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THE MICHIGAN DAILY.
T-MOATNOV. 14, 1942.
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SC!OFFETIS; NOTE:
Manpower Corps oes
Over The Top For War
THIS is addressed to the scoffers who said it
' wouldn't work:
esterday, 312,Sandusky-bouid students be-
gan three-day beet picking proeet, spon-
sored by the Manpower Mobiiaton Crps.
Bit, equally Important, they left. almpst 350
other willing student war workecs behin.
S'auduskY's beet farmers, It eans, coult
provide accommodations enough for $he (d0O
chigan students who volunteered to swing
toe biggest campus war project yet unldertakel.
Four days ago the Manpower Corps included
a whirlwind scrap and salvage drive that yieded
more than 100 tons of scrap metal. This is
the largest scrap contribution made by any col-
lege in the entire nation!
.In its three weeks of existence, the Corps has
also salvaged apple and cherry crops for hard-
pressed farmers-all details which add to the
Corps' imposing record.
OWEVER, the story can't all be told here
and now. There's more to be done, for Borman
and Co. plan to push the scrap total well over
the 100-ton mark besides taking on other tough
projects.
There's only one big thing to be said now, and
that's that the Manpower Mobilizatio .orp is
doing an unprecedented job! - fud Brimmer
PEOPLE'S WAY:
Faith, Courage Will Save
U.S. Despite Elections
BEaCAUSE of a column I wrote the other day,
a lot of people-including Malcolm W. mingay
of the Detroit Free Press-are feeling sorfy for
me. Others are angry. They think I have lost
my faith in democracy, in the war, in the Amer-
ican people. And they are wrong on all three.
counts.
MA the econrary, since the biterly disap-
ppinting results of the election I am more
than ever convinced that we must fight to
make this war a people's war asad that we
Aust devote every ounce of strength we have
to improving democracy while we ardefeat-
ing Fascism.
My denunciation of the American people was
strong-probably too strong-but it came from
the :certain knowledge that the election results
foretell an immediate attempt to kill much of
what the common people of America are fight-
ing for. This war is being fought for and by the
little people of the world-the poor, the op-
pressed, the downtrodden. Men are not being
kiled to save the privileges of capitalism; they
ar not dying so that money and power may
continue to crush those unable to defend them-;
selves; they are not going through hell so that
we can retire to another futile isolation when
the war is over.
TOOMANY of the men elected to Congress
last week do not know this, and that is why
I was bitter. I felt-and I still feel-that the
connon -people of this country allowed men. to
be elected who believe in all the inequalities of
pre-Roosevelt "free enterpri e" America. Already
reactionary Republicans have grasped hands
with old guard DetMocrats and both sides are
Lhouting with glee that the New Deal is -dead,
thlt socialism has been aveted, that "social
pyvnp4MO'ntk" ItITIt hp eftnnid far th duratinn
PEARSON'S
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MERRY-GO-ROUND"
- WASHINGTON-WPB executive Maury May-
erick, who has been sitting close to the war pic-
ture in Washington, has just come back from
the Pacific Coast with a refreshing report on
"te way things are moving.
In Washington things move slowly. And off i-
cials who bat their heads against stone walls of
red tape, sometimes get hopelessly discouraged.
tdowever, Maverick has reported to other WPB
officials that when you get out into the rest of
the country, especially on the Coast, you really
realize how fast the war is going.
Troop trains slide onto great loading platforms
alongside transports, men are embarked and
out at sea almost before you can realize what
is-happening. Warehouses are stacked high with
supplies, being shipped overseas every week.
There is an effortless speed about the whole
thing which encouraged Maverick, whose son
departed the other day for the Solomons.
Note: Chief credit for the efficiency with
which men and supplies are being shipped
abroad goes to Lt.-Gen. Brehon Somervell, in
command of Service of Supplies. Ruthless when
it comes to inefficiency, Somervell picks good
men, fires his friends if they don't produce, is a
dynamo of administrative energy. Somervell
first was developed by Postmaster General Frank
Walker when Walker was in charge of the old
National Emergency Council.
(Copyight, 1942, United .Features Syndicate)
A WEEK LATE:
African Second Front
Refutes GOP Charges
OUR Northwest African offensive has come
about a week too late, politically.
:Last Tuesday Americans went to the polls with
their ears full of the Republican slander of the
Administration that had planned this great of-
fensive.
One of the major charges the Republicans used
to support their unfortunately successful cam-
paign was that their opponents were using the
war effort solely to stay in power.
The new offensive action absolutely refutes
thes* charges.
The Administration has known for weeks that
the offeisive was coming an ould have planned
its beginning before election o give itself greater
support. But the Roosevelt men waited until
the attack was militarily expedient and disre-
garded political factors.
What happened Saturday night is no over-
sized commando raid. It is a magnificent, beau-
tifully planned, full-scale offensive with no
political patronage attached.
It is a bad break for America that the offensive
did not begin last week when it could have
helped men like Senator Prentiss Brown back
into office. We would have enjoyed the spectacle
of Republicans choking on their charges.
- Leon Gordenker
they know it is for freedom, equality and se-
curity that we are fighting this war.
Only two days after the election the tirade
against progress began. It was led- by Repub-
licans Vandenberg and Richard, Democrats
n s. ,anfank in rn.,ar c.n *Ta am r. na a not
J"d Rather"
Be Right__
LQ , By SAMUEL GRAFTON
NEW YORK-It was rather indecent of Sena-
tor "Pappy" Lee O'Daniel of Texas to glance at
the election returns and rush to the floor de-
manding a 72-hour work-week. I challenge "Pap-
py" to produce any personnel chief of any of
the 20 leading American aircraft and tank fac-
tories to testify in- favor of a general 72-hour
week. I will give $25 to the U.S.O. for each such
personnel director "Pappy" finds if he will make
the same contribution for each one I find who
declines to endorse his proposal, or clams up and
refuses to comment on it.
I will give $100 to the U.S.O. if "Pappy can get
Henry Ford to endorse his proposal without
qualification.
Trouble Where There Is No Trouble
I accuse "Pappy" and his colleagues, Rankin of
Mississippi and Rich of Pennsylvania, of making
trouble in precisely that field of the war effort
in which we have scored our only success. For I
quote, from an article in the Pall issue of "Mili-
tary Affairs," organ of a learned society, the
American Institute, by Edward S. Mason, of the
Office of Strategic Services:
"Our current production of armament, on any
method of measurement, now exceeds Englads
will top Germany's by the end of the summer
(this article was written in Spring, 1942) and will
equal the total output of the entire axis by the
end of the year."
I accuse "Pappy" and his friends of making
trouble where there is no trouble. I accuse them
of doing the worst thing any propagandist could
do; they are making our success look like a
failure. Instead of rejoicing over our success on
the home front, they are degrading it to make
ammunition for an internal political war.
Lift Up Your Eyes
That hurts, and is- more important than the
wage-hour issue itself. For I could (it is dull, but
I could do it) prove that the wage-hour act does
not prevent any workman from working any
number of hours; that it provides only for over-
time pay after 40 hours. It is an outlandish fake
to fight the act in the guise of "stopping the Ad-
ministration from sneaking over social reforms
during a war," for the act was passed in 1938,
long before the war, and its enemies are doing
precisely what they say they hate, trying to put
over profound social changes during a war.
But devil take' all that. What hurts is that
while our English allies are brilliantly destroying
Nazis, and our Russian allies are ditto, ditto,
ditto, we can't seem to get our eyes off pay
envelopes. This furious American concentration
of attention on an irrelevancy during a crisis
is the most discouraging single sign in the en-
tire democratic world today.
How can Galahad fight, with so great a belly-
ache? This new movement is profoundly isola-
tionist, regardless of the dirty names its sponsors
apply to Hitler, because it looks inward instead of
outward. It is not consciously isolationist, but it is
organically isolationist; it cannot tear its atten-
tion from behind the lines.
A Living Wall
It does not call upon the country to win by
taking the offensive; it calls upon the country
to win by cutting wages.
Better To Enduree
To the Editor:t
SHARING COMPLETELY the dis-o
appointments you have so intel-f
ligently expressed in your editorialsr
of Nov. 5, I am still inclined to ac
sound note of hope. It is this, thatt
the age-old cause of liberalism hass
so many splendid young recruits, who,I
like yourselves, are able to peer deeplyr
into the imponderable flux of humani
affairs and speak cogently of causes.
and effects, reflecting also those hu-
manitarian motives that can alone.t
produce reform.
In the society of any age, there
must inevitably be those prophetic
minds whose grief and glory it is
to stand upon the frontier. I thinkl
that you might take comfort by
answering this simple question for
yourselves: Is it better to endure,
or to unaware? I know what your]
answer will be.
Fred .G. Walcott
Election Deplored
To the Editor:
CONTRARY TO CUSTOM, I have
refrained for several months from
writing letters to the hospitable col-
umns of The Daily; not, I fear, from
a growing sense of modesty or pity
for the readers, but merely because
I have had so little reason for dis-
content. The editorials and column
articles have been unusually thought-
ful, forceful and ably handled. But
two things move me now to take
down an indignant typewriter from
its shelf: "X's" unwarrantedly severe
letter on Professor Brumm's play,
and a regular torrent of letters (all
of which missed the point) attacking
The Daily editorials on the recent
election.
To take the first, and less impor-
tant, matter. The choice of an ama-
teur rather than a professional play
may well have been not a judgment
as to their relative merits but an
attempt to encourage playwriting
on this campus. Why should not
Michigan becomes, as Yale was for a
time, not only a school of dramatic
talent but also a school for drama-
tists? Professor Brumm has labored
almost alone in a vineyard in which
he should have had many co-work-
ers, student as well as faculty. Though
Sundown has its weak spots, it has
also moments of high dramatic cri-
sis, as in the second act.
More also might well have been
said (and in your dramatic review
a few days earlier too) about the
high level of acting talent revealed.
Year after year on this campus I
have seen "dramatic season" per-
formances by professionals, and also
play production performances by our
student amateurs, and if I had to
choose which series I -would attend
for sheer pleasure in the acting, as
well as for the choice of plays, I sin-
cerely think I would take the latter.
Now, about the election. The
position of The Daily's editorial
writers is not, as I understand it,
that Democrats as such are prefer-
able to Republicans. That would
be in truth to say that Tweedledum
was better than Tweedledee! Their
point, missed by all the angry let-
ters in reply, was that the wrong
kind of politicians have been cho-
sen, whatever their party label.
Senator Nye, the Republican iso-
lationist, is mental brother to Sen-
ator Wheeler, the Democratic iso-
lationist; on the other hand, Secre-
tary Cordell Hull is spiritually
closely akin to William Aen
White, the Republican who founded
the Committee to Defend America
by Aiding the Allies. And so it is
on domestic issues as well. A New
Deal Democrat and a Progressive
Republican have much more in
common with each other than
either woud have with a Demo-
eratic Bourbon or an Old Guard
Republican. The first beginning of
political wisdom is to look at eon-
tents and not at labels.
HAT IS DEPLORABLE is pre-
cisely that the voters, en masse,
did not discriminate. What differ-
ence does it make that Norris ran on J
an independent ticket, as one letter
triumphantly points out? The people :h
of Nebraska should have rejoiced at
their opportunity to choose the most
distinguished man in the Senate, no
matter what ticket he ran on, insteadp
of merely voting a party ballot as if
I
they were "voting machines" them 1
selves!- I think, too, that Senator
Brown, the second most distinguished b
man in the Senate, would have gar-f
nered more votes if the habit of vot-r
ing a straight ticket had not become a
so ingrained. Was Hamilton Fish
chosen to rebuke the inefficiency ofr
the war effort of the administration?
Could no other Republican be founde
who had a better record on prepared-
ness and foreign policy than thats
close associate of the imprisoneds
Nazi agent Viereck?i
Obviously in such cases the votersC
were practically voting in their sleep,r
automatically recording a party bal-
lot without much caring who was on
it. Finally, if the American people in
this election were as wise, alert and
thoughtful as some of the letters im-
plied, why did so many of them stay!
away from the polls altogether? t
A small vote means an inert or
indifferent electorate. A citizen's
duty to vote is as plain as a sol-
dier's duty to fight, and perhaps in1
the long run quite as important in
winning the sort of peace that will!
endure. Preston Slosson !
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Editors Defended
To the Editor:
YOU have a defender! Amidst the
storm of vilification which you
have brought down about your ears
by your somewhat violently asserted
views on the collapse of liberalism in
the recent election, let freedom ring
feebly through the voice of at least
one admirer. Granted that your edi-
torial did sound like the explosion of
a small boy about to burst into tears
(a simile already used profusely),
granted that one of the Swgnder
weaknesses is strong language (which
is always the language of frustra-
tion), and that strong language sel-
dom impresses anybody; but thanks
be unto heaven that there are some
people who feel that way about - it
and say so.
The reactionary element of our
student body has seen fit to pass
some acrid remarks about you, none
more acrid than those of Miss Me-
Vittie, who seems to have the ad-
vantage of knowing that you come
from a conservative environment,
that you were once a "typical col-
legiate man," and that you have
now turned to bite the hand that.
fed you. Whether you are the
product of capitalism or commu-
nism matters little to us, but bless-
ings upon you, if the former be the
case, that your "interviews with
liberals" and your "political s-
ence courses" fell upon fertile soil,
that you are an emancipated man,
and that you don't care whether
the hand that fed you keeps on
doing so or not.
The Quadruple Alliance of Jack-
son, Heard, Burnett and Halstead,
and the Timms Opposition seem to
gather that you would like this gov-
ernment run by one party, the party
of which you approve but others of
us have a forward-humanity confi-
dence that we can perceive through
your tortured verbiage something
higher and better than that-an hon-
est belief that the Republican party
does not at this time exemplify the
surer way of progress.
OOD journalistic style, as Miss
MacVittie says, may not be one
of your gifts, and may never be, but
at a time when the voting majority
of the country give evidence of being
more concerned about the smaller,
personal issues than about when and
what kind of a grand finale we shall
tack onto the end of this war, a heart-
torn outcry such as yours makes us
kindred :souls want to ,praise the Lord
and pass the ammunition.
-Augusta Walker
the Health Service today from 10 00-
12:00 and from 1:30 to 5:00.'
Sugar .Beet Pickers: The following
students engaged in sugar beet pick-
ing are excused from classes for
three days, Nov. 9, 10 and .1, with
the privilege of making up lost work.
This list is printed for the infotma-
tion of their instructors.
Members of Manpower Board
Hack Kellner, Robert Johnson,
Robert Wendling, Richard Dick.
Alphabetical List
Robert W. Allen, Kenneth Ankli,
Stuart Alexander, John Averill, Jack
Athens, Art Abelson, S. Lawrencet
Aronsson, Robert Anderson, Robert
Allen, Charles Anderson, Don Albin-
son.
Dick Barrar, Joe Batski, Jim Bur-
bott, Vic Baum, Phil Baris, James
Blanchard, John Becker, Bill Bowen,
Diok Beckett, Laden Brown, Robert!
Barnes, Bill Brooks, Alan Brandt,
Bill Bacon, LeroyBrooks, Leo Ben-
nish, Ray Boucher, Claude Batuk,'
Dick Batisole.
John Crow, James Connell, Rich-
rSCHAIKOWSKY has for a long
time been one of those composers
Yho can pack a concert and empty a
iighbrow salon at the drop of a tym-
ani. Highbrows being spinach these
lays anyway, but always worthwhile
icking up a few hints from, it is
erhaps time the Gloomy Slav was
ooked into again. Swooning is no
onger considered a gracious reaction
o music and Tschaikowsky seems to
be the type of composer who aims
for just that. Most likely, however,
he has not achieved lasting success
s an emotional artist; profundity
was above him and subtlety beneath
his dignity as a Romantic. But he
does have something,-he is appeal-
ng. He weeps and rages, and occa-
sionally stamps his foot; he never
strokes his beard; his tongue is never
in his cheek; but he has our occa-
sional impatient sympathy; he is a
dear old camp. The days are prob-
ably over for a great many of us
when we swooned over his woes, and
it is also about time a lot of us
stopped despising him. He will prob-
ably never achieve an equitable posi-
tion in music unless brows of all sta-
tions cease listening to him in a blob
of emotion, favorable or unfavorable.
THESE JOTTINGS are occasioned
by Artur Rodzinski's conducting
the Cleveland Orchestra Sunday
night in a performance of Tschai-
kowsky's Pathetique. On all counts
it was an amazing performance and
a privilege to hear. All the vigor and
generosity, the instrumental and
rhythmical detail and, by the way,
the really good tunes were realized to
the fullest. Nothing was imposed
upon the music, it seemed to achieve
itself. For a change, here was Tschai-
kowsky played as he should be lis-
tened to, and for this reviewer it was
a. n ew unveiling of a work he has
not been able to bear for years. Per-
haps the greatest accomplishment of
the evening was the third movement,
which was infused with astonishing
vivacity and, wonder of wonders, did
not even sound vulgar. It was not an
emotional experience, thank God, but
a nmusical one that repaid the hs-
tener's attention with the conduc-
Ogr's and orchestra's attention to the
score.
BEETHOVEN'S Second Symphony,
about his least played, which
qpened the program, although a much
greater work, unfortunately did not
get quite the same attention. It is
probably a difficult symphony to
perform. The Haydn influences and
the Beethoven anticipations must all
be underlined, as well as the good-
humor of the symphony as an inde-
pendent unit. Rodzinski's conduct-
ing seemed just a wee-bit on the
"dead-pan" side, the delicacy never
quite became humorous, the vigor
was lacking in attack. It was a very
good performance, but hardly an
authoritative one. Perhaps this is
not Aodzinski's dish; the service was
five parts gourmet to one part appe-
tite.
FAR MORE ENERGY and tact was
expended on Morton Gould's
"Spirituals" for Strug Choir and
Orchestra, although it didn't seem to
warrant it. American music will
never be achieved if our composers
insist upon being self-consciously na-
tive. What Negro spirituals haye to
say they have said with great elo-
quence, and nothing is added either
to them or to American art by so-
phisticating their spirit. The work
was cleverly written and orchestrated,
but it never became much more than
slick or cute. One could hardly-help
asking "Why?" at the close. There
was no answer, not even the faint
memory of one new tune. The snare-
drummer had the best time.
THE playing of the orchestra, ex-
cept for a few uneasy horns in
the first movemgent of the Pathetique,
was impeccably clean and rich. Ar-
tur Rodzinski and his men easily
merited Sunday's enthusiastic ap-
plause.
Chester Kallman
A. Duttweiler, Don Davis, John Dar-
roch.
Herb Edelhertz, John Erlewine,
Harry Elkins, Fred Epstein, Robert
Ellerbusch, Leroy Englehardt, Walt
Evans, Selig ,Estroff.
Kurt Friedman, Bill Fead, Alan
Frankel, Bob Frick, Henry Friedman,
Bob Feinberg,. William Flanagan,
Dick Ford, Bob Frick, John Fitch,
Edward Franzetti.
David Gault, William Girvin,
Norm Gould, Bernard Goldstone,
Ernest Goeckel, James Germanson,
John Grandy, .Larry .Gilford, Charles
Godfrey, Bill Gans, Bill Goldberg,
Leonard Gordinier, Robert Greene,
Al Grunewald.
Charles Hood, Lewis Hayes, Joe
Heit, Jack Highfield, Richard Hall,
Don Hutchinson, Stan Hartman, Bob
Habel, Ed Hoff, Jim Holbach, Jim
Herbst, Herber Hudson,,Fred Hodges,
Roger Heppes, Walt Hoffman, Regi-
nald Hardy, George Harris, Bill
Hutchins, Bill Hellig, Bill Hampden,
Russ Hadley, Seymour Hosenball,
,Joseph Herz, Jack Harrigan, Dave
Harrison, Hugh Hanson, Emanuel
Hoekel.
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VOL. I No. 32
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Notices
Student Tea: President and Mrs.
Ruthven will be at home to students
Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 11, from
4 to 6 o'clock.
Observance of Arnistice Day: By'
order of the Deans' Conference,
classes, with the exception of the
clinics, will be dismissed between 10
and 12 on Wednesday morning, Nov..