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Spring Housecleaning
And Our Services . .
II
TIHE RECENT reorganization of the
Army and Navy on war-functional
lines as opposed to the old peace-time house-
leeping organization, may well indicate a fun-
damental change of strategic policy too.
It is to be sincerely hoped that the Congress-
dictated policy of defensive establishments with
rihere token forces for offensive operations has
been finally and definitely abandoned for at
least as long as the present war shall last.
"THE BEST DEFENSE is a good offense" is so
axiomatic in the art of war that until the
rather recent popularization of the notion of a
considerable American offensive in the press
and civilian-directed books, military people
fnever even considered the necessity for discuss-
ing the question.
It appears, however, that despite the lessons
of the very war in which we are now engaged,
to say nothing of the accumulatedrexperience
of generals since the first written report of a
battle, there are still those who believe that by
sitting on our productive capacity and waging
the battle of the Atlantic with supplies we will
lick the cohorts of the Austrian corporal "some
day."
THE FALLACY of trusting to time alone
should now be proved to all. Japan has been
waging a bankrupting war on China since 1937
with immediate financial collapse predicted
annually. The only successful war of attrition
is being fought by Russia and the method is to
attack and counter-attack until the forces of the
enemy have been first licked to a standstill and
then forced back.
The story of the Allied "war effort" to date
is one of last-ditch defense - and magnificent
retreat. Granted that these are important
phases of warfare and that they have been car-
ried out excellently, the fact remains that they
cost us territory and men and have gained us
nothing but experience.
In trying to defend adequately all United Na-
tions possessions and supply lines we permit our
adversary to select the time and ground for
battle. The argument that we cannot spare
from one point on our lines enough troops and
material to launch an offensive elsewhere is
absolutely invalid.
THE MOMENT an offensive is begun, not only
will a large number of hostile troops be
fixed, but the enemy command will be loath to
send reinforcements to any other part of the
globe. The mere fact of enemy doubt as to the
issue of an Allied offensive will be a factor in
establishing strategic superiority.
Spring is the traditional season for the begin-
ning of campaigns. Let us hope that when the
chronicle of the present war appears the spring
of 1942 will be remembered for the realization
in war of spring potentialities.
- William A. MacLeod
Can Aid Be Sent
To General MacArthur?
CONGRESSMEN and private citizens
who persist in publicity-seeking
speeches on sending aid to General MacArthur
and other beleaguered Far Eastern islands may
yet stir up enough trouble to force an issue about
which they know very little. On the face of it,
the whole idea of speech making about Mac-
C$re e&O e
Robed S.Alley
WASHINGTON - Japan's sub rosa propa-
ganda campaign among the Negroes is not ex-
pected to get anywhere in this country. Color-
ed citizens have been among the most patriotic
in joining up. However, it is another matter
in the Philippines, where Jap propaganda seems
to be having some effect. That is why Mac-
Arthur ordered a lot of propaganda leaflets.
Filiio Quislings
Reports received here are that high Filipino
officials have gone over to the puppet Japanese
Government much more than the public rea-
lizes.
Among them are the following:
Claro Recto, formerly a Supreme Court Jus-
tice, and former counsel for foreign gold mines,
now new puppet Minister of Education.
Jose Yulo, former Minister of Justice, and
speaker of the House, now Chief Justice of the
Philippines.
Antonio de las Alas, a Harvard graduate who
was former Minister of the Interior, now Minis-
ter of Interior in the puppet cabinet.
Speaker Paredes of the House of Represen-
tatives and former Commissioner in Washing-
ton, now reported in the cabinet.
While some of these may have been motivated
by necessity and a desire to protect the Filipino
people by cooperation, nevertheless, the Jap's
chief appeal has been on social grounds. The
Japs have rubbed home the fact that Filipinos
were not admitted to American clubs, and this
caste distinction, at least with some Filipinos,
has erased all of the excellent colonization, the
prosperity and the virtual independence which
the United States had given the Filipinos for
years.
White House Nepotism
CAPITOL HILL isn't the only place in Wash-
ington where nepotism is practiced. In the
White House, is William H. McReynolds, per-
sonnel administrative assistant to the President,
leading authority on civil service and a career
man who has been on the federal payroll 35
years. McReynolds can expound by the hour on
the glories of the "merit system." But he also
knows how to make it pay personal dividends.
Four members of McReynolds' family are hold-
ing down nice-paying government jobs.
There were five until a short time ago. But
one of them, Mrs. John Holmead, a daughter,
quit her $4,800 a year job recently. Previously,
she had come to public attention by skyrocket-
ting overnight from a $1,800 clerkship to per-
sonnel chief at $4,800.
Latest McReynolds' kin to get a berth on the
public payroll is a 22-year-old daughter, Mrs.
Katherine Britt, a $1,800-a-year secretary in her
potent father's office.
Further, Mrs. Britt isn't the only member of
her own family drawing a government pay check.
Her husband, M. G. Britt, has a $3,200 job in the
food section of the War Production Board.
His rise to this pay scale is almost as spectac-
ular as was that of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Hol-
mead.
A little over a year ago, before he became a
McReynolds' son-in-law, young Britt was a mes-
senger in the old OPM at $1,080 a year. He vig-
orously insists that his "success story" rise
was not due to his marriage, and cites as proof
the fact that his latest promotion was prior to
his wedding.
"I got it entirely through my own ability," he
declares. "Mr. McReynolds had absolutely noth-
ing to do with it. In fact, I didn't meet him un-
til a few month ago. I met my wife in December
(1941), we became engaged two weeks later and
were married in January."
At the time he was making his meteoric rise,
however, his future sister-in-law, Mrs. Holmead
was a high official in the OPM's personnel office.
The other two McReynolds' relatives on the
government payroll are Mrs. Holmead's hus-
band, drawing $3,800 as a Procurement Division
employe, and his father John Holmead, Sr., get-
ting $2,300 with the Farm Credit Administra-
tion. With McReynolds' $10,000 a year, the com-
bined "take" for the family is $21,100.
shortsightedness, we cannot believe that the
Army and Navy heads are unaware of the Gen-
eral's need for more troops. We honestly think
that the Army and Navy have given the problem
thought and consideration and will continue to
do sotr
HOWEVER, it is obvious thus far that the
Army and Navy have discovered no way to
send reinforcements. Yet civilians, who know
less of the actual situation than do the military-
men, have ranted and raved, demanding that
troops be rushed into the Philippine Islands. In-
a country .such as ours,- where public opinion
very often is an irresistible pressure, the arly
and navy may be forced to ship troops into wa-
ters over which they have little control, and
even less in the air.
If MacArthur is forced to surrender or if his
troops are wiped out, it will be a tragedy, but for
military purposes, only a minor one. This is in
no way meant to slight the General, but his
present range of operations, his military worth
in the coldest terms are "bothersome" at best to
the Japanese. His resistance has not appreciably
slowed down the Japanese drives in any direc-
tion. But if the big talkers force the Army and
Navy to send troops into the Pacific without
adequate protection, the situation may easily be
turned into a major catastrophe.
LCTTCR
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TO TlE EDITO1
Campus Relief Drives
To the Editor:
AS the demands of war make increasingly
apparent the needs of an afflicted society
it is natural that movements will arise to meet
these needs. Specifically, on campus this year
the number of relief drives has been large. At
the present time at least two are in existence.
While it is true that some of the drives could
better be coordinated to reduce the total num-
ber, in most instances each serves a unique need
for which there is no general coordinating
agency. When we realize that the true function
of these projects is to educate us to a particular
need, a need we are better able to understand
and support than the rest of the community in
many cases, we should evaluate the merits of
the endeavor and contribute or not accordingly.
When, also, we realize that the state pays to give
us our education in the form of a loan that we
repay by our recognition of society's wants and
our contribution to alleviate these wants, we
shall be still more receptive.
THE ABOVE POINTS have been made to clear,
up doubts and possible resentment on the
part of the student body because of the de-
mands made on it by relief organizations and
try to show that the object is not to obtain as
much money as possible, but to educate to cer-
tain needs and make financial support a natural
result of the understanding.
This week the educational groundwork is being
laid for relief work which locally will be called
"Help a War Student Week." The campus unit
is one of many of the World Student Service
Fund. There will be talks in many of the cam-
pus units, folders, posters, Daily publicity, a
talk by Roland Elliott; all of these will attempt
to focus attention upon the aims of the drive,
which need not be mentioned now.
The important point is that this drive, like
the others, is not out to "get" people, but to get
them to understand.
-Sigmund Con
Unit rsity AttitudeS
To the Editor:
have been through a course and a course and
a course-put through paper hoops like a
trained dog-and I weary of it; weary of it,
because the omnipotent master-the University
and its minions-sees fit to regard the hoop-
jumping as everything, the paper itself as noth-
ing. Perhaps, after all, the master is right; the
paper oftentimes is nothing.
Of course, the University cannot be blamed
entirely, for it is most obviously necessary that
a certain requirement in hours and grades be
set as a minimum for the much-coveted degree.
But to a certain extent, the prevailing attitude
throughout the University can be censured.
What could possibly be behind the action of the
regents last year placing a predominate number
of faculty men in control of The Daily but a
profound conviction that the students were too
immature to handle the task of editing? And
yet again why do we week after week, month
after month, semester after semester hand back
to our instructors, as near verbatim as possible,
just what they have told us despite the fact
that many times the subjects are controversial.
Answer these questions honestly, and you will
see that treated like children, we are children;
we are as prattling babes at the parental knee,
taking in all the paternal words of wisdom with
the very least amount of mental effort.
COLLEGE should be a stimulant, not a de-
pressive. It should encourage individuality
by presenting as a challenge the great thoughts
of mankind in order that the student may pit
himself against the outstanding minds of the
world with a view to affirmation or denial. Edu-
cation is not dognatic, but dynamic. The mind
considered, by definition, immature, naive, and
thus stupid will be just these things in practice.
This is a theory which the Nazis have proven to
be truth itself and without peer in regimenta-
tion. Mere rote learning of someone else's defi-
nitions does not lead to the breadth of vision or
the individualism which are the natural com-
ponents of the democratic way of life. Thinking
right or wrong, but with reason, is the only solu-
tion to the problem of producing an adult race
of men and women -capable of coping not only
with the present war but with the hard future
which will inevitably follow the war. You don't
produce such a race by the simple high school
methods of dull, unapprehending memorization.
And yet these puerile ideals of education are
the very ideals followed by the University. The
whole system reeks of the day-nursery for
brats whose mothers don't know what else to do
with them. If this parental tyranny continues
we all might just as well roll up our pants, go
down to the Parrot and play games.
- R. B. McKinley, '42
DAILY OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1942
VOL. LII. No. 116
Publication in the Daily Off ial
Bulletin is constructive notice to all
meobers of the University.
Notices
University Council: A meeting of
the University Council, open to all
members of the faculty, will be held
at 4:15 p.m. today in the Rackham
Lecture Hall, for the consideration
of the three-term plan for the Uni-
versity. Lk
Louis A. Hopkins, Secretary
To the Members of the Depart-
ments of Latin and Greek: There will
be a departmental luncheon today at
12:10 p.m. in the Founders' Room at
the Michigan Union.
Faculty of the College of Litera-
ture, Science, and the Arts: The five-
week freshman reports will be due'
Saturday, Mvch 14, in the Academ-
ic Counselors' Office, .108 Mason
Hall.
Arthur Van Duren, Chairman.
Choral Union Members: Members
of the University Choral Union who
have not yet exchanged their John
Church edition of the "Beethoven
Ninth" for new Schirmer editions are
requested to do so at once at the
offices of the University Musical Soci-
ety in Burton Memorial Tower.
Charles A. Sink, President
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
notify the Registrar's Office, Room
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-
ner, under whom Kothe studied. Stu-
dents who wish to compete and who
have not yet handed in their appli-
cations should do so immediately in
204 U.H.
Mechanical, Chemical, Metallurgi-
cal, Electrical, & Civil Engineering
Seniors: Representatives of the Car-
negie-Illinois Steel Corporation will
interview Seniors in the above groups
on Tuesday, March 17, in Room 214
West Engineering Building.
Interview schedules may be signed
in the Departments of Chemical,
Electrical and Mechanical Engineer-
ing.
Application blanks should be filled
out in duplicate and returned to each
department office before interview.
Two scholarships will again be
awarded by George Peabody College
for Teachers for summer session work
this year. The scholarships will ap-
ply on tuition but not on fees.
Further information may be ob-
tained from the offices of the Bureau
of Appointments and Occupational
Information, 201 Mason Hall. Office
hours 9-12 and 2-4.
Bureau of Appointments and
Occupational Information
Mechanical Engineers: Member-
ship in the Student Branch, Ameri-
can Society of Mechanical Engin-
eers may still be obtained up to
March 15. No applications will be
accepted after that date. Applica-
tion blanks may be obtained at the
bulletin board near the W. Engin-
eering library or at Room 221 West
Eng. Bldg.
Academic Notices
University OratoricalContest: 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-
fice, 3211 Angell Hall.
English 31, Sec. 10, will meet in
Room 209 AH, Friday, March 13.
E. T. Calver
English
Room 209
14.
A. K. Stevensj
Etiglish 301E will meet today from
2-4 instead of 3-5.
N. E. Nelson
No class in Geog. II, See. I, on Fri-r
day, March 13. *
Midsemester examination HistoryT
12, Lecture Section I, on Friday,f
March 20, at 2 p.m.
Sections of Mr. Monks, Mr. Usher,2
Mr. Willcox in Natural Science Audi-
torium.
Sections of Mr. Allen and Mr. Hos-
kins in Room 25 Angell Hall.
Sections of Mr. Meier and Mr.
Slosson in Room 231 Angell Hall. r
Exhibitions
Exhibit of Illustrations, University
Elementary School: The drawingsf
made by Elinor Blaisdell to illustratet
the book "The Emperor's Nephew,"
by Marian Magoon of the Englisht
Department of Michigan State Nor-
mal College, Ypsilanti, are on display
in the first and second floor corridorT
cases. Open Monday-Friday 8 to 5,(
Saturday, 8-3 through March 14.i
The public is invited.1
LecturesY
University Lectures: Lectures byE
Dr. Carl F. Cori and Dr. Gerty T. Cori
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. Gertyf
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.
"The Philippines Today," illustrat-
ed lecture with natural color movies,
will be presented by Capt. John Craig
this evening at 8:15 in Hill Auditori-
um. Capt. Craig will appear here
under the auspices of the Oratorical
Association as the seventh number
on the current lecture series. Tickets
may be purchased from 10 a.m. on
today at the box office, Hill Auditori-
um.
French Lecture: Professor Edward
B. Ham, of the Romance Language
Department, will give the seventh of
the French lectures sponsored by the
Cercle Francais on Wednesday, March
18, at 4:15 p.m. in Room D, Alumni
Memorial Hall.
The title of his lecture is: "Curiosi-
tes Medievales." The lecture is open
to the general public.
Phi Tau Alpha is presenting a lec-
ture by Professor Bruno Meinecke
tonight at 7:30 in the West Lecture
room of Rackham Building. The sub-
ject is "Music among the Greeks and
Romans" (illustrated) and original
arrangements on the violin and piano
will be given by Professor Meinecke.
The public is cordially invited.
45, Sec. 5 will meet in
AH on Saturday, March
GRIN AND BEAR IT
"Of course it's Daddy, Honey! Don't you recognize the tie you
gave him for Christmas?"
By Lichty
ed lecture on "Architecture Today"
in the Rackham Amphitheatre on
Wednesday, March 18, at 4:15. The
public is invited.
Events Today
Psychological Journal Club: The
visual perception of space under nor-
mal and abnormal conditions will be
discussed by Dr. Heinz Werner to-
night at 7:30 in the East Conference
Room of the Rackham Building. Re-
freshments. All who are interested
are cordially invited.
Varsity Glee Club: Rehearsal to-
night at 7:30, followed by a smoker.
A new membership list will be post-
ed in the Glee Club Room which all
members should consult immediately
before rehearsal, in order that no
mistakes will be made in checking
roll.
Members who do not have music
folders are asked to check one out
tonight without fail. Those who
ordered pictures are reminded that
these are also payable tonight.
The Slavic Society will meet to-
night at 7:30 in the International
Center. The program consists of an
informal lecture on "The Slavic
Races of Today," a program of Sla-
vonic music, and refreshments. All
members are asked to attend, and
an invitation is extended to all inter-
ested students of Slavic origin or
descent.
La Sociedad Hispanica will hold its
regular meeting this evening at 8:00.
There will be an election for the vice-
presidency of the club so all mem-
bers are urged to attend. See Bulletin
in League for room number.
Graduate Coffee Hour today, 4:30-
6:00 p.m. in the Rackham School. All
faculty members and graduate stu-
dents are welcome.
Seminar: Professor Preston Slos-
son will speak on "The Political and
Historical Questions of a Peace Set-
tlement" as part of the series of the
Bases of a Just and Durable Peace
Seminar, in Lane Hall, at 7:30 to-
night.
Professor William H. Hobbs will
speak on "The Nitrate Industry of
Chile" in Room 2054 Nat. Sci Bldg.,
at 8:00 tonight.
The Ushering Committee of J.G.P.
will meet in the League today at
4:30 p.m. Attendance is compulsory.
If you are unable to come, call Mary
Ellen Alt at 2-4547.
J.G.P. Programs Committee will
meet today at 4:00 p.m. in the
League.
Instead of the regularly scheduled
games in Club Basketball today, an
all-star team will play a scheduled
game -with Ypsilanti at 5:00 p.m. All
players in Club Basketball not play-
ing are asked to attend this game.
Coming Events
The Research Club will meet in
the Rackham Amphitheatre Wednes-
day, March 18, at 8:00 p.m. The
papers to be read are: "Techniques
in Syntactic Investigation" by Pro-
fessor Hayward Keniston, and "Ob-
servations on Vitamin B Complex
Deficiency" by Dr. Henry Field.
German Table for Faculty Mem-
bers will meet Monday at 12:10 p.m.
in the Founders' Room, Michigan
Union. Members of all departments
are cordially invited. There wil be
a brief talk on "Ersatzstoffe" by Mr.
W. F. Striedieck.
The Michigan Student Christian
Conference will meet in Ann Arbor
Saturday with'student representatives
from all Michigan Colleges. Uni-
versity of Michigan students are wel-
I
Idkes
Vindicated
LAST JULY Mr. Ickes said let's build a pipeline
from Texas to the East; let's build it big;
let's build it at once. The daily press looked
about for a day or two for a tip on procedure,
and then began to scream. It set about to make
Ickes the funniest word in America. It almost
succeeded.
The railroads' spokesman, J. J. Pelley, said no
pipeline was needed; there were plenty of tank
cars. A hundred editorial writers chorused:
"Plenty of tank cars!" though most of them
could not tell a tank car from an automatic
mooring winch.
Cities Service Oil Company, reading in the
papers that there were plenty of tank cars, wired
76 tank-car companies, asking for 1,000 cars; it
was a shortage. The Senate of the
State of Georgia, earlier, had also Lecture: Mr. Roland Elliott of the
listened to the railroad story and World Student Christian Federation
killed a bill to permit the condemna- will lecture on "Student Needs in
tion of land to build pipelines, defy- Prisoner of War Camps and in China"
ing an express request from the Pres- on Saturday, March 14, at 7:30 p.m.
ident upon whose broad shoulders, in the Rackham Lecture Hall, under
undoubtedly, criticism will now fall the auspices of the Michigan Student
for the gasoline shortage. Christian Conference.
The isolationists (led by Patterson's
New York Daily News) cut in at this Lecture, College of Architecture
point, declaring that Mr. Ickes was and Design: James C. Boudreau,
trying to "scare us into war" by Director of the Art School, Pratt In-