THE, MICHIGANDAILY FRIDAY. OM It. 1442 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, 1942-4 3 .. THE MICHI.: GAN DATTI':+ .a~ccawa a f l ala V4L , u "I TOO DISCOUNTED AMERICA" DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL. ADVERTaiNG flY National Advertising Service, Inc. . Cege Pablishers Representative 420 G O I LAE. , NEW YORK. N.Y. CHICAGO * 5oSToR * Los AmnGELS " SAN FmAacsco Editorial Staff Homer Swander Morton Mintz. Will Sapp .., George W. Sallad6 Charles Thatcher . Bernard Hendel Barbara deFries . Myron- Dann .. . . Managing Editor . . 4. Editorial Director . . . . . City Editor . . . . Associate Editor * . . Associate Editor . . . . Sports Editor . . . . Women's Editor . . Associate Sports Editor Business Staff° Edward J. Ferlberg Fred M. Ginsberg Mary Lou Curran Jane Lindberg. Jamnes Daniels . . . . Business Manager . Associate Business Manager . Women's Business Manager . Women's Advertising Manager Publications Sales Analyst Telephone 23-24-1 NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT PREISKEL Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. .. w Aiffie . 74.4 .4 r' ri 4 '" _ , r"y.rw. Irv "i.5:{:, ' ''c. ..J' 1 r'S rn r, - Vt .. (n^NtY .Afyq'f :=ld? i. "' x ;'. ,_,,. " °"fa.tr., nc a« + ve0 ",e.+.re.. Rte/ 1 '14 i FR "", j F { MA+.v^. a . ""'H'4! <4. " J . ' , FRIDAY, OCT. 16, 1942 VOL. LIII No. 11 All notices for the Daily Official Bul- letin are to 'be sent to the Office of the President in typewritten form by 3:30 p.m. of the day preceding its publica- tion, except on Saturday when the no- tices should be submitted by 11:30 a.m. Notices Protection of University Property Against Theft: Whenever it becomes known that property has been stolen or is missing, notice should be given with utmost promptness at the Busi- ness Office, Room 1, University Hall. This applies to articles owned by the institution or owned privately. For the protection of property it is important that doors and windows be locked, inside doors as well as out- side doors, when rooms are to be left unoccupied even for a brief period. The building custodians cannot be responsible for conditions after the hours when they are on duty or when persons with keys to buildings un- lock doors and leave them unlocked. It is desirable that department heads make a careful check two or three times a year of all keys to quarters under their charge, to make sure that keys have not been lost and are not in the hands of persons no longer re- quiring their use. It is strictly con- trary to University rules to have duplicate keys made or to lend keys issued for personal use. A reward of $50 is offered to any person for information that directly or indirectly leads to the apprehen- sion of thieves on University prem- ises. Shirley W. Smith To Members of the Faculty, Staff and Student Body: Attention of ev- eryone is called to the Lost and Found department of the Business Office, Room 1, University Hall. In- quiry concerning lost articles should be made promptly at the above men- tioned office. Articles found on the campus and in University buildings should be turned over immediately. Those articles not called for within 60 days will be surrendered to the finder. Shirley W. Smith To All Departments: Please notify Mr. Peterson in the Business Office the number of Faculty Directories needed in your department. Herbert G. Watkins, Assistant Secretary Choral Union Ushers: The follow- ing men please report at Hill Audi- torium box office today, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., for Main Floor assignments: Robert Aldrich, Fred J. Bareis, Jack B. Batchelor, James S. Bawer, 4ERARYEo. ROUND 18-19 DRAFT: Teen Age Bill Must Have Quick Passage" PLANS for lowering the draft age from 20 to 18 years are being rushed to- ward completion. This action, long expected in Washington, is one which should be carried through with the utmost of haste. That the move is a necessary one is apparent, for it has the backing of Stimson, General Marshall, chief of staff, Admiral King, commahder of the fleet, and other men in the military "know." To prolong its passage and hin- der the drafting of the 1,500,000 men of 18 or 19 is hindering a move which, in the words of the President, "may shorten the war with annihilat- ing new offensives." OPPOSITION to the bill has been so vigorous ' that it was tacitly'agreed among members of Congress to postpone the proposal until after elections, but the matter appears now to have come to a head and shows prospects of going through. Even Rep. Andrew J. May, chairman of the House Military Affairs committee, previously emphatic in expressions of disapproval, has be- gun to view the idea with less: reluctance since receiving official word fromr the White House:2 Many, who only a month ago told the country that there was no need for quick action in draf- ting the 18-19 age group, or in drafting married men for another;18months, used Selective Service figures, he said, to show that an army of 6,300,000 could be raised without touching these groups. The figures he used, however, included a large number of disease-ridden men and a great many essential defense workers that the Services do not count on at present. Since that time it has been increasingly evi- dent that May's information was inaccurate and a little behind the times, too, since married men have already been drafted in many communities. May, you remember, was the member of Congress who earlier this year predicted the war would be over in 1942. THE FACT REMAINS, however, that the teen- age men ARE needed and needed now to fur- ther our part in the war effort. The importance of sending men under 25 years of age overseas into combat was emphasized not only by the President, but, upon numerous occasions, by Secretary Stimson because of their superiority of fighting ability. In the last war it was only after the men under 20 years of age were drafted that events took a turn for the better, and if, as Stimson has as- serted, "they are better soldiers," then by all means the age limit should be lowered. His state- ment that teen-age men are peculiarly well adapted to military training and that their "flair for soldiering" is exceptional compared with other age groups would seem to leave no choice in the matter, for, above all, the winning of the war should be the primary consideration. HE LOWERING of the draft age appearing in- evitable and essential to the quickest winning of the war, it is to be hoped that action on the bill be obtained as soon as possible. --Marion Ford yd RatUher Be Right By SAMUEL GRAFTON NEW YORK- I look with favor on the sug- gestion that Germany's real reason for manacling British prisoners is to stop Commando raids. There has been something mysterious about this business from the start. The Germans have been much more angry than the offense of which they complained justified, the temporary tying-up of a few German captives during the heat of an English raid on a Channel island. The anger of the Nazis has been suspiciously theatrical; their selection of Commandos captured at Dieppe to wear shackles has been very pointed. But now the German radio comes°out with it frankly: Germany, says the Berlin broadcaster, does not indulge in "red Indian raids" on Britain, and so Germany simply must do something to lead the British back to "a decent mode of warfare." So, if for a moment, you thought the Nazis had finer feelings which had been outraged by the binding of some of their men, lay the thought aside. White is still white, and black is still black. It is fear which moves the Nazis. THE ENGLISH SENSE IT Instinctively,. a number of Englishmen seem to have caught on, even in advance of the German broadcast. The London Times has denounced Britain's retaliatory manacling of German war prisoners. It says, as quoted by the New York Times, that there is only one answer to Nazi barbarism, and that is "military . ., waging of relentless war." --And Lord Strabolgi, the Labor peer, echoes the conservative London Times: The only answer to Germany is to defeat the German armies on the battlefield. Hitler's shackling of Commandos, must, I think, be viewed as a lame effort to get the war back into the hooey stage. He has almost given that up lately. His recent speech omitted a num- ber of his standard vaudeville turns, his recital of the injustices of Versailles, and his terrible description of his own anger, the latter being a favorite performance, for Hitler enjoys scaring himself by revealing how frightfully vexed he is. No, it was a "straight" speech, a sober and thoughtful account of a war underway, by one of the participants. It was Hitler's most important speech of the war, because it was the first in which he admitted, by tone and implication, as well as by word, that war, real war, in the sense of long and dubious struggle, actually existed. BACK TO THE POLITICAL I like to play with the thought that the shack- ling business is a reversion to type, Hitler's effort to get back to those pleasanter days, for him, when he pounded the desk before poor Schusch- nigg, and roared at Henderson, and made the radio rock with his surrealist imagery about the extent of his wrath, and won his greatest victor- ies by foaming at the mouth. One can almost hear him: "I'll stop those Com- mando raids!" and almost see him, issuing the .order to shackle the prisoners of Dieppe. It is actually an attempted come-back by a master political strategist, by one of whom it is still true that he won his most profitable victories before he used his armies. Only this is 1942, and nobody seems scared. And the British, showing them- selves at their best, reply.impudently by actually raising a moral issue over even retaliatory shack- ling, and they urge that the thing be settled by Hitler's defeat. WHEN A SHOUT WON A COUNTRY Is there no way, then, to stop the Commandos? That must be the thought with which Hitler is living. Surely, some clever stroke can be found. He shackles his prisoners. In the midst of war, he tries to start an incongruous debate about how he can hurt the enemy, if the enemydoesn't look out, sheer pretense that he is not doing all he can. It is an effort to turn the calendar back to 1938, when an outcry could win him a country, when a couple of roars could give him half a continent. Only the bombing of London has intervened, and clear-headed Englishmen say that, of course, the answer to the shackling of Commandos is quite clear; it is more Commando raids. Some day we may get, in detail, the story of ,the psychological horrors which will afflict the Nazis as the prospect of their defeat changes from a fanciful far-off image to dull, instant cer- tainty. They will pull more pillars down than Samson did. The shackling business seems a first gesture along this line. As from a great distance, we can see the man who profited so much from our lack of realism, come to the agonizing conclu- sion that the world is, incredibly, a real world at last, one in which there are no longer charmed lives nor mystic privileges. (Copyright, 1942, N. Y. Post Syndicate) DRAMA 'Carnival in Flanders.' In French with English subtitles. At Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. With just the slightest trace of Hollywood sit- uations and some of the most expert and techni- cally advanced photography yet seen in French films, Carnival in Flanders is pretty much what an American audience expects of a French com- edy: plenty of good loud laughs in individual scenes and enough sly cracks all the way through to keep even a college student interested. The story tells of the Spanish invasion of a little Flemish town in the seventeenth century and the farcial manner in which the good house- wives of the town save it from loot and destruc- tion. To do this, they resort to the trick of pre- tending that the Mayor of their town is dead, and go into 'mourning' as the Spanish army enters thus gaining the appropriate respect and sym- pathy. The Mayor, something of a French Frank Mor- gan, spends the better part of the picture in bed pretending he is dead, and everybody has a good time except, of course, the Mayor. The acting is down to earth and real, with a minimum of corn, and should make a lot of American actors stop using Kreml and get down to learning how to act. Particularly good are Louis Jouvet as the priest and the actress taking the Dart of the Mayor's wife. James Beesley, Gardon J. Bird, Jos- eph Cabot, John R. Corney, John Cul- bertson, John D. Darroch, Anthony Drake, Robert Duff, Jerome L. Fecht- ner, Robert A. Gregg, Edmund J. Grossberg, Richard Hanau, Ken Huff, P. T. Lahti, Alfred S. Leiman, Murray Lilly, John MacKinnon, Murry F. Markland, Leonard E. Miller, Jack Montgomery, Thau Morrison, Charles Murphy, Hugh Norton, Paul Parker, Eduardo M. Perou, C. W. Redden, Harry Schagrin, Lawrence Scott, Wm. *R. Sheehy, Harvey L. Schulman, r Howard Siefen, William Siegel, Peter A. S. Smith, Bruce Suthergreen, Har- old E. Warner, Robert Warner, John Zugich. Edward S. Warren . Choral Union Ushers: The follow- ing men please report at Hill Audi- torium box office today, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., for First Balcony assignments: Charles Braithwaite, Roland W. Brandt, Harold B. Coleman, Robert G. Craig, Milton O. Deneras, Coral L. Driester, Fred D. Dornblaser, Douglas G. Davis, Bernard 0. Feldman, James Fredrickson, Harry F. Gilmore, Jos- iah A. McHale, Burt Hendricks, Jack Jacobson, Arthur W. Katz, Charles Koethen, Ernest Laetz, Murray M. Lipschitz, Bryer Maximilian, Leonard M. Mendelson, Earl Miller, Harvey Miller, Olin Oeschger, David Pro- tetch, Richard B. Rogeis, Sydney R. Shell, Oliver Smith, Lawrence P. Tourkow, Edgar Vaughan, William J. Vaugn, David G. Whitcomb, Freder- ick F. Woodward. Edward S. Warren German Table for Faculty Mem- bers organizing luncheon, in the Founders' Room, Michigan Union, Monday, October 19, at 12:10 p.m. Members of all departments are cor- dially invited. Reservations to be phoned to the German office, ex- tension 788, by Friday noon. Faculty, College of Engineering: There will be a meeting of the Faculty today at 4:15 p.m., in Room 348, West Engineering Building. Routine business will be the order of the meeting. A. H. Lovell, Secretary Faculty, College of Literature, Sci- ence, and The Arts: Instructors are requested to report absences of sophomores, juniors, and seniors to 1220 Angell Hall on the buff cards which are now being dis- tributed to departmental offices. Green cards are provided for report- ing freshman absences. All freshmen attendance reports should be made on the green cards and sent directly to the office of the academic coun- selors, 108 Mason Hall. Please note especially the regula- tions concerning three-week ab- sences, and the time limits for drop- ping courses. The rules relating to absences are printed on the attend- ance cards. They may also be found on Page 48 of the current Announce- ment of our Colllege. E. H. Walter, Assistant Dean For underheated or overheated rooms, call the Buildings and Grounds Department, Extension 317. Do not in any case open the windows. Help in the war effort by conserving fuel. E. C. Pardon German Departmental Library, 204 University Hall, schedule for the Fall Term: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- day, Friday; 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.; Sat- urday: 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Student Identification Cards will be given out in Room 2, University Hall today. These cards must be presented at the gate for the football game on October 17 and for all games hereafter. Certificates of Eligibility cannot be given out in the Dean of Students' Office on October 16 or 17 because of fraternity pledging. To Deans, Directors, Department Heads and Others Responsible for Payrolls: Payrolls for the Fall Term are ready for approval. This should be done at the Business Office before October 20 if the checks are to be issued on October 31. Edna Geiger Miller, Payroll Clerk Senior Mechanical Engineers: Mr. M. H. Campbell, Representative of The Standard Oil Company of Ohio, will interview Senior Mechanical En- gineering students this noon for pros- pective positions with that organiza- tion. Interview schedule is posted on the Bulletin Board ,at Room 221 West Engineering Building. Senior Mechanical, Chemical & ,Metallurgical Engineers: American Locomotive Company, Schenectady, N. Y., Representative, Mr. L. L. Park, will interview Senior Engineers of the above groups on Tuesday, October 20, for prospective positions with that Company. Interviews will be held in Room to teachers and to all interested in business and other professional posi- tions, and is open to seniors, gradu-. ate students and staff -members in- terested in full-time work. Only one registration will be held, -and everyone who wants employment at the end of the February, June, or August term is urged to apply now. There is no charge for registration this week. After this week, however, there will be a late registration fee of $1.00. It shtuld be noted that everyone who is a candidate for a Teacher's Certificate is required by the School of Education to be regis- tered in the Bureau before the cer- tificate can be granted. University Bureau of Appoint- ments & Occupational Infor- mation. Applications for the Hillel Scholar- ship of $150 will be received at the Foundation through noon of October 23. Forms may be obtained at the Foundation and further information may be had by calling 3779. Lectures University Lecture: Dr. Siegfried Giedion of Zurich, Switzerland, Nor- ton Lecturer at Harvard University, will lecture on the subject, "The American Spirit of Invention, " (l- lustrated) under the auspices of the College of Architecture and Design, today at 4:15 p.m. in the Lecture Room of the Architecture Building. The public is cordially invited. i Academic Notices Class in Physics 203 will meet as usual today. E. F. Baker Actuarial Review Class in Algebra: A meeting for the organization of a review class in algebra for students interested in writing Part I of the Actuarial Examinations will be held in Room 3010, Angell Hall, today at 1:00 p.m. C. J. Nesbitt History Make-up Examinations will be held Friday, October 23, 4 to 6 in Room C, Haven Hall. Students must obtain written permission of the in- structor before Oct. 21, and sign in the office of the History Department, 119 Haven Hall. Preliminary examinations for the doctorate id English will be given ac- cording to the following schedule: December 2: American Literature With European Backgrounds. December 5: English Literature, 1700-1900. December 9: English Literature, 1550-1700. December 12: English Literature from Beginnings to 1550. All examinations will be given in 3217 A. H., 9:00-12:00 a.m. All those intending to take the examinations should notify Professor N. E. Nelson as soon as possible. To all students of Latin and Greek: Phi Tau Alpha, the University classi- cal society, will hold a brief organ- izational meeting on Monday, Octo- ber 19, at 4:15 p.m. in Room 2014, Angell Hall. All former members and faculty are requested to be present, and those interested in membership are cordially invited. Concerts Choral Union Concert Tickets: A limited number of tickets for the sea- son or for individual concerts, are still on sale over the counter at the offices of the University Musical So- ciety in Burton Memorial Tower. On the days of the respective performan- ces a limited number of standing room tickets will also be placed on sale, if necessity requires. Charles A. Sink, President University Musical Society Events Today The Observatory public evening series will begin this evening with open house at the Angell Hall Ob- servatory from 8:00 to 10:00. The moon will be shown through the tel- escopes. Children must be accompa- nied by adults. The bell chamber of the Burton Memorial Tower will be open to visi- tors interested in observing the play- ing of the carillon from 12 noon to 12:15 p.m. today at which time Prof. Percival Price, University Carilloneur, will present an informal program. Ushering for Art Cinema League: Everyone interested in ushering for "Carnival In Flanders", being given tonight and Saturday, Qct. 16 and 17, sign up immediately in the Under- graduate Office of the League. Sign- up sheets are posted on the bulletin board. Episcopal Students: Tea will be served for Episcopal students and their friends by the Canterbury Club this afternoon, 4:00 to 5:15, in Harris Hall, State and Huron streets. Westminster Guild: Treasure hunt at the Presbyterian church tonight beginning at 8:30. All students *el- come. Refreshments. Coming Events Research Club: The first meeting of the Research Club for the current TY.. Will a hut i a Anhi+haa. WASHINGTON- The long-smoul- dering row over whether the nation should build quick new sponge iron mills and also develop its isolated and Far Western iron deposits will flare into the open in Congress next week. ON ONE SIDE of the row are Far Western and Southern Congress- men, plus Secretary Ickes, plus Re- public Steel. On the other side are most of the big steel companies and their friends in the War Production Board who are suspected of not want- ing the iron and steel industry to shift away from big blast furnace production in the Pittsburgh, Youngs- town, Cleveland areas. The row has many other ramifica- tions, one of them being whether the $1-a-year men represent themselves or the Government. Another is why we have a desperate steel shortage when millions of tons of iron ore lie untouched in the Far West, where it could be developed by the cheap, quick sponge iron process. The ques- tion is not entirely geographical, however, for sponge iron plants can be built anywhere. Sponge vs. Blast Furnaces The two opposing officials are W. A. Hauck of WPB's Steel Facilities Unit, and S. O. Hobart of the Blast Furnace Unit. They oppose sponge iron as an "unsound innovation." HOWEVER, the Boykin' Committee wants to examine them closely as to whether they are not chiefly op- posed to breaking the hold of certain big steel companies, which don't want competition from low grade ores, de- veloped' by a cheaper process throughout the country. Also the Committee may want to probe into the fact that Hauck was formerly an accountant with Bethle- hem Steel, while Hobart was Presi- dent of the Troy, N. Y., Furnace Cor- poration, makers of blast furnaces and coke ovens. The new sponge iron process offers , competition to the blast furnace process. Republic wants to establish a HI, FELLA: OSU 'Lantern' Is Roused, Rankled, Wrathful About This Simply Miserable Trophy Situation (Not to be tedious, but the editors and I agree that this editorial from the Ohio State Lantern is a much better statement of the case against the Ohio State Lantern than yesterday's column , . started negotiations with the Michigan Daily for the exchange of plaques with the front-page rep- lica of each paper going to the other school. On .