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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 Heoker . 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 . Assistant Women's Editor . . . Exchange Editor Business Stafff . . . 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. Bataan Defenders' Heroism Praised . . T HE DAYS of Davie Crockett are not past. Within the last three months an American fighting force on Bataan Peninsula has fought a desperate defensive battle that will rank with the Alamo in this country's history of courage and determination. The final surrender of that force was foredoomed by our pre-war blindness as well as by Japanese bullets. Reading press accounts of this defense is like going through a Wild West silent movie script. Without food, without munitions, without rein- forcements the Bataan army fought for 98 days. They fought tanks from fox holes and dive bombers with patched-up fighters. Americans and Filipinos both stood shoulder to shoulder and the pick of Japan's military machine crum- bled against them. All the praise that can be heaped on this out- numbered handful is not sufficient to reward the job they have done. Corregidor still remains undefeated but it too must fall in a matter of days. Then will the final lines be written in this tragically-heroic campaign. THERE ARE SOME who are already blaming the present Administration for not sending reinforcements to the Philippines while they were under attack. But the Philippines were considered lost as soon as Japan bombed Manila and temporarily decommissioned our fleet at Pearl Harbor. The Congressmen who years ago voted against fortifying the Pacific islands, and the Senators who stood sheltered behind the Pacific Ocean are far more to blame. Sometimes we think the men of Bataan gave this country much more than it deserves in light of its attitude and action up to the present. - Dan Behrman British Political Upheaval Threatens . . T HERE IS a quiet, peaceful, anxious revolution in progress in Britain. This revolution is not in the British tradition of Parliament in a debate. That is all gone now, says an anonymous writer in the British New, Statesman and Nation. The politicians, the rep- resentatives of the parties, are talking, but not for the people. With no election in six years the new senti- ment has little expression in political life. The writer, a former Labour Party candidate now in the armed service, has noted five changes from first-hand observation: FIRSTLY, there is more political talk than ever before. Secondly, a corporate feeling is developing outside of the political party lines. Thirdly, war makes the old parties seem fool- ish and old fashioned with the Tory ex-appeasers and Labour pacifists still leading action. Fourthly, defeats have created resentment in the armed forces against Big Business and poli- ticians. Fifthly, soldiers makirg very small incomes are resentful of highly-paid workers. Coupled with the lack of elections and the re- sultant lack of attachment to any political party by nearly all under thirty, the grievances are matters of nolitical frustration. Disgust and WASHINGTON-Diplomatic dispatches from South America are convincing Washington officials that "neutral" Swedes are acting as tools of the German government. From the U. S. Embassy in Uruguay came a report that the Nazis are putting pressure on South America, through Swedish exporters. These exporters are telling their agents in Uruguay that all shipments from Sweden to South America have been prohibited by Berlin, except to Chile and Argentina. These are the only two Latin American coun- tries which have not broken relations with the Axis. Using Swedish trade as a tool, Germany is trying to keep these countries in line and at the same time punish those that have broken relations. Note: Sweden is buying larger quantities of Brazilian cotton than ever before. Normally Sweden takes almost no Brazilian cotton. Offi- cials suspect that the ultimate destination of the cotton is Germany McKellar Boomerang BIGGEST LAUGH Capitol Hill has had in weeks was over the mauling Senator McKel- lar of Tennessee got from the "grass roots" delegation of college professors and business men who appeared before the Senate Labor Committee in opposition to his bill to scuttle the National Youth Administration. The witnesses, all with first-hand experience' with NYA, kept spectators in stitches and Mc- Kellar in flustered rage as they battered his measure all over the place. One of them, Clif- ton W. Brannon, Toccoa, Ga., war plant offi- cial, provoked gales of laughter when he bluntly told McKellar: "I'm 100 percent behind the program and you Open Letter To Lew Ayres. . Open Letter to Lew Ayres, 'conchy' and ex-movie actor: Y OU must be patient with us, Lew, and not become too embittered at your erstwhile fans, your professional associates, or your government. You see, there are all sorts of patriots, Lew. There is MacArthur; the Wake Island Marines; the boys on Bataan; the union workers who give up. extra pay and short hours for the duration; the majority of industrialists who are cutting their profits to a minimum; air-raid wardens; arrm-chair generals; women who knit sweaters and sort buttons; companies who advertise 'Eat our Soya Bean Crispies to build up your body for America'; and there is Nicholas Schenck, presi- dent of MGM. THERE ARE, also, all sorts of non-patriots, Lew. Such as Father Coughlin; Silver Shirt Pelley; Gerald L. K. Smith; Burton K. Wheeler; black-clad mothers who sit In a Congress gal- lery; Henry Ford; Charles A. Lindbergh; and there is you. Some of us have difficulty distinguishing be- tween these patriots and non-patriots, Lew. Take Ford, now. His plants will be turning out more war material than any other factories in the nation, probably; but he is an isolationist and hired Lindbergh, and you know what he is. It is difficult to distinguish. Or let us compare MacArthur to Nicholas Schenck of MGM. MacArthur is a general, and attracts plenty of attention as a fighter because that is his business and he is good at it. Now Schenck is only a business executive; and can only show his patriotism by denouncing his brother, who was convicted on tax evasion charges; and by keeping his business clean of such as you. So he says you are "washed up with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer." "UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES," he said, "do I wish to be put in the position of defending conscientious objectors who cannot find it in their hearts to fight for their country." And movie circuits all over the country have agreed with him by banning your pictures. And movie- going patriots boycott you because you are no longer an American-you won't fight. You should know, Lew, that democracy is a relative matter; that in wartime you cannot go around with crackpot moral opinions. Sure, we have freedom of opinion here, but a famous man like you cannot be allowed to undermine the war effort. Therefore, if you refuse to fight for democracy, you lose your democracy. We are making an example of you, Lew, to show young America that they must fight; and to show them the sort of American tolerance they must defend. You are the goat this time, Lew; but be patient with us. Remember, it is all for the good of democracy. -Emile Gele society and aim at evoking patriotism of the kind which the U.S.S.R. has managed to inspire." Close observers of British politics are already beginning to fear the rise of demagogic orators who, once gaining the confidence of the disillu- sioned people, could grasp the power of govern- ment. It is the fear of fascism from within in- stead of from without. The revolution against the staid, complacent politicians can have good results if it is guided into channels of liberal, equalitarian party ideals. No Communist revolution is needed, but an in- telligent, objective, unified body of new voters. OF COURSE the old parties including the British Communists look foolish. They quib- ble and squabble, shake up cabinets and knock - - -r ~,_ 't would be too if you could see how it has raised living standards in my part of the country and helped the sons and daughters of the under- privileged to earn a living. Yes, I would like to tell the people of Tennessee about that." Before McKellar had a chance to recover from this spanking, he ran into another from James H. Richmond, president of the Murray State Teachers College in Kentucky. Richmond told how the NYA was contributing to the war effort by training the children of poor people for jobs in war plants; also how, under the college-aid program, higher education was made available to thousands of others. NYA projects are all important in states like Kentucky, with few war industries, Richmond said, adding to McKellar: "You have plenty of war industries in your state." McKellar, apparently considered this remark an inference that he was unconcerned about conditions in other states beside Tennessee. Sputtering, he shouted, "your insinuations are absolutely false." "I resent a statement like that," hit back Richmond, to which McKellar replied hotly, "You can resent it if you please." Senator Elbert Thomas of Utah, chairman of the Labor Committee, headed off further hos- tilities by remarking jocularly to Richmond: "Doctor, if you lived around here very long, you would never resent anything.". An Australian Visitor ONE of the first things Australian External Minister Herbert V. Evatt did after arriving in Washington was to call on Representative Edward Hebert of Louisiana. He presented a letter of introduction from Capt. Ray Hufft, a constituent of Hebert's with Gen. MacArthur in Australia. "A man of your standing doesn't need a letter of introduction anywhere," grinned Hebert. "It isn't often I am honored by such an important visitor. You really shouldn't have gone to all the trouble of coming up here. I know you're extremely busy." "Oh, I wanted very much to meet you," said Evatt. "I promised Capt. Hufft that I would and I'd never break a promise to one of Mac- Arthur's gallant men. Incilentally, Capt. Hufft is a very fine young man. We are very fond of him." "So am I," responded Hebert. "I was a news- paper man before coming to Congress and Ray Hufft gave me the biggest scoop of my life." Hebert then related how, on June 9, 1939, while city editor of the New Orleans States, he received a telephone tip from Hufft, manager of a local radio station, that a truckload of ex- pensive picture frames and other furnishings was leaving Louisiana State University for the home of an appointee of former Governor Dick Leche. Hebert rushed out reporters and a photog- rapher. It was the first story that "broke" the Louisiana graft scandals. Documented exposes by Hebert and the Merry-Go-Round column that followed cracked the Huey Long machine wide open and led to'the convictions of Leche and other prominent officials on graft charges. fonlilie Says MUCH turns upon desire. In his "Experience ana Substance," on page 307, Professor De- Witt Parker says: "The final good can be defined only in terms of desire; for the life desire is still a desire, only a deeped stratum enveloping our simpler propensities." Both religion and philosophy are rooted in value. Both hark back to the desire of a person to discover when the prescription satisfies, the philosopher moving from desire to harmony, while the religious man moves from desire to social good. Though they are partners, and in- separable, the former tends to move in the realm of thought while the latter operates in experience or action. It was Prof. I. W. Thomas who focused attention upon the basic wishes. Twenty years ago he declared that there were four basic wishes to be satisfied if the youth was to mature: New Experience, Approval, Security, and Dominance. The Camping Movement in America, the Chris- tian Association, the Project emphasis in educa- tion and vast recreation and special programs were directly served by this sociological contri- bution. These v.ishes hold for young adults, also. The ideal which comes to determine your direction will turn out to be satisfying and therefore save you only in case it is implemented along the lines of these basic wishes. Your daily life must in- clude a variety of experiences, specific approba- tion and affection, a sense of well-being and freedoin from fear, plus control or dominance in kceping with your growing powers. Education or commerce, therefore, are good or bad in your case according to the way the ideal and the im- plementing agent bring satisfaction. But can the same be said of the Church and organized relig- ion? Yes, the ideal and the method of approach- ing it determine how valuable the Church is to man and society. WE HEAR OBJECTIONS from the man of faith who thinks of the mystical elements in religion and the deep longings of the soul as the only really religious experiences. He will com- plain that an analysis based on desire makes religion a human affair. Not at all. Religion has many aspects. This one enables the eternal truth to get a foothold in persons and in society. Also, desire enables the universal to be particu- lar and definite. Unless we humans provide such cooperation with God, there is no future, neither SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 1942 VOL. LII. -No. 143 Publication in the Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Notices Faculty Tea: President and Mrs. Ruthven will be at home to members of the faculty and other townspeople today fromn 4 to 6 o'clock. Cars may park in the restricted zone on South University between 4:00 and 6:30 p.m. Student Tea: President and Mrs. Ruthven will be at home to students Wednesday afternoon, April 15, from 4 to 6 o'clock. Note to Seniors, May Graduates, and Graduate Students: Please file application for degrees or any special certificates i.e. Geology Certificate, Journalism Certificate, etc.) at once if you expect to receive a degree or certificate at Commencement on May 30, 1942. We cannot guarantee that the University will confer a degree or certificate at Commencement up- on any student who fails to file such application before the close of busi- ness on Thursday, April 30. If ap- plication is received later than April 30, your degree or certificate may not be awarded until next fall. Candidates for degrees or certifi- cates may fill out cards at once at the office of the secretary or record- er of their own school or college (stu- dents enrolled in the College of Lit- erature, Science, and the Arts, School of Music, School of Education, and School of Public Health, please note that application blanks may be ob- tained and filed in the Registrar's Office, Room 4, University Hall). Please do not delay until the last day, as more than 2500 diplomas and certificates must be lettered, signed, and sealed and we shall be greatly helped in this work by the early fil- ing of applications and the resulting longer period for preparation. The filing of these applications does not involve the payment of any fee whatsoever. Shirley W. Smith University Council: There will be a meeting'-of the University Council on Monday, April 13, at 4:15 p.m., in the Rackhain Amphitheater. All mem- bers of the University Senate may attend the meeting: AGENDA: Minutes of the meetings of March 9 and March 12, 1942. Subjects offered by members of the Council. Report of the Committee on Pro- gram and Policy concerning Regula- tions for Council Membership, J. P. Dawson. Report of the Advisory Board on University Policies concerning the Problem of the Instructorship, W. C. Hoad. Report of the Committee on Edu- cational Policies concerning Physical Examinations of Members of the Faculty, R. Schorling. Reports from the Standing Coin- alittees, Louis A. Ilopkins, Secretary. Staff Travel by Automobile: As a measure of economy it is requested that faculty and staff members who have occasion to travel on Univer- sity business by personally owned or University owned automobile report their plans in advance to the office of Dr. Frank E. Robbins, Assistant to the President (Campus telephone 328), in order that, when feasible, persons going to the same place at only on Monday evening, April 13, at1 7:00 p.m. in the School of Music4 Auditorium.< Thor Johnson, ConductorI LaVerne Noyes Scholarships: Pre-1 sent holders of these scholarships who desire to apply for renewals for 1942-43 should call at 1021 Angell7 Hall and fill out the blank forms for application for renewal. Frank E. Robbins Hopwood contestants should ap- ply for their records this week, so that the record offices may have time{ to make transcripts before Monday. R. W. Cowden+ All faculty men who plan to attend the Army Stag Rifle meet on Wed- nesday, April 15, are requested to make their reservation at ROTC Headquarters before Tuesday morn- ing, April 14. Men's Residence Halls: Reappli- cation blanks for the Men's Resi- dence Halls are now available in the Office of the Dean of Students. Re- application for the Summer Term or the Fall and Spring Terms will be due on or before May 1. A cdene ic Notices Physics Colloquium on Monday, April 13, at 4:15 p.m. in Room 1041 Randall Laboratory. Professor James M. Cork will speak on "Radioactivity and the Color of Crystals." Biological Chemistry Seminar will meet on Tuesday, April 14, at 7:30 p.m., in Room 319 West Medical Building. Topic will be "Recent Studies of the Chemistry of Lipids- Bacterial and Tissue Lipids." Psychology 34 and 38: Another op- portunity will be given those stu- dents who desire to substiti4e a per- sonal analysis for either thesis in this course. They may attend a . last meeting for instructions in Room 1121, Natural Science Bldg., at 7:15 p.m. on Monday, April 13. Braille Course: The Braille slates have arrived and the class will meet every Monday from now on. All those who have absences on their record must attend every time from now on to receive credit for the course. Doctoral Examination for Arthur Charles Stevenson, Chemistry; thesis: "The Synthesis of an Estrogenic Hor- mone and Some Related Phenan- threne Compounds." Monday, April 13, 309 Chemistry, 2:00 p.m. Chair- man, W. E. Bachmann. By action of the Executive Board, the Chairman may invite members of the faculties and advanced doc- toral candidates to attend the ex- amination and he may grant per- mission to those who for sufficient reason might wish to be present. C. S. Yoakum Concerts Organ Recital: The first of a series of three Sunday afternoon organ programs will be presented this after- ternoon at 4:15 in Hill Auditorium. Frieda Op't Holt of the faculty of the School of Music will open the series with a program of works of Bach, Schmitt, Whitlock, Bingham and Reubke. On April 19, the soloist will be Mary McCall Stubbins, with Clare Coci ap- pearing as guest organist on the fol- lowing Sunday. The public is cordially invited, but fn, nhri it nannc cmall rhiran, "Honorable spy report American Nation suffer from under- nourishment and starvation is imminent-on everybody's lips is question: 'What's cookin'?'" DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Robert Hunerjager, a student of Wassily Besekirsky, will give a re- ital in partial fulfillment of the re- iuirements for the degree of Master Af Music at 8:30 p.m. on Monday, April 13, in the Assembly Hall of the Rackham Building. He will be ac- conpanied by William Schottstaedt in a program of works for the. violin by Brahms, Saint-Saens and Sibeli- us. The public is cordially invited. Concert: The 29th Annual Spring Concert of the University of Michi- gan Concert Band will be given at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, in Hill- Auditorium. William D. Revelli, Conductor, has arranged a program to include compositions by Cheru- bini, Dukas, Padilla, Enesco, Gould, Schuman, Harris and Sousa. Jo- hana Harris, wife of the composer- conductor, Roy Harris, will appear as soloist. The concert will be open to the general public. The Regular Tuesday Evening Re- corded Program in the Men's Lounge of the Rackham Building is cancelled this week because of the University Band Concert in Hill Auditorium. Exhibitions Exhibition: Museum of Art and Archaeology, The Maud Ledyard von Ketteler Collection of the University of Michigan, Rackliam Galleries, April 9-22, Hours 2-5 and 7-10 p.m., European and Far Eastern Art Ob- jects. Lectures University Lectures on War Prob- lems: Dr. Haven Emerson, formerly Professor of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Columbia University, and a trustee of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, will lecture on the sub- ject, "Public Health in Wartime," under the auspices of the University War Board, at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 14, in the Rackham Lecture Hall. The public is cordially invited. University Lecture: Dr. Luis Alber- to Sanchez, Professor of American and Peruvian Literature in the Uni- versity of San Marcos, Lima, Peru, will lecture on the subject; "La Tra- dicion y la Raza en la Literature His- pano-Americana," under the auspices of the Department of Romance Lan- guages, at 4:15 p.m. on Friday, April 17, in the Rackham Amphitheater. The public is cordially invited. University Lecture: Dr M. S. Di- mand, Curator of Near Eastern Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, will lecture on the subject, "Coptic Art of the Arabic Period" (illustrated), under the aus- pices of the Museum of Art and Arch- aeology at 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, April 22. in the Rackham Amphithe- atre. The public is cordially invited. Henry Russel Lecture:, Dr. Wil- liam H. Worrell, Professor of Semi- ties, will give the Henry Russel Lec- ture on the subject, "An Account of the Cppts from Coptic Sources" on Tuesday, April 28, at 4:15 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheater. At this time public announcement of the Henry Russel Award will be made. The public is cordially invited. The Alpha Omega Alpha lecture will be given by Dr. Morris Fishbein, Editor of the Journal of the Ameri- I can Medical Association, on Monday, April 13, at 8:30 p.m. in the Rack- ham Lecture Iall. Dr. Fishbein will speak on "American Medicine and the War." The public is cordially invited. Events Today Michigan Outing Club will have a hike and picnic supper today Each person should bring his own food. Group wiill meet at the Women's Athletic Building at 5:00 p.m. All students are welcome. Graduate Outing Club will meet today for an afternoon hike. Group supper out-of-doors if the weather permits. Start at 2:30 p.m., north- west door, Rackham Building. Visit- ors welcome. The Hillel Council will meet this morning at the Foundationmat 10:30. All new and old members are re- quested to attend. Election of new officers will be held. Coinig Events Mathematics Club will meet Tues- day, April 14, at 8:00 p.m.,. in the West' Conference Room, Rackham Bldg. Mr. Vinograde will speak on "Split Rings," and Dr. Thorne will speak on "Applications of the Func- tional Method of Approximation." Phi Beta Kappa: Annual meet- ing on Tuesday, April 14, at 4:15 p.m. in 1018 Angell Hall. Members are urged to attend. The WAA Board will have a supper meeting on Tuesday, April 14, at 5:45 p.m. at the WAB. Attention is com- pulsory. German Club will meet on Wed- nesday, April 15, at 8:00 p.m. in the i,inorof_ th e n mr ~ m ,, Afhpie