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only.
Industrial Power
Restricts Democracy
THEY HAVE a section in PM sug-
gesting that the American people
"yell bloody murder" at some of the things
which happen as we carry on this war. And
through the editorial pages of this and almost
every other newspaper in the country come com-
ments and criticisms, a few nice, but the major-
ity of them ranging from a big brother attitude
to pure nitric acid. And most of them tear apart
either men or their actions, battles lost, failure
to see the inevitable or the obvious, personal
selfishness. All of which may nick or scrape the
surface, but usually stops right there.
But why not go deeper, why not inquire into
causes as well as effects, why not try to see in
some measure what makes us tick the way we
do? Even when we sift out the personal attacks,
the personal grudges, the personal issues from
the editorial pages, there is still an impressive
pile of things left for us to consider. There is
no 'point in merely exposing the errors, they will
repeat themselves forever if we do not try to see
the why of things as they exist today. We can-
not be complete, we can hardly begin. There are
so many things about which we have only the
positive feeling that they are wrong and the
accompanying feeling that we cannot do any-
thing about it. But as long as some of us do
tWink that liberty, equality and fraternity have
lost their blanket application, as long as some
of us believe that democracy should be a circle
rather than a series of broken arcs, then we have
the beginnings of another army here too. An
army that must fight during peace or war "to.
keep the world safe for democracy."
So it is not democracy we wish to criticize,
neither in its ideal or working form, but rather
its illegitimate offspring. Not the system itself,
but rather the misshapen ideas which the very
nature of the system allows to exist.
ITHOUT FANFARE, without titles, and with
very little publicity, we have had established
here a modern, and improved,.counterpart of the
old landed aristocracy. In the old days it was
land that brought the power. Now, the aristoc-
racy is tightly bound to the so-called industrial
magnate, the scions of industry. With their
wealth they have bound themselves into a group
for the specific purpose of self protection, protec-
tion against the constant danger of the leveling
off of income. They are the people who have
fought every New Deal change because it reached
into their pockets as well as the next fellow.
They are the people who control the vast ma-
jority of America's propaganda and publicity
instruments, radio and newspapers. They are
the people who believe that they are the intellec-
tual aristocracy Alexander Hamilton once visual-
ized as the rulers of this .country.
These are the people who refused to main-
tain open ship order at Pearl Harbor because
it interfered with their social life ashore.
These are the people who demand, or de-
manded that applicants for military intelli-
gence be third generatin Americans. These
are the people who willingly spend their money
to pay labor spies, "service men," and strike-
breakers. These are the people who fear the
hell of Communism so much that they will
willingly support the hell of Fascism because
they believe it holds more security for them-
Anthony Eden's
Stupid Diplomacy
ANTHONY EDEN in Commons yester-
terday fell hook, line and sinker for
a Japanese propaganda plot to split the British
and their Asiatic Allies. Nobody doubts the
charges that British men were bound and bayo-
ne'ted and that white women were raped and
murdered. This is shocking news, but it is noth-
ing to wonder at, even if this time the Japanese
did cross the color line. What the Japanese did
at Hongkong they have been doing to the Chi-
nese for the past 10 years.
This time, however, it is part of a deliberate
Japanese policy to attack whites in all occupied
areas in orde to dramatize the war in the Far
East as a fight between Asiatics and whites, and
to inspire from Britain just such a statement as
Eden made. And Tokyo was not disappointed.
Eden said just what the Japanese hoped he
would say.
FOR in Eden's remarks there was an unfor-
givable tone of race consciousness. He made
a point of reporting that the attacks in Hong-
kong were made "without distinction of race or
color." It carried the implication that this time
the Japanese had committed the ultimate sin of
attacking white men and women. Previously, of
course, it was only the Chinese who had suffered.
The Chinese, the Indians, the Javanese and all
Britain's colored allies are not going to be very
impressed when Anthony Eden intimates that
now the Japanese have gone too far. The Chi-
nese, especially, sometimes find it difficult to
forget that for 10 years they called for help
while Britain and America stood by unmoved.
Eden's remarks may quite easily revive in the
Chinese an old resentment against the former
indifference of Britain and America to China's
sufferings. And that's just what the Japanese
want.
- Selwyn James, PM
Call A Strike
For National Defense .. .
IN THE INTERESTS of national de-
fense the workers at the Detroit
Ternstedt division of General Motors should go
out on strike.
Such an action would stimulate the majority
of the nation's press to a bitter denunciation of
labor in general; it would set General Motors'
officials howling that the union's contract with
the company had been broken and that labor is
not interested in winning the war. But it would
also put an immediate stop to the flow of critical
war materials which is now being directed to the
production of 'brightwork' for passenger auto-
mobiles.
In direct violation of a decree issued over six
months ago by Donald M. Nelson, director"of
the War Production Board, GM has been using
tremendous quantities of copper, nickel, zinc,
aluminum and stainless steel in the manufacture
of 20,000 grills and 50,000 pieces of molding for
replacement parts.
When the 400 to 600 men engaged in this work
protested to the management, they were told
that the prohibition on brightwork applied only
to new cars and did not mention replacement
parts-so production continues. The company
evidently figures that it does not have to coop-
erate in the war effort unless it is ordered to do
so. It also believes in obeying only the word of
the law, while disregarding the spirit and intent.
THE NEXT TIME any of the Detroit news-
papers rise up in their self-styled righteous
indignation at the "uncooperative attitude of
labor," we hope they remember the attitude of
the men in the Ternstedt plant. Although these
men realized that it would probably mean the
loss of their employment, they continued to pro-
test and instructed Victor Reuther, assistant
co-ordinator of the Defense Employment Divi-
sion of CIO-UAW, to take the matter before
Ernest Kanzler, chief of the WPB's automotive
branch. Reuther did so over a week ago. Noth-
ing has come of it.
Two days ago, therefore, he wrote a letter to
Donald Nelson explaining the entire situation
and charging that General Motors is using sub-
terfuge to hide the use of the valuable materials
from the public.
HE also pointed out that "the only tangible
result of their (the workers) continued plea
has been an effort on the part of the manage-
ment to complete the production of these grilles
as early as possible."
This, then, is the "wholehearted cooperation
with, the war effort" that General Motors offi-
cials have been talking about-they will stop'
civilian production "as early as possible." Not
long ago the entire automotive industry cooper-
ated in bringing to Detroit a number of big-time
newspaper columnists and editors in an attempt
to get a nation-wide whitewash of its past sins.
We wonder if Clapper, Lippman and the rest of
them were taken through the Ternstedt division
to see the nice, shiny, decorative grilles and
moldings which were being-and are still being-
turned out.
When compared with the entire war produc-
tion effort, this is perhaps a small thing. Yet
today small things become important. Somebody
is going to have to stop the misuse of these vital
war materials. General Motors has refused and
Ernest Kanzler seems to have done nothing. If
Donald Nelson does not do the job, it will be left
to the workers themselves. And the only way
they can do it is to strike.
- Homer Swander
are more than willing to fight the Nazis and the
Japanese because they too are trying to break
down our democratic system. But we do not
want to come back from the war to find our own
democracy in the hands of those who know the
term only as a word. If we are to go out to fight
for democracy, we want it here when we get back.
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Drew Pedxos
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WASHINGTON-It hasn't leaked out yet, but;
Secretary of War Stimson has sent a letter to
Attorney General Biddle virtually requesting
that the Justice Department refrain from fur-
ther prosecution of anti-trust suits until the end
of the war.
Secretary Stimson's letter is couched in very
general and polite language. But its effect comes
close to a demand that the Sherman anti-trust
act be put on the shelf until the end of hostilities.
Behind this is the fact that various big com-
panies have been complaining to the War De-
partment that they cannot push their war con-
tracts if they are constantly harassed by the
Justice Department bringing them before grand
juries.
The Justice Department has prosecutions un-
der way against Aluminum Company of Ameri-
ca, Standard Oil of New Jersey, and Bausch
and Lomb on charges of conspiring with German
firms to restrict such vital war products as mag-
nesium, optical instruments, and synthetic rub-
ber.
Standard Oil officials have been weeping on
War Department shoulders that they suffer such
mental anguish over these prosecutions that
they cannot concentrate on war jobs for the
Government.
However, the Justice Department for a long
time has contended that if it had not been for
these monopolies, the United States would not
today be short of such vital war products as syn-
thetic rubber, magnesium and aluminum. Fur-
thermore, it is not generally known that virtually
all of the German chemical patents which the
United States seized during the last war, got
right back into German hands (through con-
spiracy with American firms) after the war was
over.
So the Justice Department claims that this
monopolistic practice must be stopped now-and
for all time.
Furthermore, the Justice Department claims
that these big companies, with the best legal
brains moneycan buy on their annual payrolls,
can defend these suits without interfering with
war contracts.
What the outcome will be probably depends on
the White House. And what the White House
finally decides will guide the future of big or
little business in this country for years to come.
AluminumBoteneck
Secretary Ickes' Bureau o Mines has beeni
making some very significant studies of the
aluminum situation which show that although
we are building new aluminum plants all over
the country to break Alcoa's monopoly, we are
not breaking the monopoly on aluminum ore--
which comes from Dutch Guiana.
In other words, these new plants, with one
possible exception, are all dependent on high
grade ore which has to be imported from a for-
eign country, instead of taking advantage of
the millions of tons of low grade aluminum clay
right here in the United States.
And with submarine attacks increasing in the
Caribbean, we may find ourselves faced with
another aluminum shortage-chiefly because in
setting up new aluminum plants, we followed
the monopoly ideas of the Aluminum Corpora-
tion of America.
Here are the inside facts in this highly impor-
tant situation.
The Aluminum Corporation for many years
has imported its ore from Dutch Guiana, un-
loaded it at New Orleans, where it was cracked,
then shipped it to its separate plants at Mes-
sina, N. Y., Alcoa, Tenn., St. Louis and Oregon.
At these plants it was made into alumina. Then
it was shipped all the way across the United
States to Pittsburgh to be rolled, then all over
the U. S. A. again in finished form to the air-
plane factories-many of them on the West
Coast.
Thus transportation alone obviously has been
an important reason aluminum sells for 19c a
pound.
Andy Mellon Intervened
Alcoa for many years has smelted its ore with
caustic soda, according to the Bayer process.
This requires high grade ore, and that's why
its ore has been imported all the way from Dutch
Guiana.
However, Germany, France and Russia use a
lime soda process, and therefore have been able
to use the low grade ores which abound in their
countries--and also in the United States.
Alcoa, however, never has been willing to
adopt this lime soda process. In fact Alcoa has
gone to strange and unusual lengths to prevent
the use of the lime soda process by other Ameri-
can firms.
For instance, the Detroit Edison Company in
1929 started making aluminum merely from the
smoke and ash which went up its chimneys-and
by using the lime soda process. The work was
carried out under the well-known scientist, Dr.
Robert James, and Bureau of Mines officials
pronounced it highly successful.
But suddenly the Detroit Edison Company
stopped.
At the time no one knew why. The only ex-
planation given by Dr. Jamestto his friends was:
"Mr. Mellon didn't want us to."
However, it is now authoritatively reported
that at that time the Detroit Edison Company
desired to do some refinancing, and found it
would have to pay about six percent for its
money. But when it dropped its lime soda smelt-
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LETTERS
Idibrary Wages . ..
To the Editor:
IT WAS STATED in the March 4 is-
sue of The Michigan Daily that the
boys working in the first floor check-
room are getting paid 40c per hour.
The writer of this article must have
made a mistake, for we get 30e per
hour. This was probably only a typo-
graphical error, but we thowli we
would tell you about it.
The Boys in the Check-room
Editor's Note: No typographical
error was made. This wage rate wasI
quoted at the Student Senate meet-
ing a week ago. The Senate Com-
mittee yesterday told The Daily
again that this was the figure which
library authorities had given them in
a recent survey.
Iredomt For Browder . .
LOOKING BACK over recent his-
tory, we Americans realize the
mistaken paths we have pursued in
our search for the solution to the
question of war. We realize now that
the anti-fascist struggle of the Span-
ish republic was our struggle, that
the defeat of Franco would have
meant the "scotching" of fascism in
Europe, that our neutrality toward
that conflict worked in effect for
fascist victory. We also realize now
the bankruptcy of the Munich. It
is clear now that the decade of the
'30's was one in which the main issue
was peace or war.
In the light of this, it seems para-
doxical that the man who constantly
warned America against appease-
ment and fascism should be locked
up in prison today. In 1938, imme-
diately after Munich, this man told
the nation that Munich "opened the
floodgates of reaction over Europe.
It placed the fascist noose around
the neck of the French and strength-
ened the arrogant Japanese aggres-
sion in the Far East. It threatens1
the encirclement of the U. S." Also,
immediately after Munich, he said,
of Chamberlain and Daladier, "They
preferred to betray peace and democ-
racy rather than preserve it in co-(
operation with the Soviet Union."
Who is this man? And where is
he? He is Earl Browder, Secretary oft
the Communist Party of the U. S.1
He is in Atlanta Penitentiary, sen-
tenced to four years imprisonment i
after being fined $2,000 on a petty
passport technicality which in simi-
lar cases usually involved a sus-
pended sentence or a $25 or $50 fine.-
There is no doubt that Hitler would
quiet the mouth of one who spoke so
clearly and insistently against fas-
cism. is that not signal enough for
America to question why this anti-
fascist leader is kept in prison? The
Karl Marx Society therefore sug-
gests that the University of Michigan
join the millions of Americans--edu-
cators. trade union leaders, political
figures-in writing the White House,
asking the President for executive
clemency in behalf of Earl Browder,
so that Browder may take his place
with the rest of the nation in the
firing line against world fascism.
Karl Marx Society,
Robert Chapman, Chairman
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or refinancing existing mortgages
and is eligible to make F.H.A. loans.
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 Mason
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
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.
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
GRIN AND BEAR IT
dI
"Well, that cleans me out, except for this lonely quarter-you
sell defense stamps?"
Academic Notices
University Oratorical Contest: Pre-
liminary contest will be held today
at 4:00 p.m. in room 4203 Angell Hall
A five-minute talk on the subject of
the oration will be required. Contest-
ants will please register in the Speech
Department office, 3211 Angell Hall.
Preliminary examination for the
Ph.D. in English will be given in
Room 3217 Angell Hall from 9 a.m.
to 12 according to the following
schedule:
American Literature with Euro-
pean Backgrounds, April 15.
English Literature, 1700-1900, April
18.
English Literature, 1550-1700, April
22.
English Literature, Beginning to
1550, April 25.
Those intending to take the exam-
ination should notify Professor N. E
Nelson by April 1.
English 45, Sec. 5 will meet in
Room 209 AH on Saturday, March
14.
A. K. Stevens
English 31, Sec. 10, will meet in
Room 209 AH, today. E. T. Calver
Doctoral Examination for Roger
Allen Hoffman, Chemistry; thesis:
"The Rate of Dissociation of Penta-
arylethanes." Today, 309 Chemistry,
2:00 p.m.
By action of the Executive Board
the chairman may invite members
of the faculties and advanced doc-
toral candidates to attend the ex-
amination and he may grant per-
mission to those who for sufficient
reason might wish to be present.
C. S. Yoakum
Concerts
May Festival Announcement: Cop-
ies of the 8-page May Festival an-
nouncement, containing the com-
plete programs for all six concerts,
sketches of the artists, and other im-
portant information, may be secured
by calling at the offices of the Uni-
versity Musical Society in Burton
Memorial Tower. Persons desiring
to have copies mailed to out-of-town
musical friends, will please leave
names and addresses at the office.
Charles A. Sink, President
Exhibitions
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-Friday 8 to 5,
Saturday, 8-3 through March 14.
The public is invited.
Exhibition, College of Architecture
and Design: City planning in and
about Detroit, showing street and
medium and low cost housing pro-
jects, population and industrial
studies, proposed recreation areas.
Assembled by the Detroit Institute
of Arts. Third floor exhibition room,
Architecture Building. Open daily
9 to 5, through March 18. The pub-
lic is invited.
Lectures
Lecture, College of Architecture
and Design: James C. Boudreau,
Director of the Art School, Pratt In-
stitute, and national authority on
camouflage, will speak on "Camou-
flage" today at 1:30. Ground floor
lecture room, Architecture Building.
The public is invited.
Lecture: Mr. Roland Elliott of the
World Student Christian Federation
will lecture on "Student Needs in
Prisoner of War Camps and in China'
Wednesday, March 18, at 4:15.
public is invited.
The
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Current Events Lecture will be gi-
en by Professor Preston Slosson on
Wednesday, March 18, at 4:15 p.m.
in the Rackham Lecture Hall.
Single tickets may be secured at the
door.
Events Today
French Roundtable, International
Center: Mr. Maurice Diamant and
Mr. Guillaume Piette will lead the
discussion on "Present Conditions in
France and French Canada" tonight
at 8:00. Anyone able to carry on a
conversation in French is invited.
Hillel Foundation: Prof. J. L. Davis,
of the English department, will speak
at Hillel Foundation this evening at
8:15 on "Our Literary Scene." Fire-
side discussion and a social will fol-
low. Conservative religious services
start at 7:45.
Guild Bible Class meets in the
Lewis Parlor tonight at 7:30 for a
continuation of Dr. Lemon's discus-
sions on "How to Know the Bible."
Westminster Student Guild: St.
Patrick's Day party in the Social
Hall of the church tonight, 8:30-
12:00.
Episcopal Students: Tea will be
served for Episcopal students and
their friends at Harris Hall this
afternoon, 4:00 to 5:30.
Coming Events
The English Journal Club will
meet at 7:45 Tuesday evening, March
24, in the East Conference Room of
the Rackham Building. Mr. E. A.
Schroeder and Mr. Donald Pearce will
discuss aspects of the poetry of
Swinburne. Graduate students in
English and other interested persons
are welcome.
German Table for Faeulty 'Mem-
bers will meet Monday at 12:10 p.m.
in the Founders' Room, Michigan
Union. Members of all departments
are cordially invited. There will 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-
come to attend the sessions. Detailed
information may be had at the local
churches and Lane Hall.
The Inter-Cooperative Council will
present a sound film entitled "Here
Is Tomorrow," a documentary on the
Cooperative Movement in the U.S.
today, on Sunday, March 15, at 3:30
p.m. in Room 222 at the Union. Ad-
mission is free and everyone is wel-
come.
Pi Lambda Theta will have a sup-
per meeting in the Russian Tea Room
of the Michigan League on Monday,
March 16, at 6:00 p.m. A discussion
will follow at 7:00 p.m. in the DE
Room.
Michigan Outing Club will hike to
Saginaw Forest on Sunday, March
15, leaving the Women's Athletic
Building at 2:30 p.m. All students
are welcome to attend. Weather per-
mitting, the group will cook supper
out and everyone should bring his
own food. The square dance sched-
uled for Saturday has been post-
poned.
Graduate Students: There will be
a record dance for all graduate stu-
dents Saturday evening, March 14,
from 9-12 p.m. in the Rackham As-
sembly Hall. Admission fee. All
proceeds are to go to the Bomber
Scholarship.
By Lichty