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only.
Suspension Of Conghlin's
Organ Is Overdue . . .
T HE ACTION of Postmaster General
Walker in suspending the right of
Father Coughlin's "Social Justice" to the mails,
is long overdue.
"Social Justice" has been the most active and
most influential of the publications opposing our
war effort. There have been in the past, and
still are, a large number of isolationist publica-
tions, but certainly no newspaper of wide circu-
lation has been as openly engaged in opposing
prosecution of the war as has this tabloid.
Exposed time and time again in the pages of
PM, of the Nation, the New Republic, and Life,
"Social Justice" has continued publication, and
each issue has been more venemous and pro-
Axis than the preceding one. Each issue has
contained articles attempting to divide America
from its allies. Suspicion has been cast on the
motives of the British, of the Russians, and of
our own government. Time and time again
Germany has been praised for her anti-Soviet
"crusade," and Japan's action in attacking
America defended.
We are at war, and the time for debate on
the rights and wrongs of the conflict must
cease. The time for debate extended from
September 1, 1939, to December 7, 1941 The
latter date marked the settlement of theissue.
America had a bad experience during World
War I. That war gave us a taste of what hys-
teria, once unleashed, could do. It wasn't a
pleasant taste that was left in our mouths, and
liberals rightly determined that America would
never again have such an experience.
Both the innocent and the guilty Germans
suffered during the last war. The hysteria ta
swept the nation brought forth millions of
counter-espionage agents tall unofficial of
course), mainly of the super-patriot or patholog-
ically spy-conscious variety.
WASHINGTON, at the beginning of the pres-
ent conflict, very wisely took measures to
prevent the outbreak of hysteria, and under the
direction of Attorney General Biddle cautioned
the public not to take the law into its own hands.
Censorship, outside of military and production
information, was made a voluntary matter and
no restraint was put on the free expression of
opinion.
Washington took these fist measires, andl
felt that no ohers were ncess ry because of
the apparent unanimity with which the nation
accepted the necessity of war. But the heralds
of unity were mistaken. The whole nation was
not united, as we all so confidently expected it
would be.
There were still those who feared the New
Deal, who feared Communism, who feared Eng-
land, who feared the Jews more than they did a
Nazi-Japanese dominated globe. Like the Lavals
and the Quislings they would rather see the
United States defeated and in subjection to the
Nordic and Yellow "Aryans."
Te move taken against Father Coughlita
must he followed up with permaneiit action,
The temporary ban on his use of the mails
must be made permanent, Similar action must
be taken against all treasonable publications.
me.nnvCrnerno idde has shown himef
NOW, with a slight sweat sticking my shirt to
my back, and my hands sore from playing
catch, I shall offer words of advice to those
young writers who hate my guts for calling
them young writers. It will do small good, no
doubt, for the conclusions I have reached on
this subject sound very mucn like a professor's,
and most young writers don't like professors,
because they get in the way of art.
If somehow all the writers who are eighteen
when they start, could be twenty-two, and if all
the writers at twenty-two could be eighteen
again, there would be a lot better grade of work
done in writing around here or any college. Be-
cause the frantic years between these two ages
are spent in that wonderful game where you
find a stone wall and beat your head against it.
When you have reached the comfortable and
settled age of one score and two, there comes
that funny feeling about writing, a feeling which
makes you want to start all over again. And of
course, if you are fairly good, you seldom do
start over again. Maybe you start reading
through some basic work, just a chapter a night
.before turning the light off, but there are always
demands from the outside for more of the same,
the same being the stuff you have always turned
out, phrasing rather neatly, but always feeling
that somehow it wasn't quite enough. And for
the most part, you forget about the basic works,
and read detective stories, because the actual
business of coining those phrases takes enough
out of you to invite a letdown in your off hours.
FOR THE MOST PART the uneducated writer
is found only in America. English and French
writers seem to learn before they write. Ameri-
cans write before they learn, and if they get a
chance they try to pick u a little more as they
LGTTGRS
TO TiHE EDITOR
'Your Right To Say It'
To the Editor:
NOW IT HAS STARTED. The magazine Social
Justice, its editors and founder will soon be
put to the test of a government investigation
and I, for one, feel that such an investigation is
called for and long overdue. But this investiga-
tion may lead to other investigations and soon
we may see total censorship. That, in a country
at war for the preservation of its democratic
ideals, may prove disastrous.
William Allen White, well-known editor of
the ljmporia Gazette, wrote an editorial on the
subject July 27, 1922-To An Anxious Friend.
"You tell me that law is above freedom of
-utterance. And I reply that you can have no
wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws
unless there is free expression of the wisdom
of the people-and, alas, their folly with it.
But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own
poison, and the wisdom will survive. That is
the history of the race. It is the proof of man's
kinship with God. You say that freedom of
utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply
with the sad truth that only in time of stress is
freedom of utterance in danger.
"No one questions it in calm days, because it
is not needed. And the reverse is also true;
only when free utterance is suppressed is it
needed, and when it is needed, it is most vital
to justice. Peace is good. But if you are inter-
ested in peace through force and without free
discussion that is to say, free utterance de-
cently and in order -your interest in justice is
slight. And peace without justice is tyranny,
no matter how you sugar-coat it with expedi-
ency. This state today is in more danger from
suppression than from violence, because, in the
end, suppression leads to violence.
"Violence, indeed, is the child of suppression.
Whoever pleads for .justice helps to keep the
peace; and whoever tramples upon the plea
for justice temperately made in the name of
peace only outrages peace and kills somkhing
fine in the heart of man which God put there
when we got our manhood. When that is
killed, brute rpeets brute on each side of the
line.
So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart.
This nation will survive, this state will prosper,
the orderly business of life will go forward if
only men can speak in whatever may be given
them to utter what their hearts hold-by voice,
by posted card, by letter or by press. Reason
never has failed men. Only force and repres-
sion have made the wrecks in the worlld."
NOW whe'titer William A len White woild care
to defend Faher Cougi li and his pa' per is
a (l1W!tion only he ctold answer; White did say
tia t su ch free. iieaissxilybe"t'o'eutter-
ance decently and in order--.'' And certainly
many things quoted from the magazine Social
Justice seem to be far from the democratic spirit.
But the point I wish to make is this: That if
Father Coughlin is prosecuted for treasonous or
seditious utterances, his trial must be conducted
on an objective basis and prejudice and emotion
must be kept out. An instrument must not be
constructed to cut down Coughlin with such a
wide blade so as to endanger others--liberals,
intelligent commentators and any others who
dare to react against public opinion.
"I heartily disagree with what you say, bad, I
will defernd with my life your' right to say it."
-Robert Bruce Stirling, '44
go on. They have, in the romantic conviction of
their youth, a strong scorn for the professors.
Undoubtedly this is often due to the actual
faults in professors, their inability to show
young people just why they must learn, and
often, a lack of understanding of that important
motive in their own cases. But even the worst
of professors can offer bibliographies, and the
best of them should be able to take care of the
rest.
The biggest fault observable in the universities
is the tendency on the part of the professors
either to smile condescendingly at the young
writer, or to dote on him like a mama. These
extremes produce the spoiled child of nature
feeling in the kid, and he parades his soul to
his faculty friends, and sticks his tongue out at
the others. The kid doesn't learn the discipline
of learning, and though eventually he begins to
understand the discipline of writing, it is too
often the discipline of phrase, and not of thought.
CRANTED he will pick up bits of additional
information as he goes along. If he's any
good, he will observe quite a bit about the human
race. It will do him very little good as a writer
unless he has the knowledge to deal with his
observations. He is given today almost complete
freedom of choice as to subject matter and treat-
ment. He may, like a Saroyan, be content with
the applause of people who call him a fresh
spirit, and admire him as just the mad, fey,
lovable child he started out to be when he was a
pup. But if he has it in him to regard his work
seriously, the lack of learning will trip him up
time and again, for a free choice then demands
that he understand how to choose.
Putting it entirely on the observation ticket,
the writer has not observed completely until he
knows what others have observed. He cannot
shut himself away from other writers, because
wherever he lives, whatever his background, he
has already been influenced at second or third
or fourth hand, by certain of his predecessors.
If he does not understand the historical basis
for his own thoughts, he boils down into one of
those beautifully naive, usually misunderstood
gimps who appears if ever, in a self-edited pub-
lication devoted exclusively to the new art, the
bases of which may be found in Rousseau, James
T. Farrell, or name your own. When a man like
James Joyce tried to break into a new because
fuller expression, he did so only after a broad
and thorough education. Joyce knew the differ-
ence between what he wanted to do and what a
Shakespeare or Euripedes wanted to do. And the
likenesses.
IT all sounds pretty obvious to some of you.
But each year a new crop springs up, and
starts cutting classes. They will drink too much
coffNe, flunk too many exams, worry too much
about their glands and not enough about their
heads. It is to them, always as I say, risking
their resentment at my premature hardening of
the arteries, that I speak. So long until soon.
DAILY OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1942
VOL. LII. No. 146
Publication in the Daly Official
Bulletin is constructive notice to all
members of the University.
Notices
To the Members of the University
Senate: At the meeting of the Uni-
versity Council on April 13 approval
was given to a revision of the mem-
bership of the University Council
which would be effected by the fol-
lowing proposed by-law:
Sec. 4.05. ' The University Council
and Its Membership. There shall be
a University Council whicl shall
consist of the following persons:
(1) The President of the Univer-
sity, who shall be chairman.
(2) The Dean or other executive
head, ex officio, of each school and
college of the -University, including
the Summer Session.
(3) A representative to be chosen
by the constituted administrative au-
thorities of each of the following units
of the University:
The University Hospital
The University Museums
The University Extension Service
The Department of Physical Edu-
cation and Athletics
The University of Michigan Press
The University Library
(4) The following administrative
officers:
The Dean of Studentsi
The Dean of Women
The Vice President and Secretary
The Vice President in Charge of
Educational Investigations
The Vice President in Charge of
University Relations
The Provost -
The Registrarg
(5) Representative faculty mem-o
bers to such number and with sch L
apportionment among the schools andp
colleges as the University Senate may
determine, to be selected by theirt
several faculties for such terms ofo
office as the faculties may deter-a
mine. Both the number and appor-t
tionment of such members may bet
altered by the University Senate fromv
time to time.
(6) In addition to the foregoing,
such members of the Committee onE
University Affairs as are not includ-
ed in the membership of the Council u
pursuant to the foregoing provisions9
of this action.
Louis A. Hopkins, Secretaryd
Men's Residence Halls: Reappli-C
cation blanks for the Men's Resi-
dence Halls are now available in thet
Office of the Dean of Students. Re-t
application for the Summer Term orc
the Fall and Spring Terms will be
due on or before May 1.
Sophomore, Junior and Senior En-
gineers: Mid-semester reports for
grades below C are now on file and
open to inspection in the office of
the Assistant Dean, Room 259 WestI
Engineering Building
A. II. Lovell, Assistant Deanr
The University Bureau of Appoint-t
ments has received notice of the fol-c
lowing Civil Service Examinations.
Detroit Civil Service
Technical Aid (Bus. Adm.), male
and female (medical science), $1,560
($1,716 after 7-1-42, May 4, 1942.t
Junior Engineering Aid (male and
female), $1,740 ($1,914 after 7-1-42),f
May 4,.1942.I
Further information may be ob-
tained from the announcement which
is on file at the offices of the Bureau,
of Appointments, 201 Mason Hall,1
office hours 9-12 and 2-4.-
Bureau of Appointments and
Occupational Information.-
The University Bureau of Appoint-
ments has received notice o< the fol-
lowing examination to be conducted
by the Personnel Board of the State
of Washington.
Merit Examina t ion: lPOsition in the
Office of the State Personnel Board.
Test Technician: $175 per month
(Mailed applications must be post-
marked before midnight April 23,
1942.
Further information may be ob-
tained from the announcement which
is on file at the offices of the Bureau
of Appointments, 201 Mason Hall,
office hours 9-12 and 2-4.
Bureau of Appointments and
Occupational Information.
Junior Mechanical + Engineering
Students: All Junior Mechanicals are
requested to meet in Room 348, West
Engineering 13uilding today, at s5:00
Pre- Medical Students: Attention
is called to the Medical Aptitude
Test of the Association of American
Medical Colleges which is to be given
here on Friday, April 24. This test is
a, normal requirement for admission
to practically all medical schools.
Since it is given only once a year,
all students who expect to apply for
admission to a medical school in
the school year of 194:1-1944, and
who have not taken the examination
previously, should take it at this
[ime. The Medical School of the
University of Michigan especially
urges all students planning to apply
for admission durina 1943-1944 to
"Soups, salad oils, chicken a la king!-I wonder how you're going
to absorb all that when you can't get vests with your suits, Otis."
GRIN AND BEAR IT
--MIN w moms
Drew Pearso2
VA oberUSAlle
60G1
WASIIINGTON- Government sleuths are prob-
ing a series of mysterious leaks of important
aket information from key war agencies.
On several occasions recently certain Wal.
Street traders have obtained advance tips on
important moves. to be made by the War Pro-
duction Board, the Office of Price Administra-
tion and the Agriculture Department,
In one instance cotton brokers got wind of an
Agriculture parity price announcement 45 min-
utes before it was made public. This announce-
ment was supposed to be absolutely secret until
public tx ion. The ma rkel operators not only
learned about it, bu, used t , inform;ationi for
private lprofi .
The WPB order baiming all lion-essential
building construction also was tipped off in ad-
vance to certain members of the building trade.
So, too, was the OPA's action imposing a price
ceiling on fats and oils, and allowing an increase
in wool prices. Word regarding this move leaked
out two days before the order was issued.
Under suspicion for these leaks are certain
dollar-a-year men, who, while not directly con-
nected with these matters, were in a position to
learn about ,them and to tip off business friends.
N T 'll ]]+ ]AY f f ml (; I i g Ia;, MacArt xur
was appoin tt'd.t ipitpmxec ima;,tinfer of flh'
embattled Southwest Pacific, two very interest-
ing secret meetings took place in Chicago.
The first was held in the private office of Col.
Robert McCormick, publisher of the rabidly iso-
lationist Chicago Tribune. Present in addition
to McCormick were his cousin, Capt. Joseph
Medill Patterson, publisher of the New York
Daily News, and Col. Charles Lindbergh.
The ti'ei mn were closeted together for sev-
eral hotirs. They then went to the Chicago Club,
where I hey were joined by (mlen, Robert Wood,
'owner. had of the America FirstComittee,
now a high officer ini tie Ci ca go office of ii. t.
Army Ordnance.
T he four men discussed the war situation,
plans relating to this year's crucial congressional
By Lichty
examinations should notify my office i
immediately. f
Clifford Woody, Chairman of i
Committee on Graduate Study A
i
Doctoral Examination for Maurice
Hamilton Fouracre, Education; the-
sis: "The Relationship between the h
Advent of Menstruation and the De- b
gree of Physical Development in Ad-
olescent Girls." Friday, April 17,
East Council, Rackham Building, 3:30 6
p.m. Chairman, S. A. Courtis. A
By action of the Executive Board s
the Chairman may invite members
of the faculties and advanced doctor-
al candidates to attend the examina- t
tion and he may grant permission to i-
those who for sufficient reason might e
wish to be present. a
C. S. Yoakum r
Doctoral Examination for William
Blythe Wright, Jr., Biological Chem- p
istry; thesis: "The Action of Heat on t
gamma-Alkoxybutyryl Chlorides; The o
Condensation of alpha-Thiopheneal-
dehyde with Nitroparaffins." Friday, a
April 17, 309 Chemistry, 4:00 p.m. 7
Chairman, H. B. Lewis. C
By action of the Executive Board
the Chairman may invite members of
the faculties and advanced doctoral h
candidates to attend the examination t
and he may grant permission to those
who for sufficient reason might wish
to be present.
C. S. Yoakum d
Concertst
Carillon Recital: French and
French-Canadian music will make
up the carillon recital for to- t
night, 7:15-8:00. Percival Price,t
University Carillonneur, has plannedF
the program to include songsc
of the militant French RevolutionX
which are reported as being sung to-
day by the Red Army and by Free
French forces. Harpsichord pieces9
with a descriptive element, French
folk songs, and two compositions by l
Claude Debussy will also be played.
Exhibitions
Exhibition: Museum of Art and 1
Archaeology, The Maud Ledyard von
Ketteler Collection of the University
of Michigan, Rackham Galleries,
April 9-22, Hours 2-5 and 7-10 p.m.,r
European and Far Eastern Art Ob-
jects.
Students and Faculty of the Uni-
versity are invited to attend an ex-i
hibition of North American Frenchi
books, periodicals, newspapers and,
works of art being held in Detroit
this week through Saturday, on the
twelfth floor of J. L. Hudson's de-
partment store under the auspices of
the Department of Modern Lan-
guages, University of Detroit.
A. J. Jobin, Department of
Romance Languages.
Lectures
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 Muham-
madan Period" (illustrated), under
the auspices of the Museum of Art
and Archaeology at 4:15 p.m. on
Wednesday, April 22, in the Rackham
Amphitheatre. The public is cordial-
ly invited.
Civilian Protection Lecture Course:
Col. Owen J. Cleary, State Chief Air
Raid Warden, will deliver the second
lecture in the course, "Mutual Re-
Re- or d r vomVan - n
es," tonight at 7:30 in the East Con-
erence Room of the Rackham Build-
ng. Refreshments will be served.
ill who are interested are cordially
nvited.
Varsity Glee Club: Regular re-
earsal tonight. All members should
ring flashlights if possibh.
Graduate Coffee Hour today, 4:30-
:00. p.m., in the Rackham School.
Al1 faculty members and graduate
tudents are welcome.
La Sociedad Hispanica Conversa-
ion Group will meet tonight, at 8:00
n the League. All students inter-
sted in oral practice are urged to
ttend. See Bulletin in League for
-oom number.
Assembly Council will meet at 5:00
.m. today in the Council Room of
he Undergraduate Office. Please be
in time.
A Mortar Board meeting for old
nd new members will be held at
':15 tonight in the Undergraduate
office of the League.
The Michigan Sailing Club will
have a meeting and a knot tying class
onight at 7:30 in the basement of
Forth Hall.
Tutorial Committee will meet to-
day at 4:30 p.m. in the League for
,l present members and others in-
erested.
The weekly duplicate bridge tour-
nament will be held at the League
tonight at 7:15 in the Grand Rapids
Room. Faculty members, men stu-
dents, graduate students, and towns-
eople are invited. Please be prompt.
Members of the Frosh Project Pro-
gram Committee will meet in Miss
EMcCormick's Office today at 4:00
p.m.
Michigan Dames' Art Group will
meet tonight at 8:00 at the home of
Mrs. C. V. Weller, 1130 Fair Oaks
Pkwy.
Coming Events
Research Club: The Annual Me-
morial Meeting of the Research Club
will be held in the Rackhan Amphi-
theatre on Wednesday, April 22, at
8:00 p.m. The members of the Wo-
men's Research Club and of the Jun-
ior Research Club are cordially in-
vited. Professor Roy W. Sellars will
read a paper on Galilei Galileo and
Professor Frederick F. Blicke a paper
on Karl Wilhelm Scheele.
Public Health Party: All students
in the School of Public Health and
their guests are invited to attend the
Public Health Party on Friday, April
17, at 8:30 p.m. in the Assembly
Hall of the Rackham Building. There
will be games, dancing and refresh-
ments.
Phi Delta Kappa membership and
business meeting will be held Friday
evening at 7:30 in the Rackham
Building, West Council Room.
'The French Roundtable which
meets regularly on Friday evenings
at the International Center, will be
cancelled this week because of the
International Ball.
The Post-War Conference will open
Friday, April 17 in the Rackham
Auditorium with keynote speeches by
President Ruthven, Professor McMa-
hon of Notre Dame, and Professor
Kingsley of Antioch College.
Saturday at 2:30 p.m. in the Union
there will be student discussion panels
on various phases of post war re-
construction. The public is invited.
The Student Religious Association
will hold a Meditation Weekend at
Lyn Orchard House in the Irish Hills,
A nil 1- '10 t) Tni.,, - nT 'ri-.