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CNICAGO * BOSTON - LOS AOEfL.S * SAN FRANCISCO Ember, Associated Collegiate Press, 1941-42 Editorial Staff ile Gel . bert Speckhard Bert P. Blaustein vid Lachenbruch in Dann 1 Wilson thur Hill net Hiatt ace Miller rginia Mitchell . . Managing Editor Editorial Director City Editor *. .Associate Editor Associate Editor Sports Editor Assistant Sports Editor , Women's Editor Assistant Women's Editor . Exchange Editor Business Staff )anlel H. Huyett . . . Business Manager Fni s B. Collins . . Assistant Business Manager 0uise Carpenter . .Women's Advertising Manager *vetn Wright . . Women's Business Manager NIGHT EDITOR: HOMER SWANDER ,s The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily sjaff and represent the views of the writers ojily. )ur Pledge [" You. FOLDED DAILY at your doorstep welcomes you back to Ann Arbr n' dto another semester of your higher educa- toil.. 1t is not necessary to say that ,these are roubled times, or that this is an interesting ie to b alive; you have your own opinions on aoge subjects. Nevertheless, it is more important today than ;ever has been to obtain the facts, the news, :e story of what's. going on in our University, qW city, our country, our world, our universe. kWe of The Daily make this pledge to you: We hill do our utmost to keep the students at this ruiversity well inforned and to print only what e believe to be truth. We shall endeavor to aalntain the high standards our predecessors ave set for us in all of the fields of collegiate rnrnalism. 6 LONG AS the truth is accessible to every- one, and no longer, we will have freedom. -Emile Gel A. P. Blausteinr David Lachenbruch Alvin Dann ood-Natured Ieprimand . T O THE CLASS OF '45: Congratula- tions! You came out to Ann Arbor ai a Monday, roared through an orientation shedule, registered in the University for the rst time on Thursday or Friday, and then felt ifficientl Michiganized to represent your :hool on the football field last Saturday. Unfortunately there are fifty-six well-trained 6d well-fed individuals whose qualifications for le job far exceed yours. Aside from the fact bat any football rules committee provides for n equal number of'men on both sides, the class f '45 forgot that participation in a University >ort requires at least one semester of scholastic igibility. Yet you were able to take the field ithout ever having attended a class in this 'niversity Seveiwl changes have been made in collegiate >ort and collegiate 'life' since the day of Rollo ,ackstraw at Rutgers. In the first place the ying wedge has been blacklisted. Secondly, the tate Street stores no longer find it necessary a board up their windows before each football Ame. And thirdly, the new University Health eryice was built without a cooler ward for psy- hotic freshman football fans. This criticism, to bewritten and taken lightly, iscounts any considerations of sportsmanship rid- ethics of receiving a visiting team. But pen-armed, hospitality does not extend to a pair f brass knuckles in each hand. Granted that he blood and bruises you so liberally provided re part of the. attraction for the sixty-seven iousand who crawled into Ann Arbor for the ame, you're still not expected to provide them. If, at the end of two or three weeks, you still iink that a 'tween-halves Pier 6 riot is part f this University, .you're welcome to, try it gain. At that time the "Harvard of the Mid- " will nffinially beome Ann Arbor's "Tenth WASHINGTON-One of the early prerogatives given to members of Congress by the Founding Fathers was the right to send their mail at public expense. This was a privilege granted for the purpose of enlightening the electorate re- garding their acts in Congress, to defend themr. selves and also, of course, to help in the all-im- portant job of getting re-elected. THIS PRIVILEGE has continued-and right- fully so- up to the present, even though a similar privilege is denied the men in the army camps, who appreciate mail more than almost anything else. Last week, however, a FBI truck backed up t an office on Rhode Island Avenue, previously exposed in this column as having Nazi connec- tions, and carted a batch of documents down to the Justice Department. In that truckload were the franked envelopes of various Senators and Congressmen, including the late Senator Lundeen of Minnesota; Senator Nye of North Dakota; Senator Worth Clark of Idaho, now investigating the movies; Represen- tative Day of Illinois; Representative Sweeney of Ohio; Representative Tinkham of Massa- chusetts; and ex-Representative Thorkelson of Montana. THESE ENVELOPES contained speeches of the *various Congressmen, but the envelopes were unaddressed. In other words, the gentlemen who possessed this cherished privilege of free frank- ing, had permitted it to be delegated1 to a Nazi- supported organization which could decide where the propaganda should be sent. This incident emphasizes a situation fre- quently exposed in this column, wherein certain Congressmen have passed along their franking privilege. At meetings of the Christian Mobil- izers, American Destiny Party and other goups the franked envelopes and addresses of Nye, Wheeler, Reynolds and others were passed out free, to be addressed and sent "to a friend." Franked Supplies On Hand The Steuben Society's Unit No. 55 held a meet- ing in New York on June 18, and on June 13 it issued a letter to "Dear Steubenites," urging them to come to the meeting. As an inducement the letter said: "A T THIS MEETING excerpts, from the Con- gressional Record will be distributed to the members. . . . These excerpts can be used to publicize our society to great advantage. They can be sent to our race and to others . . . These excerpts are in franked envelopes, requiring no postage." All evidence points to the fact that various German-American, pro-Nazi and other isolation- ist organizations keep a supply of franked speeches on hand, supplied them by th'e gentle- men of Congress.' For instance, a few days after the name of Mrs. R. F. Nelson, Farmington, Minn., appeared in a Minneapolis paper, she received, unsolicited, a Mletter from Congressman Stephen Day of Illi- nois, containing the speech he delivered June 15, sent out with the cooperation of the Columbia Press Service which is now being probed by a fed- eral grand jury on the charge that it is financed by German agents. BUT the most interesting thing about the franked Day letter was that is was not post- marked Washington, or even Illinois, where the Congressman lives-but Minneapolis. Congress- man Day had sent a batch of his franked speeches to a propaganda group to be distribu- ted--at the taxpayer's expense. Likewise Senator Wheeler's. frank has been postmarked. from such an obscure town as Upper Darby, Pa. Senator Worth Clark's frank has been ,mailed out of Ardmore, Pa., Nye's from Omaha, and Senator Johnson of Colorado has had his letters sent postmarked New York to a professor in Texag-all done through beiefit of the most abused of all congressional concess- ions, the franking privilege. Wes; Behind Roosevelt At first, the Secretary of Agriculture thought he had made a mistake in interviewing the beet growers. He had come to Salt Lake for pleasure, and the beet growers would be painful. But duty was duty, so Claude Wickard let them in. THEY WERE a group of thirty men, and the complanlt they made has not been equalled usual maneuvers during the half-time break. Tradition took a beating, and a number of fresh- men from ;both schools came dangerously close to following suit. Btqt it couldn't be helped: the bands just hadn't had time to prepare for the intricate formation which they usually present at half-time. The average football fan probably doesn't real- ize that the bands spend on the average of ten hours a week preparing for their formations for the coming Saturday. Not only do the maneuvers themselves have to be perfected, but the music has to be rehearsed and the whole thing coordi- nated so as to get the effect desired. With the first game occuring before the beginning of classes, it was impossible to organize the bands, drill and rehearse them and turn out a perform- ance up to the usual standard in the short time available, EVEN SO, they tried. Michigan bandsmen last spring voted to return to school early to prepare for the game; but the funds for the extra room and board were lacking, and the idea had to be abandoned. Notwithstanding, the band was whipped into shape in record time, and with the aid of special drills Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, they managed to appear as a uniformed unit to back the team. by anything in Washington. They complained about prices, about quotas, about labor, but most of all they complaned about the importation of foreign sugar. They declared the American sugar market should be for American beet and cane; to hell with the cane from Cuba. Wickard squirmed. He wished he could get out into the great open spaces the West was noted for. Then something happened. A man rose to speak. Wickard's face relaxed, and the whole atmosphere was changed. "Mr. Secretary," said the beet farmer, "we came to complain, but don't get us wrong. We got to gripe about sugar, but we're not griping about other things. We're with you, and we're with the President. "Don't suppose," he continued, "that we're back of Worth Clark (isolationist Senator from Idaho)! No sir! If he spoke out here today, he'd go away all spattered with eggs, and a lot of people wouldn't listen to him at all. "We don't like war, but we're tired of argu- ment, and we're ready to follow the President." The entire delegation of complainers broke into a storm of applause. Vanished Alky You don't know it, but among other things the defense program may change your drinking habits. THE SUPPLY of ethyl alcohol, one of the most widely used ingredients in defense production, is beginning to run low and new sources must be found to make it. The only immediately handy source are whiskey distillers. That means they will have to either stop en- tirely, or drastically curtail. making whiskey. The effect of this won't be felt immediately, but it will a few years hence when the whiskey that would normally be bonded this year would go on the market. Instead of going on the mar- ket it would be noticeable by its absence. There wouldn't be any to sell. Ordinary ethyl alcohol is made by industrial alky concerns from molasses and blackstrap shipped in tankers from Cuba. But even running full tilt ethyl producers are not able to meet the defense demand and the whiskey distillers will have to pitth in and help out. THEY CAN MAKE THE PRODUCT from corn, of which there is no dearth. The Commodity Credit Corporation alone has 20,000,0 bushels. capable of making 52,000,000 gallons of alky. This added to the industrial alcohol industry's output of 170,000,000 gallons a year would ease the situation. But the rub is that only a handful of big dis- tilleries are equipped to turn out 190 proof alky. The little fellows can make only 120 to 150 proof, which is good enough for whiskey but not for industrial uses. The big distillers are willing to cooperate with the government, but they demand that their little competitors be required to do their bit. Otherwise, it is argued, they will have the whiskey field all to themselves a few years hence. t CONCRETELY the big distillers want the little fellows to divvy up with them the grain al- cohol supply they make this year. So far, OPM chiefs are letting the alky makers try to work out an agreement among themselves. If they can't, therf the, government will step in and do it for them- Note-The shortage in industrial alcohol al- ready is hitting hard a number of consumer in- dustries, such as patent medicines and perfumes, which use enormous quantities of the stuff. The Reply Churlish By TOUCHSTONE THERE was something missing last Saturday. You know what I mean -the band. Now I am the sort of a guy who doesn't know anything about anything. When I go to a football game I sit between two people with broad shoulders, and the radio the guy behind me is shoving against my neck says "Double wing-back to the left" and I think that's nice, but as far as knowing who has the ball, ort why they took Pzxmska out of there and put Xntdlroo in, I am sort of non compos mentis. I go to hear the band, and to watch the band. I never bet in football pools; I do not save the wrappers of a well-known brand of cigarettes to guess scores on. I just like the band. Now, Mr. Revel', I am not kicking. I have watched the band practicing for formation, and I know it takes time, and lots of work, and I know there just wasn't time. But I thought you'd like to know we missed you. It just didn't seem right, no band. WHEN you get right down to it, football, except to those who play it or earn their living by it, is just pushing each other around, and after an hour or so it gets tiresome the entire length of your spine. A hot- dog helps. So does a well-known na- tional beverage (we are not allowed to disclose trade secrets or names of products, but the initials are C.C.). But best of all, for that tired feeling, that lordosis backline, is the band. Not that there aren't faults about the band. The boys are apt to walk just a little quick-step even when they aren't on parade, and some of them look cherubic, and they didn't play the 'State song. And when Var- sity Night is looming I always wish I had never seen the band, because they stand around and wave tickets at you so they can go someplace or buy new hats. 'But just the same, band, I like you, and I'm pretty sure that goes fourteen thousand other ways here plus alumni. * *~ * AND WHILE I am skirting football, I take the liberty of quoting from a recent Satpost article on the charm boy of the west coast, Frankie Albert Stanford, '42. Th.,re are two schools of thought on football players-in fact there are two kinds of newspaper men, as J. P. McEvoy once said, the ge whiz kind, and the aw nuts kind. Try and guess where this belongs. "The opposition, like the girls at the Pi Phi house, never know what to expect. When hashing at the Pi Phi house he normally wears a white mess jacket. One day Frankie appeared in a tuxedo he borrowed from a Deke brother. The girls were taken back to say the least. This was unusual, wasn't it, to have Ritz service, the house president quer- ied. 'Yes, but I thought you girls needed a change of pace,' Albert answered, showing the infectious grin that is adjudged plain dy- namic to campus femmes." A plenty sharp customer, this Al- bert. Quick on the trigger, but charming. "Showing the infectious grin that is adjudged plain dynamic to campus femmes." Sic. * * * AND while on the list of award winners for jerk of the year, I'll throw a nod in the direction of Jerk Pickering, the small town boy, now making good as the Town Crier for the Detroit Free Press. I once in a moment of unawareness said that I didn't think those back page columns were so bad. I take it back. Picker- ing goes around town with his mouth open and a notebook in his hand, and it is actually rumored that upon one occasion a certain well-known celeb- rity of the Detroit stage-two calls at the Colonial-when in his cups, did address Mr. Pickering as "Jack" with friendship in his tone. What this all leads to is the fact that there are certain stories which travel up and down and across the country, known as the American myths. When Wollcott was here he devoted the major part of an evening to these stories, and to most newspaper men they are old hat. What happens is that they get a cub reporter every once in awhile as actual news, and in Mr. Wollcott's commodious files lie clippings to prove same. So what does Mr. Pickering do but print, without explanatory note, obviously agape at such a weird story, the following item in his col- umn last summer. "Shoplifter who stole a pack- age in a department store was found later in a ,dead faint in a rest room. The package con- tained an embalmed cat being taken to a pet cemetery." That cat has been lying on that shoplifter's lap, and that shoplifter has been in a dead faint for so long now, and so many times, that it's hard to find even a layman who won't walk away when you' start to tell the story, and as for newsmen-well, GRIN AND BEAR IT Lt 'j" 10I.. By Lichty d5 94 ' '~GOrv sIN "A fine outfit I got!-You lose 4,000 men to the blue army, 150 tanks, 200 artillery, and now this farmer says he's going to sue us for some busted fences!" DAI LY OFFICIAL B ULLETIN F \\ \ \\\\ \\ \\ \ \\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \\\ \ \ \t \ \ \ \ \ \\ \ \\ \ \ \ a. P. blaustein's PoTP \\\\\\\\\\ \ R\\ \\ \ \ \ / (Continued from Page 2) a statement of approval for major and minors signed by the adviser. Blanks for the purpose may be se- cured in the School of Education office or in Room 4 U.H. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Schools of Education, For- estry, Music, and Public Health: Stu- dents who received marks of I or X at the close of their last semester or summer session of attendance will re- ceive a grade of E in the course or courses unless this work is made up by October 29. Students wishing an extension of time beyond this date in order to make up this work should file a petition addressed to the ap- propriate official in their school with Room 4 U.H. ,where it will be trans- mitted. Robert L. Williams, Assistant Registrar IAcademic Notices Chemical Engineering I: The lec- tures on Ch.E. I will meet in the Na- tural Science Auditorium Tuesday and Thursday at 11:00 instead of Room 348 at that time. The first lecture will be held there today. J. C. Brier Chemical Engineering 171 (Explo- sives): Ch.E. 171 will be given the first Semester, 1941-42, provided suf- ficient students wish it. Those in- terested please meet in Rom 3215 East Engr. Building, today at 4:00 p.m. to make'arrangements. J. C. Brier Preliminary examinations in French and German, for candidates for the doctorate, will be held on Monday, October 6, at 4:00 p.m., in the amphi- theatre of the Rackham Building. Dictionary may be used. Inquiries, Room 120 Rackham Building, Mon- day, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 2:15-4:15 p.m. Students in Music Courses B203 and C203 will please see Professor Louise E. Cuyler for appointments, Room 406 Tower, between 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. today. Professor Davis' American Litera- ture seminar, 300H, will meet on Thursday from 3:00-5:00 p.m., Room 3217 Angell Hall. English 211b: Professor Nelson's Pro-Seminar in Renaissance will meet today, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., 3223 A.H. English 211c and 259 will meet on Wednesday, 4:00 to 6:00, in Room 3217 Angell Hall. English 211g will meet for organi- zation in Room 2216 Angell Hall to- day at 4:00 p.m. English 297: Students who have elected my section of English 297 will meet Wednesday, October 1, at 4:00 p.m. in Room 3216 Angell Hall, to arrange hours. E. A. Walter English 300B will meet Mondays at 4 o'clock in 2215 A.H. First meet- ing, October 3., English 230-Studies in Spenser and His Age. Students electing this course please meet in Professor Tilley's office, 2211 Angell Hall, at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, to decide on Emanuel Fuermann, 'Cellist, Oc- tober 30. Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski, Conductor, Novem- ber 9. Giovanni Martinelli, Tenor, and Ezio Pinza, Bass, November 18. Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fre- derick Stock, Conductor, November 30. Bosto a Symphony Orchestra, Ser- ge Koussevitzky, Conductor, Decem- ber 10. Robert Casadesus, Pianist, Janu- ary 19. Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Conductor, Feb- ruary 3. Joseph Szigeti, Violinist, February 19. Vronsky and Babin, Pianists, March 3. All concerts will take place at 8:30 p.m., except those by the Cleveland and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, which will begin at 3:00 o'clock in the afternoon. The attention of the public is re- spectfully called to the fact that after September 30 (4:00 p.m.), in accord- ance with the provisions of the new Federal Tax Law, a tax of 10 per cent must be added to the price of all tickets. The public, in purchasing tickets, is rcqutsted to govern them- selves accordingly. -Charles A. Sink Lectures 1941-42 Oratorical Lecture Course tickets will be placed on sale this morning at 10 o'clock at the box of- fice,' Hill Auditorium. Eight dis- tinguished attractions will be offered this year and the box office will be :pen daily for the sale of seats. Pa- trons are advised that all tickets will be subject to the Federal amusement tax of 10 per cent after today. Events Today Sigma Rho Tau will meet at 7:30 tonight in the Union. Plans for the year's activties will be discussed. All members are requested to attend. University of Michigan Flying Club: A short business meeting will be held at 9:00 tonight, in Room 1042 East Engineering Building. All interested students are invited. There -are openings for a few new share holders. Thirty dollars buys a 1/20 share of the new Franklin Cub Coupe. This is the only chance for a share, as the ship must be bought on October 1. Coming Events International Center: The program for this week is as follows: Wednesday, October 1, 7:30-9:00 p.m. Program of Recorded Music: En- esco's Roumanian Rhapsody; Dvor- ak's Slavonic Dances; Tschaikovsky's Concerto No. 1, B Minor, for piano and orchestras. Thursday, October 2, 4:006:00 p.m. Tea. Friday, October 3, 7:30-11:00 p.m. Recreation Night. Polonia Society continuation com- mittee meeting on Wednesday, Octo- ber 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Michigan Union. All committee members are asked to attend. Hiawatha Club will meet on Wed- nesday, Oct. 1, at 8:00 p.m. in the Michigan Union. Consult the Bul- OUR RI / %/ j' /a WE SAW TOM HARMON walking along State St. the other day sporting a pair of dark glasses as a disguise. But poor Tom couldn't fool anybody. Everybody knew he was Terrible Tommy, Michigan's greatest All-American,-no- body mistook him for a movie star. But it certainly wasn't Tom's fault that "Harmon of Michigan" turned out to be a B minus picture-even Clark Gable and Paul Muni would have looked bad with that script. And as for Anita Louise, she looked about as attractive as a typical "Vogue" mannikin and acted just about as well. ACCORDING to the enrollment figures, there are more freshmen women than men in the Literary College this fall. After taking a good, look at some of them, we accordingly pass this information off as another ugly rumor. * * * Little A. Hitler, When he was littler, Once learned a very big lie. So now he purports To write news reports And say, "What a good boy am I!" * * * NOW THAT AMERICA finally has what she needs (A good five cents World Series) we naturally predict that the Dodgers will win in four straight games. No, we won't insure any bets. * * * On our way to Chicago last week we bumped into an elderly Hollander who had this story I