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Deatherage Should
Be Discharged ...
G EORGE E. DEATHERAGE cannot
be fired from his position as execu-
tive engineer at the Naval Operations base at
Norfolk, Va.
A statement by a navy spokesman to that
effect was issued a few days ago. The reason
given was that "a man's job is at stake. He is
an American citizen. Moreover, he is not on
the navy payroll, but an employe of Doyle and
Russell, a contracting firm. We may not be
able to say anything about it."
Deatherage is the former commander of the
Knights of the White Camelia, which has been
mildly described as a "fascist-like organization"
in the protest of the Tidewater Industrial Union
Council. One of his latest ideas is to put all war
workers in uniform. According to a story in PM,
"that would make it impossible for the unions
to stir up trouble about long hours and increase
workers' pride in what they were doing." Dea-
therage suggested a semi-military labor organ-
ization with every last worker wearing a uniform.
This, he said, would make every man work twice
as hard because it would produce emotional
thinking and thereby build morale.
T HERE is no reason why the navy cannot get
rid of Deatherage. Aside from his fascistic
notions about labor, the navy has adequate
grounds for dismissal on his past record and
present ideas. The excuse that he is not working
for the navy, but for a private concern, is so
obviously flimsy that we wonder how the navy
thinks it will slide by.
COMMUNIST SUSPECTS have been sys-
tematically eliminated from the govern-
ment and from government work. Joe Lash
was turned down by the navy because he
was investigated by the Dies Committee and
found to have leanings towards the Com-
munist Party. And by the same criteria,
George E. Deatherage is a man of proven
fascistic tendencies and should be removed
from any position where he is in contact
with government work.
F the navy is excluding Communists from its
ranks and works, surely there is just as much
reason to exclude Fascists. There is no under-
mining to which one can point at the Com-
munists that cannot be equaled by this country's
Fascist organizations. There is no Communist
purge that has not been equaled or bettered by
a Nazi "putsch" or Italian housecleaning. There
is no line of Communist thinking which has not
been paralleel or improved upon by the Fascists.
Communist Party members have been thrown
out of government work. The Knights of the
White Camelia is one of many Fascist organiza-
tions in the United States. And George E. Dea-
therage, condemned by his own statements and
former position as commander of the Knights,
Is just as dangerous a man to democracy as any
Communist. Perhaps more dangerous, because
he appeals to a group who believes that democ-
racy can be maintained while labor is bound
and gagged and dictatorship takes over the
government. The mere fact that Deatherage
does not advocate the overthrow of the present
A TO NE5-GENERAL Francis D.
Biddle entered office with a reputa-
tion as one of America's progressive thinkers.
Liberals, the nation over, ought now to recon-
sider their previous estimate of him.
Last week at the request of the said Attorney-
General, Senator Frederick Van Nuys introduced
into the Senate a bill making it a crime to dis-
close "confidential" government information.
Anyone who may "willfully and knowingly furn-
ish, communicate, divulge or publish confiden-
tial government information, whether in whole
or part," can be "fined not more than $5,000 or
imprisoned for not more than two years, or
both."
Furthermore, the proposed measure would
make it a crime to release not only "copies 'or
content" of official documents but to disclose
the "substance, purport, effect, or meaning of
any file, instrument, letter, memorandum, book,
pamphlet, paper, document, manuscript, map,
picture, plan, record or other writing." Crim-
inal penalties can also be exacted where the
material has been declared secret by statute or
a departmental regulation.
The excuse offered by Biddle for this sweep-
ing measure, which would affect every inde-
pendent newspaper in the nation, is that "it
would be advisable in the best interest of the pub-
lic business, and particularly in the interest of
national defense and internal security." Unfor-
tunately, the brillcan apply to both non-defense
and defense matters. It was reported Thurs-
day that a Justice Department official had ad-
mitted that it had been under consideration for
several years prior to the war emergency.
NO ONE DENIES, of course, that certain in-
formation, which could be of possible value
to the enemy, should be repressed. Under its
wartime espionage powers, however, the federal
government already has the right to convict
newspaper reorters who reveal any militarily-
important facts. The danger in the Van Nuys
proposal lies with the potential suppression of
any reports that might necessitate criticism of
the government. The power of the press to keep
the American public awake to the national
emergency and critical of the prosecution of the
war effort could be effectively stifled.
If the Van Nuys measure were enacted into
law, it would be possible to prosecute the na-
tional papers who exposed the shipments of
fuel oil to Axis Spain. Reporters who revealed
the oil and scrap shipments and the exporting
of iron ore from the Philippines to Japan that
continued even up to last October, would also
be liable to imprisonment, especially after the
State and Commerce departments had agreed
to make commodity export figures "confiden-
tial."
It is disheartening to see certain government
officials take advantage of the present crisis to
repeal one of the main freedoms for which we
are fighting-freedom of expression. Even in
the England that has undergone the horrors of
war for more than two years, freedom of the
press is still a welcomed actuality. That press
only a few days ago forced the reorganization
of Prime Minister Churchill's war cabinet.
EQUALLY IMPORTANT are the two war aims
of an enlightened America: to win the battle
for democracy 'abroad and to guarantee the
future of democracy at home. Americans are
dying all over the world to accomplish these
purposes. They will not permit a victory in one,
only to lose the other. The United States Sen-
ate must reject the Van Nuys bill.
- George W. Sallade
Bring The Negroes
Into The War Effort. .
ANY of the white listeners walked
out of a Kansas City auditorium
when Paul Robeson stopped his concert to pro-
test against Negro segregation in the audience.
He told his listeners that he would continue un-
der protest. And continue he did, by singing
the Jim Crow song, a song of protest against
discrimination.
And what did the culture-absorbing intellec-
tuals do? They walked out in even greater
numbers.
With them is walking a whole country. All
over the nation, the nation fighting for democ-
racy, we are walking out on the problem of
Negro discrimination. We are running away
from the protests of the Negro workers who
want to work for the defense of the country.
We are sneering at Negroes who want to join the
armed forces.
IRONICALLY, a great heavyweight boxing
champion, Joe Louis, fought in defense of
his title before some 20,000 persons. When the
fight was over, Louis gave his winner's share
of more than $40,000 to the Navy Relief So-
ciety. Louis could join the navy, for which he
gallantly donated his purse, only as a cook.
Personnel managers at great defense plants
politely tell Negro workers that there are no
positions open while, at the same time, they
publicly decry the shortage of labor.
In the South we make Negro citizens pay poll
taxes to vote. We beat them. We have gover-
nors who brag about their prowess at slashing
Negroes with whips..
WE CLAIM to be fighting fascism with all our
strength, but we still see fit to keep 10 per-
cent of the nation out of the fight. We expect
them to buy defense bonds, to sing patriotic
songs, to support defense against fascism while
we reiect them from the defense effort.
While 'we leave the Negro out of the nation,
we ask him to fight for it. We take the franchise
from him and tell him that he is part of Amer-
ica; we are building guns, tanks and planes for
victory and we ask the Negro to find work
somewhere else than in war industry; we need
men for our armies and we refuse to give the
Negro naval commissions and segregate him in
Drew Petmsos
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RobertS.Alle
WASHINGTON-Those who are on the inside
regarding the report which Ambassador William
C. Bullitt gave President Roosevelt regarding
the Near East say there is only one slight ray of
sunshine in it. Bullitt told his chief that there
was absolutely no chance of Russia making
peace with Germany.
Coming from Bullitt, who served as Ambassa-
dor to Russia and who spent considerable time
there in the early days of the Revolution in 1917,
this means a lot. Bullitt has been vigorously
critical of the Soviet regime in recent years and
probably would lean over backwards against
any overly-optimistic appraisal. However, after
his special tour of the Near and Middle East on
special assignment from the President, he re-
ported that the Russians were so irate against
the Nazis that there would be no surrender or
compromise.
Bullitt is not so optimistic about the Russian,
army, which he thinks may fail badly when the
Germans are able to get their airplanes in the
air again, which they cannot do in sub-zero
weather and with snow on the air fields. Politi-
cally, however, Bullitt is convinced that Russia
will stand with the United Nations to the last
ditch.
Against this, Bullitt goes further than anyone
else around the President regarding Allied losses.
Not only does he believe that Japan will take
India, but he feels that Australia will be lost to
the British Empire.
If he is right, this will be the worst blow which
the United Nations can suffer; especially inas-
much as American troops are now stationed in
Australia and New Zealand.
Note: Not all war observers agree witlg Bullitt
on this latter point. They point out that Aus-
tralia is chiefly a desert country, and it would
take weeks and months for a conquering army
to envelop these vast areas.
Patriotic Indians
As in the last war, thousands of American
Indians again are demonstrating their patri-
otism.
The desk of John Collier, able chief of the
Office of Indian Affairs, is stacked with letters
from every tribe in the country, pledging aic
and offering to make fresh sacrifices for the
war effort. Here are a few examples:
Immediately after the declaration of war, the
Crow Indians of Montana voted $10,000 of tribal
funds to President Roosevelt to "use as you see
fit." The also voted to place in the President's
hands the entire resources of their 2,000,000-acre
reservation, including mineral, oil and coal de-
posits, plus all available manpower for combat
service.
The Creeks of Oklahoma have set aside $400,-
000 of tribal funds for the purchase of defense
bonds. Other tribes voting large sums for the
same purpose include the Jicarilla Apaches and
Pueblos of New Mexico, the Euchee and Semi-
nole Indians of Oklahoma, and the Navajos.
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Please note especially the regula-
tions concerning three-week absences,
and the time limits for dropping
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ment of our College.
E. A. Walter
Assistant Dean
Students, College of Literature,
Science, and the Arts: Election cards
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of the semester may be accepted by
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approved by Assistant Dean Walter.
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tered and have attended classes un-
officially, will forfeit their privilege
of continuing in the College for the
semester. If such students have paid
any tuition fees, Assistant Dean Wal-
ter will issue a withdrawal card for
them.3
Students, College of Literature,
Science, and the Arts: Studentsj
whose records carry reports of I or
X either from the first semester,
1941-42, or (if they have not been in
residence since that time) from any
former session, will receive grades of
E unless the work is completed by
March 9.
Petitions for extensions of time,
with the written approval of the in-
structors concerned, should be ad-
dressed to the Administrative Board
of the College, and presented to Room
4, University Hall, before March 9.
E. A. Walter
Seniors in Engineering and Busi-
ness Administration: A representa-
tive of Bethlehem Steel Company,
Bethlehem, Pa., will interview Sen-
iors of the several Departments of
Engineering and the School of Busi-
ness Administration on Tuesday and
Wednesday, February 24 and 25, for
prospective positions in steel produc-
tion, mechanical and electrical plan-
ning, coke and by-products, fabri-
cated steel construction, shipbuild-
ing, research, development, manage-
ment.
Descriptive booklets and 'applica-
tion forms are available in eachrde-
partment office. Interview time
schedules are posted on Mechanical
Engineering bulletin board.
Interviews will be held in Room
218 West Engineering Bldg.
May and August Graduates in
Aeronautical Engineering: Dr. New-
man A. Hall and Mr. Reed C. Banks,
reprsentatives of Vought - Sikorsky
Aircraft, Stratford, Connecticut, will
interview May and August graduates
in Aeronautical Engineering on Tues-
day, February 24. Interested stu-
dents will please sign the interview
schedule posted on the Bulletin
Board near Room B-47 East En-
gineering Building. The room to be
used for the interviews will be an-
nounced, on the Bulletin Board, early
Tuesday morning.
Househeads, Dormitory Directors,
and Sorority Chaperons: Closing
hour for tonight is 12:30 a.m. and for
Monday, February 23, is 10:30 p.m.
Jeannette Perry,
Assistant Dean of Women
The American Association of Uni-
versity Women Fellowship, in honor
of May Preston Slosson, is to be
awarded for 1942-43. Open to women
for graduate study.
Application blanks may be obtain-
ed at the Graduate School Office,
and must be returned to that office,
together with letters of recommen-
dations, before Monday, March 2,
1942.
Phi Kappa Phi Fellowships: The
National Phi Kappa Phi Honor Soc-
iety each year awards a certain num-
ber of Graduate Fellowships with
stipend of $500 to be devoted to
study in some American College or
University. Undergraduate members
of Phi Kappa Phi of the University
of Michigan, elected during the first
semester of the present year are eligi-
ble to apply for one of these fellow-
ships. The closing date for applica-
tions to be received by the local chap-
ter is March 7. Further information
and application blanks may be se-
cured from the secretary, Mary C.
Van Tuyl, in Room 3123 Natural
Science Building from 2 to 5 daily,
February 24 to 27.
Information regarding require-
ments and examinations for teach-
ing positions in the Toledo, Ohio,
public schools is on file at the office
of the Bureau of Appointments. All
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GRIN AND BEAR IT
Dominic Says
"WOMAN, we will have to be moving on," said
Boone to his wife, the day he met two
trappers who said they were camping seventy
miles away. Civilization was about to encroach
upon his independence. This became one of the
dominant characteristics of American life. In a
degree it typed education. Each valley had to
have its college. Its typed religion. If you really
were a man of conviction, you would come out
from among the people and make a new sect.
It typed business. Mr. A. learned of a human
need and started satisfying it only to discovei'
that B, adopting this pattern with some slight
turn to it, was about to start competing. Rural
Americans all became separatists. But also there
has taken place the rapid work of applied science
which has thrust us together. We are overtaken
with cities, rapid transit, telephone, radio, and
news of the whole world beating on our ears
hourly. America is experiencing the collision of
these two trends.
He only reconciles these two tendencies who
can "create community." To increase commu-
nity, one must understand others, enjoy sharing,
see life as persons interwoven, get satisfactions
in altruistic behavior not egoistic, know sacri-
fice, find security in the group, exercise domi-
nance by means of rules of -the game jointly
agreed on or kept as sportsmen play a game,
and have imagination for the family, the neigh-
borhood, the whole human race. This consti-
tutes a type of civic religion.
THE CONTRIBUTION of the University man
to the solution of this cultural conflict will
be (1) a grasp of the'historic religions, and their
ethical counterpart in modern biological and
social science, (2) a discriminating knowledge
of the God-Man thesis plus the codes of behavior
which attend them, (3) full participation in
some one religion so that its practice of devotion
and value selection becomes habitual, (4) loyalty
to the ideal, with the attendant self-discipline
imposed by the religion embraced and, (5) part-
nership with the weak, the ignorant, the unfor-
tunate by heroic leadership in a cause which de-
mands courage, perseverance and risk even unto
death for the common good or possibly the su-
preme sacrifice, as the guiltless struck down for
By Lichty
"Certainly someone cut up one of your inner tubes-but look
at my figure!"
Academic Notices
Biological Chemistry Seminar will
meet on Tuesday, February 24, at
7:30 p.m., in Room 319, West Medi-
cal Building. "The Essential Amino
Acids-Utilization of Amino Acid
Mixtures" will be discussed. All in-
terested are invited.
University Oratorical Contest: The
University Oratorical contest will be
held on April 3. The preliminary
contest will be held March 13. This
contest is open to all sophomores,
juniors, and seniors. Further in-
formation may be had at the Speech
Office, 3211 Angell Hall.
All interested are cordially invited.
All music history, music literature,
and musicology students are required
to attend the recital of Yves Tinayre
on Monday, February 23, in the Lydia
Mendelssohn Theatre at 8:30 p.m.
Glen D. McGeoch
Economies 51 and 52: Make-up ex-
aminations in Ec. 51 and 52 will be
held Thursday, February 26, at 3:10
p.m. in Room 207 Ec. Bldg.
Biological Chemistry 111: Refund
slips may be obtained at the Stock-
room on Tuesday, Wednesday, and
Friday, 4:00-5:00 p.m. Each student
must call in person to receive his
refund slip.
M.E. 36: Assignments for Wednes-
day, February 25, Barnes, Chapter 4.
Notice: All University women en-
rolled in Volunteer Defense courses
must have eligibility cards, signed in
women's League, between the hours
of 3:00 and 5:00 any day this week
or next.
Graduate Students in Speech: All
applicants for advanced degrees in
Speech will be required to take the
qualifying examinations in Speech on
Friday, March 6, starting at 3:00
p.m. in room 4203 Angell Hall.
Concerts
Alec Templeton, Pianist, will be
heard in a special concert Thurs-
day, February 26, at 8:30 in Hill
Auditorium. Before intermission the
program will consist of numbers by
Handel, Bach, Chopin, Franck, and
Debussy. After intermission five
numbers composed by the performer
will be included. The program will
be supplemented by humorous and
satirical contributions, for which the
public address system will be utilized.
Reserved seat tickets may be pur-
chased at the offices of the Univer-
sity Musical Society in Burton Me-
morial Tower, at the following prices:
main floor 95c, first balcony 75c and
the top balcony 55c (including tax).
Charles A. Sink, President
Faculty Recital: Miss Thelma
Newell, a member of the faculty of
the School of Music of the Univer-
sity of Michigan, will present a vio-
lin recital at 8:30 Wednesday eve-
ning, February 25, in the Assembly
Hall of the Rackham Building. Miss
Helen Titus, Instructor of Piano,
will assist Miss Newell in a program
to include works of Beethoven,
Mozart and Hindemith.
Although the recital is open to the
public, small children will not be
admitted.
Faculty Concert: Paul Van Kat-
wijk, Dean of the School of Music
of Southern Methodist University,
will appear as guest pianist in a reci-
tal at 4:15 p.m. on Thursday, Febru-
ary 26, in the Assembly Hall of the
Rackham Building. The program will
include compositions by Brahms, Bee-
thoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, De-
bussy and Liszt, and will be open to
the public.
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represented by the work of Jean Paul
Slusser and Charles Culver, painters,
and of Mary Chase Stratton and
Grover Cole, potters. The Rackham
Galleries. Open daily 2-4 and 7-9
except Sunday through March 4. The
public is cordially invited to see this
important exhibition. No admission
charge.
Lectures
University Lecture: Yves Tinayre,
noted authority on vocal art, will be
heard in "Confessions of a Musical
Treasure Hunter" at 8:30 p.m. Mon-
day, February 23, in Lydia Mendels-
sohn Theater. His lecture is spon-
sored by the School of Music and is
open to the general public. Tickets
can be secured by calling at the office
of the School of Music.
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 Geology on Tuesday, Feb. 24, at
4:15 p.m. in the Rackham Amphi-
theater. The public is cordially in-
vited.
University Lecture: Professor Lau-
rence H. Snyder of Ohio State Uni-
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: Dr. Carl G.
Hartman, Professor of Physiology at
the University of Illinois, will lecture
on the subject, "Two Decades of Pri-
mate Studies and Their Influence
on Gynecological Thought and Prac-
tice" (illustrated), under the auspices
of the Department of Anatomy and
the Medical School, at 4:15 p.m. on
Tuesday, March 3, in the Rackham
Lecture Hall. The public is cordially
invited.
American Chemical Society Lee-
ture: Professor Albert Henne of the
Ohio State University will speak on
"Aliphatic Fluorides" on Wednesday,
February 25, at 4:15 p.m. in Room
303 Chemistry Building. The public
is invited.
Lecture: Dr. Rufus Jones, Chair-
man of the American Friends Service
Committee, will speak on "Construc-
tive Service Across a World in War-
time," in the Rackham Lecture Hall
on Wednesday, February 25, at 4:15
p.m., under the auspices of the Stu-
dent Religious Association.
Lecture: Dr. Ernest Scheyer of
Wayne University will give an illus-
trated lecture on "Chinese Art in the
Middle Ages" on Wednesday, Febru-
ary 25, at 7:30 p.m. at Lane Hall,
under the auspices of the Student
Religious Association.
Events Today
Varsity Glee Club: All glee c 1,
men are reminded that rehearsal
will begin at 3 o'clock this after-
noon. Usual informal dress for the
Hill Auditorium appearance.
international Center Program: The
Sunday evening program at the In-
ternational Center will be directed
toward commemmoration of George
Washington's Birthday. Supper at 6
o'clock. There will be a community
sing at 7 o'clock. Professor Verner
Crane will speak at 7:30 on "Some
Unusual Aspects in the Life of Geo-
rge Washington.") After the speech a
gift just received by the Center will
be disclosed.
Graduate Outing Club will meet
today at 2:30 p.m., northwest door,
Rackham. Program of winter sports.
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