LILY SUNDAY, NOV. 22, 1942 U.S. Q 3< k '" f , " jf ..S j : a 0, U .S . 1 aq f 7 . - j , . It M'.- . .."'r - 4 .s . ..fi:; rbd ,'iJ'7'.,...w - -. d'942,' ac hi 1o 1 e .46 in ,, , tlA~ la a -- l-. 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. (Continued from Page 3) 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. e e. 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. (Continued on Page 8) The U.. of M. Oan The Ai r 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.