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NIGHT EDITOR: EUGENE MANDEBERG
The editorials published in The Michigan
Daily are written by members of The Daily
staff and represent the views of the writers
only.
War Stamps
Aren't So Funny . .
W E HEARD about a helluva funny
thing the other day.
Seems a couple of students were sitting out on
the middle of the Diagonl trying to sell War
Savings Stamps. Get that -War Savings
Stamps! It was a riot. Students, townspeople
and faculty members walked by and some of
them began to laugh right out loud. Never had
so much fun since ...
It was a very funny thing. It was as funny
as the sleeping admirals at Pearl Harbor and
the American manufacturers who kept making
chromium-plated bathtubs after the Japanese
bombed our western coastline.
One of the greatest attributes of the American
public is its sense of humor. Why it can laugh
at anything no matter how serious the import
or the effect on its own future.
The people who have walked by the War Stamp
table on campus are the same ones who have
laughed at British retreats and at the bungling
of certain Army and Navy officials in our own
government. They have an excellent apprecia-
tion of the lighter side of life and no crisis-
even a war which threatens their very existence
-can strike them as being a matter for anything
but levity.
T HESE STAMPS are not being sold to provide
vaudeville entertainment for a blase public.
They offer non-combatant Americans one of
their few opportunities to sacrifice peacetime
luxuries and doodads in order to aid our armed
forces. They are still on a voluntary basis and
no citizen is obligated to buy them beyond the
power of his own conscience.
The next time you walk past a War Stamp
booth, please don't laugh out loud. Just chuckle
to yourself and keep chuckling when you read
your morning newspaper.
- Dan Behrman
Fraternity Editorials
Receive replies .- .
AMID much sound, much fury, and
little significance in student organ-
izations' war efforts, an editorial writer in yes-
terday's Daily saw fit to criticize campus frater-
nal organizations for their nonchalant attitude.
Such criticism was completely uncalled for in
light of the fact that the fraternity-sorority
attitude can in no way be differentiated from
that of the rest of the campus. Let us rather
praise the Abe Lincoln Co-op House for their
Bomber Scholarship Fund idea, and level our
criticism at the whole campus rather than at a
special fragment of it.
WAAR makes many of our peace-time institu-
tions appear stupid, college fraternities and
sororities not excepted, and yet not alone. Writ-
ing in defense of the fraternity system, a fra-
ternity man somewhat proudly explains that
"fraternity men, oblivious to any distinction, are
dying with their comrades on America's far-
flung battle fronts."
As one who has frequently heard charges of
."discrimination" hurled your way, we wish to
say that we feel it is extremely heartening if this

Drew Pedso
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WASHINGTON-For many months hard-
boiled Assistant Attorney General Thurman
Arnold has made headline news with his sensa-
tional anti-trust exposes and prosecutions of the
biggest industrial giants in the country. The
latest was the case of Standard Oil of New Jersey
and its synthetic rubber deal with the Nazi-
controlled I. G. Farbenindustrie.
This amazing record has won Arnold the title
"the greatest trust-buster in history." It is
richly deserved.
Arnold's service to his country in smashing
key monopolies is without equal, and incalculable
in economic and military consequences. It is a
safe bet that when the history of this period is
written, Thurman Arnold, the former Yale law
professor, will be credited with some of the most
far-reaching economic reforms of the New Deal.
For without the enactment of a single new
law, and often despite the strenuous undercover
resistance of Administration big shots, Arnold
has forced more fundamental clean-ups in big
business than all the violently controversial New
Deal measures combined.
Arnold has struck directly at the heart of
monopolistic control-patent domination. He
has smashed some of the most powerful patent
empires in existence and brought the light and
life of free competition to thousands of inde-
pendent business men.
It is accurate to say that he has literally un-
shackled a number of the major industries of
the U. S. from the crushing rule of international
monopoly.
Busted Cartels
Few really understand how great are Arnold's
extraordinary achievements in acomplishing
this result.
The average newspaper reader visualizes Arn-
old's trust-busting triumphs in terms of their
effect in the United States. Actually they are a
great deal more far-reaching than that.
In every one of his major attacks Arnold not
merely destroyed a domestic monopoly but he
also smashed the foundation of that monopoly
-an international Bartel, which, with a few ex-
ceptions, meant a German alliance, secretly used
by the Nazis to further their plans for world
conquest.
This is Arnold's carl+-busting record to date:
Military optical goods-The American Bausch
& Lomb Company compelled to sever its tie-up
with the German Ziess corporation.
Magnesium-The Aluminum Corporation of
America and Dow Chemical Company forced to
break ties with I. G. Farbenindustrie.
Beryllium-Beryllium Corporation of America
(which voluntarily asked Arnold to intercede)
unshackled from Nazi connections.
Tungsten-carbide--vital in the manufacture
of machine tools. General Electric and Krupp
hook-up broken. The day General Electric was
indicted on monopoly charges in this case the
price of tungsten carbide plummeted from $205
a pound to $50 a pound. During all the time
General Electric was charging from $205 to $453
a pound for this crucial product, it was selling
for $50 a pound in Germany.
Electric lamps-General Electric compelled to
sever tie-ups with A. E. G. in Germany and
Phillips in Holland.
Electric light glass bulbs-Corning Glass Com-
pany forced to break ties with Phillips.
Potash and Nitrogen-Allied Chemical Com-
pany and DuPont compelled to end monopolistic
controls.
Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals - Sterling
Chemical Company forced to sever its tie-up
with I. G. Farbenindustrie; Schering Chemical
Corporation forced to do the same with the
Schering Corporation of Berlin.
Dye stuffs and Photographic supplies-Gen-

eral Aniline Company purged of its tie-up with
I. G. Farbenindustrie and a number of German-
American officials. This also opened great South
American markets in these lines to U. S. firms.
Synthetic rubber and a number of vital chem-
icals, such as toluol, used to make TNT-Stand-
ard Oil of New Jersey compelled to sever its tie-
up with I. G. Farbenindustrie and to make some
2,000 patents available to any U. S. company
royalty free during the war period.
Eire Mii4s Decide"

The Reply Churtish
by TOUCHSTONE
NOT LONG AGO I reprinted a brief exchange
of letters between Mr. James Thurber and a
gentleman sometimes referredI to as editor of the
Viking Press, in re John Steinbeck's The Moon
Is Down. At the time I hadn't read the book,
and I have considerable respect for Mr. James
Thurber. That, to coin a phrase, seemed to b
that.
Thursday Mr. Malcolm W. Bingay, of the
Detroit Free Press, came out with a word in be-
half of The Moon Is Down. Mr. Bingay said that
the raw meat fans were ganging up on the little
war novel-now-play because it did not contain
the obscenities and crudities of such trash as
The Grapes of Wrath. Mr. Bingay said that he
didn't like the earlier book because it was not a
nice book, but apparently he likes The Moon Is
Down and considers it fit reading for decent
people.
Various critics have taken various stands Qn
the issue, and the book has sold very well. And,
though it hurts to be within a mile of any stand
Mr. Malcolm W. Bingay takes, I believe that
somewhere about half-way between Bingay and
Thurber lies a valid appraisal of the Steinbeck
book. The trouble with Mr. Bingay is the thing
that is always the trouble with Mr. Bingay. He
is not a very wise man. The trouble with Mr.
Thurber is a newer sort of trouble with Mr.
Thurber. He lives in the East. Mr. Thurber,
because he is a nervous man, and because every-
one in the East right now is trying desperately
to take a strong stand on the war no matter
what, panned The Moon Is Down because it was
not strong enough. It did not show the Hun as
Hun, and Mr. Thurber has read about the
atrocities.
[OHN STEINBECK probably knows about the
atrocities too. He writes about a small Nor-
wegian town being invaded, and of the effect of
that action on the town people, and on the in-
vaders. There are several atrocities in the book,
handled mostly by implication, and by showing
the effect rape and death has on those who are
not raped or killed. Mr. Steinbeck did not print
pictures to show what he meant, nor did he de-
scribe the activities in great detail. He made
some attempt to humanize his Nazi soldiers. One
of them, Colonel Lanser, is a man who has been
through the first World War. He is a man who
demands a certain sympathy from the reader,
whatever system he serves. He is not made a
saint, nor a devil. He is able to see the weakness
in liis own men, and in the system he serves.
The men are playing at war, and the system
cannot win wars, though it may win battles.
The other officers, most of them young, slowly
crack under the strain of being hated, of being
unable to conquer the spirit of the people in the
small town they have occupied.
The most important characters among the
town people are the Mayor, named Orden, and
the town doctor, Winter. In addition to these
two, several women, the mayor's wife, the cook,
Annie, and the wife of an executed miner, Mollie
Morden, play less important, though necessary
roles in the book. For the most part Steinbeck
has made of his town people no more than nice
human beings. There is little that could be
called dramatically convincing about any of
them, yet they do what Steinbeck intended them
to do, and what perhaps he could not have
achieved if he had made them stronger charac-
ters. They show a simple determination, which,
contrasted to the nervous hardness of the Nazi
soldiers, speaks the piece for the book. Orden
and Winter give the political and philosophical
theme its personification, and at the end both
of them face death as hostages.
THE SCRAP resolves into the old war between
propaganda and art. This book is propa-
ganda of the highest sort. It is written at a
level very close to art, but always it is necessary
to remember that the book was not intended
to be art. Mr. Steinbeck knows how to make
the final compound of the two elements. He
showed how it could be done in The Grapes of
Wrath. In this book he has not tried to do so.
He has shown in miniature what the wisest ob-

servers believe to be wrong with Germany, and
right with the democracies. This picture is a
true one, offered without hysteria. To the ex-
tent that it avoids overstatement, it is convinc-
ing to that large group of people who recall a
little bitterly the trumped up hate of the last
war, and who are, if anything, inclined toward
an overly skeptical attitude even at this late date.
If there is one thing wrong with the book, it
is Steinbeck's occasional stab at immortality.
The prose is simple and clear, the story is well
told, but The Moon Is Down should not be mis-
taken for a great book or a great play. Wherever
Steinbeck forgets this fact, the reader finds
sentences of that self-conscious sort, usually
tagged on at the end of a paragraph, which
when good are very very good and when bad are
pretty horrid. The universal does not come at
the end of a paragraph. Much has been left
unsaid in the book, and though it cannot escape
being well written because John Steinbeck writes
everything he does well, it will stand only as long
as its propaganda strength is needed, and be
forgotten when that need has gone. It may hold
on to a certain historical interest as the precursor
of a rational propaganda, which does not fight
fire with fire. but fire with water, a method
which except in war times usually seems quite
effective. It is neither the masterpiece Mr.
Bingay says it is, for reasons one suspects to be
chiefly concerned with the absence of damn, nor
the puny understatement Mr. Thurber calls it.
So long until soon.
Nations. The government has allowed its blind
hatred of Great Britain to obscure its obvious

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German Table for Faculty Mem-
bers will meet Monday at 12:10 p.m.
in the Founders' Room Michigan Un-
ion. Members of all departments
are cordially invited There will be
a brief talk on "Ehescheidung in
Reno" by Mr. Rabel.
Residence Halls for Men and Wo-
men Applications for Staff Positions:
Upperclass, graduate, and profession-
al students who wish to apply for
Staff Assistantships and other stu-
dent personnel positions in the Resi-
dence Halls may obtain application
blanks in the Office of the Director
of Residence Halls, 205 South Wing.
Unmarried members of the faculty
holding the rank of Teaching Fellow
or above are invited to apply for
Resident Adviserships in the Quad-
rangles (House Masterships). Posi-
tions of all grades will be open for
the Fall and Spring Terms; and it is
probable that there will be a limited
number of student and faculty staff
vacancies for the Summer Term.
Karl Litzenberg
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 cademic Notices
The Bacteriological Seminar will
meet in Room 1564 East Medical
Building on Monday, April 20, at
8:00 p.m. The subject will be "Pub-
lic Health Aspects of Venereal Dis-
ease Control." All interested are
cordially invited.
Tlhe Preliminary Examinations for
the Doctorate in the School of Edu-
cation will be held on May 13, 14 and
15. Anyone who desires to take these
examinations should notify my office
immediately.
Clifford Woody, Chairman of
Committee on Graduate Study
Geogiaphy 74: This class will not
meet on Monday, April 20.
American Red Cross Water Safety1
Instructors: The Water Safety Course
for new instructors will be given on]
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday, April 20, 22, 23, and 24 from]
7:00 to 10:00 p.m., and Saturday.
April 26 from 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon
at the Intramural Pool. Those inter-
ested in a refresher course should
attend the Monday evening session
and two others. Men and women
who are interested, pleaseisignin
Room 15, Barbour Gymnasium be-
fore 4:00 p.m. Monday.
Concerts
Organ Recital: Mary McCall Stub-
bins, director of music and organist
of the First Congregational Church
of Ann Arbor, will present an organ
recital Sunday, April 19, at 4:15 p.m.
in Hill Auditorium.
Mrs. Stubbins has arranged a pro-
gram of compositions by Marcello,
Bach, Sowerby and Vierne. Given in
partial fulfillment of the require-
ments of the degree of Master of
Music, the recital is open to the
public.
Carillon compositions by Percival
Price, University Carillonneur, will be
presented from 7:15 to 8:00 Sunday
evening, April 19, as the sixth pro-
gram of the current spring series of
carillon concerts. Professor Price
and Hugh Glauser, Guest Carillon-
neur, will close the program with a
duet for carillon.

Student Recital: Joan Stevens,
pianist, will give a recital in partial
fulfillment of the requirements for
the degree of Master of Music at
8:30 p.m. Monday, April 20, in the
Assembly Hall of the Rackham Build-
ng. A student of Joseph Brinkman,
Miss Stevens has arranged a pro-
gram of compositions for piano by
Mozart, Chopin and Brahms.
The public is invited.
Student Recital: Joan Bondurant,
soprano, has chosen songs by Han-
del, Mozart, Schumann, Schubert,
Debussy and Massenet, as well as
a group in English, for her recital
at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, April 21, in
Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. Given
in partial fulfillment of the require-
ments for the degree of Bachelor of
Music, the recital is open to the
public.
Student Recital: Mary Romig,I
violinist, will give a recital in Rack-
ham Assembly Hall at 8:30 p.m. on
Tuesday, April 21. A student of
Wassily Besekirsky and a member of
the University Symphony Orchestra,
Miss Romig has arranged a program
to include works of Handel, Mozart
and Faure. The recital is given in
partial fulfillment of the require-
inents of the degree of Master of
Music and is open to the public.
Exhibitions
Exhibition: Museum of Art and
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another world of dictators, high tariffs, top sergeants?"

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twelfth floor of J. L. Hudson's de-
partment store under the auspices ofd
the Department of Modern Lan-A
guages, University of Detroit. A
A. J.. Jobin, Department of n
Romance Languages.
Lecturesb
University Lecture: Dr. M. S. Di-a
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), undere
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-E
ly invited.C
Biochemical Lecture: Dr. C. F1
Huffman, Research Professor ofn
Dairy Husbandry at Michigan State
College, will discuss "The Role of
Magnesium in Nutritiqn," at 11:00
a.m., Saturday, April 18, in the Easta
Lecture Room of the Rackham L
Building. All interested are invited.o
Events Today ]
The Provisional itifle Company willt
take part in an Advanced Guard Fielda
Problem today. The Company will
form promptly at 1:30 p.m. in the1
ROTC Hall.t
The Post-War Conference will con-9
tinue today with three student-dis-s
cussion panels on problems of post-
war reconstruction. The panels willE
be held in the Union at 2:30 p.m.
and will be open to the public.
The Peace Proposals Group at the
International Center will join the L
Post-War Conference and panel dis-
cussions to be held in the Unionr
starting at 2:00 p.m. today.
Ticket Committee Members of
Frosh Project will please turn in tick-
ets and money in the League fromt
1:00 to 5:00 this afternoon. Theres
1 will be someone sitting at a card-
table in the lobby to receive your
tickets and money. Please do not
fail to do this, as all tickets and
money must be in by this afternoon.
Ushering Committee for Theatre
Arts: Sign up NOW for the Cinema
Art League Movie "The Man Who
Seeks the Trtuh," being given tonight;
in the Mendelssohn Theater. Sign-1
up sheets are posted in the Under-7
graduate Office of the League.
Open House and Craft Night atl
8 oclock this evening at Lane Hall.
There will be an opportunity to make1
marionettes, do craft work, and par-
ticipate in group singing.
Episcopal Students: A First Night-
er Party will be held tonight at 8:30
in Harris Hall dedicating the newly-
redecorated Game Room. Dancing
ping pong, games, refreshments,
special program.
A Nature Hike will leave Harris
Hall Saturday morning at 6 o'clock.
Return by 8 o'clock.
Polonia Society picnic party will
leave from the carillon tower at 1:00
p.m. today.
Conng Events
Varsity Glee Club: All members
should report in formal attire at.7:00
p.m. Sunday evening in the Glee
Club Room for the Interntaional
Center concert.
Wyvern. Members are reminded of
a very important meeting Sunday at
6:30 p.m. in the League.
Graduate Outing Club plans a
longer hike for Sunday to Third 8is-
ter Lake, about an hour's walk each
way. Supper at the Lake. Meet

Faculty Women's Club: The Mon-
day Evening Drama Group will meet
Monday, April 20, at 6:30 p.m. at the
Michigan League for the annual din-
ner meeting. New officers will be in-
stalled and a current Broadway hit
will follow the dinner. Former mem-
bers of the group are cordially invited
to make reservations with Mrs. Don-
ald Kerr.
Churches
Memorial Christian Church (Dis-
ciples): 10:45 a.m. Worship Services,
Rev. Frederick Cowin, Minister.
Minister.
6:30 p.m. Disciples Guild Sunday
Evening Hour. Mr. Leonard S.
Gregory of the School of Music will
nterpret some ofthe May Festival
music with the use of records. The
meeting will be held at. the Guild
House, 438 Maynard Street.
First Congregational Church: 10:45
a.m. Services of public worship. Dr.
Leonard A. Parr, minister, will preach
on the subject, "The Gods Before
the Flood."
5:30 p.m, Ariston League, high
school group, in Pilgrim Hall. Ers-
ton Butterfield will lead the group in
a discussion on "Hinduism: The
Vedic Religion."
7:15 p.m. Student Fellowship in
the church parlors. Election of offi-
cers will be held after which the
group will attend the Luchnokaia
service in the sanctuary.
Sunday evening at 8:30 in the
Auditorium of the Congregational
Church, the annual Luchnokaia serv-
ice will be presented by Sigma Eta
Chi, the national sorority sponsored
by the Congregational Church. This
unique candlelight program symbol-
izes the spiritulhand social develop-
ment of man throughout the ages.
The public is cordially invited.
First Presbyterian Church: Morn-
ing Worship, 10:45 a.m. "What All
the World Is Seeking," subject of the
sermon by Dr. W. P. Lemon.
Sunday Evening Club will have a
steak roast in the Council Ring at
7:00 p.m. Graduate students and
young professional people welcome.
Phone 2-4833 for reservations.
Westminster Student Guild meet-
ing at 7:15 p.m. Prof. P. W. Slosson
will speak on "Christianity and the
Post-War Reconstruction." Refresh-
ments.
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church:
8:00 a.m. Holy Communion; 10:00
a.m. High School Class; 11:00 a.m.
Kindergarten, Harris Hall; 11:00
a.m. Junior Church; 11:00 a.m. Morn-
ing Prayer and Sermon by the Rev.
Henry Lewis; 4:00 p.m. H-Square
Club Social Meeting, Harris Hall;
7:30 p.m. Episcopal Student Guild
Meeting, Harris Hall. Speaker: The
Rev. Henry Lewis. Subject: "Cran-
mer and the Prayer Book."
The Church of Christ will meet for
Bible study Sunday at 10:00 a.m. in
the Y.M.C.A. The morning worship
will be at 11:00. Garvin M. Toms
will preach on the subject: "A Glori-
ous Church." For the evening serv-
ice at 8:00 the theme is to be: "What
Is Man?" The midweek Scripture
study is to be Wednesday at 8:00
p.m. Everyone is invited.
First Baptist Church: 10:15 a.m.
Undergraduate class with Rev. C. H.
Loucks in the Guild House, 502 E.
Jiuron St. Graduate class with Pro-
fessor Charles Brassfield in the
church.
11:00 a.m. "Strength and Weak-
ness," sermon.
6:30 p.m. Roger Williams Guild
meeting at the Guild House. A stu-
dent discussion: "Exploring Our Per-
sonal Beliefs.

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To Support AIrie.


WHEN the final records of this war are
written in the pages of history, one
of the greatest enigmas which will puzzle his-
torians will be the policy of the government of
Eire. For some two and a half years Eire has
maintained strict neutrality in a war for the
survival of democracy.
Strategically located, Eire's importance has
inestimably increased with the danger of an in-
vasion of Great Britain and the threat of Ger-
man submarines to the% Allied Atlantic routes of
supply. In the possession of the Nazis it could
be used as a base for submarine operations or
for an invasion of England. In the hands of the
Allies it would aid the convoy problem by pro-
viding North Atlantic bases and would protect
the British flank.
That this national state figures in any Allied
plans is easily understandable. American troops
are now being sent to Ireland in ever increasing
numbers. Because of Eire's position they are
forced to remain in Northern Ireland although