THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, APRIL 30~, 1942 The WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By DREW PEARSON ad ROBERT S. ALLEN 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 NATIONAL ADVERTING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. a College Publishers Representative 420 MADisON AVE. NEW YORK. N.Y. bilICAGO BOSTON - Los AXMLS * SAN FRANCIscO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1941-42 Editorial Staff Homer Swander . . . . . Managing Editor Morton Mintz . . . . . Editorial Director l 1 Will Sapp Charles Thatcher George W. Sallad Bernard Hendel Myron Dan . Barbara deFries * . . . City Editor . . . Associate Editor . . . Associate Editor Sports Editor . Associate Sports Editor * . . Women's Editor Business Staff Edward J. Perlberg s s . Business Manager Fred M. Ginsberg . . Associate Business Manager Mary Lou Curran . . Women's Business Manager Jane Lindberg . . Women's Advertising Manager NIGHT EDITOR: CLAYTON DICKEY The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers 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.