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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

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NIGHT EDITOR: MARION FORD
Editorials published in The Michigan Daily
are written by nembers of The Daily staff
and represent the views of the writers only.
CARRIER WASP:
Americans Can Take
News Of Sea Battles
clam-tight Navy Department de-
cided that at last the American pub-
lie could know of the tragic loss of the carrier
Wasp.
A month after it was torpedoed to the bottom
of the sea we learned about it. This was a very
different tale from those glorious stories of the
fanious carrier's exploits in the Mediterranean.
Those were the stories i gat the American people1
had read about. But somehow those thrilling
tales fail to inspire elation in American hearts
uow.
Far from elation, most Americans read of the
fate of the Wasp with a bitter taste in their
mouths. Most of that bitter taste was due to
the news of the loss. But in a very large measure,
it was because we were hearing about that loss
a month after it happened.
WE KNOW NOW that we cannot fly trust
the news releases of the Navy and War
departments.
It has been the same story after every battle in
which our forces have fought. The battle stories
released showed every indication that a major
American victory was being won. We went about
with smiles on our faces because we knew that
our navy was knocking hell out of the Japs, and
incurring only minor losses in doing it. But
inevitably, a week, two weeks. or now even a
month later, that fine taste ofsthe cream of suc-
cess turned sour when the Navy at last disclosed
just what those losses were.
THIS is not the way to arouse a fighting spirit
in a nation.
Let us follow the example of Great Britain,
who with the threat of immediate invasion im-
pending, admitted to her people just how bad
her situation was. The English people, told
blakly how bad things were, really began to
fight.
Our leaders must take a lesson from the Brit-
ish. They must realize that the Americans do
not want to be fed newspaper victories. They
want the facts. - John Erlewine
HE FIGHTS:

WASH INGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON: Army-Navy cooperation is
reported to be improving in the Solomon Islands
and Secretary of War Stiimson has expressed
his complete satisfaction.
However, here is an illustration of how scantily
the Navy hitherto has kept the Army informed
about its important losses:
Shortly before the Navy announced that it
had lost three heavy U.S. cruisers and one Aus-
tralian cruiser on the second day of battle in
the Solomon Islands, Hanson Baldwin, crack
naval correspondent of the New York Times, re-
turned from the Solomons and was asked by a
joint strategy board of the Army and Navy to
give a newspaperman's observations on the Solo-
mons.
Near the start of his remarks, Baldwin stated
that of course everyone knew the Navy had lost
three big cruisers on the second day of battle.
Whereupon one of the naval officers present
hastily interrupted to say that he was the only
one there supposed to know that. The Army
officers present knew nothing about the loss.
Mrs. Roosevelt & Queen Elizabeth
Now that Mrs. Roosevelt is in England being
entertained by Queen Elizabeth, one story of
how the Queen was entertained in the White
House can be told. Mrs. Roosevelt herself relates
the story.
She says that ordinarily she doesn't pay too
much attention to White House rooms, since the
very efficient White House staff keeps them
spick-and-span. However, before the arrival of
the King and Queen, she thought it would be' a
good idea to inspect their suite.
She found everything perfect-except for the
bookcase. It was filled with books pertaining to
the American Revolution.
Hastily the Revolutionary War books were
replaced.
1 -A-Year Men
Here is the latest story told about $1-a-Year
men in Washington.
A chicken farmer was given a ferocious watch-
dog by a neighbor. But after that, chickens were
stolen every night.
Finally the mystery was solved. The chickens
were being stolen by the man who had g'iven the
dog to the chicken-owner.
(copyright, 1942. United Features Syndicate)

I'd Rather
BeRight_
By SAMUEL GRAFTON
NEW YORK- The danger in the current de-
bate over English-American relations is that we
will get a fixed picture of England into our heads.
We will begin to say: "England is . . ." Any state-
ment which begins with those words is almost
sure to be wrong.
England is a few back-benchers in the House
of Commons who cheer at the news of the ma-.
chine-gunning of Indians fighting for freedom.
England is Sir William :Henry Beveridge, who
has been commissioned by Parliament to draw
up a post-war plan, and is said to be preparing
one which calls for a minimum, irreducible in-
come-for each family after the war.
England is Lord Amery, who refuses to make
the first move on the question of Indian indepen-
dence.
England is the London "Economist" which two
years ago began to talk about an "economic bill
of rights" for the common man, based on the
interesting theory that the right to free speech
means little without the right to supper first.
What Is She? -
England is Winston Churchill, who does not
know what time it is, who does not sense popular
aspirations for freedom, who does not mobilize
world opinion that could be mobilized for our
cause.
England is Winston Churchill, again ("Winston
Churchill Again" might be the title for a history
of the last generation) who, on the day Russia
entered the war, mobilized the opinion of a con-
fused west in favor of prompt alliance with the
Soviets, keeping his hands firmly on the steering
wheel at a moment when it rock convulsively.
England is the island country, which draws
the seas firmly about herself, like an apron, and
disdains to think in terms of the whole, wide
world.
England is leading the offensive in Egypt, far-
ther from home than are Americans in the Solo-
mons, as measured by time required to reach the
front.
Take Your Choice
Eng*nd is a country run by a small group of
Old School Ties who know exactly where they
want to go, who have calculated risks and bene-
fits and have plotted out a course which takes
them in the end to precisely the place they want
to reach, a post-war replica of the place they left.
England is a country many of whose leaders
have demonstrated sincere anguish of doubt
about what is coming; a country whose first
church dignitaries have stated a radical program
of economic reform; a country which has debated
the shape of the future more openly and frankly
and continuously and thoroughly than has Amer-
ica since the war began.
England has held on to every privilege she
could hold on to. England has sold olt the for-
eign investments on which she depended for food
imports. England has not rationed the rich, in
their smart cafes. England has provided low-cost
restaurants for workers.
The Unfinished Story
Almost every one of the above statements con-
tains at least the germ of an untruth, and of a
truth, too. I don't know what England is. I don't
know what America is, either. I think we are
both in a process of becoming. It is unjust for
anyone, in either country, to look upon the other
as a finished product. It is like taking a vacation
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.Editor's Note: The following is a
reprint of an editorial which appeared
last week in The Harvard Crimson.)
The failure of last summer's ex-
periment in accelerated education
calls for reexamination of the alter-
native system, a symmetrical three
term year. Military necessity may
shelve the question, but meanwhile,
Harvard's future may depend upon
an evaluation of the two-term Sum-
mer School.
Education last summer was closer
to the high school than the college
level. For the first time in Harvard
history Freshmen found little need
for academic adjustment, emerging
higher on the rank list than upper-
cZieer
Danish Courage
To The Editor:
Denmark's continued resistance
to the psychological campaign of
subjugation by the Nazis, so graphi-
cally described in a Sunday editor-
ial by Henry Petersen, brings to
mind a story once told about the
courage and perseverance of one
of its natives. Whether the story is
factually correct, we do not know,
but we tell it to show how typically
Danish it is.
After the Nazi occupation of this
little Scandinavian country there
were many instances of friction and
bad feeling between Hitler's stooges
and loyal Danes. Orders to Nazi
officers and soldiers were to respect
Danish women and refrain from
disorderly conduct. and drunken-
ness.
One morning King Christian,
Danish monarch who is at present
in serious condition as the result of
a fall from a horse, was taking his
usual ride through the streets of
Copenhagen astride his favorite
mount. On passing the capital
building he noticed the Nazi swas-
tika floating from the highest flag
pole and became angry. He had
asked that no Nazi flag should hang
from this building and his request
had been approved by the occupa-
tion authorities.
Without hesitation King Christ-
ian dashed to the office of the gen-
eral in charge of the occupying
forces and asked politely but firml-y
that the flag be removed as pre-
viously agreed. The general paid
little attention, merely saying that
he would look into it. Christian be-
came angry and replied, "If that.
flag isn't down in 30 minutes, I will
send a Danish soldier to take it
down." The general, in an effort to
uphold his dignity, answered, "I'll
have him shot." Christian came
right back with this simple reply,
"I will be that Danish soldier." And,
according to the story, the flag
came down without further inci-
dent. Perhaps it is just a story, but
it does typify the Danish courage
which is defeating Nazi Ideology in
Denmark. -Eric Zalenski
rr ... Cold Shoulder
We are still having recurrent chills
at the thought of the reception those
N-G's up at Ann Arbor gave us. We
felt just about as welcome as a draft
notice, we did. First of all, are those
lovely people who couldn't bother to
help us with directions-and the in-
sulting souls who made the game so
miserable for us. We might add that
we are also plenty sore about that
dapper band of theirs. It played and
played-but nary a Northwestern
song.
And now, kiddies, for the moral of
this little story. Homecoming will
bring hoards of visitors to the cam-
pus. A little courteous attention from
the students will help immensely to
make their visits pleasant ones.

-Daily Northwestern
Northwestern ,U.
Slavery In Franc
Slavery comes to France with the
new order just promulgated. All men
between eighteen and fifty and all
single women between twenty-one
and thirty-five must work at any job
offered them, regardless of wages,
working conditions or anything else.
The purpose is of course to provide
more workers for Hitler's war factor-
ies. Some of the newly enslaved will
work in France, but many thousands
will be sent to Germany itself, to
labor alongside French war prisoners
and Polish, Russian and other civil-
ians and captured soldiers. France's
humiliation is at last complete.
Inevitably, the question will again
be asked why the United States con-
tinues to appease Vichy, which is so
openly and complete a member of
the Axis. The stock reply is that iwe
do so to prevent the French fleet from
being used against us. But who can
possibly believe that if Hitler needs
the fleet, and thinks he can get it,
receognition or non-recognition by
the United States will make the
slightest difference? Meantime, our
moral support for Laval makes a tre-

classmen. Telescoping courses into
six weeks resulted in shortened
reading lists and laboratory and
lecture schedules. Intensive study
at the two course rate left students
with neither time nor material for
the integration necessary to the
success of Harvard education. Sci-
ence students, particularly, found
it impossible to digest the full quota
of factual material usualhr ?resent-
ed, while those with long lab as-
signments were overwhelmed by
the attempt to jam sixteen weeks'
work into the five-and-one-half
allotted. Short exam periods im-
mediately following final lectures
cut out all review and forced stu-
dents to resort to "coffee-and-
benzadrine" cramming. The impos-
sibility of tutorial in the Summer
Session removed the last vestige of
Harvard's traditionally thorough
training.
Even if Summer School were ex-
panded to two seven-week semes-
ters as the Student Council sug-
gested, thorough coverage and inte-
gration would be out of the ques-
tion. Symmetrical terms eliminate
most of these disadvantages with
little dislocation of the normal aca-
demic year. Three fifteen-week
terms require only slight changes
in the ordinary Fall and Spring-
Semesters. The net result would
be the possibility of Summer study
at the four or five course rate. Full
lecture and lab schedules could be
retained, and tutorial integration
distributed throughout the aca-
demic year.
Acceleration without education is
as pointless in war as in peace. If
Harvard is to continue all year
round study, last summer's exper-
imental compromise should be
abandoned in favor of a system
which carries the methods of Har-
vard instruction into the summer.

Pr posedTax Bill
To Have Bad Results
If, as now seems likely, Congress
passes a tax bill that adds only
$8,000,000,000 or $9,000,000,000 to the
revenues expected under the existing
law, it will have registered its great-
est failure in its contribution to auc-
cessful prosecution of the war. Its
appropriations have been for the
most part without stint, and in other
matters it has eventually though re-
luctantly come round to an approxi-
mation of necessary policies.
But tax revenues of this size, espe-
cially when unaccompanied by a real
program of compulsory saving, will
force the Treasury to a large de-
pendence on bank loans, will fail to
close the inflationary gap and will
invite rising prices. We shall be tax-
ing ourselves far less proportionately
than either Britain or Canada, aad
by a system that distributes the bur-
den less equitably.
The victory tax. which the Senate
favors, is a convincing argument
against those who have contended
that the necessary amount can be
found only by adding a general sales
tax to income, profits and excise
levies. This is a five-per cent tax on
all gross income above $12 a week,
yet its inclusion fails to yield a total
nearly large enough.
Extending such a levy to those still
farther below the subsistence leviel
would not remedy matters, since
there are many fewer in this bracket
'han before the war, and their aggre-
gate income is far less. If we are to
get the money, we must increase
rates where the money is-that is, in
war profits and the incomes of the
middle and upper brackets.
,Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology and University of Minnesota
are said to be the leading schools in
number of physicists engaged in war
work.

DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 28, 1942.
VOL. LII No. 21
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 wben the no-
tices should be submitted by 11:30 a.m.
Notices
Choral Union Members: Members
of the Choral Union in good standing
(without absences from rehearsals)
may call for pass tickets for the.
Gladys Swarthout concert Thursday,
October 29, the day of the concert,
between the hours of 10 and 12, and
1 and 4. After 4 o'clock no tickets
will be given out.
Charles A. Sink, President
The Eastman Kodak Company rep-
resentative will be staying over at
the Bureau of Appointments on
Thursday, October 29.
Mr. Lauterbach will interview the
following:
Mechanical engineers, industrial
engineers, chemical engineers, chem-
ists, and physicists. Also, both men
and women 'majoring in business .ad-
ministration, accounting, statistics,
-mathematics, and women for any in-
dustrial employment.
Call Ext. 37F1 for appointments.
Interviews will -be sscheduled at fif-
teen-ninute intervals.
-Bureau of Appointments
and Occupational Information,
201 Mason Hall
Marriage Relations Series: The
-first lecture in this series twill be
-given in the Rackham Lecture Hall='
-at 8:00. Identification cards are nec-
essary for -admission.
Academic Notices
Seminar in-PhysicalChemistry will
meet in Room 410 Chemistry Build-
ing today at 4:15 p.m. Professor Law-
rence O. Brockway will speak on;
"High Voltage Electrons from the'
Betatron." All interested are in-vited.
College of Literature, Science, and
the Arts, Schools -of Education, Fores
try, -Music, and Public Health: >Stu-
dents who received marks of I or X
at -the close of their last semester or
summer session of attendance will
receive a, grade of ;E in the course or
courses unless this work is made up
by November 5. Students wishing an;
extension of time beyond this date in
order to make up this work should
file a petition addressed to the appro-
-priate official in their school with
Room 4 U. H. -where it will be trans-
mitted. Robert-LU illiams,-
Assistant Registrar
German Make-up Examinations
will be held Saturday,-October 31, 10,
to 12 a.m. Students -who missed Ger-
man 1, 2, or 31 exams for the Spring
or Summer terms must obtain writ-
ten permission of the instructor be-.
fore October 29, and sign in-the of-
fice of the German Department, 204
University Hall.

Hill Auditorium. A limited number
of tickets are still available.
Charles A. Sink, President
Exhibitions
Exhibition, College of Architecture
and Design: Prize-winning and other
drawings by professional architects
in the competition for the new cam-
pus plan and for a Student Activities
Building for Wayne University.
Shown through November 3, third
floor exhibition room, Architecture
Building, daily 9 to 5 except Sunday.
The public is invited.
Events Tod
American Society of Mechanial
Engineers: Mr. E. J. Abbott ,of the
Physicist Engineering Research Co.,
will give an illustrated talk and dem-
onstration on "The Profilometer in
the War," at the Michigan Union to-
night at 7:30. Bring membership
blanks to the meeting.
Music Hour, International Center:
Tonight at 7:30 the following pro-
gram will be played:
Hayden: Quintet in D major, Op.
76, No. 5. Roth String Quinitet.
Mozart: Serenade "Eine :Xleine
Nachtmusik." Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra.
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in
A major. Jascha Heifetz.
Everyone interested is invited.
The Social Service Seminar will
meet tonight at 7:15 at Lane Hall.
The topic of study for, the year will
be chosen and announcements will
be made of openings for volunteer
workers in Ann Arbor agencies.
Phi Tau Alpha will meet tonight
at 7:30 in the East Conference Room
of the Rackham Building.
Michigan Dames: Annual tea will
be given by Mrs. Alexander G. Ruth-
yen at her home, 815 S. University,
today, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Crop and Saddle will have a ride
today for old and new members.
Transportation at Barbour Gymnasi-
um at 5:00. Imperative all attend.
Call Sybil Graham so horses can be
ordered.
Dance Club will meet tonight at
7:30 in the -Barbour Dance Studio.
Coming Events
Varsity Glee Club: Rehearsal will
begin at 7:15 p.m. instead of 7:30
Thursday, October 29. Members
should be on time. Eligibility cards
are expectedfrom all members not
previously checked off.
--La Sociedad Hispanica will have an
officers' meeting Thursday at 4:00
p.m. in room 302 R. L.
La Sociedad Hispanica will post-
pone this week's meeting until next
Thursday.
Michigan Outing Club will have a
supper hike on -Sunday, November 1,
starting from Hill Auditorium at
5;-00 p.m. Those who wish to -attend

Brown's Work Should
Bring Him Reelection
O N THE FIRST Tuesday in November
Michigan voters face an important
choice.
They will be called upon to select their repre-
,entative in the United States Senate. Before
them are two alternatives: the present incum-
bent, Prentiss M. Brown; and Judge Homer Fer-
guson; Detroit's famed one-man grand jury.
The election will climax one of the most bitterly
fought senatorial contests of recent years. Unfor-.
tunately, personalities and minor controversies
have frequently entered into that contest.
But, if the people of Michigan maintain clear
vision and look through the maze of charges and
counter-charges, the chief points of issue will
crystallize. In making their decision, the brilliant
record of a great democrat and tested -political
leader, Senator Brown, should be weighed against
the untested political ability of a judge who
neviertheless, it must be acknOwledged, has estab-
lished himself with perhaps no less brilliance in
his own field of public service.
T IS REALLY SURPRISING that there could
be any doubt. In one short term in office Sena-
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and can be credited with preventing the turning
of an anti-inflationary bill into an inflationary
one.
Brown's record on earlier foreign and'domestic
measures is equally noteworthy. It is true that
some of his votes on foreign policy measures were
not all 'that could be asked in the light of subse-
quent events but he could hardly be termed an
isolationist. He voted for the first Administration
neutrality bill in 1939, the lease lend bill and the
revision of the neutrality act. He voted against
a bill to prevent. transfer of Axis ships to Great
Britain. The two principle mars on his foreign
policy stand were votes against conscription and
its 18 months extension.
DESCRIBED by himself as not a New Dealer
but a "middle-of -the-roader," Brown opposed.
both the President's Supreme Court packing plan
and his reorganization bill. He favored the TVA,
beginning government surtaxes on incomes of
$3,000 rather than at $4,000, and terminating the
issue of tax-exempt bonds.'
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