,I THE MICHIGAN DAILY. T-MOATNOV. 14, 1942. I Tt~SbAY, NOV. 10, 1M2 I II r . Fift y-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 regulr UiWersity year, and evert mrnfg 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 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, Associted Collegiate Press, 1942.41 REppRE9NTEO FOR NATIONAL. ADVEITlI3NG SY National Advertising Service, Inc. Colege Publishers Represenative 420 MAOisoN Avt. NE~W YORK. N. Y. CSiCM* * kSTG 8"100* 5 NiuLu * SAN 7IARCSSC@ Editorial Staff Uomer Swander . . . Managing Editor Morton Mints. . . . . Vditorial Director Will Sapp . . . . . -City Editor George W. Sallad. . . . . Associate Editor' Charles Thatcher . . . . Associate Editor Bernard Iendel . Spts Editor Barbara deFries . . . . - Womenp's Editor Myron Datun . . Associate Sports Editor Business Staff Edward J. Perlberg . . - Business Manager Fr'ed M. Ginsberg . . Associate Business Manager Mary Lou Curran . Women's Business Manager Jane Lindberg. . Women's Advertising Managet James Daniels . . . Publications Spjes Aaiyst Telephone 23-24-1 NIGHT EDITOR: CHARLOTTE CONOVER cIfI were in nri a ,doktor i theyd tweer v,6 ot an' Ji een51 2 5 2e eC it/'f(or MUSICI *1 Editorials published in The Michigan Daily - are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only.. 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 - 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 ! ** * 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. C . , p~. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN i '' II TUESDAY, NOV. 10, 1942 VOL. I No. 32 All notices Ior the Daily official Bul- letin are to be sent to the Office of the President in typewritten formi 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.m. 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..