4A THlE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, OCT. 23, 1942 I , 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 alsoreserved. tntered 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 BACK TO THE VATERLAND cdei.er o ior R " -REPRE8ENTEO FOR NATIONAL AOVERTI3ING SY a^a t . - ' _ Y National Advertising Service, (nc.r1" t1" ' CollegePublishers Representative -rp, 420 MADISpON AVE. NEW YORK. N.Y. ' -. 0ICAGO A BOSTON . Los ANGELES . SAN FRANCISCO -n r ' R "' 'fth Py Jane Lindberg . . . Women's Advertising Manager f k L-I , ,A.I James Daniels . . . Publications Sales Analyst Telephone 23-24-1 NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT MANTHO d Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only." THREE POINTS: Editors Clarify Stand On Regent Controversy THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS about this Regents-Ruthven contro- versy-and the stand The Daily has taken on it -which need clearing up right now: 1. The Daily does not agree that the Nation's welfare calls at this time for turning over the University lock, stock and barrel to the Army and Navy, with only military and technical courses being taught. It seems almost needless to say that many "non-war" courses must be kept in the curricu- lum. We insist, however, that there are a large number of courses-most of them known to stu- dents as "pipes"--which will help win neither the war nor the peace. These courses have no place in a university at war. Similarly, we do not believe that voluntary participation in the Manpower Corps or Red Cross work, for example, is a threat to educa- tional ideals. 2. Contrary to the Detroit News editorial page, The Daily has not"impudently" sug- gested that President Ruthven "is a bm." THIS IS AN INEXCUSABLE and outrageous interpretation. We have consistently, and fairly, we believe, distinguished the man from his ideas. There has been no personal antag- onisms or name-calling in any of our editorials. We have merely disagreed with what wetsincerely believe to have been the prevalent attitude of the administration. We are convinced it is an attitude which will not win the war.And if the United Nations do not win- the war they will have little use for men trained to win the peace. 3. The Daily has not put blind trust in the Board of Regents and the new War Committee. We realize that the procedure adopted is a dangerous one, and during peace time we would never agree to the Regents infringing 'to such an extent upon the duties of the administration. We have disagreed with the Regents many times in the past-we remember too well their stand when they "packed" the Board yin Control of Student Publications-and we do not promise to agree with anything they may do in the future. BUT IN THIS SPECIFIC INSTANCE we believe they are right. We think the War Committee will perform an essential function in putting the University more solidly behind the Natibn's war effort. If it does not do this or if it suddenly goes hog-wild, The Daily will be the first to criticize it. -Homer Swander Morton Mintz Wil Sapp SHARKS 'N TARS: Hoe Seltzer's Convoy Experiences To Appear B EGINNING SUNDAY, Hoe Seltzer's wave-by-wave account of convoy duty on a tanker will appear for the first time in the columns of The Daily. And when you get whrough reading the first installment you're go- ing to want to read the others which will appear every day until he concludes his tale of sharks and tars. In the middle of his column, Hoe. says .. . "I am looking at the water off Key West and it's nm n vnirrh t hup m in A T sav I am al 6nt AXE to 9in4 By TORQUEMADA "IT IS the men with manicured nails rather than the men with greasy faces who must win the peace."-From a letter in yesterday's Daily. It is a very difficult thing to attack such a statement. It is a hard task to say that the authors are prattling snobs. It is difficult be- cause there are so many ways to do it, and yet none of them quite approach quelling the colossal immorality of such a statement. YdU CAN tear it apart with academic logic: "Such a statement is manifestly a fascistic identification of material possession with spir- itual value. To ascribe value per se to one phys- ical condition over another is to deny any value to a spiritual condition. Such a statement, fur- thermore, is psychologically incorrect in that it places all human worth as a result of environ- mental factors. A man is born to labor and labors; another man is born to leisure, and has his fingernails manicured; manifestly nothing of either man's spiritual or intellectual capacities is reflected by either of these states." OR you can rant against it emotionally: "Was Abraham Lincoln a man with manicured fingernails? No!!! He was a man of the soil, who shone above his fellows by the grace of God. Was Aesop a master? No!!! He was a slave who pronounced some of the world's greatest wisdom. My friends, this is no time for disunity. This is a time for all, greasy faces and manicured nails, to work together to win the peace and win the war. Let us not repeat the decadence of the Roman Empire. We must win the war as a na- tion of the people. This is the people's century!!" OR you can ridicule: "Lest anyone mistake such a statement as being a bit outmoded, I propose to show of how great influence finger- nail polish has been in history's development. Nail-polish has a long and noteworthy evolu- tion starting with the ancient,Buddhist monks, among whom the Dalai Lama (so-called because he was the founder of the Michigan Dalai), ruler of the group was forced to wear his fingernails to a length of 25 inches, and seven houris were appointed to cultivate them. The length and culture of fingernails was very important to the Buddhists. Socrates, about to die, made his peace with the world through his magnificent eposition of the immortality of the soul, and then called for an orange stick that he might make peace with his maker. Napoleon, creator of many a peace and war, was all-powerful-until he started to bite his nails." AND SO ON. But nothing can quite take care of any system of beliefs that enables two men to say, "It is the men with manicured nails rather than the men with greasy faces who must win the peace." Clhe WASHINGTON Tm. Re. U.$Pa. W1ERRY GO" ROUND By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON-State Department officials are almost having fainting fits over word that Ed Flynn, former boss of the Bronx, now chair- man of the Democratic Committee, has his eyes glued on the U.S. ambassadorship to Mexico. The debonair Flynn expects to resign from the Democratic Committee shortly after the Novem- ber elections, and wants an ambassadorial post within commuting distance of the U.S.A. This would mean replacement of the sitting Ambassador, George Messersmith, who, although not particularly popular around the State De- partment, is doing a good war job in Mexico. Messersmith once held the tough jobs of consul general in Germany and American Minister in Austria, glares over his spectacles, talks turkey, mixes tact with vinegar, and generally gets things done. He now has a war staff of U.S. diplomats in Mexico 200 strong, who, even when making the rounds of night clubs to 3 a.m., get to work at 9 a.m.-or incur the wrath of Messersmith. Because Mexico is so important, State Depart- ment officials are hoping they can deflect Boss Flynn to some other country. Since he wants to be within commuting distance, there is Cuba which is accustomed to calamity, and where Spruille Braden, since he became an ambassador, has forgotten that he was just a common mil- lionaire. Also there is Brazil, where the people under- stand politics, and where nervous Ambassador Jefferson Caffrey has bitten his own ankle so frequently that even Ed Flynn might be welcome. Strikes And Transports It hasn't been announced, but Undersecretary of War Patterson has ordered a survey of sea- men's and longshoremen's working conditions on merchant ships which carry vital war supplies overseas. Douglas Brown, industrial relations expert of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is con- ducting the survey. Inside reason for it is the serious conflict between the Army and the War Shipping Administration over handling of ships for the transport of troops and supplies abroad. As a result of this conflict some ships are manned by green crews, and there is a general state of dissatisfaction on the part of maritime labor. Friction began when the Army Transport Serv- ice began taking over ships from the War Ship- ping Administration. Now the friction has be- come so sharp that Admiral Emory Land, head of War Shipping, has written a strong letter to the War Department, saying he will release no more ships for transfer to the Army until work- ing conditions for seamen are improved. Army Transport Service regards maritime la- bor in the same class as soldiers-they should obey orders, with no thought of overtime pay or peacetime conditions of comfort. But the sea- men have a different idea, and walk out-to be replaced by green crews. The Army has just established a new record for delivering mail to men overseas. Thanks to the efficiency of V-mail, 1,900,000 letters were delivered to foreign-based U.S. troops during September. This compares with 650,000 letters delivered in August, and makes a total of 5,000,000 pieces of mail the Army has delivered without a single Attack Unfair To The Editor: FEEL that it is too bad that The Daily has been the cause of the spreading of certain criticisms of Mr. Ruthven. The editorial in the Octobei 20th Daily signed by Mr. Swandei and Mr. Mintz and Mr. Sapp (which has been much referred to in out of town papers) not only reflects un- sound thinking about the problem but attacks Mr. Ruthven for his very intelligent attitude. The three signers of the editorial seem to be happy about the not very clear purpose of the special Board of Regents' committee. But if these signers would stretch their memory back to the expulsion of radical stu- dents and to the packing of the Board in Control of Student Publications. they might question the validity of the Board of Regents' conception of the academic function . . . in peace or war. MR. RUTHVEN has admirably rea- lized that the existence of the nation is tied up with the continued operation of the universities. If only war studies are to be permitted for the duration, then what sort of men will we have in the years to come to serve in our. Congress, in our civil service, in our industries, on our news- papers (where above all intelligence is the virtue). The problems that these men will have to face will be intricate ones and we would be mur- dering all chances for successful na- tional and international government if we do not train the necessary think- ers now. But there is even a more direct threat involved in taking under- graduates out of the University. If every able-bodied student over eighteen is to be taken out of the University and the war lasts sev- eral years, there will then be no pre-professional students in the University and there will be no supply of candidates for profes- sional schools to replace the men who are now in training. We will have a post-war generation in which there is an inadequate sup- ply of doctors, dentists, architects, engineers and school teachers. What will our life be like then? THE STRENGTH of our culture comes from the heritage of past thinkers. The students of philosophy, literature, the social sciences arethe guardians of this heritage. What will our life be like if we do not train stu- dents to know and understand this heritage. How else can it be preserved or added to? What will the post war world be like without having trained men. in physics, chemistry, zoology and the other sciences? If we discon- tinue the training of students in these fields for several years, that is the prospect that faces us. I feel that it is impossible to sep- arate the cause that we are fighting for from the continued education of students in all fields. It is the Uni- versity that will give us the fruits of our victory and if the University is closed down, the victory will be an empty one. IT IS OF COURSE possible to create a conflict between winning the war and keeping students in the Univer- sity. I feel, however, that this is an artificial conflict because the number of students in the universities is a small fraction of the total man power of military age. All students of course cannot be permitted to remain but there must be some intelligent defer- ment policy for students who prove their merit in order that the future of the world is not endangered. Many of the frivolities of student; life must also be dispensed with but The Daily must not insist that the student's life be 'so disturbed as to interfere with academic and intellec- tual pursuits. They also contribute to the war effort. There is no question that we must win the war. Only un- thinking people will feel that winning the war means that we must no also build for the future. I should like to make special refer- ence to The Daily editorial's criticism of the calmness of Mr. Ruthven's speech to the freshmen. I am proud, of this calmness because the Uni- versity must be by definition a place where rational discussions rather than "gigantic war rallies" are the commonplace. -Ernest London Attitude Justified To The Editor: ONCE UPON A TIME a university president saw students on the campus wondering what their roles should be in the chaos and confusion of a warring society. So one night he called them together and spoke to them the best advice that he knew. He reminder them that although men of the older generation had brought about the war, it was the younger generation which would al- ways bear the brunt of battle, and he warned them to prepare for major sacrifices. He admitted to the students what every thinking news commentator, analyst, editor, and reporter . . . learn how to live effectively in the world which they were fighting to save. AND he was not alone; many stu- dents and' some faculty men agreed with him. Some even applaud- d this clear statement as an encour- aging indication that the universities might yet be looked to for a certain cool wisdom too nearly non-existent :n other high places. Yet, to some, these statements seemed "contradictory and confus- ing", and the Regents determined that no more such "confusing" state- ments should come from the Presi- dent's pen. For they all seemed to agree that "education isn't going to' be much good if we don't win the war." Which left at least one student pondering how much good the war would do if none of the rising genera- tion were educated. -Gregor Hileman Samuel Grafton's I'd RL$ather Be Right NEW YORK- I do not want to tear a passion to tatters, but I think it is time to say there is open civil war in France and that we are having next to no share in it. It is civil war on a specific issue, whether or not Frenchmen are to work for Hitler. The issue is ideal; it could not have been made any better for our cause; in a thousand years of propaganda we could not have invented anything to equal it. It comes, and we are not ready. Frenchmen fight, and we are not ready. We, who have set our- selves up as the trustees of the world's democratic upsurge, find ourselves blinking and showing a dazed face, as a genuine movement of popular resistance matures and comes to cli- max. How To Hold Prestige Our diplomats, so careful lest they lose prestige, could have entangled us in no worse loss of prestige thani this: that the emergence of the new France, the true France, finds our- selves still linked with the other side.1 How does one suppose the poor and the oppressed of the world are going to measure our prestige? By our suc-1 cess in not breaking with Laval? Or1 by signs that we are sensitive to popular movements, that we havei some understanding of popular move- ments, that we are not caught by numb surprise when the humble of this earth come to the moment ofI decision? It is open civil war in France. There are greater disturbances in Lyons, in Perpignan, at a dozen other points, than there have been anywhere on the coast of France, in the so-called military zone, since the raid on Di-i eppe. Germany is using more troopst against Frenchmen than she is usingt against Englishmen or Americans.N And we have missed the boat. Worse,s we did not know the boat was comingP in. Charles de Gaulle knew. He hast looked upon France with the sensi- tivity of a man whose hopes areN placed in popular uprising, not mere-r ly in the accumulation of machinest in military garages, and he has said a wonderful, true, profound thing this week: "This struggle restores France to her rightful place among the nations . . . There has been a striking recovery of the country." France Stands Again It is true. France is recovering. In street fights against the best-armed soldiers in Europe, she is finding her dignity again. While we have been making speeches about the soul of4 France and giving ourrecognition to, poisoned fungi growing on that soul, France has found her soul, in her own1 way, amid terrible loneliness. And Charles de Gaulle has issued the word this week, the straight, clear word for immediate revolution in France. He has said it at last. He has said "Now!" That no direct military action of our own accompanies that word, raises the most serious questions con- cerning our basic military policy. What's A Revolution Worth? We have heard about those exnerts who must, by themselves alone, say when we shall be ready to strike. Now it is necessary to ask: By what stan- dards do our experts make their judg- ments? What valuation do they put upon a popular revolution? Do they value it at ten tanks and five planes? Or do they consider it worth as much as a hundred tanks and a thousand planes? Or do they consider it at all? Has this rising current in Europe had a place in their plans? Or have they viewed their problem as an ac- cumulation of machines, during which dull assembly-line manufac- ture of the future the world would obligingly wait? It is possible to schedule deliveries of machines. It is not possible to hegn1p the moment when a nonlnei DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN FRIDAY, OCT23, 1942 VOL. LHI No. 17 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.. Notices D. O. B. Users: It will be much ap preciated if you make your notice brief. Frank E. Robbins Group Hospitalization and Surgica Service: Effective December 5, monthl rates for the above services will b increased slightly. The next enroll ment period will occur between Octo ber 21 and November 5, during which period new enrollments, as well a reenrollments, both effective on De- cember 5, will be accepted. All old subscribers who wish to continue their contracts must sign a new ap plication card. These cards will b distributed to everyone through th various departmental offices within the next several days. Note especially that no contracts will be continue beyond December 5 without filing new application card. Faculty, School of Education, meet- ing will be held on Monday, October 26, in the University Elementary School Library. The meeting will convene at 4:15 p. m. 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 Lectures University Lecture: "Personalities in Washington and London", by Es- ther Van Wagoner Tufty, disting- uished Washington Correspondent, who has just returned from London, where, on invitation of the British Minister of Information, she has been engaged in interpreting American life to the English public. This lecture, open to the public without charge, will be given in the Rackham lecture room at 7:45 p.m. on Saturday, Oc- tober 24. Academic Notices Students, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: No course may be elected for credit after Saturday, October 24. 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 School of Education Students: No course may be elected for credit after Saturday, October 24. Students must report all changes of elections at the Registrar's Office, Room 4, University Hall. Membership in a class does not cease nor begin until all changes have been thus officially registered. Ar- rangements made with the instruc- tors are not official changes. Political Science 67. Make-up ex- amination: Students who did not take the final examination in Political Sci- ence 67 at the end of the summer term should see me before the end of this week concerning the make-up examination. Howard B. Calderwood New Graduate Students: The Grad- uate Record Examination for those who were unable to take it on Octo- ber 13 and October 14 will be given in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Building on Monday, October 26, and Tuesday, October 27, at -7:00 p.m. S he Poihted Pat- 1>p -/i .i i I II II,