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Students Can' Aid
The War Effort.
INITIAL STEPS toward comprehen-
sive student participation in the
war effort have been begun by the Committee
of 1942. Beginning with the distribution of ques-
tionnaires to survey student abilities, the lead-
ers of the committee, sponsored by campus
groups, hope to obtain information which will
be of definite aid to the total warfare.
It is obvious that students' latent abilities
can be utilized by the nation in its struggle to
defeat the Axis. Training plans are being devel-
oped to further develop these abilities. The
first step in any venture of this sort, the found-
ing of an agency to coordinate activities, has al-
ready been taken and further plans are being
made with speed and energy.
With the extension of the committee's plans
by the University in training courses, these ac-
tivities become very important in the tremendous
mobilization ofresources-human in this case-
which all-out war needs.
COLLEGE STUDENTS are anxious to help
beat the agresqor nations and they are or-
ganizing here to do that job. Work of this sort
is fighting on the home front against-the enemy.
College men, eager to help, can do their part
in -the war and do a great deal through The
Committee of 1942, the war effort on the college
front.
-Leon Gordenker
Fight For Federation
To the Editor:
THE WORLD NEEDS MEN to preach a cru-
sade-a crusade for world federation. Be-
cause if the lasting benefits of perpetual peace
are to be a result of this war, positive plans for
peace must be made today. As yet we fight for
nothing positive. Our one aim is the destruction
of fascism and nazism. The one thing which mo-
tivates us is a burning hate and a consuming
desire for revenge. Unless we remedy this state
of affairs, we will be unable to provide a decent
peace; and another set of unjust treaty terms
will insure another era of international misun-
derstanding followed by war.
Our positive war. aim must be to establish
world federation. Our war effort must be mo-
tivated by a desire to insure security from future
war by that means. The only way to act is as
crusaders with something better to substitute
for the evil and impractical ideologies which we
will destroy. And federation is something better
than the world has ever known.
HISTORY has valiantly tried to tell us one
truth: "A world of independent, sovereign
nations makes peace impossible. Such a world
can never be free from the causes of war. Pop-
ulation pressure, raw material needs, needs for
market outlets, the creation of buffer states,
boundary disputes, conflicting national ideolo-
gies, conflicting governmental policies, racial
and religious questions are problems never to be
solved by fifty national groups in fifty differ-
ent ways. They are the common problems of all
men and should be solved by all men as a unit".
Federation would prevent the propagation of
future wars by sterilizing war breeders. It would
eliminate the regulation and control of interna-
tional commerce by nations without consulting
the wishes or needs of other nations interested
in the same commerce. It would prevent the
seizure of the territory of other nations without
considering the detriment of the rest of the
world. It would end the tyrannical or oppresive
treatment of the citizens of other nations. It
would make impossible the maintenance of arm-
ies and navies limited only by the desire of the
nation keeping them. And it would stop secret
diplomacy and the making of alliances.
Just as important would be the economic
benefits of world federation. For example, each
geographic region could produce those commod-
ities for which it is most naturally adapted and
acquire by free exchange with other regions those
it lacks. This is impossible in our present world
of rivalry between the states which create trade
barriers and prohibitive tariffs preventing free
trade and a fair distribution of the worlds re-
sources.
Furthermore, federation would destroy the
problem of an outlet to the sea. Who can imag-
ine, for example, a war between Ohio and Penn-
sylvania to gain a corridor to the Atlantic for
the former? Such a thing is absurd.
IN ADDITION, the elimination of national arm-
+ ies wuld release the most vigorous and pro-
ductive manpower for more useful employment.
At the.same time, federation would reduce un-
employment by promoting free trade, monetary
stabilization, lowered costs, reduced armaments,
the creation of vast new enterprise, and the
diversion into healthy channels of the billions
now wasted by nationalistic governments.
Even more important than the economic bene-
fits of world government would be the social
benefits for mankind. Humanity with more of
its material wants satisfied would stride for-
ward morally and intellectually. To cite just one
example, better failities for the world-wide dif-
fusion of scientific knowledge would aid in
stamping out plagues and in the general im-
provement of sanitary conditions in the more
backward sections of the earth.
For all these reasons the world sorely needs
crusaders. It needs men who can forget hate, re-
venge, and name calling; men who can make
something rational from the irrationalities of
war; men who can fight bravely; and most of
all men who will educate and prepare the masses
of people for a just peace and for international
living.
-Clifford Straehley
Drew Peaso
RobertSAiien
WASHINGTON-Many sage remarks still are
being quoted in the wake of Winston Church-
ill, and one of the most significant was made to
friends in regard to future allied strategy against
Japan.
ASKED what the United States and Britain
could do to check Japan, Churchill, replied:
"The Japanese have been eating all over the
table. They have big appetites and for the time,
being there may be nothing much we can do
about it. But sooner or later we shall turn over
the table."
This strategy of turning over the table, in
other words directing a move at the main islands
of Japan themselves, is something which has al-
ways been in the books of the War Plans experts.
However, the American public may have to
Micromegas Replies ...
To the Editor:
REGARDING Mr. Conant's criticism of my re-
cent letter entitled "Fundamental Aspects
of America's Battle", I admit to surprise at the
form which his comments take.
First, Mr. Conant sought to controvert a point
which I should have thought would be accept-
able on its very face, namely, that "A Christian
peace must be based upon consent, not police
power." In these days it is indeed tempting to
forget that love is at the very heart of Christian
teaching. The "police force" to whose establish-
ment I was objecting is not one motivated by
love.
However, that is only to insist upon the nature
of a Christian peace; primarily, my surprise
arises because Mr. Conant has apparently over-
looked the very substance of my argument,
namely that recurrent wars seem to be the price
we must pay for unlimited national sovereignty
in a world where international physical distances
have shrunken due to technological innovations.
The main point I was seeking to establish
was that a post-war settlement from which we
could expect more than another period of armed
truce, would have to take that fact into account,
and that in so doing it would incidentally be
meeting what I consider the necessary conditions
for a "Christian peace".
Such a post-war settlement (again assuming
an allied "victory") would set up a plan for ad-
mitting all peoples to a world federal state,
thereby eliminating the motive for "police
power" in the sense in which I used the term.
Of course no one would argue that any nation
could be expected to cast off totalitarian insti-1
tutions and adopt democratic processes over-
night, especially at the conclusion of a long and
frightfully costly war; Germany is no exception,
and it is clear that a plan for admitting her
people to a world state would have to include,
first, provision for making such a change in an
orderly manner.
Some exercise of "police power" might there-
by be involved for a short time. However, I
certainly do not believe that "a lasting peace
can be upheld" by resort to "police power", to
quote Mr. Conant. Nor do I believe that it would
be possible to choose, by any means known to
science, which peoples in such a ridiculous world
should be the police and which the policed. I am
not prepared to leave the problem up to natpre
to handle automatically by passing out human
talents on the basis of political boundary lines.
THE AXIS is fighting a war for freedom-for
Axis peoples; democracy must oppose to this
narrow view an insistence that one half the
world has no more "right" to freedom than the
other half, and that her concern is for a world
of free peoples, free within the confines of law
enacted by a representative government.
The bulk of Mr. Conant's article, moreover,
reflects the unfortunately common assumption
that international belligerency is limited to the
spectacular periods of military strife. The truth
is, of course, that wars are only one expression
of such belligerency, and are resorted to in mod-
ern times only by peoples in desperation, who
have been bested in the economic warfare that
typifies conventional relations among nations!
I can readily agree with Mr. Conant that it
was absurdly naive of the United States to
"scrap its newest battleships in 1922"-the same
year that Congress passed the Fordney-McCm-
ber Tariff, closing American markets to nations
who would desperately need to find foreign cus-
tomers for their products. The entire point of
my argument was that it is foolish not to expect
wars to characterize a society in which such
inequitable economic policies are combined with
national political sovereignty! May I repeat my
earlier reminder that the "Axis" nations of to-
day were the "have-not" nations of yesterday?
Of course the world's wealth cannot be dis-
tributed equally; but the United States and the
British Commonwealth of nations have shown
that "have and have-nots" can live peaceably
together if all feel that they have aproportional
part in deciding common policies and if there is
freedom of movement for individuals, trade,
and capital.
THE PRIMARY ASSUMPTION underlying
my case, Mr. Conant, is "that all men,
Hitler included, are possessed of" a reason-
able nature, about which certain predictions
can be made with a fair degree of accuracy.
One prediction is that peace will never be
maintained in Europe "by force of arms,"
as you seem to imply, and just because all
men are possessed of a reasonable nature,
and reasonable natures, peace, and force of
arms are an irreconciliable trio!
I'll readily join your chorus that "it's the same
old world it's always been, in spite of plans and
dreams of international peace" (and in spite
of a lot of other things), and add that "to prove
it, note that my three irreconcilables above are
as scrappy today as they have ever been."
-Micromegas
reconcile itself to more discouraging news from
the south Pacific before Allied strength reaches
a point where the table can be turned.
General MacArthur's situation in the Philip-
pines has been compared with that of Aguinaldo,
the Filipino guerilla leader, who kept American
forces at bay for two years after the Spanish-
American war. It has been hoped that Mac-
Arthur, like Aguinaldo, could fight in the Philip-
pine jungles for an equal period.
However, Aguinaldo never had to cope with
the airplane, and MacArthur does. Airplanes
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1942t
VOL. LI. No. 73
Publication in the Daily Official
Bulletin is contriuctve notice to ill
members of the University.
Notices
To the Members of the Universityc
Council: There will be a meeting of1
the University Council on Januaryt
12 at 4:15 p.m., in Room 1009 A.H.I
Agenda:L
Minutes of the meeting of Decem-
ber 8, 1941.
Report of the Committee on thet
Orientation Period, P. E. Bursley.1
Subjects offered by members of
the Council.
Reports of the Standing Commit-
tees:1
Program and Policy. J. P. Dawson.C
The Organization of the University1
-Council.
Educational Policies, R. Schorling.t
Report on Physical Education. i
Student Relations, O. W. Boston.,
Public Relations, I. M. Smith.
Plant and Equipment, R. W. Ram-t
mett.
Applications in Support of Re-
search Projects: To give the Re-
search Committees and the Execu-
tive Board adequate time for study
of all proposals, it is requested that1
faculty members having projects
needing support during 1942-1943
file their proposals in the Office of
the Graduate School by Friday, Jan,
uary 9, 1942. Those wishing to re-
new previous requests whether now
receiving support or not should so
indicate. Application forms will be
mailed or can be obtained at Secre-
tary's Office, Room 1508 Rackham
Building, Telephone =33.
C. S. Yoakum
Students in Naval Architecture
and Marine Engineering, Electrical
Engineering, and Mechanical Engin-
eering: Representatives from Gibbs
& Cox, Inc., New York City, designers
of ships and machinery, will be at
the University on Friday and Satur-
day, January 9 and 10, for interviews
with students who would like to
make connection with this concern
after graduation. A schedule of
interviews will be posted on the door
of 326 ;West Engineering Building,
and students are requested to sign up
for interviews.
Smoking in University Buildings:
Attention is called to the general rule
that smoking is prohibited in Uni-
versity buildings except in private
offices and assigned smoking rooms
where precautions can be taken and
control exercised. This is neither a
mere arbitrary regulation nor an at-
tempt to meddle with anyone's per-
sonal habits. It is established and
enforced solely with the purpose of
preventing fires. In a recent five-
year period, 15 of the total of 50
fires reported, or 30 pertcent, were
caused by cigarettes or lighted mat-
ches. To be effective, the rule must
necessarily apply to bringing lighted
tobacco into or through University
buildings and to the lighting of cigars,
cigarettes, and pipes within buildings
-including lighting just previous to
going outdoors. Within the last few
years a serious fire was started at
the exit from the Pharmacology
building by the throwing of a still
lighted match into refuse waiting
removal at the doorway: If the rule
is to be enfor'ced at all its enforce-
ment must begin at the building
entrance. Further, it is impossible
that the rule should be enforced with
one class of persons if another class
of persons disregards it. It is a dis-
agreeable and thankless task to "en-
this effort to protect University
buildings against fires.
This statement is inserted at the
request of the Conference of Deans.
Shirley W. Smith
Mechanical and Metallurgical En-t
gineering Seniors: keiresentatives1
of the American Locomotive Com-
pany, Schenectady, N.Y., will inter-s
view Mechanical and Metallurgicalt
Engineering Seniors on Friday, Jan-
uary 9, 1942, in Room 214 West En-
gineering Building.
Students may sign for interview
on Mechanical Engineering Bulletin
Board.
Mechanical and Chemical Engin-C
cering Seniors: Mr. Fred King, re-1
presentative of the Prest-O-Lite
Company,4 Indianapolis, Indiana, will1
be in Room 21 West engineering
Building on Thursday, January 8,f
to interview Mechanical and Chem-~
ical Engineering seniors for employ-
ment.
Students may sign for interview on
the Mechanical Engineering Bulletin
Board.
All Students Registration for Sec-
ond Semester. Each student should1
plan to register for himself during
the appointed hours. Registration by
proxy will not be accepted.
Robt. L. Williams,
Assistant Registrarl
Registration Material: School of
'Music, School of Education, School
of Public Health, College of Litera-
ture, Science, and the Arts: Students
should call for second semester reg-
istration materials at Roon 4, Uni-
versity Hall, as soon as possible.
Please see your adviser and secure
all necessary signatures.
Robt. L. Williams,
Assistant Registrar
School of Education, Graduate
School, School of Public Health:
Those students expecting certificates
in Public Health Nursing in Febru-
ary should file such applications
not later than January 17 in Room
4 U.H. The Registrar's Office can
assume no responsibility for con-
ferring certificates if applications are
filed after this date.
Robert L. Williams,
Assistant Registrar
Latin-American Students: Civilian
'Pilot Training scholarships are again
being offered to Latin American citi-
zens who are fully matriculated stu-
dents of the University of Michigan.
Applicants must be between the
ages of 19 and 26 and must have at
least sophomore standing. All those
interested please make application
at the Aeronautical Engineering De-
partment office, Room B-47 East
Engineering Bldg. as soon as possible.
College of Engineering: Seniors
who expect to graduate in February,
1942, should fill out the proper blank
for diploma application in the Sec-
retary's Office, Room 263 West En-
gineering Building, not later than
January 24.
A. H. Lovell, Secretary
An assembly of all men students
registered in the School of Music will
be held on Friday, January 9, at 4:15
p.m. in the School of Music Auditor-
ium. This meeting takes precedence
over all other engagements.
E. V. Moore, Director
February and June graduates in
Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Aero-
nautical Engineering and Naval
Architecture: Mr. John L. Sullivan
of the Civil Service Commission will
show a moving picture in Room 1042
i i
4 a lp
._ 7'p.
"It could be worse!-suppose it wras just work instead of work or fight'-"
DAILY OFF ICI AL BULLETIN
Survey will be distributed through
various channels on campus begin-
ning today. This Survey is for men
students only. Every man is expected
to fill out one survey sheet. If you
are not approached to fill out the
sheet, stop at one of the campus sta-
tions which will open beginning Fri-
day, January 9, to secure this ma-
terial.
Joseph A. Bursley
Dean of Students
Academic Notices
Zoology Seminar will meet today
at 7:30 p.m., in the Amphitheater,
Rackham Bldg. Reports by Mr. Ray-
mond E. Johnson on "Distribution of
Nebraska Fishes" and Mr. George A.
Moore on "The Adaptations of Fishes
to the Silty Water of the Great
Plains."
English 190: Junior Honors. Stu-
dents wishing to elect English 190
should arrange to see Mr. Weaver.
Each student should present a tran-
script of his academic record. Room:
2218 A.H. Hours: Wednesday, 1:45-
2:45; Thursday, 2:30-3:30.
Bennett Weaver
Doctorial Examination for Taft
Yutaka Toribara, Chemistry; thesis:
"A Study of Complex Oxalatostan-
nates and Dioxalathothiometastan-
nates," Friday, January 9, 309 Clem-
istry, 3:30 p.m. Chairman, H. H.
Willard.
By action of the Executive Board
the chairman may invite members of
the faculties and advanced doctoral
candidates to attend the examination
and he may grant permission to those
who for sufficient reason might wish
to be present,
(. S. Toakm, Wan
Doctoral Examination for George
Azro Moore, Zoology; thesis: "Stud-
ies on the adaptation of fishes to the
silty water of the Great Plains," Fri-
day, January 9, Zoology Office, 8:00
a.m. Chairman, C. L. Hubbs.
By action of the Executive Board
the chairman may invite members of
the faculties and advanced doctoral
candidates to attend the examination
and he may grant permission to
those who for sufficient reason might
wish to be present.
C. S. Yoakum, Dean
Exhibitions
Exhibition, College of Architecture
and Design: Student drawings of
competitors for the Edward L. Ryer-
son Traveling Fellowship, at Illinois
Institute of Technology, University
of Illinois, University of Cincinnati,
Ohio State University, Iowa State
College, and University of Michigan,
are being shown in the third floor
exhibition room, Architecture Build-
ing. Open daily 9 to 5 except Sun-
day, through January 12. The pub-
lic is invited.
Lectures
Paleontology Lecture: Dr. Bruce
L. Clark, Professor of Paleontology
and Geology at the University of Cali-
fornia, will speak on the subject,
"Tertiary Paleontology and Strati-
graphy of the Pacific Coast," at 2:00
p.m., today in Room 1532 University
Museums Building. All persons in-
terested are invited to attend.
Geology Lecture: Dr. Bruce L.
Clark, Professor of Paleontology and
Geology at the University of Caf for-
nia, will speak on the subject, "The
Geological Structure and Stratigra-
phy of California," at 8:00 p.m.,
today in Room 2065 Natural Science
Building.
Lecture: Dr. Gregory Vlastos, Pro-
fessor of Philosophy at Queen's Uni-
versity in Ontario, will be the last
speaker on the series on "The Fail-
ure of Skepticism?" sponsored by
The Newman Club, The B'nai B'rith
Hillel Foundation, and Inter-Guild,
at the Rackham Lecture Hall on
Sunday, January 18, at 8:15 p.m.
Events Today
Social Service Seminar: Dr. En-
gelke of the Washtenaw County
Health Department will speak to the
Social Service Seminar in Lane Hall,
today at 7:30 p.m. on the health
problems arising in this industrial
defense area. This seminar meeting
will be open to the public.
JGP Dance Committee meeting to-
day at 4:30 in the Grand Rapids
Room of the League. All members
with last names M through Z and
ethose others who have been given
special permission are requested to
attend.
Seminar in Jewish-Gentile Rela-
tions: The Seminar in Jewish-Gen-
tile Relations will meet at Lane Hall
today at 7:30 p.m.
La Sociedad Hispanica conversa-
tion group will meet today at 8:00
p.m. in the Michigan League, All
members are urged to attend. See
Bulletin in League for room number.
Varsity Glee Club will rehearse at
7:30 tonight.
Hillel Players: Tryouts for the
Players' major production, "Awake
and Sing," will be held at the Foun-
dation this evening starting at 7:00
and tomorrow afternoon at 3:00.
Everyone interested is invited to try
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Japs' Fifth Column
Has Worked Well . .
T HE NEWS of the fall' of Manila,
Cavite and other strongholds in the
Pacific came as a complete surprise only to those
who did not, or would not, see the danger lurk-
ing behind the smiling face of Japan. Right
now we are paying dearly for the old Ameri-
can habit of being too cocky. We have always
felt that one American could lick five Germans,
19 or 920 Japs and a miscellaneous assortment
of other peoples. But now we are paying for this
cockiness and are entering the war with one
arm tied behind our back.
What the American people are now beginning
to comprehend is that the wonderful system of
fifth column activity the Japanese possess, dem-
onstrated so well in the surprise attack of Pearl
Harbor, is the result of many years of espionage
organization. Small wonder that the Japs ex-
hibited a bombing accuracy over Pearl Harbor
in striking contrast to the inferior marksman-
ship of Japanese bombers in China and the
Philippines. Such a fifth column network can
more than account for the fact that the Jap-
anese had "midget subs" manufactured in exact
measurement for the dimensions of the harbor
and had perfect charts showing the berths of all
the vessels.
rTHE JAPANESE knew precisely when to at-
tack and where their objectives were. If they
had any doubts on that score they were quickly
dispersed by the aid of big arrows which had
been cut in the sugar cane plantations on the
island a few hours previous. Some of the Japan-
ese agents caught during and after the raid
had been trusted figures in Honolulu for 20
years or more. The Japanese form the biggest