PAGE' FOrR THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1942 ........ ....T.,.. ..... ____ I r n (ZIP Air4igau Patty 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. REPRESENTEDF OR NATIONAL ADVERT13ING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N.Y. CCAGo - BosTON - Los ANGELES - SAN FNAINcisco Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1941.42 Editorial Stafff n*Does Music Soothe The Savage Breast? By TOM THUMB GOOD MUSIC will do strange things to ordi- didn't even mind paying 45 cents for a beer and narily sensible people. By good music, I having the waitress remove the bottle from their mean the solid kind, table before they had finished. I was in Chicago last week-end, and headed in HE WAITRESSES were enjoying it, too. They the direction of Orchestra Hall to be in time to trucked to the tables. The hat-check girl was catch a 28-cent seat in the Family Gallery to bouncing to that wonderful music too. The hear Beethoven's First. On the way, while walk- perspiration was all over the faces of the men, ing down Randolph Street, I heard extremely but they kept playing loud and rhythmically. It eerie sounds emanating from a place called the was wonderful. Finally, they stopped playing. Garrick Stagebar. I examined a poster in front "Solid, eh?" said Smith, fanning himself with of the place and discovered that Stuff Smith his handkerchief. "It's cold here," said the and his six-piece combination were stationed drummer, and the band took an intermission. there. Immediately I forgot the difference be- A sailor, who was sitting next to me, told me tween Beethoven and Lucky Luciano, and the that Maurice Rocco was playing at the Capital Chicago Symphony might just as well have been Bar. So I walked to the Capital Bar to see what the Brooklyn Dodgers to me. it was like. Rocco plays the boogie woogie piano Stuff Smith was at the helm of his colored and he's plenty hot, except that the sound equip- band, and he plays the hottest electric fiddle ment isn't very good at the Capital and the beers ever heard by man or swing-crazed beast. Verily, are only two bits. he is the black Heifetz. After Rocco went off, Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five, another colored combination, SMITH was playing downstairs at the Garrick, came on. Everybody got to jumping there, too. and the small room, built to hold 100, must It was so crowded that you wouldn't think have been packed with about 250. There were there'd be room to jump, but there was. Three six to eight people sitting around each table, the sailors (yes, they were sober-everybody was top of which seemed about the size of a half- sober) started shouting and yelling and telling dollar. Standees lined the walls. I joined the Louie that he was solid-because verily he was. crowd, spellbound by the wonderful music. And The sailors soon became the center of attraction. it wasn't Debussy. They had rhythm and everybody knew it. But The music would bounce on the floor, then they weren't showing off-they just couldn't bounce on the roof and then bounce up and help it. Nobody could. When you hear music down inside your head. Everybody in the room like that, you've gotta jump. You can't control was thumping on the tables or pounding the the impulse. When it comes at you you jump floor with their feet. They weren't high school and bang your glass on the bar and even yell if kids, either. They looked like respectable busi- you've had a beer or two. ness men, for the most part. Some of the people Now, it's not that you're drunk. It's just that could be recsgnized as musicians, but most of one or two beers will release you from a few of them were obscure-looking everyday men and the primary inhibitions (I guess). But the music women. And they were jumping and thumping gets into your blood. and forgetting their dignity. I got to bed at 6 a.m., and my corpuscles were And Stuff Smith was playing all the strings beating in jive time all night. I could hear that of the violin at once. He made it sound like a music bouncing around in my head. trumpet, then like a clarinet and then like the There is no special point to this column. I am devil himself. The drummer was bouncing and not going to say that we should subject the Japs jumping and chewing his cud like drummers do. to this music, or Roosevelt. or that we should The audience, a motley lot if I ever saw one, cut out this music for the duration or that we were jumping and shrieking, like a pack of Sa- should ration it. I just felt like writing a column voy jitterbugs. They were so happy that they on it. Washington Mery-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN DAILY OFFICIALI1 BULLETIN GRIN AND BEAR IT (Continued from Page 2) the office of Naval Science and tics, North Hall. Tac- Emile Gel4 . Alvin Dann David Lgchenbruch Jay McCormickr Gerald E. Burns Hal Wilson . . Arthur Hill Janet Hiatt Grace Miller Virginia Mitchell Daniel H. Huyett James B. Collins Louise Carpenter Evelyn Wright . . . . Managing Editor . . . .Editorial Director City Editor . . Associate Editor Associate Editor . Sports Editor Assistant Sports Editor * . . .Women's Editor . Assistant Women's Editor . . . . Exchange Editor Business Staff . . . Business Manager . Associate Business Manager . Wornen's Advertising Manager . Women's Business Manager NIGHT EDITOR: GEORGE W. SALLADE The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. FDR Talk Lacks Tone Of Urgency . . ONE OF President Roosevelt's greatest quafities is his ability to pour oil on the troubled waters, to stop rumors and criticism while at the same time inspiring greater coop- eration. He demonstrated that ability once more Mon-. day night as his fireside talk-this time termed a report to the people-put at ease those who were left in doubt and confusion by the situation in the Far East. If the speech had any faults-there were very few in its careful phrasing and apt diction-it was in its failure to reach an absolute tone of urgency. The urgency was implied, but the lack of it in specific form left too much room for complacency. Roosevelt declared that if this nation is to win the war there must be no slowing of our productive processes-what he failed to say is that if this nation is going to keep from losing the war it must not only prevent slowing of the processes, it must hasten them. Otherwise the address was, admirable in what it accomplished. The President clarified the Phil- ippine situation, demonstrating almost beyond dispute the impossibility of relieving Mac- Arthur's brilliant defenders, and relieving the minds of those who did not know that there were American troops as well as planes in the Indies. He likewise laid proper stress on the need for uninterrupted production, tossed Russia a well- deserved bolquet, and drew a clearer map of the war's geography. All these things are praise- worthy and we suppose belong in a report to the people. The fact remains that this report to the people lacked something essential. It lacked the inspi- rational force that will make the American peo- ple realize that they are behind an eight-ball thatrcan be moved only when the lassitude of complacency is gone. --Hale Champion FreI'f c WAr- .Guilt Trial AFarce*w T HE GHOSTS of the men who led T, France's Third Republic-Daladier, Blum, Gamelin, La Chambre and Jacomet, have been politically entombed for nearly eighteen months-are walking again at a farcical war guilt trial'in Riom, but they present their most ghastly side to the American State Department. While these men are accused of- France's downfall by a Vichy court,swhileda Vichy judge is suppressing Daladier's hints of Nazi interest in the trial, the United States Ambassador to Vichy is still "seeking data" on the puppet Pe- tain's program on furnishing arms to the Axis in North Africa and Japan. Even the State De- partment has told Washington correspondents that France has been aiding the North African armies of Germany and Italy. And even the State Department could repeat nothing more evasive than Vichy Ambassador Henri Haye's bland statement that his government had made "no commitments" to Japan in regard to Mada- gascar. FT-rTE OUTCOME of this Nazi justice at Riom WASHINGTON-By all odds the most impor- tant thing the American people have got to understand about this war-and understand it quickly-is that the Axis is gambling everything on 1942, while the United Nations are talking about victory in 1944. And the danger-which few people seem to realize-is that desperate, ruthless dictators, willing to stake everything they have, including long range-submarine attacks and landing forces 6;000 miles from home, may conceivably be suc- cessful in 1942. After 1942, Axis dictators know, the slow- moving, lumbering industrial giant of the United States will swing into action. After 1942, for the Axis, it will be too late. This realization is why some Washington exec- utives now are advocating more .troop transports and merchant vessels which can be finished this year, rather than battleships to be finished in three years. That is why an all-important back- stage debate now goes on between the Navy and Win-the-War-Now boys about switching tur- bines from 1944 battleships to 1942 troopships. That is also why the WIN-THE-WAR-NOW boys favor a stiff offensive. As Secretary Stim- son said last week, carrying the war to the en- emy's waters keeps their submarines out of ours. Secret (:?) Map JOE EASTMAN, :of the Interstate Commerce Commission, was holding a hearing on con- struction of a badly-needed pipe-line for crude oil from Wichita Falls, Texas, to Savannah, Ga. Vincent Shinkle, of Trans-American Pipe-line, was holding forth. He produced maps showing the mid-continent field this pipe-line would traverse; finally came to a map showing the U. S. naval and air bases in the Atlantic area which this pipe-line would supply. Suddenly, up jumped Brigadier-General Wal- ter Pyron, stroke to the hearing desk, ripped the map from the book. "That map contains military secrets," he ex- claimed. "Where did you get it?" "From the National Geographic Society," re- lack of commitment to Japan or Germany can therefore be taken for the same value as the musical comedy courtroom scene at Riom. These men of Vichy, with the senile Petain a possible exception, are not men of republican France. They are following a master who began the same way in a courtroom after the Reichstag fire, and their ultimate end is the same. They not only intend to dishonor the men who led pre- war France, but they also seem to be aiming at the discredit of the entire concept of democracy wherever it has been applied. LEADERS such as Blum or Daladier are not fit candidates for martyrdom. Through their shortsightedness and incompetency they made France a wheezing victim to. Germany's per- fectly-conditioned striking force. But at least they were acting as Frenchmen, free to follow the dictates of their own judgment. If Leon Blum betrayed France because he was too ideal- istic to put her into arms, he is more to be trusted than Francis Darlan, who seems to have the inclinition to betrav France and the entire By Lichty plied Mr. Shinkle. "They have printed more than a million-all approved by the Army." Interesting and irrelevant coincidence: Before be was recently commissioned in the Army, Brigadier-General Pyron was a high official of the Gulf Oil Company. Big Oil Companies Qppose IT SO HAPPENS that all the big oil companies are fighting this new pipe-line. The proposed pipe-line will be a common carrier. In other words, like a railroad, it will carry anybody's oil. To get the significance of this, it must be remembered that pipe-lines are the means by which the big oil companies control prices and dominate the industry. A major part of U. S. oil fields are pioneered and developed by inde- pendent wildcatters. But after developing a field, they can only market their oil through pipe-lines, and those are in the hands of the big companies. Even the new pipe-line from Baton Rouge to Greensboro, N. C., to be used for gasoline, is owned 50-50 by Shell and Standard. But the proposed new line from Wichita Falls, Tex., to Georgia will carry crude$ oil from any company. Dewey And Communists Some members of New York's Board of Higher Education are convinced that crime-crusader Tom Dewey has made a political deal with the Communists as a step toward being elected Gov- ernor of New York this fall, For some time, Communist teachers have been a headache to New York's four city colleges- Queens, Hunter, Brooklyn and City of Nee York. So a committee consisting of Ira Hirschmann and Lawson Stone, son of Chief Justice Stone, was appointed to give suspected Communists a fair trial, and if guilty, oust them. Harc est clamorer for ousting the Communist teachers was Charles Tuttle, active in Republi- can politics, an opponent of FDR in the 1930 race for the governorship of New York, and a strong Dewey man. Tuttle, a member of the Board of Higher Education, has constantly at- tacked the Board for .not taking drastic action against the Communists long ago. He even wanted to fire a big bunch at once, The other day, however, Tuttle approached Chairman Hirschmann of the special committee on Communist teachers and said: "I've been talking to Mr. X who wants to settle all this Communist business. And I think he's got a fine basis for a settlement." "Why is it your job to settle this?" asked Hirschmann. "Well, I couldn't refuse to negotiate, could I?" When Hirschmann reported this to Lawson Stone, the latter's comment was: "Dewey has made a deal with the Communists." Since then, Dr. Bella Dodd, representative of l the Teachers' Union, has been negotiating with Hirschmann and Stone regarding Communist teachers who face trial, and proposing that a few of the more vehement teachers be ousted and all the others have the charges against them dismissed. After she made the proposal, Hirschmann and Stiant -nnnnd this, nption Detroit Armenian Women's Club Scholarship: The Detroit Armenian Women's Club offers a scholarship 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 Students, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; No course may be elected for credit after the end of the third week. Saturday, February 28, is therefore the last date on which new elections may be approved. The willingness of an individual instruc- tor to admit a student later does not affect the operation of this rule. E. A. Walter Attention of Hopwood contestants is called to the paragraph on page 9 of the Hopwood bulletin relative to petitions: "In particular or irregular cases the committee may, upon peti- tion, waive parts of these rules, but no petition will be received by the committee after March 1, 1942." R. W. Cowden Certificates of Eligibility; All par- ticipants and chairmen of activities are reminded that first semester eli- gibility certificates are good only un- til March 1. Certificates for the sec- ond semester must be secured before that date. 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. Swimming - Women Students: There will be no open swimming for women at the Union Pool on Thurs- day evening, February 26. Academic Notices English 159, Sec. 2: Make-up for the final examination will be given Thursday, February 26, from 3-5, in Room 2225 A.H. Paul Mueschke Political Science 1: Make-up ex- amination for students who were ab- sent from the final examination will be given Thursday, February 26, 3-5 p.m. in room 2203 Angell Hall. H. M. Dorr History Make-Up: The make-up examinations in all history courses will be given from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., in Room C, Haven Hall, Friday, Feb- ruary 27. All students taking an examination must present written permission from the instructor in the course. Geology 11: Make-ups for all ex- aminations (bluebooks and final) in Geology 11 for last semester will be held Saturday, Feb, 28 at 2:00 p.m. in Room 2054 N.S. There will be no other examinations given. Psychology 91 makeup will be given Thursday, February 26, at 3:00 pm. in Room 2125 N.S. Geology Lectures: Today, 4:15 p.m. The Petroleum Geologist, Room 2054 Natural Science. Thursday, Feb. 26: 11:00 a.m. Some Frontiers of Petroleum Geology, Room 2054 N.S. 4:15 p.m. Paleo- geology, Room 2054 Natural Science. 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 this evening in the A,-,amb~v Hall of the Roacrham n Bild-, I ' , 5 : ,_ . .'.t \ /' , . , t . ,y j' , , " \ ti . . "'_ . . : ' 4 ;'' ,k 5. r 4 i ' ,! .p . ' r > s } :r ' , a fi t ' , f" a r.A