THE ICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY,: U S4r tC t MIT Mt THE REPLY CHURLISH By TOUCHSTONE DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lihty - I - -1 m 1 347 V Nerweoc .o ..ie..r... ,. 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 ADVERTI.ING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CHICAGO * BOSTON * Los ANGELES . SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1941.42 Editorial, Staff Emile G6 . Alvin Dann David Lachenbruch Jay McCormick Gerald E. Burns Hal Wilson Arthur Hill Janet Looker . Grace Miller Virginia 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 Daniel H. Huyett James B. Collins Louise Carpenter Evelyn Wright Business Staff .* . . . Business Manager . . Associate Business Manager ., .Women's Advertising Manager . . Wmen's Business Manager NIGHT EDITOR: MORTON MINTZ The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Demnocracy Ended In Argentina . . . IF the Castillo regime received the support of the Argentine populace in the election Sunday; and from all present indications it did, it may mean the eclipse of democracy in that South American republic. For the first time Acting President Ramon S. Castillo made himself and his foreign policy an election issue. His party, the Partido Democrata Nacional, used as a campaign slogan:' "Castillo needs a majority in Congress to assure order and prosperity." One-half of the members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies were elected Sunday in 13 out of the 14 provinces. The results of the vote will influence not only the trend in the domestic affairs of the nation but the entire question of hemispheric solidarity. The Govern- ment Party clearly made the Castillo policies the main issue in the contest. Castillo himself was highly publicized from one end of the nation to the other, but individual candidates of the Partido Democrata Nacional were hardly men- tioned. TI foreboding significance of the election in 'Argentina lies in the steps taken by the government to stifle the opposition party, the Union Civica Radical Socialista. The Castillo- declared "state of siege" hampered the activities of that group from the very beginning. In a last-minute outburst, the leader of the party, Deputy Raoul Damonte Taborda, charged that it was "impossible to continue its drive because of arbitrary actions and the lack of guarantees of free speech and free criticism of the govern- ment." He cited the breaking up of public meetings by the government strong-arm men and asked the electorate to "repudiate those tampering with their liberties." These attempts on the part of the Castillo Government to limit the opposition party have a remarkable similarity to the methods used by Hitler in the Reichstag election of 1933. A presi- dentiaal decree shortly after the Nazi leader be- came chancellor subjected freedom of press and assembly to severe restrictions. The democratic German political parties were curbed in the use of the press, assembly and radio while the Nazis monopolized the exercising of civil liberties and even resorted to violence. With these tactics, Hiter received his desired support and a chance to bury German democracy forever. PERHAPS it is too rash to accuse Castillo of any such intentions. But the similarity can- not be denied. Coupled with hints that the vot- ing system in Argentina is not all that it might be, the actions of the government seem to fore- cast an ending of democracy in that country. While the majority of the people are essen- tially democratic and pro-Allied, the will of the anti-democratic minority may eventually dom- inate them. Collaboration with this country may now be an impossibility. No doubt the Axis is pleased. The totalitarian forces have won a temporary victory in Argentina, but unless the character of the people of that nation has been misjudged the victory will not last. - George W. Sallad Wotverines TV- E~b Aw~u SOME TWELVE HUNDRED Detroiters enjoyed themselves over the week-end throwing bricks at the moving vans of Negro families trying to move into a newly opened Federal Housing pro- ject. The brawl lasted about twelve hours, lap- sing into comparative quiet for awhile then flar- ing up again, once stopping respectfully to let a funeral procession drive down the street which marked the line of battle. Several Negroes were taken into protective custody by the police, and later, though the newspaper accounts did not say whether they were the same group, the police booked several Negroes for carrying concealed weapons of one sort or another. The newspaper accounts also did not mention whether or not any white brawlers were taken into custody either protective or otherwise. Many people were seriously hurt, including several policemen, who evidently charged into the crowd at times with their billies in action, and a Free Press photographer got hit by a brick. Little editorial comment on the mess has appeared as yet, while the metropolitan sheets sit on the fence waiting for pro bono publico to give voice to the sentiments which will be theirs. NOW THE MATTER of Jim Crow has in- creased greatly in importance during the war months. It has been the subject of considerable comment on the democratic nature of our army and navy, it has been a sore point when the subject of blood donors is brought up, and fin- ally, as in Detroit, it has also appeared when defense workers were under discussion. The most open and unapologetic forms of color dis- crimination have appeared on the picture, and except for a few editorials appearing in esoteric publications there has been no comment on the part of what we in a joking mood sometimes refer to as the press. Of course it is not a simple problem. You can't just toss off a careless party line phrase about it, like "all men are brothers," and let it go at that. Because as living works out you will Drew Pecrso obrt rAe ~GO$ WASHINGTON-When you get them out of official earshot, exiled members of the old French cabinet now in Washington, are very suspicious of what the Vichy Government is doing in Martinique and Guadeloupe. Guadeloupe is a less publicized French island near Martinique, and certain coded messages have been intercepted indicating pro-German activities on both islands. Suspicion is strong that Guadeloupe is being used as a submarine refuelling base for Nazi submarines operating in the Caribbean. But when the State Department officially denied this recently, French ex-cabinet exiles remarked: "Your State Department is still playing the gentlemen's game of diplomacy. You bow gra- ciously and believe what is told you. But gentle- men do know how to deal with gangsters." French friends warn that the French Navy is fascist-minded, that Admiral Robert, command- ing Vichy Martinique is pro-German; that there will be sabotage against French ships in Martin- ique harbor if they should be threatened with. seizure by the Allies. These same sources sug- gest that there be quiet encouragement of pro- Ally groups in the French islands who could easily take them over. New GOP Chairman? It's very shush-shush, but in certain inner Republican circles there have been secret pow- wows on replacing Representative Joe Martin as \ational Chairman. The hardworking little Bay Stater wanted to quit last year, but party chiefs decided that .the wisest course would be to persuade Martin to stay for the sake of harmony. Now some of the strongest advocates of his retention are after his scalp. The hostile fire is from two sources. One is from mid-west leaders, sour on Mar- tin, (1) for his failure to give them recognition in national headquarters; (2) for his secret financial wooing of Pennsylvania oil millionaire' Joseph Pew and Pennsylvania steel millionaire Ernest Weir. In the farm belt the two big-money contrib- utors are political dynamite and the mid-west GOP chiefs can't understand why Martin is palling around with them. So they feel the time has come for one of their group to be named either National Chairman or Executive Director and they have decided that it's time that Martin was checked out. The other group gunning for Martin are anti- isolationists, long opposed to his strong isola- tionist leanings. ing and combat group will be composed of Mich- igan students and other residents of Washtenaw County. Both this organization and the air corps are to be praised for offering this opportunity to students here. If present plans are successful, it will be nossible for Michigan men to continue find that all men are not brothers, or at least that it's going to take a lot of convincing to get some of them around to that point of view. There is no use playing ostrich about color or racial discrimination. The only result of that is an un- unvoiced minority opinion which shies away from yelling out loud simply because it realizes what some of the more evangelical liberals fail to consider - that many racial groups do not want pity and that smug tolerance which is dished out to them. They would like, a great many of them, just such a chance as the Negroes had in Detroit last week, to pick up a few bricks and heave them back at their great white brothers. ON THE OTHER HAND, because in reality there is considerable basis for the bias of the whites in such a neighborhood, you cannot care- lessly say that the mayor of Detroit should fol- low a strong and unprejudiced line, move the Negroes in, and protect them there. You may end by saying just that, but first consider the issue as any administrator of a city must. He is faced on the one hand with something he considers a needed and good project, decent homes for Negroes. On the other hand he is faced with a large group of white people who feel not only that their lives are about to be invaded merci- lessly, but also that their homes will depreciate in value. They are not thinking people espec- ially, but on the other hand they are not villains and Simon Legrees. Their opinion carries as much weight as that of the Negroes. WELL WHAT'S WRONG? It all boils down to this: the circumstances which have made the whites leery of having Negroes in their neigh- borhoods are circumstances which the whites forced on the Negroes. The trouble with Negroes is environmental, not hereditary, and the fact that much hell is raised in black belts of big cities may be offset by the fact that much hell is raised in any slum section in the same big cities. And where Negroes live in decent homes in decent districts there is no cause for com- plaint, their conduct is at least as good as that of their neighbors. Every time the nation, or any city, plays Jim Crow tactics, the problem grows just that much more. Why shouldn't any group which is set off as a group by its neigh- bors, stick together and use what power it may have to gain greater advantages? The way to settle all this is once and for all to take a strong stand against discrimination, step on the toes of all the hill billies and Kentucky moonshiners who carry the fiery torch highest, and put the Negroes in their new homes, and also protect their right to be there. It will certainly cause considerable unrest among those fine white folks in Detroit, and the squirrel hunters who have taken the shilling for the armed forces, but then as I always say, this democracy business comes almighty hard to some of the people, in fact to all of the people. Each housing project though is a step toward proving the Negroes are able to live respectably and well when given an even break. The step after that, if I may be permit- ted to dream a bit, is to do away with the housing projects and their air of segregation. I repeat, some fine old Southern toes will have to be stepped on, but the deep South has done nothing much to deserve a great deal of consideration when a society is trying to figure out how all its people can live together peacefully and mor- ally. So long until soon. LC(ET TCR S TO THE EDITOR Civic Pride To The Fore To the Editor: It is with considerable interest and approval that I note your new policy of describing pro- gressive communities in the Sunday issues of the Daily. While the village described in your last Sunday issue undoubtedly ranks high among progressive communities of the nation, I feel that my own town is well worthy of mention. Consequently, I shall take this opportunity to give you a brief sketch of conditions there in hope that you may soon desire additional infor- mation for an article. This bustling little community from which I come is Pinpoint, Ohio. It was organized in 1871 under the auspices of the Audubon Society for the purpose of supply a resting place for pen- guins in route from the north pole to the south pole to take advantage of education by travel. At present, the population is 257; but we are looking forward to considerable increase (2 additions, according to "Doc" Defo) within the next month. I point with pride to our enviable church membership average of 22.35% of the total population - a record surpassed in this nation only by the Sing Sing Prison Farm Com- munity, which has an average of 45.2%. Our educational facilities include a three-room (one school room with two closets) school house with hot air heating. W6 have had only one case of typhoid fever during the 71 years of our exist- ence. Our government is headed by the chair- man of the board, an office held by Everett C. "Ever" Reddy, although he is now on leave. My conscience does not permit me to give you this outline of our good points without adding the one blight on our record; in 1891, one of our school teachers married a man who had been absent from Sunday school four times in fifteen years without the excuse of sickness. I can as- sure you that such laxity in the selection of teachers has since been eliminated. In closing, I might'add as a point of interest that, because of the location of a new defense industry near our town, our population will TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 194Z VOL. LII. No. 108 Publication in the Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Notices Student Tea: President and Mrs. Ruthven will be at home to stu- dents Wednesday afternoon, March 4, from 4 to 6 o'clock. 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. Public Health Students: Dr. Henry F. Vaughan, Dean of the School of Public Health, will meet with all Pub- lic Health students today at 4:00 p.m. in the Auditorium of the W. K. Kel- logg Building. All students in the School are requested to be present. Detroit Armenian Women's Club Scholarship: The Detroit Armenian Women's Club offers a scholarship for $100 for the year 1942-43 for which young men and women of Armenian parentage, living in the Detroit metropolitan district who demonstrate scholastic ability and possess good character and who have had at least one year of college work, are eligible. Further information may be obtained from me. Dr. Frank E. Robbins, 1021 Angell Hall Choral Union Members: Members of the Chorus whose records are clear, will please call for pass tickets to the Vronsky-Babin concert today between the hours of 10 and 12, and 1 and 4, at the offices of the University Musical Society in Burton Memorial Tower. Charles A. Sink, President. Certificates of Eligibility: All par- ticipants and chairmen of activities are reminded that first semester eli-I gibility certificates are good only un- til March 1. Certificates for the sec- ond semester must be secured before that date. Office of the Dean of Students Certificate of Eligibility: At the be- ginning of each semester and sum- mer session every student shall be conclusively presumed to be ineligible for any public activity until his eli- gibility is affirmatively established by obtaining from the Chairman of the Committee on Student Affairs, in the Office of the Dean of Studets, a Certificate of Eligibility. Before permitting any students to participate in a public activity, the chairman or manager of such activity shall (a) require each applicant to present a certificate of eligibility, (b) iign his initials on the back of such certificate, and (c) file with the Chairman of the Committee on Stu- dent Affairs the names of all those who have presented certificates of eligibility and a signed statement to exclude all others from participation. Blanks for the chairmen's lists may be obtained in the Office of the Dean of Students. Seth-it amounts t' broadcastin' 8:30 o'clock, in Hill Auditorium. The; program will consist of numbers for two pianos. A limited number of' tickets are still available at the offices of the University Musical Society in Burton Memorial Tower. Charles A. Sink, President. Organ Recital: The public is in- vited to attend a recital by Palmer Christian, University Organist, at 4:15 Wednesday, March 4, in Hill Audi- torium. The program will include compositions by de Heredia, Cleram- bault, Couperin, Mendelssohn, An- driessen, Williams, Maquaire, and an arrangement by Professor Christian of Debussy's Prelude to "La Demoi- selle elui." Exhibitions Ann Arbor Art Association: An ex- hibition of regional art and craft as' represented by the work of Jean Paul Slusser and Charles Culver, painters, and of Mary Chase Stratton and Grover Cole, potters. The Rackham Galleries. Open daily 2-4 and 7-9 except Sunday through March 4. The public is cordially invited to see this important exhibition. No admission charge. Exhibit of Illustrations, University Elementary School: The drawings made by Elinor Blaisdell to illustrate the book "The Emperor's Nephew," by Marian Magoon of the English Department of Michigan State Nor- mal College, Ypsilanti, are on display in the first and second floor corridor cases. Open Monday-Fridayr8 to 5, Saturday, 8-3 through March 14. The public is invited. Lectures University Lecture: Dr. Carl G. Tiaruxn Dn, I-rui ofr 01.ryiuivry o Season Ticket Subscribers for Play t Production of the Department of ] Speech. Stubs are to be exchanged r today through Thursday for "Caval- o leria Rusticana." Because of the t heavy demand for seats, it is advis-- able to get your tickets immediately, t and, if possible, for Wednesday or d Thursday nights. Holders of student ' tickets are reminded that these tick- ets entitle them to seats on the main floor on Wednesday or Thursdayj nights._ _ Academic INotices Biological Seminar will meet onD Wednesday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m.,t in Room 319, West Medical Build-l 'ing. "Vitamin C - Ascorbic Acid"c will be discussed. All interested are invited.r The Botanical Seminar will meett Wednesday, March 4, at 4:30 p.m. in room 1139 Natural Science Building.t Dr. L. E. Wehmeyer will give a paper1 entitled, "The Genus Thyridaria." Allt interested' are invited. Seminar in Physical Chemistry will meet on Wednesday, March 4, in Room 410 Chemistry Building at 4:15 p.m. Prof. R. H. Gillette will speak on "Statistical and Thermodynamici I Interpretation of Ethane." Mathematics Short Course (350a).; Dr. S. Eilenberg will give a shortl course this semester on "Algebraic Methods in Topology," to runfor five weeks, three hours a week. A pre-; liminary meeting will be held on Fri- day at 4 o'clock in 3011 Angell Hall. Graduate Students in Speech: All applicants for advanced degrees in Speech will be required to take the qualifying examinations in Speech on Friday, March 6, starting at 3 p.m. in room 4203 Angell Hall. Speech 31 and 32: Speech and movie by Air Corps Examining Board in room 302, Michigan Union, at 7:30 tnnirht may he used for a lecture re- - - P 999- "You'll have t' stop coniplainin' in publie about yer rheumatism. weather information, nowadays!" Hartman, Professor of Physioiogy aL he University of Illinois, will lecture on the subject, "Two Decades of Pri- mate Studies and Their Influence on Gynecological Thought and Prac- ice" (illustrated), under the auspices of the Department of Anatomy and the Medical School, at 4:15 p.m. to- day in the Rackham Lecture Hall. The public is cordially invited. French Lecture: Professor Antoine J. Jobin, of the Romance Language Department, will give the sixth of the French lectures sponsored by the Cercle Francais on Wednesday, Mar. 4, at 4:15 p.m. in Room D, Alumni Memorial Hall. The title of his lec- ture is: "L'Epopee francaise de L'Amerique dans la litterature cana- dienne." Tickets for the series of lectures may be procured from the Secretary of the Department of Romance Lang- uages (Room 112, Romance Langu- age Building) or at the door at the time of the lecture for a small sum. Holders of these tickets are entitled to admission to all lectures, a small additional charge being made for the Annual French Play. These lectures are open to the gen- eral public. Events Todtay - -1. U. of M. Flying Club: There will b a very important meeting tonight a 9:30 in the Union. It is extremely im portant that all members be present Sigma Rho Tau will meet tonigh at 7:30 in the Union. Speech prac tice will be resumed featuring as signed defense talks and imprompt speeches. All members are requester to attend. The regular Tuesday evening con cert of recorded music in the Men' Lounge of the Rackham Building wil be as follows: Paganine, Concerto No. 1 in D ma jOr. Strauss, Til Eulenspiegels. Tchaikovsky, Nutcracker Suite. Debussy. Pagodes and L'Ile Joyeus and for the American Friend's Serv- ice Committee is continuing every Tuesday afternoon in the Interna- tional Center at 2:30 p.m. All for- eign women and their friends are welcome to come. Merit System committee will meet today in the League at 3:00 p.m. Please be prompt. League House Council will hold a meeting at 5:00 p.m. today in the League. Attendance is required. Episcopal Students: Tea will be served for Episcopal students and their friends at Harris Hall this after- noon, 4:00 to 5:30. Christian Science Organization will meet tonight at 8:15 in the chapel of the Michigan League. Girls' Basketball: Only one game is scheduled in Girls' Basketball to- day. Garrels' team plays Johnson's team at 5:00 o'clock. The meeting of the Bibliophiles Section of the Women's Faculty Club will be held at the League at 2:30 p.m. today. Michigan Dames Swimming Group will meet in the Michigan Union to- night at 8:15. Michigan Dames Art Group will meet tonight at 8:00 with Mrs. C. V. Wellers, 1130 Fair Oaks Pkwy. Coming Events "Cavalleria usticana" and "The impresario" will be presented Wed- ne~day through Saturday nights at 6:30 in the Lydia Mendelssohn The- atre as the fourth production of the season by Play Production of the De- partment of Speech. .This bill of opera is being presented in co-opera- tion with the School of Music, the University Symphony Orchestra, and the University Choir. The box-office will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to- day, and from 10a.m. to 8:30 p.m. the rest of the week. Phone 6300 for reservations. Tickets are $1.10, 83c, and 55c. Program of Recorded Music, Inter- national Center, Wednesday, March 4, 7:30 p.m. The program this week consists of: Strauss, Richard: Don Juan. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, with Rachman- inoff at the piano. Tschaikowsky: Symphony No. 6. German Roundtable, International e Center, will meet on Wednesday eve- ning at 9:00 in Room 23 of the Inter- national Center. Captain Nevzat Gurbuz will speak on "Mascagni und Cavalleria Rusticana" and will illus- trate his talk with records by the solo- ists, chorus, and orchestra of La Scala, Milano. The Slavic Society will hold a meet- ing at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the e International Center. All members t are urged to attend this important - meeting. t. A.I.A.: On Wed., March 4, at 7:30 t p.m. in Room 304, Michigan Union, - there will be a general meeting of the - Student Branch. The guest speaker u will be Mr. Linn Fry, of the firm Fry d and Kasurin, who will speak on "The Relationship Between the Architect and the Client." s Polonia Society will meet Wednes- 11 day evening at 7:30 in the recreation room of the International Center. - Plans for second semester social func- tions will be discussed. Refreshments. Beta Chapter, Iota Alpha: Business e. meeting on Wednesday evening.