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NEW YORK N.Y.' cIICAeo - BOSToN * LOS ANGELES * SAN FRANciscO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1941-42 Editorial Staff Emile Ge16 Alvin Dann David Lachenbruch Jay McCormick Hal Wilson Arthur Hill Janet Hiatt Grace Miller Virginia Mitchell Daniel H. Huyett James B. Collins Louise Carpenter Evelyn Wright * . . . Managing Editor S. . . Editorial. Director City Editor .. . Associate Editor Sports Editor Assistant Sports Editor Women's Editor . . Assistant Women's Editor . . . Exchange Editor Business Stafff Business Associate Business Women's Advertising Women's Business Manager Manager Manager Manager NIGHT EDITOR: WILLIAM A. MacLEOD The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Churchill Should Advise British War Cabineto* F you find Winston Churchill's logic, please return it. Quick. He will need it-and need it badly-before his talk to Parliament later in the week. Sunday he told the British public that they should not criticize their government for its mis- takes because-look you, people-the United States is in the war, the Russians are winning and three-quarters of everyone is on our side. Maybe the people will stand for that-maybe. But Parliament won't. A good many M. P.'s were rightly disgusted when, during the crisis two weeks ago, Churchill made criticism of any member of his cabinet seem synonymous with criticism of himself. Such disgust will undoubtedly spread and be- come more determined at this last display of crooked thinking-if one may call it thinking. Demands will certainly be made that the Prime Minister revamp his inner War Cabinet which is at present disastrously weak. It repre- sents party leaders rather than the best men available and, thus, includes no member with enough force or brains to meet Churchill on equal terms. In addition to this, the majority of the members are engaged in departmental work to such an extent that they do not have sufficient time to concentrate on general pol- icies. DEMANDS will probably also be made that the gang of appeasers which Chamberlain left behind with his umbrella be swept out of positions of importance and into some dark corner, there to remain at least until the war is over and preferably forever. It is this group of men which renders ineffective too great a por- tion of the British propaganda in Europe, be- cause they are afraid of fostering revolutionary * tendencies. Why Churchill insists upon defending these persons-ineffectual cabinet members and ap- peasers alike-is difficult to understand. But that it is his intention to continue this was ap- parent in his Sunday address. - In appealing for unity, the Prime Minister somehow or other found comfort and basis for argument in the Russian situation. He pointed out that "the Russians have not , . . tried to break up their government. Last autumn when Russia was imperiled . . . the Russians did not fall to bickering among themselves. They did not lose trust in their leaders." Perhaps Mr. Churchill was tired-very, very tired-when he wrote the speech. There is scarcely any other excuse for such a comparison. When the Russian leaders said "all-out" or "scorched earth," they meant it. They re- treated, certainly. But when they did there were no thousands of tons of rubber and tin left be- hind for the enemy, there was no "destroyed" causeway for the Nazis to cross, there was no time out for tea at the Raffles House, there was little just plain bungling and stupidity. We wonder if the British would have had the guts to dynamite the Dnieper Dam had it belonged to them. Somehow we doubt it. HERE, THEN, is where Churchill erred. He compared honest defeats with stupidity and lack of vision. The British people and the Brit- ish Parliament can take defeat and come back Let's Work Togethero. . To the Editor: O ASSUME that an extra hour of resentful sleep, if that, is going to make our crop of coeds any more physically fit, is making an as- sumption based on pure folly. What possible improvement could that extra hour afford? And in the same vein--making the assumption that our coeds are run-down because 48 out of 50 were rejected for blood donations (a rejection which apparently "had no reflection on the health of the volunteers") is not at all in keep- ing with the scientific method. To say the least, this is insufficient ground upon which to gener- alize. Why not investigate health conditions in terms of thousands of coeds before stating that they are in poor physical shape-and then of- fering them an extra hour, of bitter-tasting sleep to cure all their ills. .. Who in Heaven's name feels himself called upon to "bring the war home to the students?" Who could have made such an outrageous as- sertion which to me and practically everyone else is nothing less than shocking? The war is "at home" with the students-you can rest as- sured of that. It has been brought home time and time again to every man on this campus who is trying to start his life in this civilization that's on its way to hell. And so does every girl feel close to this war-every girl, who is in any way concerned about her brother, her father, her guy in particular, or her liberty, if I must flag-wave. Yes, we know that there's a war being fought and we resent what's being done about it. And we particularly resent being of- fered petty, paltry measures which are designed to bring the war to our attention. Let us know that the war has been "brought home" to our faculty, to our parents, and to all the members of the generation which furnished us with this world to live in. Let's stop people from going off the deep, deep end in prepara- tion for what's to come. Let's stop bickering about daylight saving or standard time. Let's stop the pampering and get rid of those who persist in rationalizing their positions, Let's work together for a change. - Bill Beck The Reply Churlish by TOUCHSTONE RAMBLING NOTES from one who spends his weekends somewhere else anyhow. How are they ever going to get over being anemic if they have to go home so early? Heavenly days, as one who spends his weekends elsewhere anyhow, I am willing to admit the anemia part of the ar- guments pro of whoever it is, but what a solu- tion. Roast beef will be the next to go. Undoubtedly when a thing like this occurs, it may be blamed on the girls themselves. Most of them look as if they ought to go home early. Certainly in their little busybee soirees at the Michigan League, the aces always go to the grown up brand of teacher's pet. The elected representatives of Our Womanhood are veddy respectable dollies indeed, which means that they get along with the ladies who run things, and ad- mire same as Useful, High-Type Women. By a painful and twittering accumulation of Points for Things, like a best of breed, or best in show, the girly girlies send to the council tables only their finest and best-the girls all the girls like. And if, after so much worthy effort along lines of na- tional importance such as Freshman Project, Sophomore Cabaret, Junior Girls Play, the Get Together, the Aw Come On, the Whoop de Doo, the Special Committee for the Relief of Fill in Blank, these pearls with their grown up sisters continue to look around for something with which they can make like Susan B. Anthony, I repeat, blame it on the tomatoes; they love it. THE NEWS WRITERS are playing an enjoy- able game of blind man's buff just now, pro- claiming loudly in their stories that responsibility for this outrage cannot be permanently fixed. This is a quite natural expression of any news writer's disgust with people who do things and then disown them. But deep down in their hearts the boys in the front room know exactly what happened-they just want to watch 'em squirm a little. The process is much like a cat playing with a mouse. News writer calls A, and asks if she had anything to do with anything. A says why no, she really doesn't know who is responsi- ble, maybe it was B, but don't quote her on it. But A didn't do anything. News writer calls B, tells her A said she might know something about something, and B says oh, no, not her, she thought it was all about knitting or extra des- serts or something. Maybe it was C. And so it goes on, the news writer keeping a perfectly straight face through the whole business, and then writing a story in which he makes no com- ment, simply repeating the various hedges made by ABC and the others. AND THE NEWS WRITER, and you and I know that it all resolves into something sim- ple and universal which can be stated neatly in the phrase "that's the way women are." Get a bunch of women together and every time they'll ask for the vote or Prohibition, or ban somebody from the public libraries and buy the works of Anna Sewell, (author of that touching novel, Black Beauty) instead, or clean up politics by electing that nice Mr. Shrdlu with the darling moustache. The women, God bless them, want something to do. We must all applaud them for this sentiment. Trouble is, they don't know what. As the simplest solution, offered gratis to the ladies who can't figure out just how all this ever happened anyhow, I offer a nifty little compro- Abolish Eight O'clocks To the Editor: BRED of a boundless patriotism, a burning passion for self-sacrifice, and an unequivocal love of logical consistency, we take the type- writer in hand to proffer a further suggestion for civilian conservation of natural resources. In keeping with the current proposals to cur- tail excessive expenditures of energy-physical and electrical-we wish to carry to its logical conclusion the plan of limiting extra-curricular social relationships to 12:30 Friday nights. Whereas, we fully endorse such plan, we are the protagonists of a more all-embracing policy, de- signed to conserve more energy and to be more universal in appeal, embodying the general wel- fare, regardless of sex. WE PROPOSE THE ABOLITION OF EIGHT O'CLOCK CLASSES! Our arguments are paragons of simplicity and logically consistent with those set forth by the League Council, before whose wisdom do we humbly sacrifice our claims to originality. 1) "Conservation of electricity": The war having decreed that there be no light at 7:00 in the morning, in order to properly apply cos- metics and/or adjust cravats (as the case may be), and to pursue knowledge under best con- ditions in the classroom, it is necessary to em- ploy electricity. 2) "Promotion of physical fitness": Upon physical endurance and alertness depends the success of the future soldier. Realizing well the value of sleep to the physical and mental wel- fare of our nation, one additional hour in the arms of Morpheus is desirable. Thus some stu- dents will receive the benefits of six additional hours sleep per week, or the equivalent of al- most one night's rest.' 3) "Bring the war home to the students"; The proposed 12:30 curfew would "bring the war home to the students" only one night per week; our plan would bring the war home every morning. 4) "Demand for Blood": Of the 50 students who volunteered blood, 48 were so run down that they had to be rejected. This is a depressing situation which must not be. The students must have more time for breakfasts. Therefore, in view of the vast benefits which our proposed plan will reap-both in physical fitness and conservation of electricity-we ap- peal to the proper authorities (whoever they may be) for immediate action. -Howard G. Solomon, '42 Eugene A. Kane, '42 C&li Drew Pectso% Robert S.Alle WASHINGTON-It is now possible to reveal some of the inside diplomatic discussions re- garding the defense of Singapore. Here's the inside story: Only a few days after Churchill arrived, the Australians got word that the Far Eastern front was to be sacrificed, and almost tore the British Empire apart. Churchill was arguing that it was going to be impossible to defend Singapore and the Dutch East Indies; that the Pacific was a tremendous ocean; that the Japanese could rattle round in it for a long time; that it was much wiser to de- feat the German Army on the Russian front and in the Mediterranean area. He contended that once the German Army was crushed it would be a simple matter to clean up on Japan. Admiral King Objects... HOWEVER, Churchill ran into trouble im- mediately from Admiral Ernest King, forth- right new commander of the U. S. Fleet. King objected vigorously, said that Dutch oil, rubber, tin would keep Japan fighting for years; warned that Japan could then put the squeeze on India, while Hitler squeezed the British Middle East from the Syrian-Turkish end. King also referred in critical, almost scathing terms, to the Libyan campaign in North Africa, said that this was just child's play; that these barren desert wastes meant nothing even if con- quered. Blunt-spoken as he was, however, Admiral King was not half as tough as the Australians. Their minister in Washington, Richard Casey, told Churchill point-blank that Singapore would have to be defended. He even went to the ex- treme length of warning that Australian troops would be yanked out of the Near East if the British Government did not send reinforcements to Singapore. Furthermore, the Australian Prime Minister even went to the extent of suggesting that if London was going to desert the Australian peo- ple by not defending Singapore, it would be per- fectly possible for the Australian Government to withdraw from the War and make a separate peace with Germany. Faced with this double-barreled barrage from both the Australians and the U. S. Navy, the British and Russians yielded. More reinforce- ments for the Far East were decided upon. By that time, however, it was late to send heavy reinforcements. And the inside fact is that mod- IDAILY OFFICIAL (Continued from Page 3) panry, Pittsburgh, Penna., will inter- view a limited number of men in the above groups on Thursday, February 19, in Room 214 West Engineering Bldg. Interview blanks are available in the Mechanical Engineering Office. Interview schedule is posted on the bulletin board near Room 221 West Engineering Bldg. Academic Notices Seminar Ch.E. 109 on Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. in Room 3201 E. Engr. Bldg. Mr. Charles O. King will speak on the subject: "Solvent Extraction of Soybeans." To those students who have signed for the special reading clinic course: The class will meet Monday and Wednesday at five o'clock, room 4009 University High School Build- ing, School of Education. First meet- ing Wednesday, Feb. 18. There will be room to accommodate a limited number of additional stu- dents for this short term, non credit remedial reading work. Mathematics 10 will meet, begin- ning Wednesday, in Room 405 South Wing. Change of Deadline for Hopwood Contestants: All manuscripts shall be in the English Office, 3221 An- gell Hall, by 4:30 p.m., Monday, April 13, 1942. R. W. Cowden Students who competed in the Hopwood contests for freshmen should call for their monuscripts at the Hopwood Room not later than Friday, February 20. R. W. Cowden English 136, The Analysis of Poetry, will meet in Room 2225 A.H. (instead of 2215 A.M.) Thursday, 4-6. W. H. Auden Portuguese Conversational Classes: Two classes in conversational Portu- guese are offered in the International Center series of conversational lang- uage services. A beginning class will organize at 8:30 p.m., and an ad- vanced class at 7:15. Both will meet in Room 23 of the Center. A small fee is charged. Arabic Class, International Center: The International Center, in cooper- ation with Al Thaqafa, the Arabic culture society, offers a beginning class in modern Arabic at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 18, in Room 23 of the Center. A small tutorial fee will be charged. Concerts Choral Union Concert: Joseph Szigeti, Violinist, will give the Ninth program in the Choral Union Series, Thursday, February 19, at 8:30 o'clock, in Hill Auditorium. A limit- ed number of tickets are still avail- able. Alec Templeton, Pianist, will be heard in a special concert Thursday, February 26, at 8:30 o'clock, in Hill Auditorium. Reserved seat tickets at popular prices, including tax: main floor 95c; first balcony 75c and the top balcony 55c. May be purchased at the offices of the University Musi- cal Society, Burton Memorial Tower. Charles A. Sink, President Organ Recital: Palmer Christian, University Organist, will present the first in a series of second-semester recitals at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, February 18, in Hill Auditorium. The program as arranged by Professor' Christian will include works of Bach, Gluck, Martini, Stanley, Guilmant, Copland and DeLamarter. The public is cordially invite. Violin-Piano Recital, International Center: Miss Thelma Newell will of- fer a violin recital with Miss Helen Titus, pianist, at the Wednesday mu- sic program of the International Center. The recital will be at 7:30 p.m. in the lounge of the Center and will consist of: Beethoven, Sonata No. 1, Op. 12. Mozart, Concerto No. 5 in A major. Hindemeth, Sonata No. 2 in D, Op. 11. All interested are invited to at- tend. The Tuesday evening concert of recorded music in the Men's Lounge of the Rackham Building tonight at 8:00 will be as follows: "Introduction" and "Dances of the Persian Slaves" from "Khowant- china" by Moussorgsky. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor. Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major.! Beethoven: Concerto No. 4 in G major. Lectures University Lecture: Dr. William H. Weston, Professor of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University, will lec- ture on the subject, "Fungi and Fel- low Men," under the auspices of the Department of Botany in the Natur- GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty "Airplanes built by honorable toymakers no then come apart!" W, Pee r t* i good-fly one mile, Department of Physiology. The pub- lic is cordially invited. University Lecture: Dr. A. I. Lev- erson, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Past President of the American Geologists, will lecture on the subject, "Petroleum Reserves and Discovery" (illustrated), under the auspices of the Department of Gelogy on Tuesday, Feb. 24, ata 4:15 p.m. in the Rackham Amphi- theater. The public is cordially in- vited. University Lecture: Professor Lau- 1 rence H. Snyder of Ohio State Uni-7 versity will lecture on the subject, "Heredity and Modern Life," (illus- trated) under the auspices of the Laboratory of Vertebrate Genetics, on Tuesday, February 24, at 8:00 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. The public is cordially invited. University Lecture: Yves Tinayre,c noted authority on vocal art, will give1 an illustrated lecture at 8:30 p.m.1 on Monday, February 23, in Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, under the sponsorship of the School of Music. Complimentary tickets are obtain- able at the office of the School of Music. The Hon. Hugh Gibson, former ambassador to Belgium and Brazil and recently identified with the Polish Relief Commission, will be presented by the Oratorical Association to- night at 8:15 in Hill Auditorium. The subject of Mr. Gibson's address will be "The International Situation as Seen through the Eyes of an American." Tickets may be pur- chased at the box office, Hill Audi- torium, from 10 a.m. to 8:15 today. French Lecture: Miss Helen B. Hall, Curator, Institute of Fine Arts, will give the fifth of the French Lec- tures sponsored by the Cercle Fran- cais tomorrow, Wednesday, Febru- ary 18, at 4:15 p.m. in Room D, Alumni Memorial Hall. The title of her lecture is: "Poitiers, Bijou du Moyen-Age" (illustrated). Tickets for the series of lectures' may be procured from the Secretary of the Department of Romance Lan- guages (Room 112, Romance Lan- guage Building) or at the door at the time of the lecture. for a small sum. Holders of these tickets are entitled to admission to all lectures, a small additional charge being made for the annual play. These lectures are open to the general public. Events Today American Institute of Electrical Engineers will have a joint meeting of the Michigan Section, the Michi- gan State College Student Branch, and the University of Michigan Stu- dent Branch tonight in the Rackham Building at 8:00. Our group will meet the Michigan State branch in the Dynamo Lab. at 6:30, from where we shall all go to the Michigan Union Cafeteria for supper. Prof. W. G. Dow will speak on "Electronics in War and Peace." Mechanical, Electrical and Engin- eering Mechanics Seniors: A repre- sentative of the Chrysler Corpora- tion, Detroit, Michigan, will inte- view seniorstin the above groups this afternoon in Room 218 West Engin- eering Building. Students interested may sign for interviews on the Mechanical Engin- eering Department bulletin board. Judiciary Committee of the Michl- gan League will interview all those petitioning for Jordan assistantships today, Wednesday, Thursday of this week, 3:30-5:30 p.m., in the under- graduate office of the League. University Flying Club will meet Alpha Nu of Kappa Phi Sigma will will meet tonight on the fourth floor of Angell Hall at 7:30. Graduating Engineers - All bran- ches of Engineering: Ensign W. L. Chewning of the Naval Aircraft Fac- tory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will interview May and August graduates in all branches of Engineering today in Room 3205 East Engineering Build- ing. Interested students will please sign the interview schedule posted on the Aeronautical Engineering Bul- letin Board, near Room B-47 East Engineering Building. Women's Wartime Relief Project, International Center. Foreign women, wives of foreign students, and inter- ested American women will gather in the International Center at 2:30 p.m., today for the knitting and sewing group in cooperation with the Ameri- can Red Cross and the American Friend's Service Committee projects. All interested are invited to attend. Publicity Committee for Assembly Ball will meet today at 4:00 p.m. in the League. All those interested may attend even if they have not signed up before. Please bring eligibility cards. Central Committee for Assembly Ball will meet today at 3:0 p.m. in the League. The Aquinas Seminar will meet at Lane Hall today, 4:10 p.m. JGP Central Committee meeting today in the League at 4:30 p.m. Club Basketball for women, starts at Barbour Gymnasium at 4:20 and 5:00 p.m. today. Christian Science Organization will meet tonight at 8:15 in the chapel of the Michigan League. Episcopal Students: Tea will be served for Episcopal students and their friends at Harris Hall today, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. The Meeting of the Bibliophiles Section of the Women's Faculty Club will be held at the home of Mrs. Charles Davis, 2104 Brockman Blvd. at 2:30 p.m. today. Bowling - Women Students: All girls interested in bowling are urg- ed to attend the meeting of the Bowling. Club 'at 4:30 this after- noon in the basement of the Women's Athletic Building. The bowling team tournament has been drawn up and is posted in the Women's Athletic Building. Captains are urged to arrange their team's first match immediately. Coming Events Mathematics Club will meet Wed- nesday, February 18, at 8 p.m., in the West Conference Room, Rackham Bldg. Dr. Everett will speak on "Vec- tor Spaces over Rings." Junior Mathematical Society will meet Wednesday, February 18, at 8 p.m., in 3201,Angell Hall. Professor Rainville will speak on "Mathematics and the Boulder Dam." Athena Members and Pledges: There will be a meeting at the League on Wednesday, February 18, at 4:30 p.m. Please call Anna-Jean Williams, 2-3159, if you cannot be there. Polonia Society will meet Thurs- day at 7:30 p.m. in the recFeaton room of the International Center. Results of the ballet will be discussed and second semester officers will be elected. All Polish students are in- vited. House Presidents' meeting Wed- r h .. } r. -u. ;., . '- : , . a '; , '; i f . .