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SUNDAY, MARC!! 15, 1942
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Daily are written by members of The Daily
staff and represent the views of the writers
only.
Suppress Fascistic
Crusaders Of Defeat. .
HILE WE ARE BUSY marshalling
our economic and production fronts
to war-time authoritarianism, hundreds of cru-
saders of defeat, protected by America's guaran-
tee of a free press and free speech, have loosed
a titanic barrage of propaganda intended to
destroy America as we know it, in order to build
a house for themselves out of the wreckage.
These preachers of defeatism are American
Fascist agitators-Silver Shirtist William Dud-
ley Pelley, Bundists and Coughlinites-who re-
gard Attorney General Francis Biddle as their
helpful but unwitting ally.
Roscoe Drummond, the Christian Science
Monitor's brilliant, Washington correspondent,
wrote recently that there are 95 pro-Nazi and
pro-Japanese subversive publications being pub-
lished in the United States today with a total
circulation of "several millions."
These Fascists, many of whom are anti-
Semites as well, echo the Berlin-Tokyo party
tline.
William D. Pelley, in his Galilean says: "The
big thing is to bring the war to a graceful con-
clusion with as little further loss of American
territory and sovereignty as may be contrivable
. . . Of course, getting out of the war means
meeting the conditions our foes may be in a
position to impose . . . There can be just as
much patriotism involved in extricating our
country from a bad war as in helping it to build
battleships or bombers. All we want is our own
continent. Whatever goes on in Europe, Asia
or Africa is none of our concern. We want to
go ahead, enjoying our standard of living. We
want to ride in our motor cars, live in our
suburban bungalows."
Wedon't want to ride in our motor cars, Mr.
Pelley, if it mean depriving the attack effort of
steel and gasoline! And we don't want to sit
complacently in our suburban bungalows, Mr.
Pelley, while money, sacrifices and manpower
are needed to win this war!
Awaiting re-trial for his conviction of violating
a suspended sentence in a fraud case, Pelley is
free today to tell the American people that their
morale is "so low that they must stand on a
sheet of paper to look into the eyes of a mouse.
We cannot provide more than 1,000,000 combat
soldiers. Japan is now larger and richer than
the U. S. A."
pELLEY, who construes "American national-
ism" to mean "anti-Semitism," predicts that
America will be on her knees by August. "If
spring and summer bring a crop of Pearl Har-
bors," he writes, "the American people can
easily decide to repudiate the Rooseveltians."
Perhaps Mr. Pelley regards himself and his
Fascistic Silver Shirts as the harvest of "a crop
of Pearl Harbors."
Prolific, pro-Fascist Rev. Charles E. Coughlin
openly puts the war guilt on the democracies.
The mildewing epistles from the money-making
Shrine of the Little Flower assert that:
"Britain will not admit that she caused the
war, yet Britain declared war against Germany
before Germany declared war against Britain."
Asking his followers to understand that the
United States was the cause of the Pacific war
because we preferred not to help Japan in her
invasion of China, Coughlin writes in his Social
WASHINGTON - Shortly before Secretary
Hull left on his present protracted holiday, Col.
Donovan had worked out a plan to send an
American "Col. Lawrence" to visit the Arabs
around Dakar.
The idea was that just as Col. Lawrence had
won the support of the Arabs foi the British in
the last war, so the United States could win
over the Arabs in French West Africa, especially
around the vital base of Dakar, the jumping off
place to South America.
So Col. Charles Sweeney, who has had much
experience with the Arabs, was delegated to
undertake this difficult and important mission.
But when Secretary Hull heard of the Dono-
van plan, he hit the ceiling. Calling Donovan
into his office, Hull lectured him at length, de-
claring: "You are trying to interfere with the
conduct of my relations with a friendly country."
Hull flatly refused to give Col. Sweeney a
Dominie Says
A STUDY of the parish action and the eccle-
siastical announcements of any church
would help a sympathetic citizen understand
religion in its organized capacity. Since the
other Protestant Christian communions have
a diversified history in social adaptations and
since the Jewish organization roots in the family
and not in the Synagogue, the major problems
of organized religion can be appraised most
readily by a study of Catholicism.
The application of the moral law by churches
is a delicate bit of social procedure. Most of us
live along in the presence of conflicting forces,
as though the political results or the financial
restults of great economic and social movements
were the only effects. On the contrary, it is on
the side of intimate family life and the subjec-
tive existence of the common people that earn-
ings or the lack of them, employment or layoff,
changes in the cost of bread, dislocation in in-
dustry, and misunderstanding among pressure
groups, bite into society and disconcert a people.
It is the priest or pastor among his people
daily healing with birth, consecration, confes-
sion, struggle, suffering, sin, heroism and death
who knows the social, financial and political
stakes and the ethical significance of every move
long before the rest of society even suspects that
persons are threatened. This is why there is a
running-together of the various communions
today as never before, perhaps, in the life of
the nation. These local ministers, their imme-
diate supervisors, the bishops who preside over
many parishes, the commissions that administer
schools, hospitals, orphanages and churches in
China, Africa and India, with the foreign lan-
guage pastors who teach the children of the poor,
and every day at dawn as well as each evening,
kneel in prayer for fellow-believers and fellow-
sufferers around the broad globe, these are the
leaders who know life as it is being lived. Five
years hence most of us will learn about the
issues of existence as these persons know it
today.
In Jesus, the Kingdom of Heaven, and the
experiences recorded by prophetic Hebrew liter-
ature and in the New Testament, is the norm by
which "The Religious" confront both human
nature and the objective world. If we wish to
understand even the Russians who, for some
reasons, seem doubly strong today as they defend
their homeland and our democracies, we should
not only survey afresh the technical skill of the
collectivist leader but appreciate the devotion
and the emotional power of the Orthodox wor-
shipper. Yonder are over 100,000,000 Orthodox
Christians who by prayer, like the ancient Israel-
ites, daily dedicate themselves to God and the
Kingdom of Heaven. Having so established
spiritual security they contend "and having done
all they stand." This great people, whose gov-
ernment rejects the metaphysics but accepts the
ethics of Christianity has a deep and determined
folk will to worship God and continues to do so.
almost barren of natural resources. Her people
are prolific. Is there not another law, mightier
than the Atlantic Charter, which permits a
people to expand to unused territories? Is it
not true that the 'earth is the Lord's and the
fullness thereof'?"
Another defeatist, Francis P. Moran, a high-up
in the now-defunct Christian Front, defends the
Japanese attack in these words: "Mr. Roosevelt
has sent our citizens to their deaths . . . he is
guilty of murder." Moran then tells Americans
not to pay their income taxes which are "uncon-
stitutional, un-American and morally unjust."
All of these Fascistic publications are skirting
the border lines of the law--and one of them
even admits it. The following item appears in
every issue of an Omaha "Goebbels Sheet":
"Notice-if any soldier receives America in
Danger Bulletin, I did not send it. If any sub-
scriber joins armed forces, advise me so I can
remove such names from America In Danger-
Charles B. Hudson."
ATTORNEY GENERAL BIDDLE appears to be
following the test laid down by Justices
Brandeis and Holmes that seditious utterances
should be allowed to continue unhampered un-
less they plainly produce seditious acts.
We realize that no arbitrary line can be drawn
through our democratic principles of free speech
and free press, but we feel that a 'distinction
must be made between those among us who are
merely opposed to war and those who are plainly
sympathizers with the enemy or even in the
passport. So no attempt has been made to win
over the Arabs of West Africa.
Note: British intelligence reports that three
French warships sailed from Dakar last month
bound for Madagascar. This will relieve the
danger to Brazil, but it may increase possible
danger to British-U. S. shipping routes through
the Indian Ocean to Suez and India; depending
on whether the French warships will protect
Madagascar from the British or from the Japa-
nese.
Donald Nelson Explains
In his radio appeal for an immediate 25 per-
cent increase in war production, Donald Nelson
announced that joint management-labor com-
mittees would be set up in every plant to devise
methods of increasing output. There has been
considerable conjecture since then over the
scope of these committees; whether they should
run the plants or merely be advisory.
Nelson told Walter Reuther, UAW vice-
president, that he hoped the joint committees
would take their work seriously and submit
every practical plan for increasing production.
However, Nelson stressed that he and not the
committees would decide on the merits of the
proposals, that the function of the committees
was strictly "advisory."
Note: After first approving the joint commit-
tee plan, Secretary Knox later told Nelson he
was opposed because it would "Sovietize U. S.
industry." Knox contended that management
alone should do the job. Nelson brushed aside
Knox's fears and declared that without the full
cooperation of labor the war could not be won.
"I expect full cooperation from the Navy on my
plan," Nelson said firmly, "or else. And if you
doubt my word there is a man in the White
House who will confirm it for you."
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Hitler Must
Be Laughing
By TOM THUMB
HITLER must be laughing at us.
He must be laughing at the United Statesl
because he believes that we are a nation of hypo-
crites. We go yelling and shouting about democ-
racy, and then what do we do?-we copy Hitler
in all the ways we can.
Hitler would take any opponent of his political
party and political ideas and throw him into a
concentration camp. But you'd hardly expect
that to be done here.
And yet today in the Federal Penitentiary
at Atlanta, Georgia, sits a man who was impris-
oned on a trumped-up charge-jailed for his
political beliefs-in the United States of America.
The man is Earl Browder, General Secretary
of the Communist Party of the United States of
America. Whatever ,your political beliefs, if you
are an American you should know that this is
not the American way.
IN GERMANY, the Communist Party was the
first to be muzzled as Hitler came into power.
The destruction of the Communist Party her-
alded the downfall of France. The Communist
Party is always the first to go when Fascism
sets in, because it is a minority party and Karl
Marx's ideals are broadly and diametrically op-
posed to Fascism. Hitler knows this and that is
why he must be laughing at us today. He thinks
that he may win this war without a struggle.
Well, boys, you've got to admit, it sure looks
funny. here we are, arm in arm with Russia,
both depending on each other for yictory. Very
friendly-except that we have a representative
of our ally's philosophy in jail-because of his
philosophy.
A bit of a review of this boy Browder's case
history. I don't know if he's married or whether
he uses Sweetheart soap, but he was born in
Kansas, and his parents came to the U. S. in the
1600's. He was sentenced to four years in the
penitentiary and fined $2,000, on a charge of a
tminor technical violation of passport regulations.
He was charged with making a "false state-
ment." He said that he had not had a passport
before, when he had. He was nof charged with
the use of a false passport.
Of the similar 125 cases in the Southern Dis-
trict of New York where Browder was tried, one-
third received suspended sentences; eight were
punished by fines alone-and all paid less than-
Browder; and 20 percent were not even brought
to trial. Among those who received prison sen-
tences, 30 to 90 days was the usual penalty.
Browder's sentence was, with one exception, the
highest ever given in a passport case. Wendell
Willkie said of the case: "You will wonder
whether Browder was sentenced to four years in
jail and a $2,000 fine because he made a false
statement on a passport application or because
he was a Communist Party member."
Yes, we wonder, but Hitler doesn't. He knows
it's political persecution.
WOULDN'T we be comforted to hear that the
representative of the Nazi Party in Italy
was jailed? Wouldn't it be significant that Italy
was coming over to our side?
' We are sniping at our neighbors and people
who should be our friends. We are showing Hit-
ler that we wish to emulate him. The majorityi
of the people do not wish to emulate Hitler, but
they don't know enough of the facts to be able
to do sqmething about it.
Whether your sympathies are with the Com-
munist Party or not is no matter. Injustice is
DAILY OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 1942
VOL. LH. No. 119
Publication in the Daily Official
Bulletin is constructive notice to all
members of the University.
Notices
Student Tea: President and Mrs.
Ruthven will be at home to students
Wednesday afternoon, March 18,
from 4 to 6 o'clock.
A letter has been received from the
Teachers Insurance and Annuity
Association summarizing certain
modifications which have been adop-
ted with respect to the retirement
'annuity contracts and life insurance
policies.
1. When the holder of a premium-
paying retirement annuity contract
enters a military, naval, or air force
of the United States, Canada, or New-
foundland, he may cease premium
payments on the contract with the
assurancedthat ie may restore the
risk of death resulting either (a)
contract by simply resuming premi-
um payments (without payment of
the "omitted" premiums) if he does
so /at the close of such service or
within six months thereafter. At that
time he will be expected to sign an
appropriate agreement as to reduc-
tion of the contractual benefits cor-
responding to the omitted premiums,
and the premium resumed will be on
the same actuarial basis as it would
have been if premiums had been
paid continuously.
2. All new life insurance policies
applied for after December 9, 1941,
will contain a provision excluding the
from service outside the continental
limits of the United States, Canada,
and Newfoundland in a military,
naval or air force of a country at
war, or (b) from operating or riding
in any kind of aircraft, except as a
fare-paying passenger on scheduled
airline flights. In event of death
under such excluded circumstances,
the reserve under the policy, less any
indebtedness, will be payable to the1
beneficiary. This procedure applies
to all kinds of newly-written life in-
surance policies, including collective
insurance, but of course not to life
insurance policies previously written
without any such clause or to any
annuity contract. Among some
groups of applicants particularly
likely to enter the forces, the total
amount of insurance the Association
will write on an individual is reduced.
Herbert G. Watkins,
Assistant Secretary
Actions of the Administrative
Board, College of Literature, Sci-
ence, and the Arts: A student was
placed on probation from December
9 to the end of the first semester
1941-1942 for illegally removing a
book from the University library.
A student was recorded with a
grade of E in an English course be-
cause of plagiarism in the written
work of that course.
Prospective Applicants for the Com-
bined Curricula: Students of the Col-
lege of Literature, Science and the
Arts wishing to apply for admission
to one of the combined curricula for
September 1942 should fill out ap-
plications for such admission as soon
as possible in Room 1210 Angell Hall.
The final date for application is Ap-
ril 20, 1942, but early application
is advisable. Pre-medical students
should please note that application
for admission to the Medical School
is not application for admission to
the Combined Curriculum. A separate
application should be made out for
the consideration of the Committee
on Combined Curricula.
Edward H1. Kraus
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Students, College of Literature,
Science, and the Arts: Courses drop-
ped after Saturday, March 21, by
students other than freshmen will be'
recorded with the grade of E. Fresh-
men (students with less than 24 hours
of credit) may drop courses without
penalty through the eighth week,
Exceptions to these regulations may
be made only because of extraord-
inary circumstances, such as serious
or long-continued illness.
E. A. Walter
. All students registered with the
General Employment Bureau, in the
Dean of Students Office, are.request-
ed to bring their records up to date
by adding their second semester
schedules, and also any changes of
address. THIS IS IMPORTANT.
.1. A. Bursley,
Dean of Students
Kothe-Ililduer 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 latterj
part of this month. The fund from
which the awards are payable was
established in 1937 by H'rman 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
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"Cadwell's getting terribly absent-minted---he was reading about
the 'scorched earth' policy, when I asked him to burn up some
trash in back!"
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Physiology" will be discussed.
interested are invited.
All
Bacteriological seminar will meete
in Room 1564 East Medical Buildingi
on Tuesday, March 17, at 8:00 p.m.I
The subject will be "Dysentery." All x
interested are cordially invited.
Preliminary examination for theI
Ph.D. in English will be given in r
Room 3217 Angell Hall from 9 a.m.c
to 12 according to the followingt
schedule:
American Literature with Euro-1
pean Backgrounds, April 15.t
English Literature, 1700-1900, Aprili
18.
English Literature, 1550-1700, April
22.
English Literature, Beginning toe
1550, April 25.
Those intending to take the exam-
ination should notify Professor N. E.
Nelson by April 1.C
iesf heConcerts
May Festival Announcement: Cop-
ies ofthe 8-page May Festival an-,
nouncement, containing the com;
plete programs for all six concerts,9
sketches of the artists, and other im-
portant information, may be securedt
by calling at the offices of the Uni-~
versity Musical Society in Burtonf
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, President4
Carillon Programs: The bell cham-
ber of the Burton Memorial Towert
will be open to visitors interested in
observing the playing of the carillon
from 12 noon to 12:15 p.m. daily from
Monday through Friday of this week,
at which time Professor Percival'
Price, University Carillonneur, will
present an informal program.
I The regular Tuesday evening pro-
gram of recorded music in the Men's
' Lounge of the Rackham Building at
18:00 p.m. will be as follows: Rossini:
Semiramide Overture, London Phil-
harmonic; Purcell: Four Part Fan-
tasia and Fantasia on One Note,l
String Quartet; Mozart: Symphony
in DhMajor ("Prague"), Chicago
Symphony; Handel: Faithful Shep-
ard Suite, London Philharmonic.
Exhibition, College of Architecture
and Design: City pllam'ing 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
University Lectures: Lecture's by
Dr. Carl F. Cori and Dr. Gerty T. Coni
of the Department of Pharmacol-
ogy, Washington University Medical
School, will be given as follows:
"The Role of Enzymes in Carbo-
hydrate Metabolism," by Dr. Carl F.
Cori, on Friday, March 27, at 4:15
p.m.
"The Isolation and Properties of
Some Enzymes Concerned with Car-
bohydrate Metabolism," by Dr. Gerty
T. Cori, on Friday, March 27, at 8:15
p.m.
"The Enzymatic Couversion 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.
. Marriage Relations Lectures: Dr.
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 on
Wednesday, March 18, at 4:15. The
public is invited.
French Lecture: Professor Edward
B. Ham, of the Department of Ro-
mance Languages, will give the sev-
enth of the French Lectures spon-
sored by the Cercle Francais on Wed-
nesday, March 18, at 4:15 p.m. in
Room D, Alumni Memorial Hall. The
title of his lecture is "Curiosites Med-
ivales." The lecture is open to the
general public.
Current Events Lecture will be giv-
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
Varsity Glee Club: The first basses
will rehearse at 3:45 p.m. today
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.
Michigan Outing Club will hike to
Saginaw Forest today, leaving the
Women's Athletic Building at 2:30
p.m. All students are welcome to at-
tend. Weather permitting, the group
will cook supper out and everyone
should bring his own food. The
square dance scheduled for Saturday
has been postponed.
The Inter-Cooperative Council will
present a sound film entitled "ere
Is Tomorrow," a documentary on the
Cooperative Movement in the U.S.
today at 3:30 p.m. in Room 222 at
the Union. Admission is free and
everyone is welcome.
Gamma Delta Lutheran Student
Club of St. Paul's Lutheran Church
will attend the Walther League Bible
Hour at Ida this evening. Please meet
in front of the church at 4:30 p.m.
Transportation will be provided.
The Lutheran Student Association
will hold its regular Sunday evening
meeting at 5:30 o'clock today.
Mr. C. Shoemaker will review some
books of the type which should be
in the student's library.
Episcopal Students: Dr. Emile
Kauder will be the speaker at the
meeting of the Episcopal Student
Guild at 7:30 tonight in Harris Hall.
Compline and refreshments. All stu-
dents invited.
Coiin ;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.
The Political:Science Journal Club
will meet at 8:00 p~m. Tuesday, Mar,
17, in the East Conference Room of
the Rackham Building. Dr. Jan Hos-
tie will speak on "Winning the Peace
and the Universities."
The English Journal Club will
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GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty