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BACK TO THE 20'S:.
Getting School Loyalty
A t 75~ Cents Per Throw
THOSE nice two-color, all wool, fitted-
to-your head freshman pots that are
brightening up the campus are part of the at-
tempt to build college spirit. Yes, boys, and that
they will.
But, you know, guys, those little hats are very
smalL And you know how hats become a habit
and no longer give you the feeling of 'wearing
anything. They will build that old school spirit
nd make one feel like a fine- college man at a
pep rall: for a little while, but they are so small."
Now, fellows, if you really want to get that old
spirit here's the way: let's make it compulsory for
all freshmen to wear yellow and blue raccoon
coats with large pockets on the inside. The front
might be yellow and the back blue. Or better
till let's make them in yellow and blue stripes
ke an c d school spirit skunk.
Since none of you freshmen are yet fraternity,
lodges, in short, YOU DON'T HAVE TO WEAR
OIL BUY POTS!
-Leon Gordenker
CleWASHINGTON _
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MERRY E60- RON
By DREW PEARSON
Americans
Will Always
'Have Guts'
(From a speech of Vic President
Henry A. Wallace.)
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE have al-
ways~ had guts and always will
have. You knoW the story of Bombe'
Pilot Dixon and Radioman Gehe Al-
drich and Ordnanceman Tony Pas-
tula-the story which Americans will
be telling their children for genera-
tions to illustrate man's ability to
master any fate. 'These men lived for
34 days on the open 'sea in a rubber
life raft, 8 feet by 4 feet, with no
food but that which they took from
the sea and the air with .one pocket
knife and-a pistol. And yet they lived
it through and came at last to the
beach of an island they did not know.
In spite of their suffering: and weak-
ness, they stood like men, with no
wea on left to protect themselves,
and no shoes on their feet or clothes
on their backs, and walked'in military
file because, they said; "if there were
Japs, we didn't want 'to be crawling."
The American fighting' men, and
all the fighting men of., the United
Nations, will need to summon all their
courage during the next-few months,
I am convinced that the summei and
fall of 1942 will be'a time of supreme
crisis- fotus all. Hitler, like the prize
fighter who realizes he is on-the verge
of being knocked out, is gathering all
his remaining forces for one last des-
perate blow. There is .abject fear in
the heart of the madman- and'a grow-
ing discontent among his 'people as
he prepares. for h4s last all-out of-
fensive.
WE MAY BE SURE that Hitler and
- Japan will cooperate to do the
unexpected-perhaps an attack by
Japan-against Alaska and our north-
west .coast at a time- when German
transport _planes "will 'be °shuttled
across from Dakar to furnish leader-
ship and stiffening to a German up-
rising in Latin America. In any event,
the psychological and sabotage of-
fensive in the United States and
Latin America will be timed to coin-
cide with, or anticipate by a few
weeks, the height of the military of-
fensive.
I We must be especially prepared to
stifle the fifth columnists in the
United States who will try to sabo-
tage not merely- our war materials
plants but, even more important, our
minds. We must be prepared for the
worst kind of fifth-column work in
Latin America, much of it operating
through the agency of governments
with which the United States at pres-
ent is at peace. When J say this, I
recognize that the peoples, both of
Latin America and of the nations
supporting- the , agencies through
,which 'the fifth columnists work, are
overwhelmingly on the side of- the
democradies. We must expect the of-
fensive against us on the military,x
propaganda, and sabotage frontsi
both in the United States and in
Latin America, to reach its apex some
time during the next few months. The
convulsive efforts of the dying mad-
man will be so great that some of
us may be deceived into thinking
that the situation is bad at %a .time-&
when it is really getting bette But
in the case of- most-of us, the:events
of the next few -months, disturbing
though they may -be will only in-
crease our will to bring about com-
plete victory in this war of liberation.
Prepared-in spirit, we cannot be sur-
prised. Psychological terrorism will
fall flat. As we- nerve ourselves for
the supreme effort in this hemisphere
we must not forget the sublime hero-
ism of the oppressed in Europe and
Asia, -whether it'be, in the mountains
of Yugoslavia, the factories of Czech-
oslovakia; and. France,- the farms tbf
Poland, Denmark, Holland and Bel-
gium,:among., the seamenof Norway,
or in the occupied areas of China and
the Dutch East Indies. Everywhere
the soul of man is letting the tyrant
SAMIUEL GRAFTON'S
P Id Rather Be Right.
I want to call your attention to
the recent convention of the Indus-
trial Union "of Marine and Ship-
building Workers in New York.' It
was a great convention. It gets the
gold star because it was so free
from cant. Do you knowwhat cant
is? Cant is mushmouth talk: Cant
is when you talk as if you are try-
ing to swallow a hot potato while
keeping your eye fixed on a dollar.
Cant is saying the kind of empty
nothing to an audience that you
wouldn't dare say at your own din-
ner table, because people would
laugh.
The Revolution Against Cant
The rebellion against cant start-
ed when John Green, president of
the union, looked his members in
the eye and said to them that Brit-
ish workers were building ships
faster than American workers, and
what did American workers propose
to do about it?
That's not the way one talks at
a convention. A convention is where
everybody in sight is better than
everybody else; a convention is a
device for putting mutual admira-
tion on a straight-line production
basis. But Mr. Green said flatly:
"Trade -unionism-as -usual must
go." He declared that production is
the first, chief and major problem,
that the union must work~ for it in
cooperation with even hostile em-
ployers. Let 'em hate you, he said,
in effect, to his men, but get the
ships out.
This was bold enough. Everybody
is willing to accept 50 per cent of
know that slavery of the body does
not end resistance._
There can be no half measures.
North, South, East, West, and Mid-
dle West-the will of the American
people is:for complete victory.
No compromise with Satan is
possible. We shall not rest unti
all the victims under the Nazi yoke
are freed. We shall fight fora com-
plete peace as well as. a complete
victory.
The people's revolution is on the
march, and the devil and all his an-
gels cannot prevail against it. They
cannot prevail, for on the side of
the people-is the Lord.
"He- giveth power to the faint; to
them that have no might He in-
creaseth strength . . . They that wait
upon the Lord shall . . . mount up
with wings as eagles; they shall run,
and not be weary; they shall walk
and not faint."
Strong in the strength of the Lord,
we -who, fight in the people's cause
will never stop until that cause is
won.
Down Argentina Way ...
A RGENTINA has dissolved the Ger-
man Federation of Cultural and
Welfare Societies, a Nazi"front." But
neither subversive activities nor the
torpedoing of Argentine ships have
so far induced President Castillo to
follow Brazil into the war against the
Axis-His policy of- 'prudent neutral-
-ity'" for Argentina:is not entirely the
result of fascist-mindedness.
Argentina and Chile, which also
has not broken with the Axis, have
long coast lines, far from the United
States, which they can't defend and
are not sure we can. The recent occu-
pation of the Galapagos Islands and
the establishment of a base on the
Ecuador coast indicates a southeriy
extension of our defense system,
which may have a decisive effect on
Chile's future course.-of action. -
-Detroit Free Press
Don't blame Kaiser for buying
bootleg steel. If Nelson won't con-
trol and apportion it wisely, patriots
must get what they can any way they
can.
the implications of our crisis. Mr.
Green accepted them all, withott
coyness, evasion, or cant.
Did You Hear That?
Two days later, at the same con-
vention, we were treated to the
extraordinary spectacle of an as-
sistant secretary of the Navy cook
ing with gas. Mr. Ralph A. Bard,
the official in question, made his r
speech. I cannot believe it yet. Tell
me, did he really say something
like:
"We prate about our unity . .
Then we retire to the woodshed
with a sharp pencil and clean shin-
gle, to figure out whether the agri-
cultural or the petroleum interests
will grab the synthetic business."
It seems to me I also, heard Mr.
Bard say: "We hope we can enlist
the support of the shoeless masses
of Latin America and our own Ne-
groes, without having to do ,too
much toward solving the agrarian
problems of our neighbors to the
south, or the economic problems of
our fellow Americans."
And I could swear I distinctly
heard Mr. Bard make some remark
, about "anti-union employers who
sabotage production committees for
fear that industry will be Soviet-
ized" and a moment later he poked
labor leaders who fear labor unity
and an end of jurisdictional chaos.
Then he added: "And we hope
that the Russians will whip the
Nazis, but not be too unreasonable
about spreading their uncomfort- -, .
able doctrines outside of Russia."
Mr. Bard, in a word, undressed
us. There are a number of people
in Washington who must have felt
the wind around their knees be-
fore he finished. He undressed us, $
and he said: "Look at-us," and that
is what I mean by the absence of
cant. Mr. Bard's speech was as
shocking as the first short skirt.
We've Been Suffocating
For we have been drowning in
cant, suffocating in a tide of mush-
mouth talk, since Pearl Harbor. But
there was Mr. Bard on the P4I- -,
form, saying frankly that, so far,,
"We are still losing this war," re- -
fusing to give us a word of false
comfort, refusing to talk about the
shameful and selfish rubber squab-
ble in the time-honored Washing-
ton formula: "We admit there are
difficulties in the way of progress,
but if we overcome the difficulties -
we shall certainly progress." No,
there was Mr. Bard, looking at the
war straight and clean, too con-
cerned about it to juggle it, and at
the end he poured himself out, say-
ing that if we would only break o t't 0l
the "standard of democratic ideal-
ism," stop "flexing. our imaginary
muscles" and go to work, telling the.
truth, shaming the devil and solv-
ing problems, we might win.
I say it was a great convention.
Truth came out of her corsets and
scandalized the town. I say that
the rebellion against cant, against
conciliating industrial and labor
selfishness, instead of exposing it;
against kidding the Negro instead
of giving him a job; against lying
about India, say, instead of freeing
it, can give us victory.
For the Axis people must be sick
of cant, too. They get it, like our-
selves. We hear about "difficulty in
the way of unity which ma~kes for
less progress in our harmony" and
they hear about the "nucleus Ger-
man and his great role in connec-
tion with the peripheral Teuton."
When we begin to tell the truth,
and offer bread, milk and f.:eedom
to the people of the world instead
of words about it, we shall win.
They will rise with us in a joint re-
belihon against cant. I think that's
what Mr. Bard meant when he said
break out the banner. He, like
many of us, is sick of losing and
sick of words. -N.Y. Post Syndicate
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WASHINGTON: Russia's refusal to permit
U.S observers nearithe Red Army fighting lines
still irks the War Department, and it is hoped"
that ,Wendell Willkie can- use his persuasive
charm to get Stalin to yield on this point.
However, a backstage look at certain Russian
negotiations here makes you understand why
the Russians still are suspicious.
One of these is the manner in which we have
delayed six priceless months in selling two old
oil refineries in Tyler and Longview, Texas, while
the big oil companies jockeyed over how much
royalties the Russians should pay them. If these
refineries had been shipped to Russia and -set.
up behind the lines when first proposed last
March, the Russian army would not be para-
lyzed-as it will be after the fall of the Caucasus.
You can understand Russian : suspicion even
79 THE CLASS AOF 1946:
It's Up To You To Ins till ANew 'Will To Win'
In The University Of Michigan's Student Body
THIS HAPPENS every year: the edi-.
tors - of The Daily look down from
their "wise-old-senior" perch and solemnly hand
out several hundred words of wisdom to the in-
coming freshman class. Tradition, you- know. .-
But to the extent that we are following tradi-
tion in writing this, we apologize, because this
country. of ours-including its government, its.
Army and Navy, its political parties, its schools
and its people-is already wallowing knee-deep
in a morass of tradition. If there was less tradi-
tion and more imagination, more just plain,
honest-.o-God common sense in America today,
we would be winning this war instead of losing
it. (And before anybody tries to tell us we are
not losing, just take 'a good-long look-at the latest
war map of the Russian front.)
But to get back to Michigan and to those of
you who are coming here for the first time this
aear, You will' find at the' University the same
lin, ,inexcusable clinging to moss-backed tradi-
tions that you-find in the rest of the nation. You.
will find here a University still living too much,
at its ease, still without the realization of how
desperate the battle actually is. You will find a
University not yet willing to give up all of its
peace time pleasures" and privileges. You. will
find this in the administration, in the faculty and
in the students. You will find everywhere a frigh-
tening lack of enthusiasm, imagination and origi-
nality which right now is at such a premium.
Of course, there are exceptions, but even here
at what is undoubtedly dne of the finest universi-
ties in the country too many of us have- not yet
learned what it is that really wins wars and then
applied it to our own daily life. We admir'e a man
e Henry Kaiser because he combines imagina-
i. with common sense to get things done in a
'ig"way and in a hurry. But for some reaspn or
otier we .-efuse to go the next step and apply the
Kaiser methods ourselves-we refuse to give up
our traditional, easy-going college life and our
traditional, old-fashioned ideas of education.
It is inexcusable and almost criminal that
this should be-but there it is. And the
of you change their ways, but you can-and
you should-demand that you be allowed to
exercise to the fullest your own individuality
and originality.
Instead of falling into the coke-dance-date
routine, you should give up more of your time
to winning the war than the upperclassmen have
been willing to give. They have thus far failed in
too many respects and it is up to you to show the
nation that at least the new college students rea-
lize total war affects the campus as much, if
not more, than any, other section, of the country.
You must realize that there is no place forthe
traditional or the ivory tower on a wartime cam-
pus. You must realize that the majority of stu-
dents and faculty have failed to see this or to do
anything about it if they did see it. And it is,
therefore, not up to you to follow but, rather, to
instill a new spirit, a new imagination, a new will
to win 'in the student 'body of the'University of
Michigan. ---Homer Swander
Morton Mintz
Will Sapp
George Sallade
Charles Thatcher
better when you examine some of the behind-
the-scenes maneuvers with both Japan and Rus-
sia before Pearl Harbor. The Japs were treated
with more friendship than the Russians. Here
are two examples:
Example No. 1: Early in 1940 the Japs had con-
tracted with the M. W. Kellogg Company to
purchase a $3,000,000 oil cracking plant to Manu-
facture aviation gasoline in Japan. They had paid
$20,000 down and considered the deal closed.'
However, Secretary Hull previously had urged
that American oil compafiies not sell gasoline to
Japan in view of its bombing of China, and the'
Kellogg Company finally decided that the - con-
struction of a gasoline plant in Japan might vio-
late the spirit of Hull's reques't.
Japs Get U.S. Secrets
So Dr. Maurice Cooke of the Kellogg Company
"told the Jap representatives in New York that the
deal was off, and that their $20,000 would be re-
turned.
No, you keep the money, we have a contract,"
was the Jap reply. "We know you want to keep
gasoline secrets from us," the Jap continued, "btt"
look."
He took out a thick booklet marked "Imperial
Japanese Navy" and showed on page 106 the
"know-how" or carefully guarded trade secrets
for making aviation gasoline belonging to the
Kellogg Company, Shell and Universal OilPro-
ducts. -
"Where did you get this?" asked the amazed
Cooke
"We pay $700,000 to Universal Oil Products
Company in Japan," was the reply. -
Note :--Universal Oil Products Company is a
patent- pool owned by Standard Oil of New Jer-
sey, Standard Oil of Indiana, the Texas Company
and M. W. Kellogg Company, the same group
which also negotiated the synthetic rubber deal
with the Nazis and which now is the chief bene-
ficiary of the Jesse Jones contracts for synthetic
rubber factories.
Russians Rebuffed
Example No. 2: The Kellogg Company. (which
though a member of Universal Oil Products to
some extent competes with it) did not sell the
cracking plant to Japan-.But one year later, on
Jan. 14, 1941 it received a signed letter from
Russian representatives in the United States'
ordering $35,000,000 of aviation gasoline plants.
These were to be transported to Russia aid set
up in -"safe" areas. Apparently the-Russians a-
ready figured they would be attacked by Hitler
and feared loss of Lheir Caucasian oil.
Before closing the deal, however, Frank John-
son, vice president of Kellogg went-to.-Washing-
ton and consulted with the State Department.
He came back with this advice:
"The State Department doesn't want the Rus-
sians to know it is blocking the deal, but it says
we cannot sell the plants. They want us to say
we're too busy with other work."
This was what.Kellogg representatives told the
Russians; but the latter were skeptical. They
spent an hour quizzing the Kellogg people, trying
to find out"if it wasn't the State Department
which really had blocked the deal.
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