TILE MICHllGAN DAILY SATURDAY, MARCH~ 14, 1942 ____________________________________ lit Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class mail matter.. Subscriptions during the regular school year by car- rier $4.00, by mail $5.00. REPRESENTED POR NATION^L ADVERTI.3NG BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CHICAGO " BOSTON * LOS ANGELES " SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1941.42 Editorial Staff Emile Gel . Alvin Dann David Lachenbruch Jay McCormick Gerald E. Burns Hal Wilson Janet Hooker. Grace Miller Virginia Mitchell Daniel H. Huyett Jaines 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 StaffB * . . Business Manager . Associate Business Manager . Women's Advertising Manager . Women's Business Manager NIGHT EDITOR: BARBARA JENSWOLD The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Students Should Back Bomber Scholarships... THE BOMBER SCHOLARSHIP plan has completed its metamorphosis from paper ideals to a concrete proposal which has been distributed to the head of every major organization on campus. The president of this University, the Dean of Students, and groups representing every man and woman on campus have already approved it without reservation. Fulfillment of the plan-one of the most far- sighted to have emanated from a wartime Uni- versity-is now in the hands of the student body. Far more basic even than the plan's immediate purpose to aid America's war effort, the principle of equity has been stressed ever since Bomber Scholarships were first proposed by the Abe Lincoln Cooperative. There are men you once knew, men whom you may remember before they left an education to fight your battle, that are now in training camps and on battlefronts the world over. Even as you dance tonight to a top-notch orchestra, there are U. of M. stu- dents who must listen to other music-the screams of dying men and the harsh, splitting roar of modern warfare. Y PROVIDING scholarships for these men that come back after stopping short of no sacrifice, the present University body cannot only express its deepest thankfulness to them but it will also learn the meaning of sacrifice for itself. Bomber Scholarships provide for a "social mobilization," which means that volun- tary contributions from dances and all other social functions are given to a fund for the ulti- mate purchase of $100,000 in defense bonds. With this $100,000 the government can buy an Axis-wrecking bomber, with the defense bonds, the University can issue scholarships to qualified veterans of World War II after the armistice. This University is certainly not free of coun- try-wide smugness and hyper-confidence on the war. To win this struggle it is necessary to give without stint, and if you are to have social func- tions there is no better source for contributions. There is a student on this campus who has already done his share towards Bomber Scholar- ships. Art Rude, '42, chairman of the Bomber Scholarship Committee, has steered the plan through every major campus organization with- out any regard for his own time or personal convenience. But his work ended when fitter- nity, sorority and other groups' heads received their copies in the mail. It is now up to them o act. N AKING CONTRIBUTIONS there is no set procedure or "check-off" that must be fol- lowed. If you feel that your roommate in uni- form is losing two percent of his University social life, then two percent of your next social func- tion is' an equitable donation. .Bomber Scholarships offer you an actual con- crete medium for rewarding those of us who have left this campus. When they return, this time-and they returned unrewarded after 1918 -they deserve some, small mesure of that for which they once fought and that which you are enjoying now. - Dan Behrman War Labor Board Qh"NA T 1a1 m 4Nxa- DrewPermsa N RbevtSAHtea WASHINGTON-Plain-talking Price Admin- istrator Leon Henderson has long wanted to clamp down a ceiling on farm prices and wages as the surest way to forestall a disastrous run- away inflation. He tried to get authority to do this in his price-control bill, but a log rolling coalition of farm lobbyists and unionites balked that. But while he was licked among the political minded "statesmen" on Capitol Hill, Henderson is still determinedly pressing his plan. Several weeks ago he sent the President a confidential memorandum bluntly opposing the increased wage demand of CIO's Steel Workers' Organiz- ing Committee in the so-called "Little Steel" plants. The other day, at a luncheon conference with the President, Henderson returned to this attack with a double-barreled proposal. He urged that the President- 1. Direct the War Labor Board NOT to grant an increase in steel wages. 2. Authorize the Office of Price Admimistra- tion, headed by Henderson, to announce that henceforth wage increases will not be considered a basis for seeking raises in prices from OPA. In other words, Henderson proposed to the President that the price control powers of the recently enacted law be used to accomplish what was thwarted by the farm-labor lobby-a freezing of wages. The President listened very attentively while his ace Price Controller explained his plan and then with a smile remarked, "That's quite a load of dynamite you've just outlined, Leon. I thought Phil Murray would have a stroke when he read your memorandum. But he'll have to be carried out when he hears about this plan." The Boodle Gang Lobbyists are an old old story in Washington but never has the Capital been so overrun with them as today. The Truman committee, the Naval and Mili- tary Affairs commttees, plus other committees, all haveinvestigated and exposed their opera- tions. But the boodle boys remain unperturbed. Like swarms of locusts they crowd the hotel lobbies, the bars, the congressional corridors, the government agencies. Chief investigational attention has centered on the war contract manipulators. They operate along three general lines: (1) straight commis- sions, (2) as special company officials whose commission payments are disguised as payroll charges, and (3) as sub-contract distributors. decree ordering immediate arbitration to settle a strike begun on his road last December. We also want to know why the newspapers are keep- ing quiet about McNear when they should be storming their protest. And while we're on the subject, why doesn't the government order a crack-down on three Illinois packing companies which refuse to allow any federal regulation of their employer-employe relationships? We remember not so long ago when almost every newspaper in the country was allowing important space to labor's dispute with manage- ment, most of them blaming labor 'for disrupting the production effort of the United States. Every editorial writer had his crack at labor then. Now it is management which is opposing the power of the War Labor Board, created for the sole purpose of keeping peace during the emergency. But there is no word of complaint from the papers. There is a virtual blackout policy in- stead. YET the case is important. It is the first test of the War Labor Board's authority. The Board has ordered immediate arbitration. Mc- Near has refused. Drastic action must be taken to force compliance with its decision. Ever since last December, McNear has taken the stand of flatly rejecting any attempt to settle a long-existing strike on his railroad. The union has repeatedly offered to arrange a settlement. The government's various mediation agencies have threatened to step in more than once. Finally, the WLB called McNear to Washington at a public hearing and proposed action on his part or a crack-down. The owner of the rail- road was given a deadline date to answer one way or another. McNear left Washington at once and sent a telegram to William H. Davis, WLB chairman, asking for more time. More time was given but the Board suggested McNear send his answer in time for the Board's meeting. One day after the meeting McNear's answer was "no." HIS REASON was that arbitration would "undermine the morale" of workers now operating the road. He said the Board's decision disregarded the fact that his railroad is handling war traffic without interruption. A flimsy excuse is better than none as far as the millionaire owner is concerned. The unions involved say that McNear's line is far below the working standards of other lines although it was one of the last to be organized. McNear has imposed sub-standard wage rates and "sweat-shop working conditions." This has been done in spite of the fact that food to the armed forces of the country must be shipped via the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad. We see only two alternatives facing the War T.ahr Board-, it can. assrt itself sdrnlyl. order The Reply Churlish by TOUCHISTONE TUESDAY NIGHT to Mr. Phil Diamond's to to hear his hot record collection. Next day my right foot ached, because I violate one of the first rules for all alligators-I beat my foot and drum on the chair arm with my fingers. Glad to note that Mr. Diamond also does this. It is probably a hangover from our dance band days. Heard lots of Red Nichols, considerable of Bix, Venuti, Miff Mole, Rudy Bloom on piano, some early Dorsey sax work and Benny Good- man when he was still a pup. Also a gent named Rollini who captured my affections with a very fine baritone sax in the Nichols combina- tions. Mr. Diamond is reputed to be one of the finest hot piano men in these or other parts, but he wouldn't play, because I think he feels shy when Rudy Bloom is around. His wife says sometimes he will play, but not when he has been listening to his records. Now I am not a real jazz fan. I like very much to listen to the stuff, but my history and vocabu- lary are limited in the field. I have heard good jazz being played, in the flesh and on the juke. But I am capable of being surprised at certain things about the great period of jazz music, andj the first thing I get amazed about is how recently it all happened. Somehow, because I am so ignorant, I had a kind of idea that Bix and Mole and the rest came along soon after the serenad- ing began down on Basin Street in New Orleans. There are books that would tell me more about all this, but most of the experts curl the lip at the books, though they will allow that Young Man With a Horn was a fairly good treatment, for a novel, of the individual jazz man. But the dates skip for me, from whenever it was Crosby was supposed to be starting the whole thing in the movie, to the twenties. And what is more, they all played for Whiteman. When you say "Whiteman," you wrinkle up your nose, and after hearing both kinds I think maybe I know why. The good boys would get through grinding out an orchestrated masterpiece from hunger, and walk down the street, throwing away their music as they went, to cut a disk in some small shop, and now you collect the records they made after hours, and you talk during the Whiteman rec- ords until Bix starts his chorus. .ABOUT the men themselves, which is the most interesting to me, Mr. Diamond says "They either got respectable, or they died." I think maybe I have known some like them. In the old days-they are not really so old-the good men drank gin. They smoke reefers now. I did some bumming around with the boys dur- ing my high school days, and in the course of sitting in with this small band and that, they picked up the habit, and now some of them ar- range for big bands, and some of them play' beer garden piano for bottom union rates. And I can't for the life of me say which bunch is happiest. All through the arts you see the same thing-not a two-bit Bohemianism, but guys with talent who go far beyond what the com- mercial, unknowing public can take in their line-and it happens nearly every time, they bow down to the untaught taste, achieve what- ever they can within the limits set upon them by the people with the dollars, or they play their hearts out, write their hearts out, paint their hearts out, and live like bums. t don't mean the Greenwich Village bum with a string tie. But on the other hand there's the Scott Fitzgerald tragedy being played out constantly, in Hollywood, in New York, any- where the big money goes, to serve as a warning to the guys with real stuff, a warning that once they get bit with that urge to express them- selves, they're going to suffer like hell in the midst of plenty if they swing over to expressing somebody else, or the vague, dull tastes of the Public. It's always a thing a man makes up his own mind about, and the Lord knows an artist wants security and a decent life as much as anyone else, but to sign off with a cliche, some- times the price is too much to pay. So long until soon. ,. [ , : :: :: cg's,; ; : - -- '/ . ~ GRIN AND BEAR IT "First time was in the Panic of '07-Then it happened in the Crash of '29-And yesterday I was ruined for the third time at the income tax office!" DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN By Lichty g r . I h . .. ~ 4!\ ~ . y . y ~ f f . ' ,'., I English Literature, 1700-1900, April SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1942 VOL. LII. No. 118 1 Publication in the Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. NotiCes Veterinary Science: The Veterin- ary Division of Michigan State Col- lege, East Lansing, announces that its first year veterinary class will open this year on June 23., One year of college work is -required for ad-i mission.r Faculty of the College of Litera-s ture, Science, and the Arts: The five- week freshman reports are due todayb in the Academic Counselor's Office,v 108 Mason Hall.B Arthur Van Duren, Chairman. t Kothe-Hildner Annual Germanr 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 wasI established in 1937 by Herman W.r Kothe, '10L, in honor of lately re-t tired Professor Jonathan A. C. Hild- ner, under whom Kothe studied. Stu-I dents who wish to compete and whol have not yet handed in their appli-i cations should do so immediately int 204 U.H. Petitions for McCormick scholar'- ships will be accepted until 3:30 p.m. today. Put tthem in the box in the Undergraduate Office marked "Judi- ciary Petitions." Interviewing will be i from 4:15 to 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 19, in the Undergraduate Of- fice of the League. Letters should. reach Jane Baits as soon as possible, but be sure to come to be interviewed regardless of whether your letters have arrived or not. Academic Notices Physics Colloquium on Monday, March 16, in Room 1041 Randall Lab- oratory at 4:15 p.m. Professor George E. Uhlenbeck's topic will be "On the Principles of Statistical Mechanics." Biological Chemistry Seminar will meet on Monday, March 16, at 7:30 p.m., in Room 319 West Medical Building. "Insulin-Chemistry and Physiology" will be discussed. All interested are invited. Mathematics 202 and 210 will not meet this morning because of the Michigan Section meeting of the M. A. A. English 45, Sec. 5 will meet in Room 209 AH today. A. K. Stevens 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. Concerts May Festival Announcement: Cop- ies of the 8-page MayFestival 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.o pen Monday-Friday 8 to 5, Saturday, 8-3 through today. 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- lie is invited. Lecture Lecture: Mr. Roland Elliott of. the World Student Christian Federation will lecture on "Student Needs ir, Prisoner of War Camps and in China' tonight at 7:30 in the Rackham Lec ture Hall, under the auspices of the Michigan Student Christian Confer- ence. Lecture, College of Architecture and Design: Eric Mendelsohn, archi tect and writer, will give an illustrat ed lecture on "Architecture Today' in the Rackham Amphitheatre 0] Wednesday, March 18, at 4:15. Th( public is invited. Marriage Relations Lectures: D which are useful for social service work: weaving, puppet making, re- pairing clothes for relief, stringing tags for Help a War Student Day. An opportunity to combine recrea- tion with useful training and service. Coming Events Varsity Glee Club: The first basses will rehearse at 3:45 p.m. Sunday, while regular rehearsal will begin at 4:30. Absence from the part 're- hearsal without a written excuse will be checked in the roll, and will be considered no different than absence from regular rehearsal. Men already having absences should consult with the secretary about make-ups, as a two-week limit on making up an absence has been set. Members attending but one re- hearsal a week who are absent from that rehearsal are warned that fail- ure to attend a make-up will have serious effects. German Club will meet on Tues- day, March 17, at 8:00 p.m. in the Michigan Union. Mr. J. W. Eaton will give a talk in Englishon "Intelli- gence Work in the Last War."' All interested are invited. All girls on JGP who wish to con- tinue working on the committees or who are in the cast must have ob- tained their health rechecks and also their signed eligibility cards by 4:00 p.m. on Monday, March 16. Ushering Committee Theater Arts: Sign up for ushering for Cinema Art League Film, "The Thirteen," Sun- day, March 15. There are two shows. Sign-up sheet is pasted in the League Undergraduate Ofice. The Lutheran Student Association will hold its regular Sunday evening meeting at 5:30 o'clock on March 15. Mr. C. Shoemaker will review some books of the type which should be in the student's library. Michigan Dames: Click and Stitch Group will hold its annual Hobby Show at the home of Mrs. J. W Luecht, 715 E. Lawrence St., on Monday, March 16, at 8:00 p.m. Churches Memorial Christian Church (Dis- ciples): 10:45 a.m. Morning worship, Rev. Frederick Cowin, Minister. 6:30 p.m. Disciples Guild Sunday evening hour. Dr. Edward W. Blake- man, Counselor in Religion for the University of Michigan, will speak on "What Can Religion Contribute to a Just and Durable Peace?" A social hour and tea will follow the discussion. First Congregational Church: 11:45 a.m. Special Student Services. Dr. Leonard A. Parr, minister, will preach on the subject, "Unturned Cakes." I4:00 p.m. Student Open House. A guided tour of the renovated chuch will be given, followed by a reception and tea provided by the Student Ad- visory Committee. 5:30 p.m. Ariston League, high school group, in Pilgrim Hall. Clyde Greenfield, president of the Jackson Association of Pilgrim Fellowship, will stalk on "Questions and Answers about National, State, Association, and Local Pilgrim Fellowship." Re- freshments. JRECORDS- Swue Contemporary Music From America's Allies TWO outstanding recordings by contemporary composers graze the list of recent Victor re- leases. Shostakovitch, Symphony No. 6. Leopold Sto- kowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra (Victor M-867). This young Soviet composer (Victor spells his name Szostakowicz) has been brought to dis- tinction in the United States mainly through the efforts of Leopold Stokowski, who has re- corded three of his symphonies (Nos. 1, 5 and 6) on Victor Records. It is the tendency of some people to shy away from Shostakovitch because they fear he is "modern" in the dissonant sense of the word. It is true that Shostakovitch is the author of in- genious melodic invention and unique orchestra- tion, but he never goes out of his way to achieve the usual for the sake of the unusual. His sym- phony Number Six is not as phenomenal a work as the fifth; however is molodious, powerful, sincere and brilliant and is the best album set released by Victor for some time-and that's saying something. If Shostakovitch and Prokofieff are repre- sentative Soviet composers, let's have much more Soviet music. WALTON, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. Jascha Heifetz with Cincinnati Symphony U1I L1 ie First Methodist Church and Wes- ley Foundation: Student Class at 9:30 a.m. with Prof. Kenneth Hance. Morning Worship at 10:40 o'clock. Professor T. V. Smith of the Univer- sity of Chicago will speak on "Dis- cipline in Our Democracy." This will be under the sponsorship of the Henry Martin Loud 'Lectureship. Wesleyan Guild meeting at 6:00 p.m. Prof. Smith will speak. The Church of Christ will meet for Bible Study Sunday at 10:00 a.m. in the YMCA. At the morning wor- ship at 11:00 Garvin M. Toms will preach on the subject: "Approved Unto God." For the evening service at 7:30 the sermon subject will be: "Why Must One Be Baptized?" Mid- week Scripture study is to be Wednes- day at 7:30 p.m. All are cordially in- vited. First Presbyterian Church: Morn- ing Worship, 10:45, "Healing for Humans," subject of the sermon by Dr. W. P. Lemon. Westminster Student Guild: 7:15 p.m. meeting in the Lewis-Vance Parlors. Professor H. Y. McClusky will speak on "Psychology and Relig- ion." Refreshments served after the meeting at nominal cost. St. Andrew's Episcopal Church: Sunday: 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion; 9:00 a.m. Parish Communion Break- fast, Harris Hall (please make reser- vations, 8613) ; 11:00 a.m. Kindergar- ten, Harris Hall; 11:00 a.m. Junior Church; 11:00 a.m. Service of Con- firmation and Sermon by The Rt. Rev. Herbert H. H. Fox, S.T.D., Re- tired Bishop of Montana; 4:00 p.m. Confirmation Tea, Harris Hall; 6:00 p.m. Organ Recital by Mr. George Faxon; 7:30 p.m. Episcopal Student Guild Meeting, Harris Hall, speaker: Dr. Emile Kauder, German refugee, brought to this country by the Ameri- can Friends Service Committee, and now teaching in Grosse Pointe Coun- try Day School. Subject: "Attitude of the German Universities." Zion Lutheran Church: Church Mar aret Mead willeto let ures 'Preliminary exam Ph.D. in English w Room 3217 Angell B to 12 according to schedule: American Literat pean Backgrounds, P Good-By, Old1 The modern barb in mirrors, chromium lithographed calen decorative touch t warm the hearts of1 That is the rack or with gold-lettered s longing to the subst the town. Yet now the Stat cording to dolorous ferson City, is starti from the hand of least in cities of m population-even thl - Ion he MariageRelations Srs ination for the Tuesday, March 17, 7:30 p.m., "The ill be given in Social Basis for Marriage"; and Hall from 9 a.m. Thursday, March 19, 4:15 p.m., "Mar- o the following riage in War Time." Both in Rack- ham Lecture Hall. Students having ure with Euro- tickets will be admitted until five April 15. minutes before lecture time after ' - which the doors will be .open to the Mug public. er shop, dressed Events Today m, white tile, and dars, lacks one Graduate Students: There will be hat still would a record dance for all graduate stu- many old-timers. dents this evening from 9-12 in the n the wall filled Rackham Assembly Hall. Admission having mugs be- fee. All proceeds are to go to the antial citizens of Bomber Scholarship. e of Missouri, ac- The Michigan Student Christian news from Jef- Conference will meet in Ann Arbor ng out to remove today with student representatives the barber-at from all Michigan Colleges. Uni- nore than 20,000 versity of Michigan students are wel- -i one inconspic- come to attend the sessions. Detailed I