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THE MICHIGAN DAITY
TUESDAY, OCT. 20. 1942
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FUSS AND FURY:
Administration Is Late
InU-Ms War Effort
M ICHIGAN newspapers are making
much to-do over what on the surface
appears to be the simple creation of a new com-
mittee by the Board of Regents.
The fuss and fury is justified.
Behind the naming of this "War Policies"
Committee is a long-smouldering dissatisfaction
over the University's war attitude to date.
Students, faculty members and Regents have
placed a sizeable'share of the blame for our
inadequate contribution to the war effort and
the apathy among students-matched in few
other schools--on President Ruthven's own
doorstep.
IT IS A FACT that President Ruthven has not
inspired a vigorous fighting spirit.
His failure to do so was most apparent in his
speech to the class of 1946.
When the president of a university addresses
an incoming freshman class in these times,
those freshmen should leave the auditorium
inspired with a faith in the cause of democracy
and with the absolute conviction that ALL our
efforts must be directed to winning the war.
THIS is not what happened in Hill Auditorium
Sept. 28.
The President, while sincere and evidently con-'
vinced himself of the need to win the war, did
not stimulate spirit and hope and faith in the
freshmen.
It was the realization of this truth, in our
opinion, which precipitated the rapid-fire
events of these- last few days-the student-
initiated Manpower Mobilization Corps, the
faculty all-out war petition and the new Re-
gential Committee.
W E BELIEVE that the creation of the War
Committee and its immediate, enthusiastic
encouragement of the Manpower Corps are posi-,
ive indications that the University of Michigan
is at last going to war wholeheartedly.
The Committee's apparent intention to be
completely open to all win-the-war ideas is re-
freshing and so is the speed with which it has
tackled its difficult job.
The resulting alignment is rather amazing,
judging by University tradition. Vigorously
pushing an aggressive University policy are
students, faculty members and Regents. And
the Administration now appears ready to join
hands.
HIS is as it should be-as it should have been
ten months ago.
-Homer Swander
Morton Mintz
Will Sapp
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B y D RE W P EA RS O N
WASHINGTON- One war plant in which the
President was particularly interested on his re-
cent tour of the country was the Higgins shipyard
in New Orleans, which turns out the famous
landing boats used by the U.S. Marines in the
Solomon Islands.
Higgins' proposed yard for building big freight-
ers was stopped by the Maritime Commission.
But his yard for building small boats has contin-
ued in full swing, and the President expressed
amazement and pleasure as he drove between
rows of machines.
Beside him sat famous Andrew Jackson Higg-
ins, pioneer small boat builder. On the other side
sat Rear Admiral Frank T. Leighton, commander
of the 8th Naval District.
As they drove through the yard, a superinten-
dent handed Higgins a strange tube made of
wood, a yard long and six inches in diameter.
Handing it to Roosevelt, Higgins said:
"This is what the airplanes of the future will
be made of, Mr. President."
Roosevelt examined it curiously. It was ,made
of thin strips of wood, almost reeds woven to-
gether and coveredwith a plastic substance
which gives it extraordinary strength.
"It's stronger than aluminum," Higgins ex-
plained, "but doesn't weigh as much."
The President expressed amazenent, handed
the tube over to Admiral Leighton, who examined
it skeptically.
"Humph!" he grunted, "I don't think much of
"You wouldn't," jibed the President, "you're
the Navy."
Plastic Planes
Since then Higgins has explained to the Army
Air Corps how giant airplanes can be made of
this new substance, part wood, part plastic. With
this new plastic, developed by Harry Atwood, it
is possible to turn excelsior, shavings or seaweed
into a hard, firm, but lightweight, substance.
Higgins contends that even if there were no
scarcity of aluminum, this wood-plastic is better
for cargo planes.
"Two hundred women could weave a plane
together in a couple of months," Higgins has told
Army aviators, and demonstrated how.
So far, Army brass-hats remain skeptical, have
given Higgins the run-around. However, Gen.
"Hap" Arnold, head of the Air Corps, has indi-
cated that he may give the idea a trial.
Sabotaging A Good Neighbor
The diplomatic files of the State Department
tell a revealing story regarding patient U.S. eff-
orts to stop Axis intrigue in Latin-America, long
before Undersecretary of State Welles finally
cracked down with his blunt, public warning that
it must stop.
As early as June 30 of this year, the State
Department sent an 18-page confidential mem-
orandum to the Chilean Government citing
names - of Axis agents in Chile, dates of their
communications with agents in other countries,
and in many cases the texts of their messages.
Chile contended prior to June 30, and since,
that Axis agents in Chile could have nothing to
pened. Whether or not he transmitted it to
President Rios is not known.
Approximately one month later, the State De-
partment transmitted more conclusive evidence
concerning activities of Axis agents in Chile. But
there were no Chilean moves to stop them.
Meanwhile, Ambassador Michels in Washing-
ton, genuine friend of the United States, flew to
Santiago and arranged for President Rios to
visit at the White House. It was proposed by
Ambassador Michels that after President Rios
had come to Washington and talked with Pres-
ident Roosevelt, Chile would break relations with
the Axis, thus forcing Axis agents out of the
country.
Capital Chaff
According to Clerk South Trimble, Representa-
tive Charles R. Clason of Massachusetts is the
only Rhodes Scholar in the House-of Representa-
tives. But there will be another next Januargr-
William Fullbright, editor of the Northwest Ar-
kansas Times, Fayetteville, whose nomination in
the Democratic primary in Arkansas' 3rd District
is equivalent to election ... Chinese newspapers
have contributed more than $61,000 in Chinese
currency to the National Press Club's fund for
J. B. Powell, American newspaperman who al-
most lost his life in a Jap internment prison.
Powell is still ill in a New York hospital ... Abe
Cohen, Washington news dealer, says: "Next to
mail from home, the boys overseas like to read
hometown newspapers, even old ones" . . . So
Cohen donates hundreds of back-number news-
papers from all over the country to the Army
every week, for overseas distribution.
Llfteri to th 6lor
More On The Rally
To the Editor:
The announcement of the war-rally last Fri-
day had misled us. We had been under the im-
pression that the intention was to do honor to
Lieutenant Pavlichenko. We began to suspect
our mistake when we noticed that the public had
mainly assembled to cheer the Michigan band.
We were almost certain when the guest of honor
was greeted not with her own, but with the Amer-
ican National Anthem, and, after a lengthy ex-
planation of the university manpower drive, was
introduced by Professor Brumm who seemed to
have great difficulty with the name of the for-
eign guest of honor.
As for the other speakers:
Mr. Paul Lim-Yuen made a considerable
speech. And if we had not heard so many con-
siderable speeches before, we would have enjoyed
how he eloquently explained .the position and
desires of the youth of the United Nations. We
were merely puzzled how he knew so exactly what
the youth of the different United Nations want.
If we take into consideration, however, that we
had come to do honor to, and listen to Lieutenant
Pavlichenko, so that from our point of view
Samuel Grafton 's
I'd Rather
Be Right
ON STYLE: Idelog cany, the
Germans are beginning to look a
little ragged. They have been tell-
ing the Russians, via radio, that
there will be no second front. At
the same time their broadcasters
tell the English that their leaders
are "giving in to Soviet pressure,"
and are planning an invasion of
Normandy.
The two stories go out simultan-
eously, yah! yah! to Russia that
there will be no second front, and
beware! beware! to England that
there will be one.
To make it more convincing, the
Nazi propaganda machine splits
into two parts, like an amoeba. It
is the "Rumanian" stations, Nazi-
controlled, which prove emphati-
cally there will be no second front,
and the Berlin stations, also, of
course, Nazi - controlled, which
prove elaborately that there will be
one.
How The Table Is Set
The Nazis will first show them-
selves weakening when they first
show themselves to be confused.
We should watch for signs of con-
fusion carefully. There are a num-
ber of such and they are coming
along more frequently than in the
past. For instance:
Laval, on German instructions,
pleads with French workers to go
to Germany, so that France may
enter fully into "the new European
partnership" and emerge into that
"happy day" when every European
will be an equal member of the
glad new order.
But at the same time Goering,
somewhat thoughtlessly, announces
that Germans will eat during this
coming winter, evenif the rest of
Europe has to starve. It becomes
possible to call the fascist, Laval, a
liar merely by quoting the fascist,
Goering.
Two Different Winters
Hitleil, in his recent major speech,
told the German people that the
last winter was the worst of the
war, and that the next one will be
better.
But when Germany talks to Italy,
as through the newspaper Koel-
nischer Zeitung, she says:
"No one in Italy can have any
illusions as to the severity of the
coming winter. It will be more sev-
ere than the previous ones. The
Italian people will have to marshal
all their resources."
A worse winter for the Italians,
and a better for the Germans?
What has Italy won in the war?
Well, she has won the right to
have her chief of state, Benito
Mussolini, honored by a formal,
lengthy and rather ominous visit
from Heinrich Himmler, the chief
of the Gestapo. Now it is ahighly
unusual thing for a chief of police
to come calling on a foreign chief
of state. The functions of a chief of
police are local, exquisitely local.
There could be no more character-
istic Nazi insult to Italian sover-
eignty and to the Italian people
than this visit. If we can imagine
J. Edgar Hoover dropping in on
Winston Churchill to ask him how
he is making out with English opin-
ion, we will get an accurate if
rather horrifying comparison.
The semi - official explanation
that Himmler is in Italy to inspect
"German services" in Rome, Milan,
Genoa, Turin and Naples (sounds
like a timetable) merely adds to the
insult. Italy seems to stand in need
of a great deal of Himmler's cur-
ious and special services, none of
which have anything to do with the
study of the fine arts, nor with
archaeological investigation of
Italy's classic ruins.
One is justified in suspecting a
certain disunity and confusion in
axis circles. It is especial fun that
this has been precipitated, prob-
ably, by our act in removing 600,000
Italians in America from the class-
ification of enemy aliens. The Rome
radio's resentment over our im-
proved treatment of Italians is the
most fun of all; it tries, lamely, to
make a case that these Italians are,
absolutely, enemies, and should not
be treated well at all. Darn it.
Yes, in terms of style (and style
reveals one's inner state of security
or insecurity) the axis seems just
a trifle shabbier than it was; the
boots are not so bright; the whip-
cord pants begin to shine. I don't
. say we've started to win. I say only
that we must press on and increase
the axis confusions until they are
visible to all of Europe.
Valiant Dutchmen
Out of ammunitno and supplies, 66
Dutch officers and men have surren-
dered to the Japs in Borneo. That
there had been organized resistance
to the invaders for the past nine
months was news of which most of
the world had no inkling. The battle
a couple of platoons can offer lacks
the magnitude necessary to make it
eligible for space on today's congested
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Public Health Assembly: An as-
sembly for students in the School of
Public Health will be held on Thurs-
day, Oct. 22, at 4:00 p.m. in the Audi-
torium of the W. K. Kellogg Founda-
tion Institute. Dr. Haven Emerson
of Columbia University and the De
Lamar Institute of Public Health will
address the assembly on the subject,
"The Role of the Board of Health."
A letter from the War Production
Board stresses the need for dormant
scrap in addition to normal produc-
tion scrap as follows:
"Dormant scrap is defined as ob-
solete machinery, tools, equipment,
dies, jigs, fixtures, etc., which are in-
capable of current or future use in
the war production effort because
they are broken, worn out, irrepar-
able, dismantled or in need of un-
available parts necessary to practical
reemployment. Dormant scrap should
not be construed to apply to reusable
machinery, equipment, dies, jigs, fix-
tures, etc., which can currently or
in the future be used by the owner
or others, with or without repairs,
in work which contributes directly
to the war production effort."
It is also emphasized that the Gov-
ernment's grave responsibility to sup-
ply American armed forces with ships,
guns, airplanes, and tanks makes it
mandatory that all dormant scrap
be released immediately. "If it isn't
being used now, its future use is very
doubtful-find a use for it, or scrap
it".
Telephone the Buildings and
Grounds Department, Ext. 317, and
an inspector will call and arrange for
removal.
E. C. Pardon,
Superintendent
Choral Union Chorus Members:
Members of the Chorus in good
standing will please call for their
courtesy tickets admitting them to
the Don Cossack Chorus concert to-
day between the hours of 10 and 12,
and 1 and 4, after which time no
tickets will be issued-at the offices
of the University Musical Society,
Burton Memorial Tower.
Charles A. Sink, President
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 printedon the attend-
ance cards. They may also be found
on Page 48 of the current Announce-
ment of our College.
E. A. Walter,
Assistant Dean
Certificate of Eligibility: At the be-
ginning of each semester and summer
session every student shall be con-
clusively presumed to be ineligible for
any public activity until his eligibility
is affirmatively established by obtain-
ing from the Chairman of the Com-
mittee on Student Affairs, in the Of-
fice of the Dean of Students, a Cer-
tificate of Eligibility. Participation
before the opening of the first semes-
ter must be approved as at any other
time.
Before permitting any students to
participate in a public activity (see
definition of Participation above),
the chairman or manager of such ac-
tivity shall (a) require each appli-
cant to present a certificate of eli-
gibility, (b) sign his initials on the
back of such certificate and (c) file
with the Chairman of the Committee
on Student Affairs the names of all
those who have presented certificates
of eligibility and a signed statement
to exclude all others from participa-
tion. Blanks for the chairmen's lists
may be obtained in the Office of the
Dean of Students.
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
In order to be placed on the list of
approved organizations for the Fall
and Spring Terms of the school year
1942-43, a list of officers must be
filed in the Office of the Dean of
Students before November 1.
The University Bureau of Appoint-
ments has received notice of the fol-
lowing Civil Service Examinations.
Closing date is given in each case.
United States Civil Examination:
Junior Medical Officer (Rotating
Junior Clerk (Male); October 26,
1942; $1,320.
Junior Typist (Male); October 26,
1942; $1320.
Intermediate Clerk (Male); Octo-
ber 26, 1942; $1650.
Intermediate Typist (Male); Octo-
ber 26, 1942; $1650.
Junior Stengrapher (Male & Fe-
male); October 26, 1942; $1716.
Auto Repair Helper (Male); Octo-
ber 13, 1942; 85c to 90c per hr.
Transportation Equipment Repair-
man (Male); October 14, 1942; 98c
per hr.'
Posting Machine Operator (A.F.B.
& T.M.) (Female); Oct. 16, 1942;
$1716.
Further information may be had
from the notices which are on file in
the office of the Bureau of Appoint-
ments, 201 Mason Hall, office hours
9-12 and 2-4.
Bureau of Appointments
and Occupational Information
Applications for the Hillel Scholar-
ship of $150 will be received at the
Hillel Foundation through noon of
Friday, October 23. Further informa.
tion may be obtained at the Founda-
tion or by calling 3779.
Lectures
University Lecture: Dr. Esson M.
Gale, Acting James Orin Murfin Pro-
fessor of Political Science, former of-
ficer of the Chinese Salt, Revenue
Administration, will lecture on the
subject, "Nationalist China Today:
Personal Impressions" (illustrated),
under the auspices of the Department
of Political Science, on Wednesday,
October 21, at 4:15 p.m. in the Rack-
ham Amphitheatre. The public is cor-
dially invited.
Food Handlers Lecture: The City
Health Department is to conduct a
series of four lectures for the instruc-
tion of food handlers in the W. K.
Kellogg Auditorium (New Dental
-Building) at 8:00 p.m. on October 20
and 27.
All persons concerned with food
service to University students are
urged to attend the entire series.
Tickets for Col. Romulo Lecture,
"The Battle of Bataan," will be
placedton sale Wednesday and Thurs-
day at Hill Auditorium box office.
Col. Romulo, aide-de-camp to Gen-
eral MacArthur, will speak Thursday
evening as the opening number of
the current Oratorical Association
Lecture Course. Season tickets for
the complete course may still be pur-
chased at special rates. Box office
hours are 10-1; 2-5 daily.
Academic Notices
Students, College of Literature, Sci-
ence, and the Arts: No course may be
elected for credit after the end of the
third week. Saturday, October 24,
therefore, is 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
Students, College of Literature, Sci-
ence'and the Arts: Except under very
extraordinary circumstances, no re-
quests for exemption from PEM will
be considered by this office, or by the
Office of the Academic Counselors,
after today.
Assistant Dean E. A. Walter
Students, College of Literature,
Science, and the Arts: Except under
extraordinary circumstances, students
who fail to file their election blanks
by the close of the third week, even
though they have registered and have
attended classes unofficially, will for-
feit the privilege of continuing in
the College for the Semester.
E. A. Walter
Students who plan to enter one of
the following professional schools,
Law, Business Administration, oirFor-
estry and Conservation, at the begin-
ning of the spring term on the'Com-
bined Curriculum must file an ap-
plication for this Curriculum in the
Office of the Dean of the College of
Literature, Science, and the Arts,
1210 Angell Hall, on or before No-
vember 2, 1942. After this date appli-
cations will be accepted only upon the
presentation of a satisfactory excuse
for the delay and the payment of a
fee of $5.00.
February 1943 Seniors, School of
Education, must file with the Re-
corder of the School of Education,
1437 U. E. S., no later than October
24, a statement of approval for ma-
jor and minors signed by the adviser.
Blanks for the purpose may bese-
cured in the School of Education of-
fice or in Room 4 U. H.
Concerts
Choral Union Concert: The Don
Cossack Russian Chorus, Serge Jar-
off, Conductor, will be heard in the
first concert in the Choral Union
Series in a program- of religious, folk
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