Tl_l E M ICHIGAN DAILY tx It 1T Mt l 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. pRElsSeNTEO FOR NATIONAL ADVERTIlNG BY National Advertising Service, Inc- College PUblisbers Representative 420 MADIsON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CNICAGO * BOSTON . LOS ANGELES * SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1941.42 Editorial Staff Emile GeI6 Alvin Dann David Lachenbruck Jay McCormick Hal Wilson Arthur - Hill Janet Hiatt Grace Miller Virginia Mitchell . . . . . Managing Editor . . . . . Editorial Director i . . . . City Editor . . . . . Associate Editor . . . . . Sports Editor . . . Assistant Sports Editor . . . . . Women's Editor . . . Assistant Women's Editor . . . Exchange Editor Business Staff . . . . Business Manager . . Associate Business Manager . .'Women's Advertising Manager * . Women's Business Manager Daniel H. Huyett James B. Collins Louise Carpenter fy. Evelyn Wright NIGHT EDITOR: BARBARA JENSWOLD The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Nelson Appointment Clears Track .. . AT LAST, President Roosevelt has made the move we have been ex- pecting for some time. At last, the responsibility for tuning America's industry to an all-out war production effort has been placed squarely upon the shoulders of one man, with no divided au thority and overlapping control to clutter up the way. Our only regret is that it took three official attempts to solve the problem. As a result, American industry has been floundering around even worse than in the first World War. We have lost too much valuable time squabbling over the issue between labor and management: should the union be granted power to aid in control of production policies? With the creation of the War Production Board and the appointment of Donald M. Nel- son as its head, the way has been cleared for a general speed-up in armaments production that bids to make the bungling tactics of the Office of Production Management just a bad chapter in economics textbooks. Now, authority for directing the war program is clearly cen- tralized and "drastic action" to come has been promised. Nelson has been granted the neces- saty power by Executive Order. "His decision as to questions of procurement and production will be final." This means, in effect, that the newly- appointed czar of production has power over industrialists and labor leaders alike, over both the Army and the Navy. It means he, will deal in final decisions directly with Lord' Beaver- brook, British Minister of Supples, HIS DUTIIES CLEAR-CUT, Donald Nelson steps into the breach with the firm convic- that everything must be subordinated to the war effort and with a sound business head that has won the admiration of all who know him. In a fighting speech read for him by Bernard Gimbel, he told the nation that "utterly revo- lutionary changes" in the operation of industry will be essential to win this war. "We may have to require management and labor to adapt themselves to wholly new sched- ules and methods of operation," he said bluntly. "We may have to upset the commercial and industrial arrangements which have endured for many years. We may have to trample on all sorts of privileges and prerogatives." "None of that matters." On the heels of Nelson's hard-headed asser- tions, the Senate investigating committee Thursday leveled a charge of "bungling tactics" upon the joint heads of Knudsen and Hillman, OPM co-directors. The committee declared that the dollar-a-year officials are lobbyists for their former concerns and recommended that they be eliminated. Another highly signifi- cant revelation by the committee was that the automobile industry has not been checked i civilian production and has not even attempted to convert plant facilities to war production. THUS theforces of labor have gained once more at the expense of management. What labor leaders have been contending all along, the Senate has verified by investigation. Big business has consistently refused to relinquish the saddle in production for war. The guiding Parley War Forum Today .. . T HE COMMANDING OFFICERS of the Navy's Pearl Harbor base were not the only Americans unprepared for an Axis attack on this country. Throughout this Uni- versity and the entire nation, complete apathy dominated the prevailing war attitudes. Eco- nomically and politically, the United States was on a champagne binge that it never expected to end. But some students have begun to think more seriously since December 7 and a great deal of them have begun to think. What will be the results of this war on our standard of living? What is the value of a B.A., M.A., or Ph.D., to a man and a bayonet? What about this democ- racy that somebody gave to us? Can it stand the impact of total war or will it go down be- fore the autocratic forces arrayed against it? THESE QUESTIONS, and others of equal im- port to students in war, will be discussed at four panel sessions today in the annual Winter Parley. Faculty and student discussion leaders offer every variety of campus opinion on these subjects, and it is up to the general audience to draw their own conclusions. In the past, parleys have been described as windy debates accomplishing nothing more than a mild ripple in student thought processes. The faculty leaders talked, the student panel leaders talked, the men with ingrained convic- tions talked, but the average student audience member listened until he was fed up. Today, however, the parley opens its panel sessions with a different purpose. It is the first public forum on campus since the war, and it comes to a University afflicted by doubt and indecision. THE FOUR PANELS will be held at 2:15 and 7:30 p.m. today in the Union. They are open, to anyone who thinks he has something at stake in America's struggle. And remember, freedom of speech will be discussed today in one of the few countries that still has the freedom of speech to discuss it. -Dan Behman The Reply Churlish by TOUCHSTONE (This is to introduce Emile Gele, of the old South, managing editor of the Daily, who occas- ionally denies his heritage by the expression of liberal sentiments. Because what he has to say must be said, and the sooner the better, the column today is all his. -Touchstone) DURIN WARTIME there are many forgot- ten men, just as there are many emergency men costumed as sapient captains and tossed hurriedly into the spotlight to perform for the duration miracles performable only by certain obscure creatures inclined to hibernation amidst mpsty tomes or behind glossy mahogany-topped desks or in remote military outposts till routed forth by the flares of war; but I am now con- cerned with the forgotten men, or rather a special group which happens to be the most forgotten of all men during the submersion of peace, and which is composed of those stubborn unfortunates called proudly by themselves and sneeringly by others, "conscientious objectors". I would like to pay them a tribute, a some- what squeamish and hasty and apologetic trib- ute. Squeamish because already people are being obliged to buy huge quantities of defense bonds for saying "To hell with the Siamese" or wash- ing windows with old British flags. Hasty be- cause already such leading patriots as Walter Winchell (who fancies himself a "newsboy" and defends liberty, equality, and fraternity daily in syndicated news columns and on the radio at a handsome profit) are rapidly laying the foun- dations for the impending alien and sedition laws. Apologetic because I realize this space should be devoted to directing your contributions into the "Buy a Bomber" coffers of the public- spirited Hearst papers. REGARDLESS of these compelling influences, I persist in paying my tribute; for my im- mediate interest in national defense and aggres- sion does not obscure my interest in future inter- national peace. And these forgotten conscientious objectors are the only salesmen of peace bonds right now. Now don't get me wrong, though- I'm all for this war. Remember I'm one of you now, gentlemen. They forced this on us and they'll be sorry. We love our peace so much we'll beat hell out of anybody who dares disturb it. We will fight! We must fight! Where do these CO crackpots get off telling us war is wrong! The nerve! See, I rear back in amazed indignation, then just amazement, then wonder, and finally wonder mingled with respect. We know we must fight and the world knows it, but these CO's sit back smiling and shake their heads, no. Why? Be- cause they want to be different and attract at- tention? They are not on posters; they have no USO; they are not Joe Palooka or Flash Gordon in the comic strips; they receive no citation or public praise; they are never shown in the newsreels; and they never get the high paid heroic jobs. Are they cowards? Their records in past wars, and their present training for dan- gerous non-combatant service say no. Do they pose as martyrs? They say they are sacrificing very little, rather they are busy in camps pre- paring in various ways for service in war, and especially for the eventual peace. They are building, not pining away. STILL WE CAN DEMAND with righteous scorn, "Suppose everyone thought like you, you CO, what then!" Rhetorical of course, with only one reasonable answer. But they give another answer. "Brother," they say, "if every- one thought like us, you and I both would have what we wanted, and you would look like an ass ill0114% t lli TN1 . .. Drew Pearsop ' ad Robert S.AIIe RIO DE JANEIRO - If this Pan-American conference succeeds in lining up the Americas against the Axis-and with one exception it looks as if it will-Messrs. Hitler and Hirohito will have Undersecretary Sumner Welles and Brazilian Foreign Minister Aranha largely to thank. These are the two men ,who have carried the ball for a united Pan-American war front, with President Vargas giving them potent 100 per cent support in the background. Strangely enough no two men could be more dissimilar. Oswaldo Aranha is an ex-gaucho from the cattle country of Brazil, accustomed to appearing at horse races with two revolvers strapped to his belt, and equally at home around a roulette table or a dinner in the presidential palace. Undersecretary of State Welles, on the other hand, had Roosevelt's background of Groton and Harvard, had the same god-mother as Eleanor Roosevelt, was a page at the Roosevelts' wedding, and is an Anthony Eden edition of what the well-dressed diplomat is supposed to look like. Underneath his somewhat austere exterior, however, Sumner Welles is just as much the human as Oswaldo Aranha, and together they make a perfect team of resourceful, hard-hitting Hitler-Hirohito haters. Father Of Good Neighbors Not many people realize it, but in South America Welles is known as the father of Roose- velt's Good Neighbor policy-now recognized al- most universally as the soundest foreign pro- gram put forward by any American president in half a century. It was Sumner Welles who, when High Com- missioner to the Dominican Republic way far back in the Coolidge Administration, persuaded Charles Evans Hughes, then Secretary of State, to withdraw the Marines. This was the first step in getting U.S. troops out of the Carib- bean area, always a source of suspicion to every Latin-American nation. It was Welles also who wrote the famous Central American treaties during the Coolidge Administration by which revolutionary govern- ments were denied recognition. His purpose was to prevent upstart military leaders from seizing control of the banana republics every few months. However, neither the Central Ameri- cans nor Calvin Coolidge were quite ready for this advanced stage of peace and good neigh- borliness, with the result that Welles resigned, and Coolidge sent the Marines back into Nica- ragua. Welles waited patiently all during the Hoover Administration toward the end of which he put in a lot of political punches for the election of his boyhood friend Franklin Roosevelt. And not generally known is that Welles chiefly wrote the foreign affairs planks in the Democratic platform adopted at the 1932 Chicago conven- tion. Welles' record for constantly pounding the Good Neighbor policy needs no further review here. But this week at Rio de Janeirohe reached the climax of his ambitions-the attempt to create a united front against all the dictators by all the Americas. Best Friend Of U.S.A. Oswaldo Aranha, Welles' co-partner in this ambition, is the son of a wealthy cattle-rancher,. He was educated at a military school, spent five years fighting in Brazilian revolutions- most of the time in the saddle-and has a heel partly shot away plus a bullet still lodged in his shoulder to show for it. 9 Aranha was the military leader of the revo- lutionary army of 1930 which made Getulio Var- gas President of Brazil, and won for Henry L, Stimson the nickname "Wrong Horse Harry". Stimson, then Secretary of State, bet on the wrong horse , and sent U.S. planes to support the regime which Aranha defeated. Aranha spent four years in Washington, where as Ambassador he got to know the U.S.A. as few other envoys. He took a motor trip to the West Coast, went to the Kentucky Derby with Jim Farley (where, incidentally, he won $1,500) visited with all sorts of people from Herbert Hoover to John L. Lewis, and even attended the conventions of the Democratic and Republican parties. One of his descriptions of the conventIons is still remembered il Washington. "At Cleveland," said Aranha, "the Republicans promised Santa Claus to both the rich and the poor, while at Philadelphia, the Democrats promised Santa Claus to the poor with the rich man's money." Ever since his four years in Washington, Aran- ha has been known as the chief 'friend of the U.S.A. below the Rio Grande. We have all sorts of neat and catchy definitions of peace, most of which boil down to the attempt to make peace a lengthy and profitable after- math of victory. On the other hand, these CO's are firmly convinced that peace is a permanent way of life that cannot be had until it is lived, so they live it. They consider it easy to extol peace during peace time. Insistence on the validity of peace in wartime is the real test of belief. All of which is absurd. Absurd because it is incredibly impractical. Impractical as " . . . for- give us our trespasses as we forgive those who (~e ir J "Dropping knives means company's coming-probably an invasion!" GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1942 signed to duty wherever their serv- VOL. LII. No. 81 i ices are required. Those who fail to Publication in the Daily Oicial complete the course will be dis- Bulletin is constructive notice to all chapgpcations will be received from mnembers of the University. Apiain ilb eevdfo seniors only, and they must present t "*i a signed statement from the Regis-v Notices trar to the effect that "barring un-t University Council: There will be foreseen circumstances, the appli-r a meeting of the University Council cant will be graduated from the col-E on Monday, January 19, at 4:15 p.m., lege in which enrolled not later than in the Rackham Lecture Hall. The June 30, 1942." meeting will be relative to informa- Interested applicants may call at t tion about the War Program of the the NROTC Headquarters, North University. Hall, between the hours of 12:00- Louis A. Hopkins, Secretary 1:30 and 3:00-4:30 p.m., Monday Members of the Faculties: On through Friday. R. E. Cassidy, Captain, U.S.N. Monday, January 19, at 4:15 p.m there will be a special meeting of the New Registration Dates: Students University Council, for the discussion will register for the second semester of various phases of the University's on February 5, 6, and 7 under the wartime program. It was originally same alphabetical schedule aswass announced that this meeting would previously announced for Februarys be held in the Rackham Amphithe- 12, 13, and 14. ater and that all members of the Shirley W. Smith University Senate who might care to do so were invited to attend. It now Choral Union Members: Members develops that contrary to the orig- of the University Choral Union, inal expectation the Rackham Lec- whose attendance records are clear, ture Hall will be -available at the will please call for passes admittingr hour stated and a larger number to the Casadesus concert, Monday, can be accommodated. Consequent- January 19, between the hours of 9 ly the Council cordially invites all and 12 and 1 and 4, at the offices of faculty members, whether or not they the University Musical Society, Bur- are members of the Senate, to be ton Memorial Tower. present at the meeting. Charles ASink President L. A. Hopkinses ' Freshmen and Sophomores, Col- Notice of Appointment of Tire Con- lege of Literature, Sciene, and the F servator and Administrator for the Arts: Appointments for approval oft University: Mr. E. C. Pardon, Super- elections for the second semester may intendent of Buildings and Grounds, be made by calling at the Office of has been designated as a conservator the Academic Counselors, 108 Mason and administrator in all matters re- Hall, or by telephoning Ext. 613. Be- lating to the care of tires used or for cause of the change in the examina- use on University automobiles, cars Lion schedule, it is absolutely imper- and trucks, including questions aris-ative that you keep your appoint- ing in connection with retreading and ments with your Counselors as sched- all the University's relations with the uled. Failure to do this will make it tire conservation authorities of the impossible for you to register at the County. His duties will comprehend proper time. making reductions in mileage to be Arthur Van Duren, Chairman travelled by University cars and Academic Counselors. trucks wherever this seems reason- ably possible. All Wnen students are reminded Shirley W. Smith that they must register any change .----of residence for the second semester Notice to Senate Members: In ac- in the Office of the Dean qf Women cordance with the regulations of the by noon of January 19. They must Senate, notice is hereby given to the also inform their househead of their members of the Senate of the follow- intention by that date. ing recommendations of a legislative nature which were approved by the i The University Bureau of Appoint- University Council at its meeting on ( ments has received notice of the fol- Monday, January 12, and which will lowing Civil Service examinations. be submitted to the Board of Re- Closing date for applications is given gents for action: in each case. (a) Approval was given a plan of United States Civil Service appointment of staff members in Student Physiotherapy Aide, $420, Physical Education, pursuant to until further notice.- which such staff members shall be Apprentice Physiotherapy Aide, employed in the manner and on the $1,440, until further notice. terms that are equivalent in all re-' ,unior Professional Assistant, $2,- spests to faculty status, without, 000. February 3, 1942. lowever, receiving professorial titles. Stident Aid, $1,440, February 3, b) Approval was given the estab- 1942. lishlnent of a Department of Physi- Student Dictitian, $420, January cal Education, to have jurisdiction 31, 1942. over (1) required work in Physical Senior Biological Aid (Injurious Education for all students, (2) for- Mammal Control), $2,000, February mal courses in Physical Education, 24. 1942. (3) recreational activities, (4) inter- Special Investigator (Metropolitan collegiate athletics. Police Dept., D.C.) $3,600, February Louis A. Hopkins, Secretary 24, 1942. Departmental Guard, $1,200, until Public Health Assembly: Dr. Haven further notice. Emerson, Professor Emeritus of Pub- Principal Home Economist (any lic Health Practice, Columbia Uni- specialized field), $5,600, until fur- versity, and Lecturer in Public Health ther notice. Practice, University of Michigan, will Senior Home Economist (any spe- speak on "Beverage Alcohol as a cialized field), $4,600, until further Public Health Problem" at an assem- notice. bly period on Monday, January 19, at Home Economist (any specialized 4:00 p.m. in the Auditorium of the field), $3,800, until further notice. Kellogg Building. All students in Associate Home Economist (any public health are expected to be pres- specialized field), $3,200, until further ent and anyone interested is welcome. notice. -L-----_Assistant Home Economist (any The Bureau of Navigation desires specialized field), $2,600, until fur- to aUPOilt 35('officers il C s,, :'C-V tler notice. t] T a p m e tc a v U n q, p R f T q t s R n S' s t e e c C ti a t. 1 c i SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1942 he Ann Arbor Independents' Faculty rea originally scheduled for Sunday fternoon, January 18,.has been post- oned. Academic Notices Required Hygiene Lectures for Wo- men-1942: All first and second sem- ster freshmen women are required o take the hygiene lectures, which re to be given the second semester. Jpperclass students who were in the ' Jniversity as freshmen and who did dot fulfill the requirement are re- Iuired to take and satisfactorily corn- lete this course. Enroll for these ectures at the time of regular classi- ication at Waterman Gymnasium. These lectures are a graduation re- ulnement. Students should enroll for one of he two following sections. Women in Section I should note change of first ecture from February 23rd to 25th on account of the legal holiday. Section No. I: First lecture, Wed- nesday, Feb. 25, 4:15-5:15, Natural. Science Aud. Subsequent lectures, uccessive Mondays, 4:15-5:15, Na- ural Science Aud. Examination (fin- al), April 6, 4:15-5:15, Natural Sci- ence Aud. Section No. II: First lecture, Tues- day, Feb. 24, 4:15-5:15, Natural Sci- ence Aud. Subsequent lectures, suc- cessive Tuesdays, 4:15-5:15, Natural Science Aud. Examination (final) Tuesday, April 7, 4:15-5:15, Natural Science Aud. Margaret Bell, M.D. Medical Adviser to Women To Students Enrolled for Series of Lectures on Naval Subjeels: Lieuten- ant K. S. Shook, U.S. Navy, Assistant Professor of Naval Science and Tac- tics, University of Michigan, will de- iver a lecture on "Navy Regulations," on Tuesday, Jan. 20, at 7:15 p.m. in Room 348 West Engineering Build- ing. Naval V-7 Program: Students who are enrolling for the Naval V-7 re- serve unit who expect to be called in- to active training in June 1942 and who are deficient in the mathema- tiel requirement for this training, may consult Dr. H. H. Goldstine, 20 A East Hall, Mon., Wed., and Fri., 2:00-4:00 p.m., concerning election of courses in mathematics to make up this deficiency. T. H. Hildebrandt, Chairman Department of Mathematics English not meet 32, Section 2 (Rowe) will Monday, January 19. Kenneth T. Rowe English 149 (Playwriting) will meet Tuesday evening, January 20, in- stead of Monday, in 4208 A.H. in- stead of 3217 A.H. Kenneth Rowe Speech 190 will meet in the Speech Seminar (3212 Angell Hall) Monday. Concentration in English. Bring materials for conference at follow- ing times-January 16, 9-11; Janu- ary 19, 21, and 23, 1:00-4:00. J. L. Davis Chemistry 55 and Chemistry 169E Laboratory: The final examination will be given on Tuesday, January 20, 4:00-6:00 p.m., in place of the examination originally scheduled for that date. Final Examination in Journalism 31 will be given during the regular class hour, Wednesday, January 21. All back papers must be handed in before that hour. The deadline for the Hopwood Contests for Freshmen has been changed to 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Janguary 27. R. W. Cowden Recreational Leadership for Wo- men: Students planning to register for this course as a part of their Physical Education for the second semester should file an application blank in Office 15, Barbour Gym- nasium, by January 24. Jury auditions for School of Music student recitals will be held in Lydia Mendelssohn Theater on Sunday af- ternoon, January 18, from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. The students to be heard are Vladimir Yukashuk, Harold Fish- man, Joan Wolaver, James Merrill, James Wolfe, Thomas Wheatley, Hel- en Westlin, Italo Frajola, Wanda Nigh and Choon Cha Lee. These au- ditions and the subsequent recitals are in partial fulfillment of the re- quirement for degrees expected at the end of the current semester, and for those students who may be called to military service during the second semester. Physical Education for Women: Individual sport tests in Badminton, Fencing, Swimming, Riding and Ice Skating in the regular class periods. Students not enrolled in classes who wish to take the tests should in- quire in Office 15, Barbour Gymnasi- um as to the time when these classes meet. Concerts Choral Union Concert: Robert Ca- sadesus, French pianist, will give the seventh program in the Choral Un- ion Concert Series, Monday, Janu- ary 19, at 8:30 o'clock, in Hill Audi- torium. The program will consist of numbers by Rameau, Schumann, Chopin, de Severac, Debussy and Ravel.