THE MICHIGAN DAILY 0 ~i4ton D~ian diy Washington Merry-Uo-Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty Jdated 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 ADVERTI3ING BY National Advertising Service, Inc, College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON Ave. NEw YORK. N. Y. CHICAGO * BOSTON " LOS ANGELES ° SAW FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1941-42 Needed Labor Reform R ECENTLY Governor Herbert Lehman of N.Y. ordered an investigation of numerous charg- es of corruption and kickbacks on a $300,000,000 State project by officers of the Hod Carriers and Common Laborers Union, one of the big AFL building trades units. The probe was long over- due. The Hod Carriers is one of the worst ruled unions in the United States, but there is a deep- er significance to Lehman's probe than airing its alleged racketeering. The investigation will bring to light powerful evidence of the urgent need for clear-cut legis- lation compelling a democratization of union management and regular public accountings of union finances. Organized labor has become big business in the United States. Yet, unlike business, unions are under no real public control. Their finances are handled in strictest secrecy, sp that only in a few unions, can even the members find out what is done with their dues. Also, with a few exceptions, unions are boss-ruled, by officers who in some cases were not even originally elec- ted by the members. Many unions have not had conventions for years. The Hod Carriers Union is one of these. ,Its autocrats did not hold a convention for 30 years - from 1911 to 1941. - and its present head, beefy Joe Moreschi, "assumed" the presi- dency. Nepotism among union officials is even worse than it is in Congress - where it is rampant. John L. Lewis, for example, has four members of his family on his union payroll and it's a rare labor big-shot who doesn't have at least one relative drawing a. fat union salary. Both the AFL and CIO have violently fought all legislative attempts to force them to clean up their internal affairs and to democratize their management. But that isn't all. Pure hctatorshjp MANY UNION MOGULS also resort to dic- tatorial measures to prevent outraged mem- bers from seeking legal relief from plundering. War Of Hatee Ed itorial Staff Emile Gel . Alvin Dann . . David Lachenbruch Jay McCormick Gerald E. Burns Hal Wilson, Janet Hooker. Grace Miller Virginia Mitchell Daniel H. Huyett James B. Collins Louise Carpenter Evelyn Wright . . . . . Managing Editor Editorial Director City Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor 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 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. Congress Persists In Anti-Social Views . - - HUNGRY PEOPLE don't matter; the defense effort is of little import- ance; post-war reconstruction deserves no thought or planning. All that matters, all that is important is that the wicked, scheming New Deal is not allowed to sneak through any of its "sociological" objectives under the guise of emer- gency war measures. Thus, Congress has almost consistently disre- garded the pleading of the President and the advice of Sidney Hillman. Our representatives choose instead to listen to the unwarranted cries of their reactionary fellows and to the frantic bleats of the Chamber of Commerce. And the war effort is forgotten in the mad rush to kill any half-way humanitarian or progressive legis- lation which is introduced by the administration. The House Ways and Means Committee recent- ly rejected by a vote of 16 to 8 the propose $300,000,000 appropriation for unemployment relief of workers who have lost their jobs as a result of industrial conversion to war produc- tion. Not much later, the entire House defeat- ed, 249 to 104, a bill authorizing ex- penditure of Federal funds for development by Federal, state and local. agencies of plans for public works which are intended to meet the shock of a post-war economic crisis. At the present time, the same men who were responsible for the defeat of these two proposals are marshaling their forces for an all-out effort against the latest request of President Roose- velt - an appropriation of $100,000,000 to the WPA to provide work and training for persons who are laid off because industries are being converted to wartime production. BJECTIONS to these proposals have been long and loud and have varied from the ridiculous to the idiotic - they would supposedly be "socialization" and "federalization." They would be "putting a premium on idleness," using the "candy-stick approach" and "impeding the war effort." Rep. Leland Ford claims adminis- tration backing of the bills stems from the fact that "the Government is shot through with mealy-mouth, half-baked, socialistic, racketeer- ing incompetents." If by Government you mean Congress, Mr. Ford, and if you strike out "social- istic," we might almost agree with you. Actually, all of this name-calling on the part of reactionary Congressmen falls piti- fully wide of the mark. The plans to give aid to wartime unemployed do not put a premium on idleness. People are not out of work because they want to be so - when a man's job is ready for him again he will take it and take it gladly. He would rather be working for $50 or more a week than sitting around for $16 or $20 or whatever his relief allows him. Increased aid along the proposed lines will help us to keep our manpower available for the war work in which it is most efficient, will en- courage the temporarily unemployed to remain in their own community while their previous employer is retooling and will provide facilities for training unskilled men in skilled jobs. ASIDE FROM THE MORE TECHNICAL bene- fits of the program, however, there exists a certain humanitarian duty to those persons who - through no fault of their own - are thrown Will Be Grave Error. . 0 T HE CONTENTION that "we must learn to hate" in order to effective- ly fight this war recently published in PM under the byline of foreign correspondent John K. Weiss, may well develop into one of the most serious mistakes in world history unless the idea is immediately and completely forced out of consideration. Prof. John F. Shepard of the psychology de- partment has already attacked a proposal that U.S. Naval cadets be given psychological train- ing to "engender a hatred of our enemies" on the grounds that it would lower morale in the armed forces by making the men cynical of our entire war effort. But upon further considera- tion it becomes apparent that the effects of such a program would probably be much more* far- reaching than that. It was hate, greed and envy and the like which smouldered after the last war and even- tually flared up in the present conflict. Are we, then, to propose that this same hate be culti- vated now, so we can have yet another world war, even greater and more deadly than this one, after another 25 years of "peace?" fHERE CAN BE NO PLACE FOR HATRED in any form if we are to ever return to a world of peace, even though it may be argued that one could hardly profess to love our enemies. But it must be remembered that it isn't personal- ities we're fighting, but rather principles which have developed as a direct result of the hate which was fostered by the last war. Hate, even more so than other emotions, can- not be turned on or off at will, and a hate gen- erated at the present time would at best die a very slow death after the war. In the mean- while peace efforts would be hampered if not halted altogether by that same hatred, and once again we would have won the war and lost the peace. We must remember that we are not fighting only to bring Germany and her allies to their knees so we can enjoy a few more years of dub- ious peace while hatred again prepares the way for a third world war; anyone who believes that to be our goal is sadly mistaken. Our aims must be much more broad; we are fighting for not just a few years' peace, but for a permanent one. And that peace, in order to be permanent, must of necessity be based not on hate but upon love - upon the "Good Neigh- bor" policy so successfully used in South Ameri- ca. TfHERE IS NO NEED to create a "will to die for their country" in the men fighting for America's future; true Americans already have that will, and the few others would be as im- pervious to psychological attention as they are to the many heritages for which they already owe America. Instill a feeling of active patriotism? By all means; but leave hatred for our enemies out of the picture. Hatred put us into this war; only overcoming that hatred will get us out of it and prevent yet another. -Charles Thatcher shelter. Since at least 1932 we have accepted the idea that the federal government has a The HCCLU is one of the unions that uses such methods. An example of such tactics occurred recently at Key West, Fla., where extensive government building operations are in progress. Without even going through the motions of consulting their members, the Hod Carriers' organizer in Miami ordered a consolidation of the two locals in Key West and installed several of his hench- men as officers of the combined unit. When, after months of battling, the Key Westers called a meeting, elected their own officers and demanded an accounting, the or- ganizer set aside the election as illegal and his henchmen refused to turn over the books. When the members hired a lawyer, the or- ganizer issued a ukase that unless they dropped the legal action he would fire them from the union - and thus, in effect, deprive them of their means of livelihood. The members, how- ever, refused to scare, and court hearings brought out some very interesting facts. It was disclosed that at the HCCLU conven- tion last September, dictatorial provisions were written into the union's constitution without knowledge of the membership at large. Also that although monthly meetings are prescribed for all Locals, none had been held in Key West for months. Also that, without previous know- ledge by the members, dues were jumped from $1 to $1.50 a month. When some members refused to pay the boost, the organizer had them discharged from their jobs under threat of pulling a strike unless they were fired. Further, one of the rebel officers testified that before the consolidation his Local had a ,979 bank balance, but that afterwards he could find no trace of the money. No evidence was presented in court of what had become of these funds - taken out of the pay of the workers in the form of dues. Note: Senator Elbert Thomas, of Utah, chair- man of the Senate Labor Committee and a friend of labor, is quietly working on legislation to com- pel unions to make public financial reports. Dominic Stays A SECOND MALVERN has just closed its ses- sions. This meeting of Churchmen to pro- ject a basis for peace was called at Delaware, Ohio. Their findings will be presented within a few days. The Church and the war is a theme which, to the man outside the church, is being discus- sed on secondary issues. While the statesmen, the engineers, the armed forces, and the defense leaders are struggling to prevent a determined enemy from Nazifying humanity and writing their specifications for the future, the organized religious forces seem to be diverting thought and lessening the total striking power. How true or how false that apparent fact is will be de- cided by time. It is well to consider that a defi- nite understanding of the issues is needed if we expect our people to work unitedly - that the emotions which can be mobilized and directed by leaders in religion, once centered upon an acceptable ideal, give a people coherent force- that one of the four freedom's, that of worship, has always been under the direction of the clergy and there is need to increase the apprec- iation of worship as well as the practice of it in families and congregations if this interest is to serve either the men in action or the people at home. These considerations should cause even the skeptics to look with favor upon efforts to decide how we reached a world war, which evils need to be corrected and what aims should en- gage us as we enlist for the duration. Also, there are inquiries as to range of interest on the part of clergymen and religious laymen. They "get adrift," spill over their spiritual and ethical disputations into the fields of economics, politics, production, commerce and what not, says the critic. In so saying the critic betrays his desire to confine religion to its "priestly" ele- ment. He would have churchmen stick to adora- tion of the deity, the conduct of worship, min- istry of the sacraments, care of the sanctuary, consecration of marriage and burial of the dead. To be certain these are functions of the clergy and a phase of every religion. But, which relig- ion can ever separate itself from the ethics of its people, be deaf to the cries of the oppressed, ignore the behavior of the strong and the weak in a free concourse, or wisely fail to look ahead toward the social and bread-and-butter conse- quences of any social movement? There is al- ways the "prophetic" or the creative element in religion, the code which follows faith. LIKEWISE, there is impatience on the part of many because Christians differ so widely between pacifism at one end of the scale and a use of force at the opposite end. This spread will become a means of strength if we can main- tain good will and come to specific objectives. Just now we are at the stage when that search for objectives is going forward with intensive zeal. One cannot fail to be inspired by the deep sincerity and sturdy will with which Jews, Catholics and Protestants, in spite of their lack of communication ordinarily in peace time, are dealing with issues raised by the World War. It should be the part of University men and women to give time to social phenomena. To do so we will all have to read more widely than the Time magazine or even the liberal weeklies. The religious magazines, the information sheet from the Federal Council of Churches, the messages fln*A t-A icnn i Cfhli Ficnn~orMth_ 4 (Continued from Page 2)E sics, radio electronics. For O-VP)C majors in mechanical, electrical, chemical, industrial, administrative,s radio engineering, physics with back-F ground mathematics including dif- ferential equations. For D-V(P) ma- jors in business administration or4 com m erce._ _ Schools of Education, Forestry andv Conservation, Music, and PublicV Health: Students who received marksV of I or X at the close of their last term of attendance (viz., semester or ti summer session) will receive a gradeL of E in the course unless this work F is made up by March 12. Students wishing an extension of time beyond this date should file a petition ad- f dressed to tje appropriate official int their school with Room 4 U.H., where P it will be transmitted.o Robt. L. Williams i Assistant Registrarr Concentration Advisers, College of SL.S. and A.: Any adviser wishing toF have courses outside the departmenta or division counted in the C average required in the field of concentra- tion for tentative May seniors should notify the Registrar's Office, Roomc 4, U. Hall. The office will assume that no courses outside the depart- ment are to be included unless ae report is filed by March 20, 1942. Requests should be in writing giv-9 ing the names of the individual stu-c dents to be affected and the specificv courses outside the department to bef counted. Robert L. Williams, Assistant Registrar.C Students, College of Literature,C Science, and the Arts: Students whose records carry reports of I or X either from the first semester, 1941-42, or (if they have not been in1 residence since that time) from anyC former session, will receive grades oft E unless the work is completed by March 9. l Petitions for extensions of time, with the written approval of the in-e structors concerned, should be ad-1 dressed to the Administrative Boardt of the College, and presented to Roomr 4, University Hall, before March 9.< E. A. Walter 1 Faculty of the College of Litera- ture, Science, and the Arts: The five- week freshman reports will be due Saturday, March 14, in the Academ- ic Counselors' Office, 108 Mason1 Hall. Arthur Van Duren, Chairman. Mentor Reports: Reports on stand-I ings of all Engineering freshmenx will be expected from faculty mem- bers, during the 6th and again dur- ing the 11th weeks of the semester. These two reports will be due about March 11 and April 15. Report blanks will be furnished to Miss Buda, Of- fice of the Dean, (Extension 575), who will handle the reports; other- wise, call A. D. Moore, Head Mentor, Extension 2136. Senior Chemists, Chemical, Me- chanical and Industrial Engineers: Mr. E. W. Oldham of The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company will inter- view Seniors in the above groups on Wednesday, Mar. 11, and Thursday, Mar. 12. The March 11 interviews may be scheduled in the Chemical Engineer- ing Department, 2038 East Engineer- ing Building, and on March 12 in the Mechanical Engineering Department, 221 West Engineering Bldg. Application blanks and booklets are available in each Department and blanks must be filled out in advance. Engineering, methods analysis, and s design, or in the Procter & Gamble 1 Company. If interested, sign the interviewp schedule on the bulletin board near Rm. 221 W. Engr. Bldg.u Mechanical, Industrial, Chemical, & Metallurgical Seniors: Mr. H. M. Washburn of The Prest-O-Lite Co.,u Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, will inter- view Seniors in the above groups on Wednesday, Mar. 11, in Room 218 West Engineering Building. Those interested may sign the in n erviewv schedule on the Mechanical n EngineeringBulletin Board, nearb Rm. 221 W. Eng. Bldg. Graduate Students withdrawingi from the University after at least two weeks of a semester for the pur- pose of entering the armed forces of the United States (including clerks n civilian service) are entitled to pro- rated refund of semester fees and pro-rated credit on the recommenda- tion of the department concerned.I For further information please call at the office of the Graduate Schooo C. S. Yoakum o Graduate Students: Attention is called to the regulation that diploma applications .must be received early in the semester in which a degree is expected. Applications filed in any previous semester in which the de- gree was not awarded will not be carried over for a May degree and it will be necessary in such cases toI file another application this semester. Doctoral students are remindedC that dissertations will be due in the< office of the Graduate School ons April 6 instead of April 20 as previ- ously announced. C. S. Yoakum G Kothe-Hildner Annual Germanr Language Award offered students inI Course 32. The contest, a transla- tion test, carries two stipends of $20 and $30 and will be held the latter part of this month. The fund from which the awards are payable was established in 1937 by Herman W.( Kothe, '10L, in honor of lately re- I tired Professor Jonathan A. C. Hild- ner, under whom Kothe studied. Stu- dents who wish to compete and whof have not yet handed in their appli- cations should do so immediately in 204 U.H. Caroline Hubbard Kleinstueck Fel- lowship: This award of $500 is of- fered by the Kalamazoo Alumnae Group for the year 1942-43. It is' open to any woman with an A.B. degree from an accredited college or university and is available for gradu- ate work in any field. A graduate of the University of Michigan may use the award for study wherever she wishes but a graduate of any other college or university must continue her work at Michigan. Candidates showing ability for creative work will be given special consideration. Ap- plication blanks may be obtained at the Alumnae office in the Michigan League or at the Office of the Dean of Women and should be returned not later than March 15. The University Bureau of Appoint- ments wishes to announce that rep- resentatives of the Post Products Co. in Battle Creek, Michigan will be in our office on Wednesday, March 11, 1942, to interview Mechanical Eng- ineers. Appointments may be made at the Bureau of Appointments, 201 Mason Hall. Office hours 9-12 and 2-4. Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information Mechanical Engineers: Member- "Any of yo' folks care to secede from the Union?" DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN I t vou coL L ro Z a L"t T ANA vF 1HTERNAL. GtitANG-E I c vtr.svE l.-EFF - - r.: ;- .. t .,t. ON A3 Yl. ,raduate competition for cash prizes t the next meeting of the society on 4areli 18. These should be turned n to J Templar, '42E, or W K ffel, 2E, as soon as possible. Academic Notices The Bacteriological Seminar will eet in fRoom 1564 East Medical 3uilding, Monday, March 9, at 8:00 .m. The subject will be "Dysentery," kl interested are cordially invited. Biological Chemistry Seminar will )e held on Tuesday. March 10, at :30 p.m., in Room 319, Wet Medi- zal Building. "Protein Hydrolysates in Nutrition - Problems in the Re- 'eneration of Blood and Tissues" will e discussed. -All interested are in- ited. University Oratorical ('ontest: Pre- liminary contest will be held Friday, March 13, at 4:00 p.m. in room 4203 Angell Hall. A five-minute talk on the subject of the oration will be required. Contestants will please reg- ister in the Speech Department of- ice, 3211 Angell Hall. Economies 52 make-up final ex- unnation Friday, March 13, at 3:00 p.m., in Room 207 Ec. Concerts Student Recital: Edward Ormond, violinist, will present a recital at 1:15 p.m. Sunday, March 8, in Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, in partial ful- fillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Music degree. His pro- ;ram will include works of Brahms, Chausson and Glazounov. . The public is cordially invited. Organ Recital: Palmer Christian, University Organist, yill conclude the Wednesday afternoon series for the season with his recital in Hill Audi- orium at 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, March 11. le plans to give his usual programr on Good Friday, April, 3, nd another on Easter Sunday. These wvill be followed by a series of Sunday afternoon recitals by other members of the faculty of the School of Music and Claire Coi, guest organist, who will appear oan April 2). Exhibitions Exhibit of Illustrations, University Elementary School: The drawings made by Elinor Blaisdell to illustrate he book "The Emperor's Nephew," y Marian Magoon of the English Department of Michigan State Nor- mal College, Ypsilanti, are on display in the first and second flor corridor cases. Open Monday-Friday 8 to 5, Saturday, 8-3 through March 14, The public is invited. Lectures University Lectures: Lectures by Dr. Carl F. Cor iandDr. Gerty T. Con of the Department of Pharmacol- ogy,' Washington University Medical School, will be given as follows: "The Role of Enzymes in Carbo- hydrate Metabolism," by Dr. Carl F. Cori, on Friday, March 27, at 4:15 p.m. "The Isolation and Properties of Some Enzymes Concerned with Car- bohydrate Metabolism," by Dr. Gerty T. Cori, on Friday, March 27, at 8:15 p.m. "The Enzymatic Conversion of Glucose to Glycogen," by Dr. Carl F. Cori, on Saturday, March 28, at 11:00 a.m. All the above lectures will be given' in the Rackham Amphitheater and will be illustrated. This series is un- der the auspices of Biological Chem- istry and the Medical School. The public is cordially invited. Events Today Varsity Glee Club: The second ten- ors will rehearse at 3:30 p.m. to- day, and the full rehearsal will be- gin at 4:30 p.m. Tardiness will con- stitute an unexcused absence. All members who have not yet checked out music folders are asked to bring their deposit Sunday. Michigan Outing Club will have a hike this afternoon and will leave the Women's Athletic Building at 2:30 p.m. All students are welcome to attend. Each one should bring his own supper. The group will hike to the old windmill out Geddes Road. The Lutheran SItndent Association will hold its regular supper hour at 5:30 p.m. and its Forum H our at 7 o'clock this evening. Mr. Eric Lis- sell will speak on "The Influence of Christianity on the Scandinavian Way of Life." Hillel Foundation: 'There will be a party celebrating the Jewish holiday of Purim this evening at 7:30, at the Hillel Foundation, sponsored by Avu- kah. Brief discussion, traditional re- freshments, group dancing, commun- ity singing and choosing of a modern Queen Esther make up the program. Everyone is invited. Episcopal Students: The Reverend John G. Dahl will speak on monastic- ism at the meeting of the Episcopal Student Guild at 7:00 tonight in Har- ris Hall. Compline and refreshments. All students invited. Gamma Delta Lutheran Student Club will have its regular fellowship supper at 6:00 tonight at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. A discussion on