whom" (ANWI e x tg tn Mi l '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 $5.00. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONIL ADVERTIJING Y National Advertising Service, Inc- ,.College Publisbers Representative 420 MADSON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CMb cAGo socTOd C.Los ARGELS- PEs,9ANCIS 44 Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1941.42 Editorial Staff Emile Gelb . . Alvin Dann David Lachenbruc Jay McCormick Gerald E. Burns . Aal 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 . . Assistant Women's Editor . . . . Exchange Editor Business Staff . . . Business Manager . Associate Business Manager . Women's Advertising Manager . Women's Business Manager NIGHT EDITOR: HOWARD FENSTEMAKER The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers 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-.