Cs c ,'AA 4 THE MICHIGAN DAILY ...U.. E== T 4r ir i g tn tl 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 mall matter. Subscriptions during the regular school year by car- rier $4.00, by mall $5.00. REPRE9SNTU POR NATIONAL ADVERT13ING Y National Advertising Service, Inc. v College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON Ave. NEW YORK. N. Y. CNICAGO * BOsON+ LoLs ANOES " SAN FRAROSCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1941-42 CHAPTER TWO. In my sophomore year, the first time I tried it, I encountered someone who did not think informal essays were the thing. I also lived in my frat club. Together these two experiences completed the destruction of my confidence. I tried to be a brother to the boys-they were nice enough guys, I realize that now-but there were too many of them. I have never been a strong-willed person, arnd in a frat club there is always somebody going out to the movies, and the nights when this was not the case, I was working at being a promising kid on The Daily or trying not to write informal essays, which was hard indeed. My studies did not receive my full attention, though I said many ponderous things in bull sessions. I over-cut several of my courses, due to the fact that it was so cold in the frat house dormitory that I could not get to sleep without wearing a sweatshirt and woolen socks in addi- tion to my pajamas and bathrobe to bed, and on the bed' I had flannel sheets, and two Hudson Bay blankets, the total weight being great enough to tire me out more than I could sleep. To cure me of this habit of cutting classes, one of my English profs gave me what he referred to as a disciplinary 'C'. Another English prof also gave me a 'C' because I was sjill writing Editorial Staff Homer Swander Morton Mintz Will Sapp Charles Thatcher George W. Salladd Bernard Hendel Myron Dann. Barbara deFrics Edward J. Periberg Fred M. Ginsberg Mary Lou Curran Jane Lindberg Managing Editor Editorial Director City Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor * , . . Sports Editor Associate Sports Editor Women's Editor Rusiness Staff Business Manager Associate Business Manager Women's Business Manager *Women's Advertising Manager Drew Pe rs RobertS Allen AGO $ NIGHT EDITOR: CHARLOTTE CONOVER The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Congress Must Reduce Money In Circulation . 0 0 UNLESS the Administration and a constituency-minded Congress can forget political expediency and the forthcoming elections, it looks like the country is going to wallow along without adequate anti-inflation legislation. Although the indefinite character of the Pres- ident's seven points makes criticism difficult, it seems that his plan, like so many others, lacks certain necessary measures which would effec- tively cut purchasing power and provisions for rationing of commodities once price-setting be- comes a fact. Best estimates place excess purchasing power at about 15 billions with some estimates pre- dicting that it will soon rise to 30 billions. And' with that much money floating around the administrative problem of holding prices at March levels becomes just about insolvable. Rationing is at best unwieldy, and applying it to enough of the 30,000 commodities on the market to keep the general price level down must be an administrative nightmare. In Eng- land, where rationing is much more complete and applies to many more goods than it does here, there have been numerous cases of "black markets" in which goods are sold at enormous prices to the highest bidder. Here, where rationing is comparatively incom- plete, buying on the sly would probably become the accepted thing, and lower income groups would take it in the neck. UT raioning is absolutely essential f insure fair distributiJon of goods, and Ie less in- flated the situation the better it works. The heart of the problem is the excess of money In consumers' hands, and an attack on the problem would certainly imply draining that excess. Price control and rationing are of course necessary, but they must be con- sidered supplementary devices. Draining off purchasing power not only re- moves the immediate cause of inflation; it also prevents fresh impetus from being added to the inflationary tendency. Revenue from present taxes-including receipts from the proposed ex- cess profits tax-is slightly under 30 billions per year, and most hopeful estimates add about 12 billions to that sum, The President has stated that we will soon be spending at a rate of 70 billions per year, and although returns from present taxes will in- crease, there will still be a large gap between receipts and expenditures. IF this money is to be raised by borrowing from banks, billions of more dollars will be put into circulation, and the problem of controlling inflation becomes even more unmanageable. Forced savings and higher taxes, drafted to insure everyone at least a subsistence ration, is He answer. The American people are wholeheartedly be- hind the war effort. But Congress must assume the leadership and fulfill its responsibilities. Anti Alit'-Inflation WASHINGTON-Privately, Administration leaders on Capitol Hill expect plenty of trouble enacting the two features of the present anti- inflation program that require legislation-the $25,000 income ceiling and reducing the 110 per- cent farm parity figure. The leaders are acutely aware that a lot of congressmen and senators, loud in lip service to patriotism, will play petty, undercover politics on these two issues. Toughest battle will be over the farm parity question, thanks to the powerful and well-heeled farm lobby, one of the most potent and grabbiest in Washington. Within a few hours after the release of the President's message, the farm lobby was actively waging war against it. Secret strategical pow- wows were called hurriedly. Representative Clarence Cannon, chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee, and a farm bloc leader, sounded the tocsin of battle on the House floor. While the fighting in that chamber will be hot, the decisive struggle will take place in the Sen- ate, where the lobby has its chief strength. It was in the Senate that the Administration lost its fight to keep the 110 percent parity figure out of the Price Control Bill. This defeat was what forced the President to tangle with the lobby again. On the $25,000 income issue, congressional insiders anticipate a compromise. A private poll of the House Ways and Means Committee sev- eral days ago showed a decisive majority against it. Most of the committeemen favored boosting the maximum to around $50,000. However, be- cause only a relatively small number of people are affected by the $25,000 proposal, and this is a campaign year, Roosevelt may be able to bludgeon it through if he bears down strong enough. Insiders predictt It a lot of inembers will hack him on the $25,00 uiwome limit in order to cover their opposition to reducing the parity farm price level to(J 100 percent, Soldiers' Pay The House Military Affairs Committee finally approved a pay rise bill last Friday, but until then there had been considerable delay in get- ting together with the Naval Affairs Committee on certain amendments, relating chiefly t lon- gevity bonuses for officers in the higher brackets. Principal bottleneck was Naval Affairs Chair- man Carl Vinson of Georgia, who wanted to scrap the whole bill and write another. Finally Vinson was given a week to produce a new bill. The next day he cockily reappeared before the connittee, bill in hand. To every- one's amazement, it consisted mostly of the basic provisions of the Senate bill, including the $21- to-$42-a-month pay hike for privates. The only major difference was a proposal to give officers above the rank of second lieutenant and ensign a 10 percent pay increase and to make the 20 percent extra allowance for foreign service applicable to all men in the armed forces, whether they had served abroad or not. This scheme ran into a storm of objections. A majority of the committee contended that men with foreign service deserved more pay than those without it, and that if it wasn't granted in this bill another would have to be passed. "All right, all right," declared Vinson, after a informal essays. He said it would jerk me up on my feet. I quit writing informal essays at the beginning of the second semester. I also, by way of ineligibility, quit working on the Daily. I also moved out of my frat club, back into a rooming house, which was very cold at night. And after a week of the second semester, I also quit school. The night I decided to quit school, I went out to the old Baltimore Dairy Lunch to get some coffee. I did not have much change in my pockets. Two of the Daily editors were also at the Baltimore having coffee. I told them I was leaving school and why. I felt very sorry for myself. It was a long and pathetic story. After I had finished telling them all about it, I asked them for a nickel to buy another cup of coffee. They began to laugh. It was, they told me, the best straight-face mooch they had ever seen done. If I had stayed in school, my reputation as a wag would have been made. But I was un- able to see this fact at the time, and the next day I left as scheduled. I spent the months at home doing very little, except writing short stories, which I made as rough and tough as was possible without being banned from the U.S. mails, acting on the idea that hell and damn were words which denied my heritage of the informal essay. I read the works of Ernest Hemingway quite utterly through, and was influenced, though it never amounted to much. I was even more afraid of the University than I had been at the end of my freshman year. I had been a smart kid through high school, and there I was, not only flunking my first course, but dropping entirely out of school. It was unheard of, and when I dwelt upon it fo very long, I felt extremely sorry for myself. CAME BACK the following fall and again started in to finish being a sophomore. I was still not eligible, and I spent most of my time writing short stories like Hemingway, and also studying, and at the end of the semester I had good grades, or anyhow not so bad. I was lone- some again during that -first semester, and my work was better for it. Second semester I got back on the Daily, and won a Hopward award, and at the end of the third year I had made up the lost ground, was a full-fledged junior-to-be, and had a job as a night editor here. It was a good year. I spent a lot of money at Van Bo- ven's, and am still wearing the garments. I was also beginning to find out what the score was academically in the University. I learned the difference between an honest and thorough job done one week too late, and a. stylized, faked job handed in on time. The lat-' ter won every time. It was the lesson of surface appearances, an important thing to know in a large Midwestern university. I even wrote a story, called I Am a Student at a Large Md- western University. I was still not fond of Michigan, though I felt I had thwacked it soundly. To be continued. So long until soon. ART Gold Is Where You Find It The Ann Arbor Art Association presents cur- rently in the Rackham Building its annual dis- play of the work of local artists. The honors of the exhibition are shared equally among Emil Weddige (whose oil portrait of a small boy is the most handsome thing he has shown),. Al- bert Decker (who shows a gouache and a water- color of rare sensitivity), and Donald Gooch (who, in his dashing water-colors, shows him- self to be a man of wit and good will). There are other good things, too: Tristan Meinicke's and Catherine Heller's water-colors stand out by their technical finish, Ella Aiton's Suburban Oasis and Lily Goodhew's Maine are fresh,light-wooded, cheerful. The oils hold up rather well; one feels that the jury here used good sense in most of its selections. May Brown iand Doris Porter McLean show quiet wooded scenes, each. J. P. Slusser's Jersey Town has an established mood and a considered design. Bar- bara Dorr's Still-life is firm if too smoothly) textured. E. H. Barnes shows a pleasant but conservatively academic landscape. Myron Chapin's gouaches mark for him iwn increasing experimentation which brings with it renewed authority. Christine Stevens' Joli Cocur, an egg-tempera panel, though hard to See, is of good quality. John Clarkson's ink landscape drawing is the finest thing of his which one recalls seeing. ft is marked with a thoroughly assimilated understanding of the present international style of painting. Edward Calver's two wood engravings have a fine linear texture and show an understandable concept. Among the small but choice group of sculpture and the minor arts, there are some good things. Outstanding of these are Walter W. J. Gores' squared, blue bowl, and his decorated bowl la- beled California. Grover Cole shows an enchant- ing, little brown pot which has a glaze of par- ticularly subtle quality. One's sole regret about the show is that the crowded installa' ion does not come at all up to the standard set by the others of this year. When one recalls how fine the mounting was last year DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) 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 plan to re- tarn either for the summer term or the fall term should have their elec- tions approved for the next semester that they expect to be in residence, as soon as possible. There will be little or no time to sign up returning students during the registration peri- ods preceding either of these semes- ters, 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 Ball. Arthur Van Duren, Chairman, Academic Counselors. Notice to Property Owners: If you have purchased improved property on a land contract and owe ' a bal- ance in the proximity of 60 per cent of the value of the property, the Investment Office, 100 South Wing of University Hall would be glad to discuss the possibilities of refinan- cing your contract through the medi- um of a mortgage. There are advan- tages to be h'ad in this manner of refinancing. Detroit Armenian Women's Club Scholarship: The Detroit Armenian Women's Club offers a scholarship I for $100 for the year 1942-43 for which young men and women of Armenian parentage, living in the Detroit metropolitan district who demonstrate scholastic ability and possess good character and who have had at least one year of college work, are eligible. Further information may be obtained from me. Dr. Frank E. Robbins, 1021 Angell Hall To Men Students Living in Room- ing Houses: The full amount of room rent for the second semester is due and payable on or before Thursday, May 7, 1942. The academic credits of students owing room rent may be held up upon request of the house- holders to do so. C. T. Olmsted, Assistant Dean of Students Seniors: The University sends out interesting and instructive infora- tion several times each year to all of the alumni. In order that you may LETTERS To THE EDITOR To the Editor: As one of those slandered, I would like to reply to the attack on the Young Communists in the letter col- umn of Friday's Daily, The writer of the letter stated (I believe this was his central theme) that we Communists have no right to take a stand against the Norman Thomas and Trotskyite appeasement policy, since we once had a "similar" policy ourselves. However, we never did! Since the beginning of the 1930's, the Communists throughout the world have recognized for themselves one central task. They were far- sighted enough to see that Fascism was destined to be the largest single threat to human happiness in our age. Hence, our task was clearly to fight uncompromisingly against Fas- cism-on the home front against na- tive Fascism, on the international front against aggression. Our purpose was to prevent the Fascist nations from becoming so powerful that, tIly could bring upon this world a damnable world war. We fought inl Cina, in Spaiin, aga_;tinst {Coug01iliiles adit(l against Buidists. The appeaser forces in the world were strong, however, and were able to permit the Fascist nations to grow in power. (Norman Thomas social- ists and the Trotskyites gave no small aid to the sabotaging of collective security, by the way). World War II came as a result. This war had arisen out of the failure to establish collective secur- ity-out of Munich; and hence, was not an anti-Fascist war. To fight Fascism most effectively the Com- munists of the world, just as in 1917, opposed the imperialist war and turned their efforts against the re- spective Fascists of each country, who were using the war programs to strengthen their position. We did not then (and we never did) advocate a negotiated peace with Fascism. We advocated a revolutionary people's peace against war and all Fascism. Then with the invasion of the So- viet Union the war took a tremendous change. The collective security, which was sabotaged in peacetime, was welded by that one event in war- time. The war had thus become an anti-Fascist war. True, imperialist elements still remain, but they are overshadowed by the fact that twen- ty-six United Nations are now wag- ing a war, not for the preservation receive these, please keep your cor-I rect address at all times on file in the3 Alumni Catalog Office. I If you are entering the U.S. Army or Navy Service, please advise thet Catalog Office of such fact, giving at permanent address for the duration. Your co-operation in this will be greatly appreciated.- Lunette Hadley, Directort Teaching Departments Wishing to Recommend tentative May graduates from the College of Literature, Sci- ence, and the Arts and the School of< Education for Departmental Honorst should send such names to the Regis-I trar's Office, Room 4, U. Hall beforer May 15, 1942. Robert L. Williams, t Assistant Registrar.- Attention Seniors: A large numbert of graduate schools require the Grad-t uate Record Examination from stu- dents who are admitted. Seniors in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, who took the Graduate Record Examination in February, 1942, may request these to be sent to graduate schools. Forms on whicht to make this request are obtainableI in 1208 Angell Hall. The Bureau of Appointments andt Occupational Information has re-c ceived the following informationa from the H. J. Heinz Company. t "A representative of the H. J.t Heinz Company will interview stu- dents who desire summer vacation jobs, in room 304 Michigan Union on Wednesday, May 6. "These summer positions are in con-I nection with our seasonal work oft inspecting, receiving and salting pickles in rural Michigan." Further information may be ob- tained by calling at the office of thet Bureau. Bureau of Appointments and l Occupational Information, a 201 Mason Hall The University Bureau of Appoint-t ments and Occupational Information has received notice of the following Civil Service Examinations. Last date for filing application is noted in each case: United States Civil Service Junior Meteorologist, salary, $2,000 per year, June 30, 1942. Junior Multigraph Operator, sal- ary, $1,440 per year, until needs of service have been met. Technical Assistant (Engineering) salary, $1,800 per year, June 30, 1942. Superintendent of Construction, Salary, $3,20 to $6,500 per year, May 11, 1942. Junior Calculating Machine Oper- ator, salary, $1,440 per year, May 26, 1942. I Further information may be ob- tained from the announcement which is on file in the office of the Univer- sity Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information, 201 Mason Hall. Office hours 9-12 and 2-4. Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information A representative of the United Air- craft Corporation of East Hartford, Conn., will be at the Bureau of Ap- pointments and Occupational Infor- mation 'Tuesday to interview: 1. Aero-Engineers. 1 2. Women specializing in mathe- matics or physics, for the Research Division. Call Extension 371 for appoint- ments. Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information. A cademic Notices The Botanical Seminar will meet Wednesday, May 6, at 4:30 p.m. in room 1139 Natural Science Building. Dr. L. E. Wehmeyer will give a paper entitled, "The Genus Thyrid- aria." All interested are invited. - - GRIN AND BEAR T ByLichty C-R-t j--#4L 60 To P GT "We did it before and we can do it again. Prohibition must come back." phenyl Chloromethanes." Today, 309 Chemistry, 2:30 p.m. Chairman, L. C. Anderson. By action of the Executive Board the Chairman may invite members of the faculties and advanced doctoral vandidates to attend the examination and he may grant permission to those who for sufficient reason might wish to be present. C. S. Yoakum Doctoral Examination for Bern- ard Vinograde, Mathematics; thesis: "Split Rings and Their Representa- tion Theory." Today, East Council Room, Rackham, 3:15 p.m. Chair- men, C. J. Nesbitt and R. M. Thrall. By action of the Executive Board, the Chairmen may invite members of the faculties and advanced doctor- al candidates to attend the examina- tion and they may grant permission to those who for sufficient reason might wish to be present. C. S. Yoakum Doctoral Examination for Stanton James Ware, Geography; thesis: "The Clay Plains of Chippewa Coun- ty, Michigan." Today, 212 Angell Hall, 2:00 p.m. Chairman, K. C. McMurry. 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 Doctoral Examination for Herbert B. McKean, Forestry and Conserva- tion; thesis: "Glued Laminated Beams Composed of Two Wood Spe- cies." Wednesday, May 6, West Council Room, Rackham, 2:00 p.m. Chairman, W. Kynoch. - By action of the Executive Board, the Chairman may invite members of the faculties and advanced doc- toral candidates to attend the ex- amination and he may grant per- mission to those who for sufficient reason might wish to be present. C. S. Yoakum Concerts The May Festival schedule of pro- grams is as follows: r s The Philadelphia Orchestra will participate in all concerts. Wed. 8:30. Marian Anderson, Con- tralto; Eugene Ormandy, Conductor. Thurs. 8:30, First part: "King Dav- id" (Honegger) with Judith Hell- wig, soprano; Enid Szantho, Contral- to; Felix Knight, Tenor; Rabbi Bar- nett R. Brickner, narrator; and the University Choral Union. Second part: Emanuel Feuermann, Violon- cellist; Thor Johnson, Conductor. Fri. 2:30. First part: "The Walrus and the Carpenter" (Fletcher) - Youth Chorus; Juva Higbee, Con- ductor. Second part: Carroll Glenn, violinist; Saul Caston, Conductor. Fri. 8:30. All-Wagner program. Helen Traubel, soprano; Eugene Or- mandy, Conductor. Sat. 2:30. All-Rachmaninoff pro- gram, Sergei Rachmaninoff, pian- ist; Eugene Ormandy, Conductor. Sat. 8:30. Ninth Symphony (Bee- thoven) with Judith Hellwig, Enid Szantho, Jan Peerce, and Mack Har- rell; Choral Union. Eugene Orman- dy, Conductor. Concerts will begin on time. Doors will be closed during the numbers. Traffic regulations by direction of the Ann Arbor Police Department. Tickets will be on sale at the of- fices of the University Musical Soci- ety in Burton Memorial Tower until Tuesday, 5:00 o'clock. Beginning Wednesday morning, all remaining tickets will be on sale at the box office in Hill Auditorium. A limited num- ber of standing room tickets will be on sale as occasion may require. Charles A. Sink, President