4,~ ' . - i. THE 1ItCHAST1X1IA _ . _ J. 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- clay 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,1942-43 AN EASIER TEST THAN COVENTRY OR STALINGRAD. SAMUEL GRAFTON'S I"9dRather, Be Right REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING SY National Advertising Service, Inc College Publishers Representative 420 MpAION AvE. NEW YORK. N. Y.Ad1 gp ' ; CHICAGO . BosTON . Los ANGELES . SAN FRANcIsco Editorial Staff omer1wander . . . . Managing Editor Morton Mintz . . . . Editorial Director Will Sapp . . . . . . City Editor ,s -0eorgeW. ,aflade . . .Associate Editor U Charles Thatcher Associate Editor. Bernard Hendel . . . . . Sports Editorx Barbara deFries . . . Women's Editor Myron Dann . . Associate Sports Editor - Business Staff .v.' Edward J Periberg . . Business Manager Fred M. Ginsberg . . Associate Business Manager Mary Lou Curran . . Women's Business Manager Jane Lindberg. . . Women's Advertising Manager" James Daniels . . . Publications Sales Analyst Telephone 23-24-1 - NIGHT EDITOR: LEON GORDENKER Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff } ' and represent the views of the writers only. ~. NEW YORK-Let me give you a short short story. I take it out of the fall issue of "Military Affairs," the journal of the American Mili- tary Institute. "The offensive," writes Edward S. Mason, of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, "permits a choice of time and place, and, if objectives are limited, successful attack permits a rapid withdrawal of men from the armed services into production. This is the eco- nomics of Blitzkrieg-an econom- ics which the Germans have care- fully exploited. "The German army personnel, swollen for the attack on the West, was rapidly returned to war indus- tries after the fall of France, and was not recalled to duty until the campaign in the Balkans." Did you know that German sol- diers had this double function, that they have been used both as indus- trial manpower and as military manpower? In our country, the armed serv- ices and the factories fight for ex- clusive possession of the same man. In Germany, both have used him, in different periods of the same war. I don't know whether that system is better than ours. I know this: it rests on a concept of war totally different from ours. of Time and Tactics It makes our concept of war seem heavy, leaden-footed. We are slowly building the greatest aggre- gation of trained men ever seen on' earth. We are, in an entirely sep- arate sphere, slowly building the greatest munitions-production sys- tem ever conceived. Both processes were begun before we had any stra- tegic concept of how to fight the war, or where to fight it, or when to fight it, or with how many men to fight it. The great army was started for an indefinite purpose. The great production mechanism was started on the basis of an indefinite pro- gram to supply the indefinite needs of an army of indefinite size for an undetermined struggle. 'The German formula, by con- trast isnot an elephantine business of men against men, statistics against statistics, and bigness ever higher; it is an exceedingly pro- found and yet agile concept,'based on strategy first, with time play- ing a part in every equation. Big, But Not Total, Total war, in other words, is not quite what we thought it was; fac- tories smoking, belts whirling,. trains puffing, everything ticking, as in a documentary film. Total war starts in a quiet room where a few men have decided pre- cisely what the military is to do, and where, and when, and with how many. Until that little scene, has taken place, your effort may be big, but it will not be total. It may keep everyone in the country busy, and it will still not be total. War becomes total only when the strategic decision unlocks the mys- teries of how many men we shall draft, how many we shall leave behind, what we shall build first, and (equally important) what we shall not build at all. Mason (and he is an expert) says calmly that economic factors are secondary to strategic factors; that all major combatants in this war have, roughly, about what they need; that to view the war as a great production and economic struggle on the home frpnts makes us defensive-minded, makes us concentrate on protecting supplies and raw materials and areas of eco- nomic significance, instead of on knocking out the enemy. One Key Fits All Locks The program of mere bigness is not total war; it is actually total defense. It has a tendency to drive us into that special insanity of the besieged. We have nothing to make judgments by. Shall we draft a million more or a million less? Shall we use our steel to build more army camps? Or do we have enough camps? Shall we build new factories or have we enough now? Shall Manpower Man McNutt con- trol the draft, or shall the draft control McNutt? Mystery piles on mystery. There is one key which opens them all. That is a precise and specific strategic determina- tion as to the kind of war we in- tend to fight, and when, and where. Until then, all our studies and most of our discussion of man- power and materials will be drivel. We simply won't know what we are talking about until that small group of men has made up its.mind. We will continue aimlessly to shift offi- cials, hoping that a new man who doesn't know quite what he is try- ing to do will somehow do it better than another man.who didn't know what he was trying to do. We have put our bets on size. We find it is no substitute for pol- icy. Total war starts in the gen- eral staff. When it decides precisely what it is going to do, it will not have to wrestle with Donald Nel- son over who control what. Every man in the war effort will sud- denly know.his field. (Copyright, 1942, N. Y. Post Syndicate) DRAMA Sundown- "SUNDOWN," produced last night at Lydia Mendelssohn by Play Production, is a play with a message, But the message is neither realistic nor well put forth. Starting with a series of individual conflicts, the play expands to th conflict of capitalism and socialism All this is placed in a frame of sym- bolism built around the sun, whosE final downing signifies the play's res- olution, and the defeat of capitalism We will assume that Professox Brumm was not attempting to give s realistic picture of social forces as they operate today; if he were, hE would not have attributed so mucl enlightened idealism to this youngex generation, nor would he have mad the old so reasonable. Then the play must be treated as an artistic ex- pression. STRUCTURALLY, it is weak. ThE scenes are poorly connected; on does not lead into another very well Hence there was no interest aroused nor any suspense. The conflict i not centralized; in the first act, it is the labor agitator against. the forces of reaction; in the second, the sor against himself; in the third act it i son against father. The resolutior which is rather poorly tacked on smoothes over all the conflicts, bu not too satisfactorily. THE MOTIVATION was negligible characters performed their ac- tions through invisible inner compul sions. And finally the script was marred by too many cliches. There were- occasional moments of humor rather good humor which lost its effect by lack of integration. Betty Alice Brown, the heroine o the opus, managed to carry her in- adequate role with complete compe- tence and poise. John Babington's performance can be described only as spotty; he showed good moments and an amount of potentiality, but was hampered by a tendency to over- dramatize. Rex Holt, in the person of Phili Swander started with a convincing sincerity and petered out consider- ably at the end. Mr. Swander has enough ham in him to make him, eventually, an excellent actor if the aforementioned ham is subdued enough to the genuine feeling he shows for his roles. Mr. Swandei must keep i mind that life is not all Armour's and Swift's. BUZZ STUCH was refreshing as comic interest, and Wally Rosen- baum did a beautiful reading of well-selected poem from Carl Sand- burg, his interpretation being the high point of the second act. The "dance" mentioned in the pro- grame was non-existent; the sets were excellent, as was the costuming. -Kay Ruddy and Allan Axelrod HOW IT LOOKS: The Dunderheads Will Plan' Post-War World T IENATURE of the peace and the post-war it well be determined by the 78th Congress. I cannot remember having made a more dis- couraging statement since long before we entered this war. Not that any of us, including Torquemada, overnight have become confirmed cynics about the processes of democracy. No, it's just that right now we're pretty painfully aware of those Americans who didn't vote at all, and of those who would give their lives, and the lives of their loved ones, rather than sit down and honestly reason out an issue. These Americans won the election Tuesday. The defeated Senator Norris; the United States never had a finer Senator. They defeated Senator Brown; rarely has there been a man in government with his guts and spirit. They reelected Nazi-spirited Hamilton Fish, insipid mediocrities like Earl Michener, reac- tionary Dunderheads like Roy Woodruff, Clare Hoffman, George Dondero and the rest.. While thousands of Americans will suffer and die for democracy, the men making the peace and "planning" the post-war world we're going to live in will be the same ones who knifed every social advance, the same ones the Nazis always wanted, the same ones who were wrong, wrong, wrong, until you're blue in the face. The Roosevelt-haters are going to stay that way, come Hell or high water. And so America faces a re-enactment of the tragedy of Wilson and the 66th Congress. As columnist Raymond Clapper and others pointed out before the elections, however, Con- gress itself, by its recalcitrance and stupidity, has increased the danger of a dictatorship. And because the voters have reelected the very Con- gressmen responsible for this situation, the trend is likely to become even more alarming. And so we have it. 'WEGO to an economics class to discuss the fine points of deficit financing for post-war America, knowing that the men who will actually pass on it will not even hear of such "Radical Nonsense." But not in one class that I went to yesterday, nor in most others that I've asked about, did we take time out to see what this election will mean to all of us. The reelection of men like Senator Lodge and Rep. Hoffman may make an intelligent peace impossible and may wipe the slate clean of what gains we have made. But not a word is said about it. A few more points. Senator Norris has left our government. The racket-busters are coming into vogue, men like Homer Ferguson and Thomas Dewey Dewey, the isolationist, will make a strong bid for the Presidency in 1944. He'll be sup- ported by people like those in Greece, N. Y., who parade with signs saying "Greece is ALWAYS Republican." WE HAVE NO RIGHT to be cynical. Not when there are people fighting like the Russians and the Chinese. Not when men like Roosevelt aid Wallace still have faith. But somehow that picture of Senator Norris, leaving Washington with tears in his eyes, gets you inside. - Morton Mintz Math Lessons Prospective army fliers in Chicago are invited to call upon sorority girls-for lessons in mathe- matics. d4)tAXE to** By TORQUEMADA THINK that I have a considerable advan- tage over most of the American liberals today; I have found a ray of hope ... Gover- nor Heil has been defeated. This may not seem very much to people who are worried because every nonentity and incom- petent whose actions can be described only with profanity has been reelected. And it may not seem much to people who are somewhat dis- turbed because the American people have "repu- diated" excellent men, like Senator Brown and Senator Norris. 'HISmay not seem much to people who are, rushing to the movies because the coun- try's elections reveal that an inevitable trend toward Republicanism has set in, and the New York elections reveal that the Republicans are not going to let petty insurgent liberals in their ranks disturb anything. People may be disturbed because the 1944 election can at best put in a Republican Congress, at a time when our Congress will need statesmen of a nature considerably removed from present Republi- can output. This defeat of a person whose pronouncements and acts of administration have ranked with some of the most insipid in our history is a good sign; it indicates that the American people are awake, that they will not hesitate to show their strong feeling for democracy at the polls. Of course the fact that the voting was rather slight may slightly diminish the American people's glory in this case, but to a writer whose main justification is a constructive viewpoint, the re- nouncement of Heil policies cannot but be en- couraging. The 1942 elections will henceforth be known as the election wherein the people of the United States took a step forward, and re- moved Heil from office. Keep up the good work, American people!!!! DREW C e PEARSON'S 7 3 WASHINGTON-It hasn't made headlines, but Major Alexander de Seversky, famous Russian- American air expert, has just received a $75,000 cash settlement from toe Republic Aviation Corp. for his part in designing certain airplanes now used by the Army. Behind this is a story of the petty intrig'e and jealously by Army brass-hats which is bog- ging down the war. Major de Seversky is one of the foremost aviation specialists in the United States, but has never been popular with the Air Corps. His English is not too good. His manners are persistent. He has definitely got on the nerves of certain high Army airmen. This war has proved a lot of his ideas to be far ahead of the Army, but that seems only to have deep- ened the jealousy. Until 1940, Seversky was a director of Re- public Aviation. But in that year certain, airmen made such strong representations to Republic about Seversky that, he was dropped. Since Republic had taken over the old Seversky Aircraft Corporation, Sever- sky sued, and hired as attorney Alfons. Landa of the prominent law firm headed by. Ex-Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. Davies has a distinguished list of clients, in- cluding some of the biggest firms in the United States. Shortly after Landa took Seversky's case, Davies received a call from Paul Moore, of Republic Aviation, expressing the hope that no member of the Davies law firm would handle the Seversky case. It was also indicated that two important clients which the Davies firm repre- sented would withdraw their business if the Davies firm also represented Seversky. Davies, however, stood his ground. "I can't see that there is any conflict be- tween their interests and Seversky's," he said. "But if that's the way they feel about it, it is up to them." Subsequently these two clients did withdraw. But Landa, of the Davies law firm, continued to represent Seversky and was about to negotiate a settlement for $100,000 when the Army stepped in again and urged Republic not to settle. As a result of the Army's last-minute intervention, the settlement was finally scaled to $75,000. (Copyright, 1942, United Features Syndicate) DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN CC ji -i.> The' P'in ted Pee (continued from. Page 2) Women's Army Auxiliary Corps: Rates of pay for members of this organization have now been increased to equal the army rates for equivalent ranks. Women may no longer apply for immediate officer training but jrust enlist first as auxiliaries (pri- vates) and apply for Officer Candi- date School after 4 weeks of basic training. A list of special occupations in which women will be employed is on file in 1009 Angell Hall. Photo- graphic technicians and women with training in Radio are particularly needed., Application for Commission in the Army: The Army Specialist Corps has recently been abolished and con- sequently the Detroit office of the corps is now receiving applications for direct commission in the army. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, over 30 years of age and must have a draft classification other than 1-A. Physi- cal qualifications are now more ex- acting. Interested persons may ad- dress the .office of the Detroit Offi- cer procurement District, 1300 Pen- obscot Bldg.,,to request a preliminary application blank and an appoint- ment for interview. Seniors in Engineering and Busi- ness Administration: Pratt & Whit- ney Aircraft representatives will in- terview Seniors of the above ,groups Monday, Nov. 9, in Room 214 West Engineering Bldg. Interview schedule is posted on the Bulletin Board at Room 221 West En- gineering Bldg. The National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi has announced three new fellowships to be awarded to stu- dents, who, as seniors, were elected to membership in a Phi Kappa Phi chapter in the spring term of 1941- 42. The fellowship award amounts to $500. Tuition fellowships can also be arranged with some colleges se- lected for residence. Winners of awards must begin study on the fel- lowship not later than April, 1943. Anyone eligible for consideration should apply at once for further in- formation to the secretary of the Jr. Physiotherapy Aide, $1,620. Student Physiotherapy Aide, $420.< Apprentice Physiotherapy Aide, $1,440.t Library Assistant, $1,260,to $1,620. Assistant Materials Inspectors (Paints, Textiles, General) -$2,600. Further information may be had from the notices which are on file in the office of the Bureau of Ap- pointments, 201 Mason Hall, office hours 9-12 and 2-4. Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information Lectures American Chemical Society Lec- ture: Professor Paul Gross, Chairman of the Chemistry Department of Duke University, will speak on "Recent Di- pole Moment Measurements on Hy- drogen Fluoride and on Carboxylic Acids" today at 4:15 p. m. in Room' 303 Chemistry. The public is invited.' Academic Notices Spanish 1-A: An additional section of the Extension course in Spanish 1-A will meet on Thursday at 7:00 p. m. in Room 108 Romance Language Building. Professor del Toro who is conducting the course, will review the work from the beginning for tliose people interested in starting the course at this time. Navy V-1 or V-5 Enlisted Men: There.is one opening in the Civilian Pilot Training program for the extra- curricular program. You must be enlisted and attending the Univer- sity. Program Will start as soon as vacancy in quota is filled. Further details may be had in room B-47 E. Engineering, or call 4121, Ext. 2113. Graduate Students in Psychology: The first meeting of the new student discussion and experimental group will be held tonight at 8:00 in the West Conference Room of the Rack- ham Building. Doctoral Examination for Fakhri B. Ma'luf ; Philosophy; thesis: "The a priori in Science According to the Philosophy of Meyerson," will be held ltoday in 204 Mason Hall, at 4:00 p.m. Chairman D. H. Parker. after Saturday, November 7, will bE recorded with the grade of E except No course is considered officiaO1 dropped unless it has. been reported in the office of the Registrar, Roor 4, University Hall. Concerts Carillon Concert: Professor Perci* val Price, University Carillonneur; has planned a program of Canadiar carillon compositions for his recita at 7:15 tonight. Programs for the entire series are available in the offici of the School of Music. Faculty Concert : Gilbert Ross, vio linist, and Mabel Ross Rhead, pianist members of the faculty of the Schoo of Music, will present the first of series of three recitals at 8:30 Monda: evening, November 9, in Lydia Men delssohn Theatre. Other programs ix the group will be given on the eve nings °of November 16 and 23. Th public is cordially invited. Events Today Athena will meet today, Nov. 5, a 5:00 p. m.. in the Michigan LeaguE Attendance required. Absentees wil be ;dropped from the roll call unles they have been excused by the presi dent. La Sociedad Hispanica will have program meeting tonight at 8:00 p.n at the Michigan League. The Merit Committee will meet to day at 4:00 p. m. in the Michiga League. The Girls' Swimming Club wi meet tonight in the Union Pool a 8:15. Anyone interested in joining I invited. The Art Seminar will meet today a 4 o'clock at Lane Hall. Plans will b made for cataloging and studying tl religious paintings at Lane Hall. N art training required. The Freshman Discussion Grou will meet tonight at 7:30 in Lane Hal Topics for future discussion will t decided upon. I SOMETIMES the complete stupidity, the blind, disgusting, unreasoning ignorance of the American people overwhelms you. You sit down to write about something like yesterday's election and whatever you say sounds weak and helpless and impotent. Words are no good. There are not enough words-not enough polite ones, anyway-to tell how the bottom al- most drops out of democracy and a fight you believe in when an uninterested, party-minded electorate tells men like Senators Brown and Norris they can go to hell. You would like to find a ray of hope, but Ham Fish and Tom Dewey and Clare Hoff- man and Henry Cabot Lodge and Earl Miche- ner and Homer Ferguson are in the way, they block the light, they stand for the darkness of stupid isolation and reaction, they will lead the world to continued war and misery. We have lost a lot of battles in this war but yesterday's was the biggest and the most impor- tant because it means a longer war and then o etn to i/e, 6ditor Ar1 ~eA To the Editor: I AM NOW IN POSSESSION of the true facts concerning my statements in last Friday's Daily. It seems that I was mistaken, all wrong. I will attempt to explain my errors and do the best I can to straighten out any misconceptions I might have formed in the minds of Daily readers. In the first place, wages have recently ris- en from the forty cents I quoted to the pres- ent rate of from forty-five to fifty cents an hour. This in itself almost rules out my argument that wages paid in ordinary times are being saved through a decrease in Hos- pital personnel. Also, the rise in ward-bed rates was a mere twenty-five cents per day, which would hardly cover the rise in the cost of living. My main error, I believe, was that I dealt in generalities, added them, and seemed to discover