P'AGE1FOUR THE MkICHGAN DAIlY WEDNE9SDAY, OCT. 14, 1942 d'TI Fifty-Third Year 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 regular University year, and every morning except Mon- day and Tuesday during the 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 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 carrier $4.25, by mail $5.25. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1942-43 REPRESUNTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTIING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publisbers Representative 420 MAD1SON AVE. NEW YoRx. N.Y. CHICAGo . BOSTON " Los ANGELES * SAN FRANCISCO BACKBONE OF THE NEW ORDER IN EUROPE. Homer Swander Morton Mintz . Will Sapp George W. Sallad6 Charles Thatcher, Bernard Hendel Barbara deFries Myron Dann . . Editorial Staff . . . . *Managing Editor . Editorial Director . . . . . City Editor Associate Editor . Associate Editor . . . . . Sports Editor . . . . . Women's Editor Associate Sports Editor Business Staff Edward J. Perlberg Business Manager Fred M. Ginsberg Mary Lou Curran Jane Lindberg . James Daniels . Associate Business Manager Women's Business Manager Women's Advertising Manager Publications Sales Analyst IWERRYEGO* B y D RE W W ASHINGTON-Those who con- tend that only military and naval men should run the war, and that Congress is interfering with the war effort, should study the report of the House Appropriations Committee, which last week voted out a 14-bil- lion-dollar naval appropriation bill, with not one dollar provided for bat- tleships. This was a big backstage triumph for certain far-sighted Con- gressmen, led by Senator Brewster of Maine. For four years, Brewster has vigor- ously fought the battleship and de- manded that the Navy build more airplanes-only to be overruled, until now, by the admirals. When the 1938 naval authorization bill came up it contained the huge total of $100,000,000 for three new battleships plus a provision that the Navy could have no more than 3,000 planes. Senator Brewster, then in the House of Representatives, vigorously opposed. He contended that the Navy should have more than 3,000 planes, certainly should not be limited. He also argued that battleships were out of date. BUT ADMIRAL LEAHY, then Chief of Naval Operations, disagreed. He insisted that the battleship was not obsolete. He insisted so vigor- ously that the Naval Affairs Com- mittee sided with him and voted the authorization. "I'll bet you that not one of these battleships ever will be build," Sena- tor Brewster told Leahy, and wrote a separate minority report regarding both battleships and airplanes. When the bill got to the floor of Congress, Brewster also staged a bat- tle for more naval airplanes-though the admirals insisted on limiting the number to 3,000. Brewster fought so stubbornly that finally Representa- tive Vinson of Georgia, charge of the Naval Authorization Bill, suggested to Brewster: "Let's compromise this thing. In- stead of making the bill read 'not more than 3,000 aircraft,' let's make it read 'not less than 3,000 aircraft'." So the bill was passed that way. USS Kentucky BREWSTER and Leahy have re- mained good friends, the Senator having a great admiration for the Admiral, and the Admiral being frank enough to tell friends, "How wrong I was about the battleship." But the other day when the Tru- man Committee, of which Brewster is a member, visited a certain Atlan- tic port, they saw there the battle- ship Kentucky, seventeen per cent completed. This was one of the three new ships voted for in the 1938 bill. She was anchored in the harbor, i. (Continued from Page 2) 19. For further information, call at Room B-47 East Engineering or tele- phone 4121, Extension 2113. Get your application in now before it is too late for this program. German 211 (Gothic) will meet during the Fall Term from 7:00 to 9:00 p. m. each Wednesday in room 308 Library. N. L. Willey Math. 112, Theory of Equations, Beginning Thursday, this class will meet in Room 220 West Engineering Bldg. R. M. Thrall Program in International Studies: Students who have enrolled, or who JIL> Pen DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN 1 [ ' The Pointed Telephone 23-24-1 NIGHT EDITOR: CHARLOTTE CONOVER ' Editorials published in The Michigan Daily 'f are written by members of The Daily staff h S i r"c .. : r ."',: and represent the views of the writers only. "-____ .. . "a " . r_.._ . ! * rP... . . -' .r.+r~i. ...... '. .. r. ui u :h "f«.vi . 4-,+- SOME RAPID ACTION: Manpower Corps - A Long Step Toward Full Student Participation In War Effort T WOULD HAVE BEEN a hard job to convince almost anyone that student leadership and initiative could ever amount to anything on a campus as large as ours. And very few are convinced today. But the Student War Board, by its swift and unprecedented action Monday night establish- ing the Manpower Mobilization Corps, took a long stride toward proving that students can and will take important responsibility on their shoulders, at their own initiative. Greatly to its credit, The Student War Board avoided many mistakes which, in our elders, have hampered the national war effort. For example, it insisted that there will be no campus "dollar-a-year" men in key positions in the Manpower Corps by providing that the top administrators must drop other extra-curricular activities. ALSO, it selected a man to head the Corps who (we know from personal experience) is effici- OUT OF STEP: Shirkers Of PEM Are Hurting Themselves THERE ARE ALWAYS a few who are out of step with any system, regard- less of its merit. PEM, as we all know, is compulsory for every male student on campus. The fact that it is com- pulsory is not for the benefit of the Physical Edu- cation Department but for the male student pop- ulation and, directly, for the nation. Yet, becausef PEM is a requirement there are some students who are attempting to test its rigidity. It is needless to reiterate yesterday's article on the PEM program by stating that drastic penalty steps will be taken against those who continue to dodge the requirement. If you are failing to at- tend classes or belong to that small group which has failed to register for the program, then you can be catalogued as a shirker to our war effort. We college students, can't do too much right now to help win the war. The least we can do is make ourselves physically fit for what we shall soon be facing, and if we do not make every ef- fort along this line, we are not contributing the most fundamental and simple thing that we can. We harm ourselves by not being physically fit, and we definitely undermine the successful prosecution of the war. Our country cannot wage a winning fight if its men are not fit. By refusing to take advantage of the University's program, established only for our own good, we are posi- tively guilty of being unpatriotic as well as plain, downright lazy. Our PEM program is perhaps the finest in the nation, and certainly the finest in the Midwest. Michigan was one of the first to adopt such a prograw A, and it has been a basis for the estab- lishment of similar programs at other schools. Michigan's facilities are superior to all others, and the Michigan plan of using all members of the athletic coaching staff, intramural coaches and physical education men is ideal in that it provides superior instruction and supervision. Lt. Tom Hamilton, head of the Navy's physical fit- v~oc