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But now men are everywhere beginning to
worry about a post-war world, orbout how we'll
eradicate the Japanese and what we'll do with"
Hitler and Co., with a lot of minor mutterings
about the Italians thrown in for good meastur
Once again over-confident peace-loving Amer-
cans are making bets that the war will be a
closed page of history before Christmas, 1943,
rolls around.
This is a serious error! It is not only an overly
optimistic attitude but is based upon an exag-
gerated opinion of the importance of recent Al-
lied gains.
Sir Stafford Cripps, speaking before the Eng-
lish House of Commons, warned against this same
thing last week when he said, ".. . a stern and up-
hill fight lies ahead of us before we can even gain
mastery of North Africa itself."
THE FACT is that the African second front was
the selection of a minor offensive campaign
which was deemed more promising of success
than the main task of opening a front in northern
France. But, even in the wide and only slightly
defended African expanses, which were a second
choice to boot, Cripps says the Allied campaign is
going to be "uphill." How muchhmore difficult
and how much longer will it be, then, to reconquer
France, the Balkan lpeninsula, Poland, the
Ukraine and virtually all of a continent which
now bristles with the bayonets of a German con-
queror?
And, how about the Pacific? There the U.S.
Navy's small scale Solomons Islands offensive
has been in progress nearly a month. Significant
facts are these: the naval engagements have not
been decisive; Americans have been hard-pressed
to hold even one of these islands-Guadalcanal;
and, the Japanese continue to possess several
:ther bases in this single island group.
The enemy must be removed from New.
Guinea, the many East Indian Islands, each of
the hundreds of Philippine Islands, all of Thai-
land, Burma and most of China, and yet it's
taking us months to remove them from the
Solomons alone! How can the task be com-
pleted as soon as the optimists predict?
Campus ROTC head, Col. William A. Ganoe,
freely predicted that on the basis of logistics this
wvar might well last 15 years. He reasoned: if
Germany when her strength was 10 to 1 against
England had only about a 15% chance of crossing
he Channel, how much less is our chance of
wiping the enemy out of the Southwest Pacific
[slands when their strength is approximately 1 to
L5 against us? Landing operations are the most
lifficult of all; witness the Dieppe raid.
And even a victorious Allied general in the
African campaign, Sir Harold Alexander, has
warned that the battle is not yet won and that
although Rommel is now "groggy ... he ist
out!"
[S IT THEREFORE wise to begin thumping the
peace drums and optimistically counting on an
arly victory? Indeed, this is an unfounded hope
av. Tarnranimna enin. The h rhon of
"There must not be any question that Van
Wagoner's term will run to January 1; there
will, be no Joint proclamation and things of
t4at u ntre.... and I want it clearly under-
stood," is Kelly's statement. And that's that.
Governor Van Wagoner didn't want a war-time
government impeded by picayune politics as it
was when .he took office two years ago. But
steaming party higher-ups who termed the Gov-
ernor's proposition a "political honeymoon" just
couldn't face the idea of Democrat-Republican
harmony.Y
AND NOW all the delighted compliments that
greeted the proposal, all the hopes of a new
and enlightened responsibility sink down into the
usual bog of politics and selfishness. With die-
hards in both parties who go up in smoke at the,
very thought of post-election expressions of
friendship, Michigan can't afford to be smug
about the efficiency of her war-time government.
-Ray Dixon
TELEPHONES:
Wartime Needs Rule
Out Long Holiday Calls
THE MICHIGAN BELL Telephone Co. is in the
peculiar position of having to advertise to get
the public NOT to use their services. For years
the company has spent a great deal of money to
build up their long distance business, but now
that military and war production calls, together
with calls home by men in the service have
jammed the wires almost to capacity, the com-
pany has asked civilians not to make long dis-
tance social calls during the Thanksgiving holi-
day period. A congestion of the circuits would
be of direct detriment to the war effort. It is our
patriotic duty to see that the lines are kept clear.
-- Ray Rixon
ci]etter to tLe &Lptop
Music Criticism
To The Editor:
HAVEN'T we alienated enough musical artists
already? Must we encourage this collegiate
baiting'of the performers who are selected as out-
standing by the University Mugical Society and
who consistently please the audiences even while
they move the Critic who writes for The Daily
to tear his wild locks?
To come down to cases, I have been skeptical
of the value of such musical criticism since
the caustic and personal comment of one such
critic in the past sent Lily Pons from Ann Ar-
bor, vowing never to return again. Without
discussing the gain or loss thereby, let me say
Senator Taft gave.it away. the 9ther day when
he told a Senatorial colleague that he would not
be a candidate for the presidency in 1944, as he
was in 1940.
"Bricker stepped aside for ne in '40," Taft
said. "He let me have my chance. Now it's my
turn to step aside for him.
"Besides," he added, "I like my job here in the
Senate, and it costs a lot of money to run for
the Republican nomination."
It is also reported that Herbert Hoover and
certain others from the conservative wing of
the. party are quietly behind Bricker. Their
idea is that if the GOP avoids too much knock-
down bitterness at the convention, and selects
a man who appeals to all groups within the
party, the 1944 race will be a walk-away.
The Hoover crowd .is especially anxious to head
off Willkie. They also seem convinced that
Dewey means what he says when he promises to
remain governor of New York. This leaves
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan as the leading.
opponent to Bricker in the conservative wing of
the party.
Present plan is to avoid bringing Bricker for-
ward as a last minute compromise a la Warren
G. Harding. Bricker is sometimes described as
a Harding without a sombrero, has a pleasant
personality, has not offended too many people,
and has not stuck his neck out too far on con-
troversial policies.
War Picture
Diplomatic dispatches received here indicate
that Russia is already feeling material relief as
a result of the North African campaign. It is well
known that the Germans have withdrawn men
and planes from the Russian front, but it is not
generally known that they have taken planes also
from Norway.
These include Nazi torpedo planes, which
will be based on Sicily for use against United
Nations shipping in the Mediterranean. Thus
the planes will not be used against shipping
bound over the top of Norway for the Russian
port of Murmansk: In other words, the Rus-
sians now have a less dangerous supply route.
Sicily is bound to become a battlefield, and the
narrow straits between that island at the toe
of the Italian boot and Tunisia, on the African
shore, will see the hottest air activity of the war.
U.S. planes will be running, every hour almost
on the hour, across the 100-mile strait to Sicily,
to bomb the German and Italian fields and forces
there, and the Germans in turn will bomb back.
The distance is so short that a single plane could
make two or three round trips a day, without
even stopping to refuel.
Vital Air-Neck
It will be the hottest shuttle service in the
history of warfare. Whoever has control of the
air in that narrow passage will have coritrol of
the shinning that attempts to pass to the eastern
Samuel Grafton's
P'dRather
'Be Right
NEW YORK-I think we ought
to begin a new line of thought on
war aims. It should be directed to-
ward our own people. It should take
the form of telling them that the
post-war struggle to make the
world a practical proposition is go-
ing to be harder than the war, that
it will take longer than the war,
that it will probably not be com-
pleted during the lifetime of any-
one now an adult.
That may be a bitter dose, but
at least it is not so sweet it makes
one to gag.
We - should begin to tell each
other that military victory is only
a way station, that the fight
which begins afterward will be
more complicated, harder to un-
derstand, and, in some ways,
harder to fight, than the present
battle of armed men.
There is not much confusion
when an American with a gun
fights a German with a gun; that
is an historical situation skinned
down the the barest essentials. It is
a situation filled with danger, but
the dangers are clear and present
dangers, the comprehensive dan-
gers of sudden death.
Peace Will Be Dangerous
The peace will be more danger-
ous, filled with such subtle dangers
as recognizing the wrong Germans
letting left-over Junkers and some
of the very men who financed Hit-
ler come back to form, a govern-
ment; the dangers of }taking the
wrong steps, of permitting the
wrong steps, in a dozen countries.
The first item on a program of
war aims must be to throw away
the thought that we shall, on the
morning after the armistice, be
able to solve the world's prob-
lems. We shall not be able to do
so. The peace will be harder than
the war. Military victory will
give us only the chance to take
part in that harder struggle. We
are fighting for the right to par-
ticipate in a fiercer battle.
In the next-to-the-last analysis
(I don't hope to be present at the
last analysis) the internal prob-
lems of Germany will have to be
solved by the Germans; the prob-
lems of Italy by the Italians; the
problems of France by Frenchmen;
the problems of India by Indians;
the problems of England by Eng-
lishmen. That is what this war
is about. The first premise of our
war aims is that we recognize the
right of Frenchmen to solve the in-
ternal problems of France, and
don't recognize the right of Ger-
mans to do so; similarly that
(when the proper conditions come
about) we will recognize the right
of Germans to solve the internal
problems of Germany.
Peace Will Be A Battle
All this means struggle, intricate
and lengthy struggle. It means we
shall have to learn to recognize
democratic movements when they
appear, even when they appear in
the countries now our enemies. It
means that the plan for Germany
will have to come from Germany,
even though that takes ten years,
or twenty.
Our chief war aim can be only
an attitude, an attitude of will-
ingness to recognize and help
truly democratic movements
when.they arise. They are, fortu-
nately, 'rather easy to recognize.
We have rarely, in the last ten
years, been in doubt as to who
was democratic and who was not.
To rely on that attitude, rather
than on any three- for- a-nickel de-
tailed plan as to what "we shall do"
in each country, spares us from the
dreadful perils of utopianism, and
gives us solid ground for appealing
to the peoples in each country. We
offer them, not specious specifics
but only what we hope to obtain
forourselves from the war, the
right to take part in a more mean-
ingful battle.
Peace Will Not Be Pat
It may seem pessimism, to tell
the people of America that the
post-war struggle will take many
years, that it will be enormously
complicated, that it will be danger-
ous, that a life-time will not be
enough to do it all in.
Actually, it is optimism, be-
cause, first, it is true, and, sec-
ond, because so candid an ap-
proach must make an appeal to
the strong common sense of the
plain people. The idealist, who
promises to solve everything on
the morning after the war, speaks
so fancifully and so unconvinc-
ingly, that he plays straight into
the hands of the isolationist who
says (puff of smoke) that we
can't impose democracy by force
and (puff of smoke) that maybe
some people just don't like milk.
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Hirsch Hootkins will speak on "The
Attitude of the Mexicans toward the
Americans."
The ASME will meet on Wednes-
day, Nov. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in room
318 of the Union. A full color sound
motion picture entitled, "The Inside
of Arc Welding," will be shown. All
engineering students and professors
are invited., Membership will be
available at the meeting.
German Journal Club will meet at
4:00 p.m. Monday in the West Con-
ference Room of the Rackham Build-s
ing. Mr. Philippson will read a paper
on "Die niederrheinischen Matronen."
The Cercle Francais will repro-
duce some scenes of last year's play,
La Belle Aventure, at its meeting on
Tuesday, November 24, at 8:15 p.m.
in the Michigan Union. There will
also be singing of popular French,
songs, accompanied by the guitar.
Phi Sigma will hold a business
meeting at 7:45 Monday night, No-
vember 23, Graduate Outing Club)
Room, Rackham Building. All mem-
bers are urged to be present.
Program of Recorded Music, In-,
ternational Center: This week, on
account of Thanksgiving Day, the
program of recorded music will be
held on Tuesday, November 24, at
7:30 p.m. The program is as fol-
lows: \
Schubert: Quartet in D minor
(Death and the Maiden): Busch
String Quartet.
Schubert: Songs: The Wanderer,
Alexander Kipnis: Der Erlkong,,
Sigrid Onegin.
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B
minor (Unfinished), Philadel-
phia Orchestra, Stokowski con-
ducting.
Mendelssohn: . A Midsummer
Night's Dream, San Francisco
Orchestra, Alfred. Hertz.
Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin
in E minor, Fritz Kreisler.
The Regular Tuesday Evening Re-
corded Program in the Men's Lounge
of the Rackham Building at 8:00
p.m. will be as follows:
Brahms: Two Songs for Alto, with
Viola Obligato and Piano.
Bach: Violin Concerto in D minor.
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PRESIDENT Roosevelt has sum-
moned the people to prayer on
Thanksgiving Day. The values to be
found in private prayer, habitual at-
tendance at: Mass, or public medita-
tion in the presence of sacred sym-
bols are not easily appraised. The
experience is subjective, hence very
real to one but intangible to another.
Dr. Ernest C. Colwell of the Chicago
Divinity School says, "The sensitive-
ness engendered in these services bf
worship is the condition of growth."
Basically human persons being so
recently evolved are already the most
sensitive, fragile, and delicate of all
of the expressions found in nature.
That means that men standing among
the other organisms are most readily
influenced, most apt to be injured,
most easily ruined and most certain
to fail of their destiny.
THE WRITER is insisting that man,
by centering his attention con-
sciously upon the Deity and by asso-
ciating himself definitely with the
hope of religion, may make himself
more sensitive. He claims also that
worship will keep a man from becom-
ing dull or insensible to various influ-
ences about him. This boast runs
counter to the idea that religion is
"opiate of. the people." Materialistic
systems have aimed to eliminate the
church, cut off the priests, take edu-
cation from the monks, usurp the
places of worship or turn cathedrals
into exhibition halls. These men be-
lieve not thatnworship sensitizes, but
that it prevents sensitivity, makes
man stolid and increases indifference.
W HEN the mind with its imagina-
tion, the insight it develops, the
response it is~capable of, the memory
and recall by which ancient impres-
sions become alert or associate with
new ones, does what true worship de-
mands, an increase of insight will fol-
low as night the day. Worship is the
act of focusing the mind on God,
upon some ideal, or desired goal with
such effectiveness that the frustra-
tions of the nerves as well as the peri-
feral demands of the organism give
way to that central striving. In wor-
ship the more common relations are
thrust aside and ideal relations have
reign. Worship thus becomes the
measuring of the ego against a lofty
aim, the satisfying status or the per-
fect Deity.
NOW, while it may be true that such
a practice, when associated re-
DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Handel: Concerto No. 1 in B flat
minor for oboe and orchestra.
Franck: Variations Symphoniques
for piano and orchestra.
Sibelius: Symphony No. 3 in C
major.
Mortarboard will have its picture
taken for the 'Ensian at 5:15 p.m.
Tuesday, November 24, in the Coun-
cil Room at the League.
First Aid and Home Nursing classes
will not meet Wednesday, November
25, or Thursday, November 26.
"She Stoops to Conquer:" Students
in Speech 164 will give a platform pre-
sentation of- the principal scene from
Oliver Goldsmith's "She Stoops to
Conquer" at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday in
302 Mason Hall.
Bowling: The bowling alleys in the
Women's Athletic Building will open
for the season on Monday, November
23. Hours: 3:15 to 6:00 afternoons
(except Saturday) 1:00 to 6:00 Satur-
day afternoon, 7:00 to 10:00 every
evening.
Women's Rifle Club: Instruction
periods will begin as scheduled on
Monday, November 23, at the range
in the Women's Athletic Building.
Be sure to come at the time for which
you signed.
Churches
First Presbyterian Church: Univer-
sity Student Bible Study Class direct-
ed by Mr. Malan and Mr. Lampe at
9:30 a.m., studying "A Harmony of
the Gospels." Morning Worship-
10:45 "Getting and Spending"-sub-
ject of the third in the series of ser-
mons entitled "Life's Leading Ques-
tions"-by Dr. W. P. Lemon. West-
minister Student Guild Thanksgiving
Program-Supper hour at 6 o'clock,
followed at 7 o'clock by a discussion
of "Christianity in Colonial Days" by
Earle Harris.
Lutheran Student Chapel: Divine
Service In League Chapel Sunday at
11:00 a.m. Sermon by the Rev. Alfred
Scheips on "God's Preservation."
Sunday at 5:30 p.m. Supper Meeting
of Gamma Delta,. Lutheran Student
Club, at St. Paul's Church.
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church:
8:00 a.m. Holy Communion;- 11:00
a.m. High School Class,.Tatlock Hall;
11:00 a.m. Junior Church; 11:00 a.m.
Morning Prayer and Sermon by Dr.
George F. Thomas, Professor of Re-
ligious Thought, Princeton Univer-
sity; 5:00 p.m. H-Square Club, Page
Hall; 6:45 p.m. Freshman Discussion
Group, Harris Hall; 7:30 p.m. Can-
terbury Club, Harris Hall. Speaer:
Miss Bernice Jansen, who is doing
pioneer work with migrant workers in
Orangeville, Mich.
First Congregational Church: 10:45
a.m. Public Worship. Sermon by Dr.
L. A. Parr on "Let Us Give Thanks."
7:00 pm. The Student Fellowship will
join with the Disciples' Guild in a
meeting at Disciples' Church. Dr.
Edgar DeWitt Jones will speak on
"Adventuring in Cooperation."
First Church of Christ, Scientist:
Sunday morning service at 10:30.
Subject: "Soul and Body." Sunday
School at 11:45 a.m. Free public Read-
ing Room at 106 E. Washington St.
open every day, except Sundays and
holidays, 11:30 pm.5:00 p.m.; Sat-
urdays until 9:00 p.m.
Memorial Christian Church (Disci-
ples): 10:45 Morning worship. Rev.
Frederick Cowin, Minister; 7:00 p.m.,
Guild Sunday Evening Hour. The
Disciples Guild and the Congrega-
tional Student Fellowship will hold a
joint meeting at the Christian
Church. Dr. Edgar DeWitt Jones of
Detroit will speak on "Adventuring
in Christian Cooperation." A social
hour and refreshments will follow the
program.
First Methodist Church and Wesley
Foundation: Student Class at 9:30
a.m. Prof. George F. Thomas, of
Princeton University, will lead the
discussion and members of pother
Guilds will meet with us. Morning
Worship Service at 10:45 o'clock. Dr.
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The U.. of M.
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TODAY: 9:00; a.m. WJR, "War-Time
Hymns," directed by Dr. Hardin
Van Deursen, featuring the Uni-
versity Choir. At 1:45 p m. WJR,
Prof. James Pollock.
MONDAY: 2:45 p.m., WCAR., Dr. Paul
Cuncannon, news commentator. At
6:15 p.m. WWJ, Prof. Preston Slos-
son.
TUESDAY: 2:45 p.m. WCAR, "Meet
the EmergencV," dramatic program
directed by Mr. Donald Hargis.
WEDNESDAY: 2:45 p.m. WCAR
Dramatization, directed by Prof.