PAG-FOUR~ THE MTCHTGAN DATLY SUNDAY, MARC!! 15, 1942 7 (7.14r A4"r Van tt1 Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN 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 yelr by car- rier $4.00, by mail $5.00. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTI3NDG BY National Advertising Service, Inc, College Publishers Representative' 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CHICAGO "BOSTON -Lo AfGELS * SAN FRANcisca Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1941-42 Editorial Staff Emile Gel . Alvin Dann David Lachenbruch Jay McCormick Gerald E. Burns Hal Wilson Janet Hooker Grae Miller Virginia Mitchell Daniel H. Huyett James B. Collins Louise Carpenter Evelyn Wright . Managing Editor .Editorial Director . . City Editor . . . Associate Associate Sports . i . Women's . Assistant Women's . . . Exchange Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Business Staff . . . Business Manager . Associate Business Manager Women's Advertising Manager * Women's Business Manager NIGHT EDITOR: DAN BEHRMAN The editorials published in The Michigan 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." q4a 7 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 ~~- 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 204 UH. 4 I. 1 AT. a "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!" .I 44 f/I, .s i { 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 r A t.i C. 0 GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty