over the country prominent Negro newspapers
and leaders have denounced the Jim Crow con-
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