PAGE,. rDU l h t.C3ic4tuu &ta1 THE- MICIHIAN DAILY War Budget Proves U. S. Is Preparing . ." 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 car- rier $4.00, by mail $5.00. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTIJENG OY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YoRK, N. Y. CNICAGO - BOSTON . LOS ANGELES . SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1941-42 p RESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S budget of $56,000,000,000 is a sum to stag- ger the senses. It is an amount which cannot pos- sibly be grasped by the mind and only with dif- ficulty scanned by the eye. Let us not think of this budget in terms of a dollar sign followed by the number 56 and a string of zeros for it is far more than that. It is a stream of tanks and guns and ships and planes, a stream so broad and long that it dwarfs into insignificance even the grandiose visions which have characterized the Nazi mili- tary mind. We ourselves cannot envision the endless flow which these dollars represent, but the freshets can be seen flowing together, and they will form the raging torrent which will en- gulf the Axis. Within a narrow radius of our own campus these appropriations are making themselves felt. The automobile industry is being converted into one gigantic munitions plant, factories are springing up overnight throughout the area like Jack's beanstalk. We have seen the Chrysler tank arsenal rise from a cornfield and the bomber plant at Willow Run' grow up out of barren ground. We haven't been hit hard yet. Yes, we've seen our friends drafted, we've felt the rise in prices and heard our parents speak of increasing tax- es. All of this even before the $56,000,000,000 appropriation. TAXES AND BORROWING will not alone pay the cost of this war. Each of the dollars authorized by Congress represents an appropria- tion of goods, and every single piece of material devoured by the war effort represents just so much less for the consuming public. The denial of rubber tires isn't the only mani- festation of the scarcity of commodities which we shall experience. Strategic and transportation difficulties have created this hardship for us. Tires and automobiles aren't going to be the only things which we are going to have to do without in the coming months and years. Con- sumption of all articles will have to be curtail- ed. Luxuries to which we have become accustom- ed, half necessities, and even some things which have in the past been considered essentials will be denied to us. Our government, by taxation, will see to it that voluntarily or otherwise we make our sacrifices for victory. It is a heartening sign, this new budget. It is heartening because it signifies the total destruc- tion of "business as usual". It is heartening be- cause it shows us, and our enemies, that the ad- ministration is fully cognizant of the scope of the war and of the job which must be done before the prize of victory is won. - Herbert Edelhertz hIdustrial 5tallinp Editorial Staff Emile Geld Alvin Dann David. Lachenbruc Jay McCormick Hal Wilson Arthur Hill ._, Janet Hiatt . Grace Miller Virginia Mitchell Daniel H. Huyett James B. Collins Louise Carpenter )Evelyn' Wright Managing Editor .Editorial Director h. . City Editor S. . Associate Editor * . . . . Sports Editor . . Assistant Sports Editor . . . . . Women's Editor . . . Assistant Women's Editor . Exchange Editor Business Staff r . . . Business Manager . Associate Business Manager Women's Advertising Manager * Women's Business Manager ". r NIGHT EDITOR: CHARLES THATCHER The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Colleges Face Post-War Problems. ONE OF THE TESTS of a nation at war is the ability of its people and its institutions to adapt themselves to drastical- ly changed conditions. While our universities and colleges are meeting the current challenge by adjusting their curricula and sessions, it is cer- tain that the post-war years will present prob- lems, particularly to the liberal arts colleges, which will require equally radical departures from established methods. The United States which will emerge from the present conflict will be a nation greatly weakened in income and living standards. The burden of staggering national debt, the inevitable depression following the war production boom assure that we shall be a poor people for years to come. For this reason universities and colleges must anticipate enrollment figures far below present levels if four years continues to be the residence requirement for the Bachelor of Arts degree. So long, and consequently so expensive, an education will no longer be possible for the bulk of the people. Commenting on this comimg problem in the January issue of Harpers, Wallace Brett Don- ham, Dean of the Harvard Business School, makes this pointed statement: "I am more and more deeply impressed by the lack of self-respecting stopping points in the educational system as a whole. I should like to see our four-year colleges give a degree for a creditable two years of work, and I should like to see the same degree offered by the good junior colleges." There is no reason why higher education cannot respond to changed social conditions and at the same time make notable progress. By adopting a two-year degree program, as Dr. Donham suggests, the number of famil- ies who could afford to send their young people to college would be greatly increased. If the curriculum is of the right sort, two years of college are sufficient to prepare the majority of students both for life and for making a living. IN THE LATTER regard the experience of such universities as Chicago and Minnesota with survey courses might serve as a guide for others. Two years of intensive studies would also rectify a giowing complaint that college is "four years of not too hard imtellectual effort, organized, athletics, organized social events-all valuable but leading nowhere." A two-year degree program for the najority does not preclude that the four-year program will be abandoned entirely. For those students whose ability and financial resources would en- able them to continue their education to advant- age,, four years are certainly desirable. Admis- sion to this second division, however, should require students to rank in the upper third of their class. This phase of the plan is based upon the belief, expressed by Dr. Donham, that, "there is A group for whom two years of college would give good results, while four years too often turns them into impractical dilettantes, unfit- ted to live and work in a free country." But the main purpose of the two-year degree, it should be emphasized, is to assure that the youth of the nation, in the face of curtailed in- comes, will continue to receive the preparation Must Be Stopped e 9 Cf1 Drew Persos n o d RobertS.Allenu WASHINGTON - Wayne Coy, White House secretary and director of the Office of Emergen- cy Management, is one of the ablest members of the Roosevelt staff. Coy has brains, courage and real executive ability. But he has discovered that'it takes more than even these qualities and his high position to buck the military brasshats. Seeking a means to break up administrative bottlenecks in order to speed war production, Coy and his assistants formulated a plan under which Army and Navy procurement chiefs would have been compelled to subcontract, and also award orders to expedite the conversion of plants to armament output. Coy submitted this proposal to a conference of OPM, Maritime Commission, Treasury, Agri- culture, Army and Navy executives. At first the OPM response was enthusiastic. Under Coy's plan, OPM authority would have been consid- erably increased. But when the Army and Navy brasshats began heaving brickbats, the OPM spokesman backed down and ran for cover. His explanation was that it was useless to give OPM more power as long as it was encumbered with Floyd Odlum, head of its subcontracting division. THE ARMY AND NAVY opposition was based squarely - and vehemently - on their ob- jection to giving up any of their bureaucratic powers. With great heat they demanded that Coy abandon his plan and give them even great- er control than they already have over placing war orders, despite the fact that they have been under fire for months because of lagging war production. Julius Amberg, New York attorney on the staff of Under-secretary of War Robert Patter- son; and Struve Hensel, Wall Street lawyer on the staff of Under-secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, stormed and raged at Coy. At one point, Hensel got personal. "You are blocking the order giving us this authority," he barked, "while our boys are dying in the Pacific." "Perhaps, Mr. Hensel," said Coy quietly, "they wouldn't be dying if the Navy had been on the alert." Note: Only a few insiders know it but Coy deserves a lot of the credit for the final success of the labor-management conference which came near busting up after a four-day deadlock over the closed shop issue. With the President deep- ly h'ngrossed in his conference with Churchill, Moderator Will Davis was unable to get to Roosevelt to obtain his intervention. Coy turned the trick and the conference was saved from collapse. RE CORDS 0 FDR's Address To Congress Recorded For Posterity President Roosevelt's address to the Congress of the United States as broadcast to the nation on December 8, 1941, requesting a war declara- tion, has been preserved on Victor Record 27734 complete with the background noises of Con- gress. This momentous chunk of American his- tory can now be had to keep for your children and your children's. children - if they live. A somewhat less momentous occasion is the, recording debut of Abbott and Costello in a corny novelty entitled, Laugh, Laugh, Laugh. (Victor). Ozzy Nelson's Bluebird record on The Little Guppy is a worthwhile novelty, in view of its extremely surprising ending. Speaking of Ssuprise endings, 1 Said No is about the surprise- endingest tune popular now, and the Bluebird version by Alvino Rey is super. Yvonne King's voice is really swell for the part. Jan Savitt's Meadowbrook Shuffle on Decca harks back to the good old Jan we used to know. Liebestraum, on t'other side, ain't fast or hot' enough fer the likes of us, but there's them which likes it. Also, in the ,classix, Glenn Miller's re- cording of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, backed by Slumber Song, is bound to be a best-seller. (Bluebird). . Just as everybody expected, the war songs are coming out fast and furious. The White Cliffs of hover has been recorded by every band from Hacklebarney .s Hot Hamhocks to the Jerk- ville Symphony Orchestra, but the best of a dubious lot is Glenn Miller's Bluebird recording. Dick Todd has a similar recording for the same firm, but we give the edge to Miller. Sammy Kaye's Remember Pearl Harbor will probably be a popular war record. HOT JAZZ DEPARTMENT: The Decca Gems of Jazz series (three albums) is a remarkable set, especially the first two. It disregards color or style of jazz, merely setting up good swing combinations. If you really like hot jazz, you can't resist these three albums. New Decca re- leases (hot): How About that Mess is a good instrumental by Lucky Millinder .. . Joe Turner sings some real authentic blues numbers, Rocks in My Bed and Goin' to Chicago Blues. Lazy Gal Blues and Git It are the latest from Skeets Tol- bert's Gentlemen of Swing, in the Decca Sepia Series. -D.L. prouriation may be necessary to achieve the un- nerativ'ely nrefe(ldd ativity t if itis let us go alead DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) Plant and Equipment, R. W. Ham- mett. Notice in re University Property Removed from the City or off Uni- versity Property: Any University representative having charge of Un- versity property should give notice in advance to the Inventory Clerk, Busi- ness Office, University Hall, when such property is to be taken outside the City of Ann Arbor or off Uni- versity property for use in any Uni- versity project, as, for example, the W.P.A. A loss recently occurred on which the University had no insur- ance because of the fact that no notice had been given to the Inven- tory Clerk that such property had been taken to the location where it was In use, and the property was therefore not covered by the insur- ance policy. Shirley W. Smith Home Loans: The University In- vestment office, 100 South Wing, will be glad to consult with anyone con- sidering building or buying a home or refinancing existing mortgages and is eligible to make F.H.A. loans. Conservation of Rubber Items: The Purchasing Department is no longer able to buy rubber bands and rubber erasers except on a preference rating much higher than the rating assigned to the institution for oper- ating supplies. The stock of these materials must be issued sparingly. Much of our present supply will be badly needed in the operation of the Hospital. Under present conditions it is assumed that every one will co- operate to the end of avoiding waste and making the present stock last as long as possible. Re-use rubber bands or use substitutes wherever possible. Shirley W. Smith Notice to Men Students: For the information of men students living in approved rooming houses, the first semester shall end on Thursday, February 12, and the second semes- ter shall begin on the same day. Students living in approved room- ing houses, who intend to move to different quarters for the second semester, must give notice in writing to the Dean of Students before 4:00 on Thursday, . January 22, 1942. Forms for this purpose may be se- cured at Room 2, University Hall. Students should also notify their householders verbally before this date. Permission to move will be given only to students complying with this requirement. Alec Templeton Concert Tickets, The counter sale of tickets for the Alec Templeton concert to be given February 26, will begin Monday morning, January 12, at the offices of the University Musical Society, Burton Memorial Tower. Tickets, including tax, will be priced asfol- lows: main floor 95c, first balcony 75c, and second balcony 55c. Tickets for the Robert Casadesus concert (in the Choral Union Series) January 19, and for the Roth String Quartet concert in the Second An- nual Chamber Music Festival. Jan- uary 23 and 24, are also on sale at the same office, 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 that faculty members having projects needing support during 1942-1943 file their proposals in the Office df 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 331. C. S. Yoakum An official University of Michigan 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 m i ter'ii . ' Joseph A. B'rsley Dean of Students An assembly of all men students registered in the School of Music will be held today at 4:15 p.m. in the School of Music Auditorium. This meeting takes precedence over all other engagements. E. V. Moore, Director 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 Students in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Electrical {iiiis-leyri5, all1 nd Mechanical Eng eIt'n Feresentati!'ves from Gibbs I , ' ; ; 1 L , ° ...r-- s'.'ra =- _._ _ / ; 1 rN"' 4 r - (,3042, CWCAgo Ttrrtt . Ina- itCg. U. S.. Pat, Oft.. All t:t.:. A "He's 64 and wants to marry me, but I'm not sure it's just to get out of the draft!" t y- # J z i S :r t 4 } k: j r 3 W AR is a serious thing-more serious than profits. This lesson is one that America should have learned from France, from England, from every nation at war, but it has not. The auto industry-a lode of untapped pro- ductive capacity-seemed at last to be awakened from its profit-drugged sleep when Price Ad- ministrator Leon Henderson clamped down on the business-as-usual production of pleasure cars. With flourishes and fanfare the auto in- dustry conference appointed a joint labor-man- agement advisory board. And this is only an ad- visory board and nothing else. The board itself, however, seems a step in the right direction toward achieving all-out pro- duction were it not for the statement made by General Motors' president. Fresh from the mo- mentous conference which- did not one official thing except to appoint the powerless advisory committee, C. E. Wilson is reported by I. F. Stone in the New York daily, "PM," to have asked for concessions from the government. He requests that car prodiuction be continued until inven- tories have been used up, clauses in contracts to allow additional charges for price raises, a loop hole to allow industry to gain tax exemp- tions on government amortized plants so that government will really pay twice and stronger letters of intent to let contracts so that the gov- ernment will be bound but industry freed. Chrys- ler's representative concurred with Mr. Wilson, but Paul Hoffman, president of Studebaker had more foresight than to go along with them and is said to have protested. Edsel Ford remained silent. AMERICA needs what the auto industry can produce and it needs it now. The nation is aroused, but it seems that the auto industry is aroused. only to a new way of making more money. American soldiers want an America to come back to. is it that the auto makers are not worried about the nation? All of industry dragged concession after con- cession out of the government before they even consented to hear of defense contracts before the war. There was a virtual strike of capital for some three months in the surmner of 1940. They got what they wanted and now the most important automobile manufacturers are not yet ready to act quickly. Pools of industrial resources are discussed and praised by many persons even in management, but C. E. Wilson thinks that this is "socializa- tion" and under no circumstances should be per- mitted. "PM" reports that industrial ,men are not talking abouit pools but in terms of -individ- ual plant production. Talk about the virtual adoption of the Reuther plan is only talk. TIME AND AGAIN the auto industry has been given the opportunity, nay, begged, to produce for defense. And each time it has seen fit to look for more lucrative contracts and to stall with tally about safeguards for industry and protec- tion for stockholders. Even now they are stalling while the investments they value so much are be- ing trotected from a.um terrible danger by our and students are requested to sign up 8 for interviews. v i Summer Jobs: All students inter- ested in obtaining employment for next summer, in camps, in resorts, f or in industry, should register Mon- day, January 12, at the Bureau of Appointments and Occupational In- formation, 201 Mason Hall, hoursw 9-12 and 2-4. University Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information d Academic Noticesd Doctoral Examination forTaft Yutaka Toribara, Chemistry; thesis: "A Study of Complex Oxalatostan- nates and Dioxalathothiometastan-P nates," today, 309 Chemistry, 3:30a p.m. Chairman, H. H. Willard. n By action of the Executive Board3 the chairman may invite members of t the faculties and advanced doctoral candidates to attend the examination and he may grant permission to thoses who for sufficient reason might wisht to be present. C. S. Yoakum, Dean Doctoral Examination for George7 Azro Moore, Zoology; thesis: "Stud-p ies on the adaptation of fishes to thed silty water of the GreatPlains," to-v day, Zoology Office, 8:00 a.m. Chair- man, C. L. Hubbs. By action of the Executive BoardI the chairman may invite members ofe the faculties and advanced doctoral1 candidates to attend the examinationa and he may grant permission to those who for sufficient reason mightv wish to be present.- C. S. Yoakum, Dean English 190: Junior Honors. Stu- dents wishing to elect English 190v - should arrange to see Mr. Weaver. Each student should present a tran- script of his academic record. Room:t 2218 A.H. Hours: Wednesday, 1:45-L 2:45; Thursday, 2:30-3:30.t Bennett Weaver English 31, Section 14, will meet Saturday in 2013 A.H. instead of 200P SW.a R. C. Boys Exhibitions Exhibition, College of Architecture amid Design: Student drawings ofj 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 Lecture: Dr. Gregory Vlastos, Pro- fessor of Philosophy at Queen's Uni- versity in,bOntario, will be the last speaker on the series on "The fai- Lure of Skepticism" sponsored by The Newman Club, The B'nai B'rith 11ilel Foundation, and'inter-Guild, at the Rackham Lecture Hall oh Sunday, January 18, at 8:15 p.m. French Lecture: Mr. Andre Mbrize, Professor of French Literature at Harvard University and Director of the Summer French School at Mid- dlebury College, Vt., will give the fourth of the French Lectures spon- sored by the Cercle Francais, on Thursday, January 22, at 4:15 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. The title of his lecture is: "La Recon- struction de la France apres 1871." Tickets for the series of lectures may be procured from the Secretary of the Department of Romance Lan- guages (Room 112, Romance Lan- guage ;Building) or at the door at 1 lie i'w m of the lcetuive for a small - ,u1m1I V1''1li''e of he li,{ .r tiket are Senitised to ad sselis toall lectre , GRIN AND BEAR IT ' ,.J . 1,1 By Lichty 1:- t - *1. as :30-12, Rackham Assembly Hall. A aried program of old-time dances s planned, and instruction will be provided. Space is limited, so you nay not get in if you come late. Re- reshments. Westminster Student Guild Party will be held at 8:30 p.m. Fun, frolic and refreshments for all. Coffee Hour: All students are cor- dially welcome at the Student Re- igious Association Hour held on Fri- day afternoons from 4:00 to 6:00 in the Lane Hall Library. Hillel Players: Tryouts for the Players' major production, "Awake and Sing," will be held this after- noon at the Foundation starting at 3:00. Everyone interested is invited to try out. . Episcopal Students: Tea will be served for Episcopal students and their friends at Harris Hall this afternoon, 4:00 to 5:30. Wesley Foundation. "March of Time" party tonight at 9 o'clock. Program of games, refreshments and dancing. Come for the year in re- view. French Roundtable will meet in the International Center, Room 23, this evening, at 8:00. Mrs. Turyn will lead the discussion on "La situation actuelle en Pologne." Persons whose native language is French and ad- vanced students in the French lan- guage are welcome to attend. Bowling Club for women students will meet today in the small lounge of the Women's Athletic Building. JGP make-up committee meeting today at 4:30. All those who signed up for the committee and others in- terested please attend. American Country Dance Group: Men and women students interested in learning square and round dances are invited to attend the meetings of this group today, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., Women's Athletic Building. Rifle Club: Meeting at 3:15 today in the WAB. The 25c dues is due at that time. Comning Events Members of the Chinese Students' Club and members of the Interna- tional, Center and their friends are' invited to an open house in the Far Eastern Art Room, Alumni Memorial Hall, on Sunday evening,January 11, from 7:30 to 9:00. Graduate Outing Club meets Sun- day, 2:30 p.m., at the Rackham clubroom, rear west door. In case of cool weather, there will be skat- ing, sledding,, tobogganing, supper. Badminton - Women and Men students: The badminton courts in Barbour Gymnasum are open for use of women and men students on Monday and Friday evenings from 7:30 to 9:30. - Economics Club: Members of the staff and graduate students in Eco- nomics and Business Administration are invited to hear Professor M. H. Waterman discuss "Economics of Public Utility Holding Companies" at 8 p.m. in West Conference Room of Rackham Building on Monday, Jan- uary 12. Le Cercle Francais holds its next meeting on Tuesday, January 13, 8:00 p.m., -at the Michigan League. Prof. Koellti will give an informal talk. on: "Fuite d'Europe en septem- bre 1939." French songs; All mem- brfs cotrdially invited. Fhi Eta SI'SmA " nsia_'tpict ps