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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.
PaisRaid Eflds
Appeasement l Era . .
W HEN BRITISH BOMBS fell on a
Paris suburb last week, they des-
troyed not only the Renault motor works but
the last vestiges of appeasement. For with that
air raid, the period of attempted appeasement
of Vichy France appeared ended.
Having harvested the fruits of other appease-
ments, both Great Britain and the United States
had made and now finally surrendered their
last great effort to win a concrete and beneficial
result with that much-discredited policy. Since
the fall of France in 1940 and the subsequent
beginning of the new government, the Allies
have soft-pedaled the problem of the Vichy re-
gime and the either potential or actual French
collaboration with the Axis.
SFTER ALL, had not the new rulers promised
to protect the French Empire? What more
could be expected of a country divided by occu-
pying forces and millions of whose sons were
still prisoners of war? In those first months an
appeasement policy could be justified. As it
became more apparent, however, that some of
those in influential positions at Vichy were pro-
Axis and would do all in their power to aid in
the defeat of the Allies, it was obvious that an
appeasement plan was doomed to failure.
The illusion that any such plan could
succeed was further shaken by the handing
over of Indo-China and the realization that
French factories were working for the Nazi
war machine. Persons in this country, nev-
'ertheless, still cluing to the rather slim hope
that a mild front towards the Vichymen
was keeping the French fleet from the grasp
of Hitler. They did not sense that it was
really the pro-democratic feelings of the
French sailors that prevented German ab-
sorption of the navy. Had Darlan been able
to and the Nazi price high enough, no doubt
he would have tried to turn the fleet over
long ago.
Since the United States' protest against the
Free-French occupation of San Pierre and Mi-
quelon and the resultant criticism of that pro-
test, a gradual change in the attitude towards
Vichy has been noted. Provisioning of Vichy-
Empire territory with United States supplies
has been stopped. Not so long ago, Undersec-
retary of State Sumner Welles demanded that
the government of unoccupied France explain
the reports that General Rommel's African arm-
ies were being sent supplies from French Tu-
nisia. Unsatisfied with the "explanation", Welles
insisted upon an elaboration. Meanwhile Amer-
ican recognition of the seizure of several French
Pacific Isles by de Gaullists had been given.
THIS GRADUAL ADOPTION of a firmer stand
on the French issue culminated in the British
bombing last week, although all along Great
Britain had been less hopeful than Washington
of cooperation with Petain. As Welles'said, the
attack was "a legitimate act of war." It is un-
fortunate that the lives of so many of innocent
people had to be lost. But down in their hearts,
probably every oppressed and freedom-loving
Frenchman cheered the act.
Even more unfortunate would be the acce-

Drew Pa ro
RobeitS.Alleu
(The authors of The Washington Merry-Go-
Round, believing that the President should be
consistent with his 1937 campaign of retiring
elderly judges from the Supreme Court, have
written a series of articles on the "Four Old
Men" who hold vital war jobs in the Roosevelt
Cabinet - Secretary of War Stimson, Secretary
of State Hull, Secretary of the Navy Knox and
Secretary of Comnnerce Jones - all around 70.
Herewith is the last of the series, an appraisal
of Jesse Jones.-Ed.)M
WASHINGTON - For half a century Jesse
Jones' life was dominated by things political,
and having now reached his 68th year, it is not
easy for him to change.
FEW people realize how political is the ma-
chinery which ground out the loans of the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation. All its of-
ficials were trained to be political. When the
average applicant, often accompanied by his
Congressman, asked for a loan, a regular sys-
tem was developed for giving him the run-
around. Letters were written back and forth
for weeks and months.
This was studied and deliberate. A definite
run-around technique was evolved. Apparently
Jesse Jones thought it was his function to lend
as little as possible -- to discourage everything
except gilt-edged loans.
And having spent years developing this tech-
nique, it is almost impossible for Jesse Jones
and his organization to reverse themselves over-
night. That is why, when loans are desperately
needed for certain war plants, Jesse Jones and
his loan boys continue on their blase, unper-
turbed way, still passing out the royal run-
around.
Jesse Jones just isn't geared for quick-moving,
streamlined finance. Yet as Federal Loan Ad,
ministrator he has the power of financial life
or death over vital war plants.
Still Playing Texas Politics
FOR INSTANCE, no metal is more urgently
needed today than tin. And yet, even two
years ago, the State Department, the Defense
Commission and even the columnists knew there
was grave risk that the Dutch East Indies might
be taken, and that we should safeguard our
future tin supply. All during the summer of
1940, in fact, the State Department dinned at
Jesse Jones to set up a tin smelter inside the
United States to handle tin from Bolivia. But
Jesse did nothing.
Six months passed; nine month; almost a
year. Jesse had agreed by this time that a
smelter should be built, but sent an investi-
gator to determine where it should be located.
This took several weeks more.
Finally, at long last, the Loan Administrator
made his decision. He decided to put the plant
just outside his own home town of Houston,
Texas. Jesse, it seems, had been political to
the very end.
Note: Nobody really minded Jesse's being po-
litical as much as they objected to the waste of
time.
Jesse Has Friend
OF COURSE, if you happen to know the Feder-
al Loan Administrator personally and plea-
santly, loans sometimes move a lot faster. The
bright boys around Jesse still remember-the time
they had turned down a loan to O. P. Van Swer-
ingen, famous financier of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Nickel Plate, and Erie Railroads. Although
the loan was vetoed, Van Sweringen was smart
enough to find out the' number of Jesse's draw-
ing room on a trip to Florida and bought a

ticket for the one adjacent. Next day, Jesse
wired to the RFC in Washington to give Van
Sweringen the loan.
Then there was the case of the Cretona silk
mills near Paterson, N.J., whose application
for a loan was refused by the RFC New York
Office. Then the very charming and highly
social Count Ponirtovsky intervened. The loan
came through. The mills are now in receiver-
ship.
In fact the files of the RFC have a long list of
"favored loans," disapproved locally but granted
later on Jesse Jone's OK in Washington.
Vital Troo psips
IfN CONTRAST John W. Snyder, vice-president
of the Defense Plant Corporation and one
the Maritime Commission demanfing that it
of Jesse's right hand men, recently telephoned
take over about $50,000,000 worth of loans ex-
tended to General Electric, Westinghouse, et al,
for constructing gears and turbines for vitally
needed ships. Despite considerable argument,
Snyder-got nowhere with the Maritime Commis-
sion, which maintained that he, not the Mari-
time Commission, was running a loan agency,
and should continue the loan on his books. Fin-
ally Snyder said:
"If you don't take this over, we'll hold up any
further disbursements."
"And if you do," was the reply, "you'll hold up
troopships which the President wants almost
more than anything else. Just figure out whether
you want Congress to hear about that."
Mr. Snyder changed the subject.

The]Reply Churlish
by TOUCHSTON
THE WEEKEND'S MAIL included a genuine
signed form letter from Mr. Richard K. Ab-
bott, editor of Writer's Digest. I do not know
which of my good friends has played merry with
me at the expense of Writer's Digest, and what-
ever person or persons unknown who paid the
postage due on the sample copy of the maga-
zine. Perhaps I am overly suspicious; it may be
that I am starred on a sucker list somewhere,
and that is how Mr. Richard K. Abbott heard
about me, but I cannot recall having recently
sent away for cut price razor blades, porno-
graphic literature of any sort, or advice on my
insurance problems to any of the match book
concerns. And I am not sure if the editorial staff
of the magazine knows whether I am a rooster
or a hen, for the form letter calls me "Miss"-
(my own sweet name must here remain as in-
scrutable as my mysterious personality), while
the sample copy came to just plain old me,
scrawled in a childlike hand, and without a
stamp.
Mr. Richard K. Abbott invites me to collabo-
rate with the Writer's Digest Personal Collabora-
tion Course. I was rather flattered by the tone
of the letter. "We enroll," Mr. Abbott tells me,
"some beginning students, though most of our
work is with authors who have corns on their
typewriter fingers." Aside from the misplace-
ment of writer's corns, you have, Mr. Abbott,
something there, to use the vernacular. And, Mr.
Abbott, you know, again to use the vernacular,
what you can do with it. The price of the course
for those of you who are interested and can read,
is less than forty dollars, refunded within thirty
days if you don't like it when you got it.
TAKE THE LIBERTY of reprinting here a few
testimonials from satisfied users of the course.
One pleased gentleman says: "I was tickled pink
though, on what you had to say about 'Master of
Men.' As soon as my third assignment receives
its final polish and is mailed to you, I'll rewrite
and send it to the markets you suggested, giv-
ing you the response received. Thanks for all
you've done for me so far, Mr. Temko-I don't
see how I can fail to produce salable material
eventually.--" Now you just keep on trying, sir,
and get your assignments in on time.
And another one, a long one from a lady in
Utica, says: "I was very pleased to receive your
letter of April 13th re my collaboration course
with you, on which I realize I have fallen down
sadly.
"I can give no reason for it, except to say that
I have dreaded revising my work, and your let-
ter gave me an incentive to do it.
"I have recently sold two stories to our local
bank magazine-'That the Days May Be Long'
and 'Harried hy Henry,' for which I received $25
each.
"As I have probably told you, I am President
of the Writers' Group of Utica, which meets
each Thursday night. We have different as-
signments given by the members, and it is both
interesting and instructive. We are now plan-
ning a contest in our own group; probably a story
of not to exceed 3,000 words. Have not decided
just how to handle the awarding of prizes.-"
And if you're ever in Utica, drop in some Thurs-
day night and meet tIhe girls.
ONE of the great American convictions, a para-
dox in good standing, is that anyone can
write, that somewhere locked within his time-
worn soul each of us carries a great story. Any-
one can write-but writers are different sort of-
well you know what I mean they travel, and if
bold they drink, and all those things you have
always wanted to do. On this artistic conviction
such "Mags" as Writer's Digest "click." Their
"markets" are good. "You Can Write." So long
until soon.
Press Must Intensify
Just Criticism . .
CIVIL LIBERTIES have often suffer-
ed from court decisions based more

on glorified legal technicalities than on essential
justice and recognition of social need.
For his realistic attack on this tradition, Pre-
siding Justice James P. Hill of the New York
Supreme Court, Appellate Division, deserves
much commendation.
And whether intended or not, the timing of
his spirited defense of a newspaper's right to
criticize threw the alarming implications of the
Van Nuys' "hush-hush" bill into sharp uncoi-
plimentary focus.
Justice Hill declared in the majority opinion
that "national legislators who participate in for-
mation of governmental policies should be held
to strictest accountability."
He continued: "This is promoted through free
exercise of the right to criticize official acts.
The people furnish legislators with an intensive
and expressive secretariat and give them the
right to use the mails at public expense.
"With these opportunities of personal
praise and propaganda, opposition news-
papers and editorial writers should not be
limited to weak, tepid and supine criticism
and discussion."
Whether the Binghamton paper involved ex-
ceeded the bounds of reasonable restraint, as
indicated by the controversial 3-2 vote, is not
firmly established nor is it important. The
"hush-hushers" must admit that.
AND they must be brought to admit that any
bill which embodies broad powers to clamp
down on a press that lashes pensions for Con-
gressmen, or Farm Bloc-ers who stay awake
nights thinking up ways to hasten inflation, or
corruption, or inefficiency or what-have-you is

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HEAT, LIGHT, GAS, WATER
Let us use these as we would in our
own homes whether in class rooms,
offices, dormitories, or hallways. But
let us not injure our eye-sight or our
health. Let us worry more about the
lights for which we can be regarded
as personally responsible than about
those some one else is using. But let
no one hesitate to turn off electricity,
water, or gas anywhere when he finds
it "in use" with nobody benefiting.
STATIONERY AND SUPPLIES
All scrap paper is collected, baled,
and sold. It is not wasted. But see
to it that the absolute minimum of
paper that with care might have been
"good paper" gets into the scrap bas-
ket. Compose, space, and margin let-
ters so that unless truly necessary
they do not run over a single sheet.
For campus mailing, except in cases
of confidential matter, leave the en-
velope unsealed to be used over and
over again. Write addresses on such
envelopes in such way that orderly
space will be left for the next user
without making it necessary for the
campus messengers to solve a puzzle
to see for whom it is intended. Large
envelopes for such continuing use
have long been available from the
Storehouse. Never thro'w away pins,
clips, or rubber bands until they are
broken. Don't waste paper towels;
we can shake most of the water off
our hands before we have recourse
to the towel.
FOOD
Residents of dormitories have lit-
erally contributed a good deal during
the past year to maintenance of the
present rates for board by their co- I
operation in avoiding waste of food.
This type of conservation can go
farther, in the hospitals, in the
League, and in the Union.
GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS
Stay on the sidewalks, summer or
winter. The unlovely snow fences
standing here and there on the Cam-
pus are a tribute to people who make
short-cuts, though in most cases the
business they have to attend to after
they have saved their few yards by
taking the short-cut hardly justifies
the expense to which the University
will be put in the spring and summer
to repair the lawns and hedges.
Somebody has to pick up, mop up,
or sweep up all the litter thrown
around on the floors and steps of
buildings, to say nothing of the fact
that during the present year three
fires have been started by careless
smokers.
IN GENERAL
Almost everything the University
buys and uses is a critical material.
If you or I use it, somebody else in
the University or the country will do
without. Our need may justify our
use; nothing will justify waste. Don't
requisition equipment which may be
available in some other department or
laboratory that will lend it to you.
Please communicate either to the
Business Office or to the Superin-
tendent of Buildings and Grounds
any ideas that may occur to you now
or later for saving time, labor, or
material. Your suggestions will be
gratefully received and passed on to
the campus in general, unless there
is definitely found to be something
that would make their adoption in-
expedient. If you see any materialI
anywhere which seems to you to be
waste, -patricularly metals, -that
could be disposed offor useful scrap
you are especially asked to notify the
Business Office or the Superintendent
of Buildings and Grounds.
FINALLY
There is, finally, submitted for your
consideration some Vermont aphor-
isms which have enabled people to
live and to accumulate, even on New
England hill farms. Perhaps they
are not out of place for the Univer-

sity and the whole country in war
time:
Eat it up.
Make it do.
Wear it out.
Do without.
Respectfully submitted,
Shirley W. Smith
Notice in re University Property
Removed from the City or off Uni-
versity Property: Any University
representative having charge of Uni-
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
noticehadubeen 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
Apparatus Exchange: The Regents
authorize the sale- of scientific appar-
atus by one department to another,
the proceeds of the sale to be credit-
ed to the budget account of the de-
partment from which the apparatus
is transferred, under following con-
ditions.
Departments having apparatus
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returned to the department fromI
which it was received. The objecta
of this arrangement is to promoten
economy by reducing the amount of2
unused apparatus. It is hoped that
departments having such apparatus
will realize the advantage to them-
selves and to the University in avail-
ing themselves of this opportunity.r
Shirley W. Smithe
Home Loans: The University In-$
vestwnent office, 100 South Wing, will
be glad to consult with anyone con-a
sidering building or buying a home
or refinancing existing mortgagest
and is eligible to make F.H.A. loans.v
Detroit Armenian Women's Clubh
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 theV
Detroit metropolitan district whof
demonstrate scholastic ability andi
possess good character and who havep
had at least one year of college workr
are eligible. Further informationa
may be obtained from me.,
Dr. Frank E. Robbins,s
1021 Angell Hall e
Applicants for Commissions in Na-t
val Reserve: Members Senior Class-f
es will be recommended for appoint-2
ment Ensigns E-V (P), O-V (P), A-Va
(P), and CC-V(P). Also Seniors who
are candidates for degree in Business
Administration or Commerce for ap-
pointment as Ensign D-V(P). Qual-
ified applicants to be commissionedr
immediately. Designation to bet
changed to special service upon re-t
ceipt of degree. Seniors and JuniorsI
of accredited non-technical collegesI
who are candidates for any college
degree provided they are majoringc
in subjects related to the classifica-I
tion applied for, namely: for A-V (P)t
majors in aeronautical, electrical1
specializing in high frequence radios
electronics, communications, mechan-c
ics specializing in internal combus-c
tion, civil engineering, meteorology,I
architecture, geology. For CC-V(P) y
majors in architecture. For E-V(P)
majors in electrical, mechanical, die-
sel, civil, chemical engineering, phy-
sics, radio electronics. For O-V(P)
majors in mechanical, electrical,1
chemical, industrial, administrative,
radio engineering, physics with back-i
ground mathematics including dif-
ferential equations. For D-V(P) ma-(
jors in business administration or(
commerce.t
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.
Concentration Advisers, College of
L.S. and A.: Any adviser wishing to
have courses outside the department
or division counted in the C average
required in the field of concentra-
tion for tentative May seniors should
ndtify the Registrar's Office, Room1
4, U. Hall. The office will assume'
that no courses outside the depart-
ment are to be included unless a
report is filed by March 20, 1942.
Requests should be in writing giv-
ing the names of the individual stu-
dents to be affected and the specific
courses outside the department to be
counted.
Robert L. Williams,
Assistant Registrar.
Kothe-Hildner Annual German
Language Award offered students in
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-
tired Professor Jonathan A. C. Hild-

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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
The Bureau of Appointments has
received notice of the following Unit-
ed States Civil Service Examinations.
Addressograph Operator, $1,260 to
$1,440, until further notice.
Radio Inspector, $2,000 to $2,600,
April 21, 1942.
Further information may be ob-
tained from the announcement,
which is on file at the Bureau of Ap-
pointments, 201 Mason Hall, office
hours 9-12 and 2-4.
Bureau of Appointments and
Occupational Information
The Aberdeen Proving Ground,
War Department, located four miles
from Aberdeen, Maryland, is seek-
ing the services of Assistant Com-
puters at a salary of $1,620 per an-
num, and Junior Computers at a sal-
ary of $1,440 per annum. The fol-
lowing vacancies now exist: 25 As-
sistant Computers, 25 Junior Comput-
ers.
Further information may be ob-
tained from the notice, which is on
file at the Bureau of Appointments,
201 Mason Hall. Office hours 9-12
and 2-4.
Bureau of Appointments and
Occupational Information
The Bureau of Appointments has
received notice of the opening of poi-
tions for men and women as psychia-
tric aides at the Neuro-Psychiatric
Institute of the Hartford Retreat.
Hartford, Connecticut. Although this
is a position in which the psychology
or sociology student is most apt to
be interested, it is not essential that
the persons selected for openings here
have majored in the field of social
studies. Further information may be
obtained from the annoncement
which is on file in the office of the
Bureau of Appointments, 201 Mason
Hall. Office hours, 9-12 and 2-4.
Bureau of Appointments and
Occupational Information
The Harvard School of Dental
Medicine has announced an acceler-
ated schedule. A course in dental
medicine is offered at Harvard Uni-
versity. Training in medicine and
dentistry is given in a five-year
course, at the completion of which
the degrees of M.D. and of D.M.D.
will be awarded. All students are
enrolled in the Harvard Medical
School as well as in the Harvard
School of Dental Medicine.
Further information may be ob-
tained from the announcement on file
in the office of the Bureau of Ap-
pointments, 201 Mason Hall. Office
hours, 9-12 and 2-4.
Bureau of Appointments and
Occupational Information
Academic Notices
Biological Chemistry Seminar will
be held tonight at 7:30, in Room 319,
West Medical Building. "Protein
Hydrolysates in Nutrition - Prob-
lems in the Regeneration of Blood
and Tissues" will be discussed. All
interested are invited.
Chemistry Colloquium will be held
Wednesday, March 11, in 303 Chem-
istry Building at 4:15 p.m. Dr. Nor-
man Bauer will speak on "Dispersion
and refraction of light by free and
bonded ions," and Prof. K. Fajans
on "Hydrogen bond, boron hydrides
and other valence anomalies."
Economics 53 make-up final ex-
amination Friday, March 13, at 3:00
p.m., in Room 207 Ec.
University Oratorical Contest: Pre-
liminary contest will be held Friday,
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