THE MICHIGAN DAILY
THURSDAY, APRIL 30~, 1942
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only.
Sales Tax Is Not
The Answer, Senator. .
BECAUSE THE COUNTRY," in Sena-
tor Vandenberg's words, "confronts
the unavoidable necessity of cruel taxation," he
declared a few days ago that he "reluctantly"
favored the sales tax as the only recourse if we
to preserve the public credit. As additional
reason for taking this view, he noted that war
bond purchases may still be inadequate.
Whether the Senator took this position be-
cause he is unaware of its fallacies or because
he has resigned himself to its inevitability-and
wants to ride on the National Association of
Manufacturers' bandwagon-is not the impor-
tant question it might be if he were up for
election this fall.
AND WE AGREE that certain points its the
Senator's program, if we ignore the vague
generalities, are essentially correct, such as tax-
ing corporations to the last possible degree
"which will still permit our economic system to
operate"; taxing excess profits entirely out of
existence, increasing individual income taxes in
the higher brackets, and "closing all tax loop-
holes."
But by this time, after the whole tax ques-
tion has been thrashed out in the press, in
Congress and by economists, the astute Sena-
tor cannot logically urge the sales tax as the
"only recourse."
He justifies 1his "lesser evil" with the peculiar
and unsupported explanation that "a heavily
increased income tax on the 'middle brackets'
threatens to wipe out our middle classes-and
even worse in the lower brackets."
To meet the argument that the sales tax is
viciously regressive, hitting the poor man hard-
est, Senator Vandenberg said, "yes, but this is
everybody's country and everybody's war-the
sales tax will fall 11on everybody."
Of course the sales tax will and must fall
on everybody. But we challenge Senator Van-
denberg or anyone else to prove that the sales
tax is the instrument which will distribute the
weight equitably.
Can the Senator tell us in simple terms why
compulsory bond purchases, price, wage and
rent control, of a more realistic nature than the
President advocates, rationing and provision of
the "iron ration" coupled with a fairly but steep-
ly graduated progressive income tax will not be
a better solution to the problem?
-Morton Mintz
WASHINGTON-AFL and CIO chiefs, some-
times called the President's "labor cabinet,"
tried to put the heat on him at the White House
last week to stave off the ban on wage boosts.
But they never had a chance.
The President pulled a charm filibuster on
them-a favorite Roosevelt tactic when he wans
to avoid talking about something.
Apparently the President figured the labor
leaders would make a final attempt to block
the pay freeze. So he launched his filibuster as
soon as CIO president Philip Murray walked in,
by previous arrangement 10 minutes ahead of
the other members of the joint committee.
Whatever Murray intended to say, he never had
the remotest chance.
The President immediately started talking
about New York politics, and what he described
as the "colorful career" of Lieut.-Gov. Charles
Poletti.
This took up nine of the 10 minutes allotted
to Murray. Then, before he could break in, the
President said, "Well, Phil, I guess it's time to
call in the other boys. I know you don't want to
keep them waiting."
Thiat ended that. So Round I went to the
President by a big margin.
RoudTwo ..
Roosevelt took Round II by the same fili-
bustering tactics and by the same wide margin.
Again, after the laborites had been seated and
amenities had been exchanged, he launched
immediately into a discussion of politics and
politicians and kept this up in his most enter-
taining vein for most of the hour allotted to the
conference.
Then he pointedly ended the meeting by re-
marking, "Well, boys, I guess it's time for lunch"
The disconcerted laborites had to take the
hint. But as they rose to go Murray made one
last attempt to raise the wage-freezing issue.
"Mr. President," he said, "are you going to
issue an order to the War Labor Board not to
grant any further wage increases?"
Cocking his cigarette holder at a breezy angle
the President answered with a broad grin, "Well,
Phil, I haven't said that I will and I haven't said
that I won'tt"
And that's all the laborites were able to get
out of him.
Petty Politics . .
Behind the scenes. there was more to this inci-
dent than a maneuver to avert an unwelcome
discussion.
Actually it was the climax to a growing re-
Newspaper MS
I wo-Fished Poli v .y . .
T HE METEORIC RISE of PM has
given the rest of the nation's press
a substantial headache. PM's knock 'em down,
drag 'em out policy has considerably embar-
rassed the run of the national press in two ways:
1. By revealing that its fellow newspapers
have been too content to sit and let the news-
especially pro-labor news-come to them.
2. By telling what it thinks of fellow news-
papers which stretch the bounds of legitimate
criticism of a wartime government.
Problem number one unfortunately doesn't
seem to bother the press much, but problem
number two gets more serious day by day
At a recent meeting of the American Associa-
tion of Newspaper Editors and Publishers, New
York Times publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger
discovered what he thought was the answer
He suggested that no newspaper ought to
criticize any other newspaper-presumably on
the grounds that they should all hang together.
PM rejected such an argument and rightly.
If no member of the press bothers to criti-
cize Col. Bertie McCosinic or the rest of the
hearst- Patterson -McCormick crew, who will
refute their arguments publicly-arguments
which often border on the seditious?
The attitude of a newspaper which will banner
coffee rationing in preference to the largest RAF
raid of the war deserves to be scolded, and Sulz-
berger's arguments to the contrary, it should be
scolded in the public prints.
As far as we're concerned, the run-of-the-mill
press should continue to get its lumps from an
honest, fighting PM.
- hale Champion
sentment in White House quarters at the short-
sighted attitude of the labor chiefs toward the
grave inflation situation and their persistent
practice of playing petty politics on important
appointments affecting their own interests.
A graphic illustration was their recommenda-
tion of Wendell Lund, little-known executive
director of the Michigan State Unemployment
Compensation Commission, for appointment as
head of the reorganized Labor Production Divi-
sion of the War Production Board.
For months, the AFL and CIO have been
loudly demanding more "labor participation" in
the war machinery. The Labor Production
Division is of the utmost importance to labor.
But when it came to proposing a chief of this
key labor agency, the laborites did not offer the
name of a labor man.
Because of personal jealousies and petty per-
sonal politics, they passed over such outstanding
production experts as Robert Watt, AFL head
of the International Labor Office; Clint Golden,
brainy head of the CIO Steel Workers; or Walter
Reuther, dynamic young vice president of the
Auto Workers.
Instead, the politics-playing labor moguls got
together on Lund, a lawyer, with very limited
industrial experience and no knowledge at all
of the war production program.
Around the White House, it is no secret that
the President is getting awfully fed up with this
kind of labor "statesmanship."
Note:, When John L. Lewis heard that Murray
and William Green had proposed Lund, he
rumbled, "In six months they'll wish they had
Hillman back."
Good Neighbors ...
The torpedoed Argentine tanker Victoria dis-
played her neutrality with no less than six flags
painted on bridge, sides and stern. Yet the Nazis
went for her . . . Some time after U.S. tire
freezing, a shipment of tires arrived in Brazil
from Liverpool, on the British steamer Laplace
. .. . Guatemala has ordered deportation of 22
Axis agents. Also she would like to deport 75,000
bags of coffee piled up at Puerto Barrios, with
no shipping in sight ....
DRAMA
DAILY OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1942
VOL. LII. No. 158
Publication in the Daily OWficial
Buletin Is constructive notice to all
members of the University.
Notices
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 today. If application is received
later than today, your degree or cer-
tificate 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 ;
'ro the Members of the Faculty ofj
the College of Ltierature, Science,
and the Arts: The last regular meet-
ing of the Faculty of the College of
Literature, Science, and the Arts for
the academic session of 1941-1942,
will be held in Room 1025 Angell
Hall, Monday, May 4, at 4:10 p.m.
Edward H. Kraus
AGENDA
1. Consideration of the minutes of
the meeting of April 6th, 1942 (pp.
834-842), which were distributed by
campus mail.
2. Consideration of reports submit-1
ted with the call to the meeting:
a. Executive Committee, ProfessorI
L L. Sharfman.
b. University Council, Associate
Professor Lawrence Preuss.4
c. Executive Board of the Gradu-
ate School, Professor E. F. Barker.
d. Senate Advisory Committee on
University Affairs, Professor A. W.
Bromage.
e. Deans' Conference, Dean E. H.
Kraus.
3. Elections (Nominating Commit-
tee: Professors R. L. Belknap, H. T.
Price, and A. S. Aiton, Chairman.)
a. Five members of the University
Council, to serve for three years.
b. Two members of the Administra-
tive Board, to serve for three years.
Consult pages 762-764 of the facul-
ty minutes for lists of present mem-
bers of the University Council, Ad-
ministrative Board, and other com-
mittees.
4. Summer meeting of the Faculty
5, Physical training requirement.
See recommendations, page 5 of the
accompanying communication from
the War Board.
6. Faculty Scholarship Fund.
7. New business.
8. Announcements.f
Freshmen and Sophomores, College
of Literature, Science, and the Arts:
Students who will have freshman or
sophomore standing at the end of the
present semester and who flan to re-
turn cither for the summer term or
the hall terim should have their elec-
tions approved for the next semester
that they expect to Te in residence.
as soon~ as possible. 'T'here will be
little or no time to sign up returning
students during the registration peri-
ods preceding either of these semes-
tecrs, so it is strongly urged that this
be taken care of now. You may
make an appointment with your
counselor by telephoning Extension
613 or by calling at the Office of the
Academic Counselors, 108 Mason
Hall.
Arthur Van Duren, Chairman,
Academic Counselors.
IfljdiCImlelhh lritalge
Natives in conqii ced Poland who
work for Germyly are obliged to
wear a yellow patch with a purple
letter "P" on their right breasts to
mark their nationality and their in-
ferior status. This follows the prece-
dent of the Star of David by which
Jews are compelled te identify them-
selves in Germany and Poland.
"Racially pure" Germans at home
and in the conquered territories carry
no special badge of servitude, be-
cause presumably the thing is ipso
facto. By the basic principles of the
Nazi creed a German race-brother
ctnsnrk ,n no od f e ,s.c,,alrd
LA LE AvENTURE, by de Caillavet, de Flers
and Rey, presented by the members of the Cerle
Franwais of the U1niversity.
rT'HE REVIEWER of a foreign-language play
comes to the theatre predisposed to make
all sorts of allowances. Certainly no under-
taking of the school year presents greater dif-
ficulties than those which confronted Professor
Koella, Mr. Gravit and the student cast of last
night's play. It is pleasant to be able to report
a real success, to compliment all those involved,
and to do it without sacrificing the prerogatives
of honest criticism.
When the language in a French play is not
quite up to the mark, everybody notices it and
criticizes; but when it is good, it is too often
taken for granted. The general excellence of the
French in this year's play deserves first mention
in any review; none of it was bad, and some of
it was the best that has been heard around here
for years. ,Jeanne Crump, Earl Russell, and
Warner Heineman were, in this respect, a pure
delight. Perhaps even greater praise is due Jack
Vaughn, Marion Batchelor and Constance Taber,
who did honor to themselves and to their teach-
rs.
yXCEPT for a general tendency to inunobility,
evident in seVeral of 1 he long dialogues, thle
performance was fine. Miss Crump was rather
better in the first two acts than in the last, kut
good throughout. Mr. Russell's performance as
the hero made us glad thahe got the girl ; but,
purely on grounds of acting, Phe laln goes to
Mr. IjeineimUan, who lost his fiancee and won Ihe
audience.
Sally Levy as the scheming aunt 1had the
requisite energy, and her acting gave lift to some
scenes which needed it. Miss Taber's was per-
haps the best single characterization, although
Jack Vaughn and Marion Batchelor did their
smaller parts for all they were worth.
The others deserve better than to be liumped
together in one sentence, but here they are; Jane
Belden, Shirley Robin. Henry Barringer, Helene
Sieg, Barbara Jenswold, Glen Kolb, James Vizas,
Holbrooke Seltzer and John Baker all good in
what they had to do.
One of the joys of txeing a spect aUor insteaio
of a participant in this activity is that it is
permissible to compliment without reservation
those who were responsible for a good show-
one of the best in recent years; and that means,
besides the cast and student workers, the direc-
tor Professor Koella, and the stage manager and
general factoturm, Mr. Gravit. Take a bow,
gentlemen. The obvious enjoyment of a large
and understanding audience was higher praise
f l~ " m " ry1 - 1... f 1'11 ,,..
National Youth Administration:'
Students who will register for the1
Summer Term and will carry at least
eleven credit hours may continue
working on N.Y.A. until June 20.
Those desiring to do so, please noti-
fy Mr. Harold S. Anderson at the
N.Y.A. office in the, Storehouse
Building, Telephone Ext. 709.
College of Engineering: Students
who expect to attend the Summer1
Term, June 15 to September 26,'
should notify the Secretary's Office,'
Room 263, West Engineering Build-~
ing, as soon as possible.
A. H. Lovell, Secretary
Students from the College of Lit-
erature, Science, and the Arts who
are participating in the ReservevOf-,
ficers Training Corps trial review,
Friday, May 1, at 4:07 p.m. will bel
excused from classes at 3:55 p.m.
E. A. Walter, Assistant Deant
ROTC Review: The Deans of the ,
College of Literature, Science, and
the Arts and College of Engineering
have approved a blanket excuse for
ROTC students from classes at 3:55r
p.m. on Friday, May 1, to permitt
them to attend the ROTC trial re-
view on that date.
Men's Residence halls: Reapplica-
tions for the Summer and Fall Terms
in the Men's Residence Halls shouldc
be turned in to the House Directors
before May 1. Forms for reapplica-
tion are now available in the Office
of the Dean of Students.
Admission to School of Business
Administration: Applications for ad-l
mission to this School for the Sum-
mer Term must be filed not later
than May 1 by candidates for the
B.B.A. degree. Application blanks
and information available in Room
108 Tappan Hall.
Candidates for the Teacher's Certi-
ficate for May, 1942 are requested to
call at the office of the School of
Education, 1437 UES, this week (no
later than Friday) between the hours
of 1:30 and 4:30 to take the Teacher
Oath which is a requirement for the
certificate.
Admission to Degree Program for
{lonors in Liberal Arts: Sophomores
with a B average or better may apply
for entrance into the Honors Pro-
gram not later than Friday, May 1.
Applications are received at Dean
Woodburne's office, 1208 Angell Hall,
A cadeitic Notices
.English 150 (Playwriting) : Instead
of the regular class meeting Monday
( evening, May 4, the class will attend
the laboratory production at 8 o'clock
in the University High School Audi-
torium. Kenneth Rowe
Biological Chemistry Seminar will
be held on Saturday, May 2, at 10:00
a.m., in Rom 319 West Medical
Building. "Acetoacetic Acid" will be
discussed. All interested are invited.
German 160 will meet in 407 Libra-
ry today at 3:45 p.m. as usual.
Doctoral Examination for Leonard
I Newton Allison, Zoology; thesis:
"Leucochloridiomorpha Constantiac
(Gower) Mueller (Brachylaemidae),
Its Life Cycle and Taxonomic Rela-
'tionships among Digenetic Trema-
todes." Friday, May 1, 4096 Natural
Science, 3:00 p.m. Chairman, G. R.
LaRue.
By action of the Executive Board,
the Chairman may invite members
of the faculties and advanced doctor-
al candidates to attend the examina-
tion and he may grant permission to
those who for sufficient reason might
wish to be present.
C. S. Yoakum
GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichy
"No more radios, sport goods, electric appliances, rubber goods or
nothing-maybe we oughta: bring our drug section out in the open!"
tion and he may grant permission to
those who for sufficient reason might
wish to be present.
C. S. Yoakum
Concerts
The recital by Professor Percival
Price on the Baird Carillon in
Burton Tower at 7:15 tonight
will be devoted to the music and
composers of Russia. In addition to
Russian folk songs and songs of the
Red Army, Professor Price has
planned to include compositions by
Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky and Boro-
din.
Exhibitions
The Ann Arbor Art Association
presents its Nineteenth Ann Arbor
Artists Exhibition May 1 through
May 13, 2-5 afternoons andr7-10
evenings, daily, except Sundays, in
the galleries of the Rackham Build-
ing.
Events Today
The English Journal Club will
meet this evening at 7:45 in
the West Conference Room of the
Rackham Building. Mr. Kenneth
Millar will speak on "Donne and
Herbert," and Mr. Richard Fogle will
discuss "The Imagery of Keats."
Graduate students in English and
other interested persons are welcome.
The 'Ann Arbor Library Club will
meet in the Amphitheater of the
Rackham Building tonight at 7:45.
The program has been prepared
by students of the Department of
Library Science. "Propaganda" is
the topic for discussion. Miss Eliza-
beth Simkins will discuss "Propa-
ganda -in the Library." Professor
James K. Pollock of the Political
Science Department will speak on
"An American Propaganda Offen-
sive." The general discussion will be
directed by Mr. Franklyn Bright.
A short business meeting with elec-
tion of officers will precede the pro-
gram.
Refreshments will be served after
the program.
Members of the Club are cordially
invited.
Varsity Glee Club: Meeting at 7:30
tonight in the Glee Club Room.
Graduate Coffee Hour today, 4:30-
6:00 p.m., in the Rackham School.
All faculty members and graduate
students are welcome.
'The weekly duplicate bridge tourn-
ament will be held at 7:15 tonight in
the Grand Rapids Room of the
League. Faculty members, towns-
people, graduates, and men students
are invited. Please be prompt.
The Girl's Swimming Club will
meet tonight in the Union pool at
7:30.uAny girl interested in joining
the club is welcome. There will be
sign-ups for the meet which is to
be held between the members on
Thursday, May 7.
Assembly Council will meet today
at 5:00 p.m. in the Undergraduate
Office of the League. Everyone
must be present and on time.
The duplicate bridge committee
will meet in the League grill at 3:15
this afternoon. Anyone who signed
up for this activity and anyone else
interested is urged to be present.
La Soeicdad lispanica will not
meet today.
Coming Events
Women of the University Faculty:
The dinner meeting will be held in
the League, on Friday, May 1, at
6:30 p.m. Reservations must be sent
to Dr. Adelaide Thein before noon
.Aiiii~rtiIiPropaganda 'IsAnti-Amiwricat)
T v HIiE BRITISh have been criticized,
X)and justly in many instances, for
their lax and slovenly direction of the war, but
the point has certainly been reached where we
must distingmsh between honest, justified criti-
cism and Nazi-inspired prouaganda intended to
disrupt the unity of our wir effort.
Veteran eye-witness reporter Cecil Brown, re-
cently returned from the East, told a local
audience in Hill Auditorium Monday that he
was amazed at the anti-British sentiment in
and talk, even Nazi talk, if circulated enough,
begins to assume an air of authenticity. But
what Americans sometimes forget is that Great
Britain, with all her factories going top-speed,
still is not in a class with the manufacturing
colossus of this country or of Germany. (The
Germans have a population of more than twice
that of Great Britain.) Americans forget the
smashing attacks of the RAF on Hamburg, and
on Rostock, site of the now battered Heinkel
plant.