PAGE- FOU S~A'TRDAY. MARCH 2R. 942 THE MICHIGAN DAILY THE REPLY CHURLISH By TOUCHSTONE 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 $500. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTIJING 9V National Advertising Service, Inc. r .College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CHICAGO - BOSTON - LOS ANGELES * SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1941.42 Editorial Stafff Emile Gelb . . Alvin Dann David Lacheubruch Jay McCormick . Gerald E. Burns Hal Wilson . , Janet Hooker . Grace Miller Virginia Mitchell Daniel H. Huyett James B. Collins Louise Carpenter Evelyn Wright . . . . Managing Editor . . . . Editorial Director . . . . . City Editor . . . . Associate Editor . Associate Editor ' Sports Editor Women's Editor . . Astant Women's Editor . . . Exchange Editor Busin ,ess Staff 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 Mayer Article Is Challenge To America.. . T HE SATURDAY EVENING POST claims its heritage from one of the fathers of American democracy, Benjamin Franklin. This week that magazine published an article that should make every real American feel ashamed. It was as much of an antithesis of democracy as anything could be. Journalist Milton Mayer, who has a reputation as a liberal and noted magazine writer, took a leaf from Adolf Hitler's own notebook and delivered one of the most Fascistic, anti-semitic tirades to appear in the nation's press since the beginning of the war. Labeling his attack, "The Case Against the Jew," Mayer singles out the Jewish race as a separate segment of the population that must mend its ways before it will be an accepted part of the national community. A return to right- eousness is the way he phrases it. While admit- ting that gentiles have not acted the part of Christians, Mayer's appeal for a return to Jew- ish-Christian ideals seems strangely directed to only one group of the population. It would be good advice for everyone. BUT Mayer's whole thesis implies a further increase in the racial barriers rather than an elimination of segregation. His article is an insult to American democracy. The Saturday Evening Post shares the blame with him. It is responsible for stirring up agitation on the Jewish question by publishing a series of arti- cles, of which Mayer's is one, on the problem. Today America's sons of all races and creeds are fighting a battle to the death. They are fighting for something that has taken genera- tions to establish. It is the idea that all men are created free and equal. In America, the hope of an enslaved Europe, there is no discrimina- tion on any basis religious, color or rac. Now, at this crucial hour, this dream is being shattered by criticism of a group that is giving its all for the war effort and that has contributed men like former Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis to the nation. The whole incident leaves one with a bad taste. What will come of it? A post-war collapse, as Mayer says, that will "remind a bitter and be- wildered nation that the Jew got us into the war?" Not, if the thousands of Americans fight- ing in Australia, the Philippines and in the cold North Atlantic have anything to say about it. They will not have their purpose defeated by their own countrymen. P ERHAPS, the editors of the Saturday Eve- ning Post and Mayer do not realize the full extent of their crime. They are, whether con- sciously or not, aiding in destroying the unity of a determined people at a time when that peo- ple faces the gravest threat since their nation was formed. They have merely repeated the criticisms of the past-those same criticisms which have already been made and recognized. Everything America stands for is being chal- lenged. The people wdl not remain idly by, how- ever. They will not allow themselves to follow one of the very policies, that of racial discrim- ination, which the are fighting to eliminate. No criticism of the Saturday Evening Post or Milton Mayer can be too strong. Their action was uncalled for. The one ray of hope is that SO FAR I have not visited the beatifully colored motion picture palace which has just opened on State Street. Lounging about the street corners nearby, I have looked with longing many times at the green doors, the red walls, and some of my intimates have come back after visiting there of an evening, with Genghis Khan stories of the fabulous luxury of the place, unequalled elsewhere in occidental civilization. There are splendid mirrors, Brazilian Walnut trimmings, and rumors about the men's room. It has been uncomfortable, this waiting-but I shall continue to wait-until they start showing movies. No tribute to my virility, I realize, is my marked ennui at the saronged sight of Miss Dorothy Lamour, and equally am I exposed as the weary snob I am often called, when I admit that having seen one Abbott and Costello offer- ing, in which they played the three shell game on board a battleship, I did not choose under my own power to attend further goings-on. I am devastated to admit it, but until there is some- thing slightly more than good wholesome enter- tainment in the offing at this new temple of mirth, I shall confine my architectural mean- derings to the devout corridors of the Rackham Building. TO REVIEW the screen offerings hereabouts during the past month would scarcely be worth the passes. A new theatre has been added to the Ann Arbor scene, has taken an almost brilliantly prominent place in our humdrum, lives, searing'our eyeballs with pyrotechnic vivid-i ness, and one feels nevertheless slightly un- moved, as if it was all scarcely worth doing. Per- haps Hollywood is to blame. It practically always is. But there is some catch phrase, about coals and Newcastle. I am still, at this writing, in hopes that I shall be able, without too much compromise, to see with these rheumy old eyes, that decor. FROM the New Republic I reprint here an ex- change of letters in re the new Steinbeck Clhe' Dm wPediso RobertS.Ales ~GO$ WASHINGTON - Listeners who heard War Production Chief Donald Nelson's latest broad- cast may have wondered why he went to such pains to defend his plan for joint management- labor committees to increase production in war plants. There was a very good reason. For several days before, Nelson was deluged with letters and long distance calls from busi- ness men expressing great concern that his plan would "sovietize" U.S. industry. One of the telephoners, a nationally known auto manufacturer whom Nelson has known for many years, approached the matter this way: "Of course, Don, I know there isn't anything to it, but the story is going around that this joint committee plans of yours is for the purpose of giving labor a voice in management and is a first step toward 'sovietizing' industry. As I said, personally, I know that isn't so. But that's what is being said and I thought you ought to know about it." Not even remotely a leftist, Nelson was dumb- founded. His plan has nothing to do in any manner with plant management. Its sole pur- pose is to provide a handy channel for the con- sideration'of suggestions to step up production. Studying the letters and telephone calls, Nel- son was struck by the similarity of their story. So he came to the conclusion that the rumors were being "planted" from one or more sources for the deliberate purpose of discrediting his plan and forcing him to abandon it. Nelson called in government sleuths. Their investigation is still incomplete. But they. have definitely located one source of this runor- mongering. It is a former official of a big business or- ganization now employed in the Navy Depart- ment as the aide of a former Wall Street banker with extensive industrial connections. Note: Secretly, Navy brasshats were vigorously opposed to Nelson's plan, insisted that the com- mittees consist only of management represen- tatives- Sugr Shortage EVIDENCE CONTINUES to leak out of Ca -J inet circles that the current sugar shortage could have been averted. Chief trouble has been lack of long-distance planning. Here are some of the inside facts: 1. Oil Administrator Ickes has been urging War Chiefs to make alcohol out of petroleum. This is cheaper than making alcohol out of sugar cane and molasses, and would save Cuban cane for sugar. 2. Somebody among the War Chiefs has been playing the game of the big Eastern alcohol companies, with big investments in Cuba, as against the Midwest whiskey distillers, who could use up the surplus grain crop of the West. Corn belt senators contend that responsibility for this latter situation rests with $1-A-Year- Man Fraser Moffat of U.S. Industrial Alcohol, one of the big Eastern giants which leans toward Cuban sugar cane. Moffat heads the Alcohol Division of WPB where his decisions count. Lack of long-distance planning may also rest book, in lieu of reading it myself. Mr. James Thurber needs no introduction, and Mr. Mar- shall A. Best's identity is revealed in the course of the discussion: 5IR: The Thurber review of Steinbeck's "The Moon Is Down" (The New Republic, March 16) is a slap in the face for all the decent people who have been moved by the book's shining sin- cerity. Thurber's is the sot of softy cynicism that might yet lose us the war. Luckily Stein- beck knows, better than the parlor intellectuals, the kind of ammunition that we need; and the people are with Steinbeck rather than with Thurber. Give us more dynamite and chocolate, and fewer owls in the attic! As to "what the people of Poland would make of it all," it is interesting that three good writers -who know Europe at least as well as Thurber does-independently made the same recom- mendation: translate "The Moon Is Down" into all the languages and scatter it broadcast over the occupied countries. New York City Marshall A. Best SIR: Mr. Best will not have to look far to see that the question of what the people of Po- land would think of "The Moon Is Down" has been brought out of the subjunctive into the present indicative. He will live., I think, to see many more letters protesting against Mr. Stein- beck's gentle fable of War in Wonderland, not only from Poles who have endured German con- quest, but from Jugoslavs, Greeks, French, Dutch and all the rest. Mr. Best is quite right when he says that we might yet lose the war. Nothing would help more toward that end than for Americans to believe the Steinbeck's version of Nazi conquest instead of its true story of hell, horror and hopelessness. This true story may be found, to name Just one place, on page 10 of The New York Times for March 19, in a sum- mary of a Polish White Book dealing with the German conquest of Poland. The mass rape and systematic debauchery of the women of a con- quered country stand in curious contrast to Mr. Steinbeck's idyllic picture of a lonely German officer who simply wants to talk and hold hands with the widow of a man the Nazis have mur- dered. I should like to send a clipping of this article to Mr. Marshall A. Best, Managing Edi tor, The Viking Press (publishers of "The Moon Is Down", by whose fuzzy mental distress and public heartbreak I am approximately as deeply moved as I would be by the tears of a real-estate agent. I am sorry about that slap in the face. I didn't realize my hand was open. New York City Tames Thurber SO LONG UNTIL SOON. RECORDS I rQW Jazz 1To(Clypso Ani Sck In New Albums Attention, class. Today we will discuss three widely divergent forms of music as exemplified by three recent Decca albums. 1. Calypso Music. Many of you, no doubt, are unfamiliar with this weird and haunting type of music. For your benefit, I shall attempt to arrive at some sort of a definition. This music originates in the Caribbean island of Trinidad it is a Jorm 01 singing which sounas halfway like the rhumba and halfway like Amer- ican ,jazz. It is like neither. There are calypso singers who specialize in making up these songs (words are oftn improvised) , and they are sung to the accompaniinent of a small tropical band. Words are usually inspired by some phase of the everyday life of the Calypsonians: movie per- sonalities, the radio, news events. The Calyp- sonians represented in Decca's new Calypso Al- bum include Atilla, the Hun (one of the very few white Calypsonians , King Radio, the Growl- er, Mighty Destroyer and the Lion. They are all accompanied by Gerald Clark's very eompetant Ca lypo Orlestrad Upon first hcaring of (,lyp omumsic, the Is- Snier cannot find much sense. 'hen a few hours later he finds thee tune running around in is ind and he is cag-hIl benatI, the spell of calypso. Best 'recordinigs ill the present Decca set are t iose by Atilla, the Hun. Titles include Roosevelt's Election, 'li Red Cross Society, Bing Crosby, Ugly Woman, Old Lady You Mash- ing My Toe. 2.. "Alto Saxology." Although -this Decca Al- bum is pri'inarily intended for students of the alto sax it is a welcome volume to any jazz fan. It includes orch estrail featuring the work of jazzdom 's finest alto liien i sokoa ind enise'i i1c passages-. The cast of c 'arcIrs sii ks for iIself: Jim- imiy Dorsey in lRomance and Tailspin; Benny Carter in Serenade to a Sarong; Johnny Hodges with Duke Ellington's orchestra in Chicago; Pete Brown playing a sax solo; Louis Jordan in Waiting for the Robert E. Lee; Willie Smith with Jimmie Lunceford's orchestra; Russell Pro- cope with John Kirby's boys; Rudy Williams with Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans; and Murray McEarhern soloing in Glen Gray's famous Rock Island Flag stop, For sone really exl)(ert alto technique, these samples cannot be beat. And they make fine listening, too. 3..Count Basic piano solos. This album is not so recent. It is mentioned 'because of its ex- cellence. The Count and his nimble fingers are accompanied by bull-fiddle and drum, which, DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) persons going to the same place at the same time may ride in the same car and save both tires and expense. A record of such plans will be kept in the President's Office, and those who find it necessary to make a trip may inquire there as to the possi- bility of riding with others. Waste is sabotage. Gardens: Arrangements have been completed for the use of several acres of land at the Botanical Gardens for any University employees, or faculty members, who may be desir- ous of plantinggardens this summer. It is planned to have the land plowed and fitted ready for use at the proper time. If interested, kindly contact the undersigned by telephone or mail for your garden space. As the available acreage is limited, applications will be accepted in the order received. O. E. Roszel, Storehouse Department Phone: 4121-Ext. 337 Choral Union Members: Will those members of the Choral Union who have not already done so, please re- turn the John Church copies of the Beethoven Ninth Symphony at once, and 'receive in exchange new copies of the Schirmer edition, at the offices of the University Musical Society in Burton Memorial Tower. Charles A. Sink, President Biochemical Lecture: Professor David M. Greenberg, Professor of Biochemistry, University at Califor- Candidates for the Teacher's Cer- nia, will lecture on "Factors in Bone tificate for May and August 1942: A Metabolism as Studied with Radio- list of candidates has been posted on active Isotopes" in the East Lecture the bulletin board of the School of Room of the Rackham Building this I kIU r 6 n. 2. fJ* Education, Room 1431 UES. Any! prospective candidate whose name does not appear on this list should call at the office of the Recorder of the School of Education, 1437 U.E.S. Biological Station: Application for admission for the coming summer session should be in my office before April 15, when all applications will be considered. An announcement describing the courses offered can be obtained at the Office of the Summer Session or from the Director. Appli- cations should be made on forms which can be secured at Room 1073 Natural Science from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. A.IH. Stockard, Director GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty G lIlo lllllg ab O .Vu. j l Events Today The Angell Hall Observatory will be open to the public from 8:30 to 10:30 this evening. The moon and the planets, Jupiter and Saturn, will be shown through the telescopes. Children must be accompanied by adults. The Pre-Medical Society will taqkel a trip to Ypsilanti State Hospital today. All Pre-Meds interested should meet in front of the Michigan Union at 1:30 p.m. A small fee will be charged. Michigan Outing Club will go on an afternoon hike to Barton Hills Concerts today, leaving the Women's Athletic Building at 1:30 p.m. All students Jessie Copp, '42SM, will give a re- are welcome to attend. cital in partial fulfillment of the de- gree of Bachelor of Music in Hill Graduate Dance for all graduate Auditorium at 4:15 p.m. on Sunday, students, sponsored by the Gradu- March 29. A student of Palmer ate Council, tonight, 9:00-12:00, in Christian, Mrs. Copp has arranged a the Assembly Hall of the Rackham program including works of Marcello, Building. Refreshments. Bach, Franck, Karg-Elert and Mulet., The public is cordially invited. Frosh Project Publicity Committee: There will be a meeting of the Frosh The University Symphony Orches- Project Publicity Committee at 3:00 tra, under the direction of Thor John- p.m. today at the League. The room son, will present a concert at 8:30 number will be posted on the bulletin p.m. Tuesday, March 31, in Hill Audi- board behind the main desk. torium. Mr. Johnson has arranged a program to include works of Bach, Brahms, Delius, Dvorak and Wag-oi L E e t ner's Good Friday Spell from "Parsi- German Club will mbet at 8:00 p.m. fal." Mrs. Maud Okkelberg, pianist, on Tuesday, March 31, in the Michi- of the faculty of the School of Music gan League. The program will con- will appear as soloist. sist of recorded German music. The public is cordially invited. 4 1 / '_ te C "--and giving up girdies, silk stockings, cars, is not enough--.we must make the supreme sacrifice-we'll have to keep secrets to ourselves!" struction classes for those about to enter the church. 5:30 pm. Ariston League, high school group, in Pilgrim Hall. The group's leader, Erston Butterfield, will lead a discussion on "The True Meaning of Easter." Refreshments. 7:15 p.m. Student Fellowship in church parlors. Dr. Parr will give an interpretative reading of a play. Thursday, 8:00 p.m. Annual Can- dlelight Communion Service and re- ception of members. St. Andrew's Episcopal Church: Sunday, 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion; 9:00 a.m. Parish Communion Break- fast, Harris Hall (call 8613 for reser- vations); 10:00 a.m. High School Class; 11:00 a.m. Kindergarten, Har- ris Hall; 11:00 a.m. Junior Church; 11:00 a.m. Morning Prayer and Ser- mon by the Rev. Henry Lewis; 4:00- 6:00 p.m. H-Square Club Meeting, Harris Hall (speaker: Mrs. Francesca Thivy, subject :"Religions of India"); 6:00 p.m. Choral Evensong (Men and Boys Choir); 7:30 p.m. Episcopal Stu- dent Guild Meeting, Harris Hall. Speaker: The Rev. Hillis Duggins, Assistant Minister, Christ Church, Grosse Pointe. Subject: "The Young Christian Movement in Europe." First Church of Christ, Scientist: Sunday morning service at 10:30. Subject: "Reality." Sunday School at 11:45 a.m. The Church of Christ will meet for Scripture study on Sunday at 10:00 a.m. in the Y.M.C.A. At 11:00 a.m. the worship service will be held, the sermon subject for which is "Living Epistles." The evening service, be- ginning at 7:30, will feature a ser- mon on the theme: "A Baptism With a Purpose." The midweek Bible study is to be Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. All are cordially invited. Unitarian Church: Sunday, 11:00 a.m. "Sacrifice at the Cross-roads," sermon by Reverend Marley. 6:00 p.m. Student Supper. 7:30 p.m. Student Meeting. Dr. D. K. Bagchi will discuss "India and the Problem of Independence." Memorial Christian Church (Dis- ciples): 10:45 a.m., Morning Worship, Rev. Frederick Cowin, Minister. 6:30 p.m., Disciples Guild Sunday Evening Hour. A student symposi- um on "The Meaning and Purpose of Life." A social hour and tea will follow the discussion. Zion lutheran Church: Church r Worship Services at 10:30 with ser- mon on "Jesus, Our Challenge to Victory" by Rev. E. C. Stellhorn. I "Under the Gaslight" by Augustin Exhibtion sDaly will be presented next Wednes- day through Saturday nights as the Exhibition: An Introduction to final bill of the season by Play Pro- Architecture. An elaborate edu'ca- duction of the Department of Speech. tional exhibition produced by the The box-office of the Lydia Mendels- Ann Arbor Art Association in collab- sohn Theatre will be open from 10:00 ora4ion with the College of ArchIitec- a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Monday and ture and Design. This exhibition is Tuesday, and 10:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. intended to give the layman a better the rest of the week. Phone 6300 for understanding of the meaning of reservations. architecture, to demonstrate the- modern techniques of museum dis- Wyvern meeting on Sunday at 6:30 play of visual materials as instru- p.m. in the League. Important that ments of education, and for its ap- you be there. This is not a supper peal to those interested in art. The meeting. exhibit is in the Rackhawm Galleries, ;md will continue through April 1. Semiair sponsored bLy Avukab, Stu- Open daily,2-5 mid 7-10, excett i' -l dent Ziolist Organization, will take day:s. T' public is cordially invited. hlacC at the Hillel Foundation, on" Sunday, March 29, at 2:30 p.m. feat- !Exhibition, College of Architec- uring Professor Preston Slosson who hire and Design: Color schemes and will speak on "Minorities After the arrangemnets by the Interior Design War," and Mr. Philip Slomovitz, classes. Weaving by primitive Mexi- prominent Detroit editor, who will can Indian tribes, from the collection talk on "A Jewish Army Now." The of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lippold. talks will be followed by panel dis- Ground floor cases, Architecture cussions and a communal supper. Building. Open daily 9 to 5, except Reservations for the supper may be Sunday, until April 4. The public is made by calling 3779. invited. --- University Lectures: A lecture byI l)r. Carl F. Cori of the Department of! Pharmmiology, Washington Univer- sity Medical School, on the subject, "The Enzymatic Conversion of Glu- cose to Glycogen, (illustrated) will be given today at 11:00 a.m. in the1 Rackham Amphitheater. This is un- der the auspices of Biological Chem- istry and the Medical School. The public is cordially invited. University Lectures on War Proh- lems: Professor Preston W. Slosson of the Department of History, will lec- ture on the subject, "Why America Is at War," under the auspices of the University War Board, on Tuesday, March 31, at 8:00 p.m. in the Rack- ham Lecture Hall. The public is cordially invited, - -i Tnr tnhn A1 Cihurchcs First Methodist Church and Wes-t ley Foundation: Student Class at 9:30 a.m. with Professor Kenneth Hance. Morning Worship Service at9 10:40 o'clock. Dr. Charles W. Bra- shares will preach on "Facing the Future." Wesleyan Guild meeting beginning with refreshments at 6:00 p.m. Communion Service in the Chapel at 6:30 p.m. First Methodist Church: Mendels-1 sohin's oratorio "Elijah" will be pre- sented by the Senior Choir of the First Methodist Church on Palm Sunday evening, March 29, at 8 o'clock in the Sanctuary, Soloists: Bonnie Ruth Van Deursen, Soprano; Beatrice Brody Larsen, Contralto; Avery Crew, Tenor; Mark Bills, Bari- tone; and Beatrice Nesbitt Ruthven, Soprano. Mary Porter Gwin is or- ganist, and Hardin Van Deursen of Trinity Lutheran Church: Church Worship Services at 10:30. Sermon by Rev. Henry 0. Yoder on "Christ and The Cross for the Crises of Life When, Pride Would Puff Us Up." Lutheran Student Association will meet at 5:30 p.m. in Zion Lutheran Parish Hall. Supper will be served at 5:30 p.m. this week. Mr. Kenneth Morgan will address the Association on "The Church in Time of War." First Presbyterian Church: Morn- ing Worship, 10:45 o'clock. "The Consolations of God," Palm Sunday sermon by Dr. W. P. Lemon. Westminster Student Guild wor- ship service at 7:15 p.m. in the Lewis- Vance Parlors. Miss Hypatia Ycas will have an interesting message based on "The Church in Eastern Europe Today." Refreshments. Sunday Evening Club for gradu- 4 ate ' and professional young people: Mr. and Mrs. Walter MacPeek will be hosts at their home, 2020 Penncroft Ct. Meet at the church promptly at 6:00 p.m. for transportation. Phone reservations 2-4833. The First Baptist Church: 10:15 a~m UnTndergra~duatpte cass with Rev.