THE Mlir.Nir AN _ bTT. O"Zlle;&77*N;.lt,- Z T/-.-Z7 le.el -2^ Akl Mr5idiian Baily Fifty-Third ,Year Edited and managed by students of the University of fichigan under the authority of the Board in Control f Student Publications. Published -every morning except Monday during the gular University year, and every morning except Mon- ay and Tuesday during the summer session. 4Iember of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the se for republication of all news dispatches credited to or otherwise credited in this newspaper. All, rights republication of all other mattets herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as cond-class mail matter. Subscriptions during the regular school year by carrier .25, by mail $5.25. rember, Associated Collegiate Press, 1942-43 REPRESENTED FOR NATONAL ADVERTISING SY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Piulishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE, NEW YORK. N.Y CHICAGO * BOSTON * .L osANGES * SAN FRANCISCO THE M1iaICHI%-2AN fbT TV. °I(tY''~~ 2,14 .. MARATHON _ Y~ - 4.. t.~ -.<- s. . - s ue , ' ."i ,, x.i SOME ARE NOT FUNNY: cpwm'illed' omics TBy MARK( tl'PER HIS MORNING millions of American people will thumb through their newspapers to the comic section-to the so-called "funny papers." More than 50 per cent of these will be children rahg- ing from the age of five to the 'teens. All these people read the comics for their cleverness, for their hu- mor or to see if Dick Tracy got out of that basement or if Smiling Jack found his long lost wife. It goes without saying that to many Americans it wouldn't be like Sun- day morning without the "funnies," a great American custom. Yet, since the war started com- ic sections have shown a radical change, a change which shuI d have been stopped by government By DR EW P E A RSON _k ,f Editorial Staff ,..rws er Swander on Mintz . Sapp rge W. Salad . les Thatcher lard Hendel ara deFries on Dann . ard J. Perlberg M. Ginsberg q Lou Curran Lindberg . es Daniels . . . Managing Edit{ . . Editorial Director City Editor . . . . Associate Editor . . . . Associate Editor . . . . Sports Editor * . . . Women's Editor . . Associate Sports Editor action. Many cartoonists dropped their humor and filled their pages with hate and satire-hate for the Nazis and the Japs, hate for the individuals instead of principles. Maybe in the case of adults this is not a serious matter, but in the case of children it is one of the most serious of the war. Comic strip characters are their heroes, their idols, persons whose actions they are always trying to imitate. Pop- eye, Joe Palooka, Superman, Smil- ing Jack, Dick Tracy and many other strip characters are as human to children as their playmates. Many children can be urged to eat spinach because Popeye does and they want to be like him. If Popeye hates and kills Jap soldiers as he is shown to do, then that will always be the right thing to do just as is eating spinach. Joe Palooka is one of the worst hate breeding comic strips in this country. Kind, innocent Joe Pa- looka, idol of thousands of Amer- ican youngsters goes hysterical in onestrip and says "I'm a killer nrow" threatening to kill every last one of the Nazis. Cartoonist Fisher depicts every Nazi soldier as a murderer, hating and killing defenseless women and' children. SOMEDAY this war will be over. There'll be a peace made. How long that peace lasts depends on the children of today. And it is certain that if young America is brought up with the idea that we should hate all Germans and Japa- nese it will not be a temporary hate but a very permanent one. And where there is hate eventually there is bound to be war. Little Orphan Annie can no lonker be classified a "comic" strip. There is seldom any humor in it. Instead it shows serious, war conscious children mobilized, military and hating Nazis and Japanese. It was only a few years ago we were firmly criticizing the Nazis and, Fascists for bringing children into the war, for giving them military educations and teaching them to hate individ- uals. Now Orphan Annie says it's the right thing to do. There are many other comic strips that are employing Nazi methods and ideas in their panels. Every American should be thank- ful there are still some cartoonists who stick to ,making people laugh and enjoy themselves, such as Li'l Abner, Blondie, Jiggs, Katzenjam- mer Kids and many others. T WASN'T LONG AGO that sev- eral eastern papers removed Dick Tracy from their comic pages be- cause it was too gruesome and put wrong ideas in the minds of gulli- ble children. If that is the case, then Orphan Annie, Joe Palooka and all other hate breeding comic strips should have been removed long ago, for they are having a much more serious effect on chil- dren than Dick Tracy could ever have. If the war has to be brought into the "funnies" then it should be done as Milton Caniff goes about it in "Terry and the Pi- rates."T-his is a very lifelike strip which does not exaggerate war circumstances nor depict every Axis soldier as a demon from hell with a bad case of coffe nerves. Some parents rightfully forbid their children from reading cheap "dime novels" because they will put bad ideas in their gullible minds. It wouldn't be a bad idea-if parents made the same rule for hate-filled Business Staff Business Manager Associate Business Manager Women's Business Manager Women's Advertising Manager Publications Sales Analyst Telephone 23-24-1 NIGHT EDITOR: RAY DIXON Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. -wm .~ -:- >@942. Chicago Times.In~. War Aims Need To Be Made Articulate, Real ONCE upon a time (1918 to be exact) there were some men who fought, bled and died because thtey thought they were "making the world safe for democracy." Well, they didn't make the world safe for democracy-they didn't even make it safe .. . But they didn't fail because the enemy wasn't smashed. They failed because they thought crushing Germany was all that was necessary. They failed because they didn't think after they had achieved their military successes, be- cause giey reverted to the even then outmoded isolationist policy that they clung to until Pearl Harbor jolted them out of their reverie. The battles of Britain, Moscow, Stalingrad will eri down as glorious pages in the annals of mili- tary history-but so did those of Meuse-Argonne, Verdun and Chateau Thierry. We cannot let the struggles of today be as futile as those of World War I. We cannot let them be a proving ground for World War III. T IS OUR duty, as Vice-President Wallace puts it, "to build a peace-just, charitable, and en- during." In the words of Wendell Willkie, "there .are now, during the war, common purposes in the minds of men living as far apart as the citizens of Great Britain and the Free Commonwealth of N~ations, the Americans,, the Russians and the Chinese. But we shall have to make articulate and real our common purposes." Our common purposes do not include a fight for a "status quo" that means recurring war- fare, but they do include a fight for progress, a fight for international cooperation that will end the mass slaughters that have character- ized the twentieth century. The only way such a program can meet success s if it is prepared for in advance. Planning now S the answer. ]rHE PEOPLE, who after all will have the final say in terms of those they choose to represent ;hem cannot afford to be apathetic. Of course it would have been easier to say all ,his with a hopeful tone before the first Tuesday n November, before we realized how many people re hoodwinked by things like Malcom Bingay's ricky tripe, and before Mr. Churchill told us hat he is fighting for, but now it needs to be aid more emphatically than ever. kND MUCH of it will be said at the Intercolle- giate Post-War Conference here Friday and aturday, particularly by Norman Thomas and ertrand Russell. Here we will be offered a sound rsis for thought that we cannot do without. - Jim Wienner WORTH A TRY: Cooperation of Guilds Is Guide for Churches E WOULD like to commend the recent action of the campus Congregational and Disciples Christ church guilds in uniting to form one ident religious association. This cooperative terprise, which has aroused widespread interest, ints out the way to closer cooperation of all the my churches and religious groups into which e Christian Church is divided. Whatever role the church may play in the post- ,r world it is certain that it can do the greatest ad in nrnni ii natina qi 'o lrwrin c of ricA c,,+4+., I'd Rather Be Right_ By SAMUEL GRAFTON NEW YORK- Those of us who want better war aims, etc., have to consider how far it is safe to push Mr. Roosevelt around. A family quarrel is going on among liberals, which has the effect of leaving Mr. Roosevelt unsupported and exposed. This makes the President just so much easier a mark for men who have no interest in war aims whatever. Partly, it is a question of the length of a lib- eral's work-week. If Mr. Willkie devotes himself to the Darlan issue, and Miss Thompson ditto, and a number of others likewise, who is to speak up when the suggestion is made (as it was this week) that Congress pull back its war appropri- ations, and make the generals and admirals come begging for money, dollar by dollar, breaking the war down into individual transactions, each to be debated in full view of the enemy? After all, a liberal can turn out just so much controversy in one week, and it is over-special- ization to devote most of it to the Darlan issue, and the Otto of Austria issue, while busy beav- ers are at work, planting the thought in Ameri- can minds that a Congressional coalition ought to move in on the executive and take over the war effort. Our armies cannot win this war with air power alone, or land power alone, and our liberals can- not win it with war aims alone. I HAVE no doubt, for example, that millions of Americans believe Representative Maas of Minnesota scored a sound point when he talked about our supposed lack of unity of command in the Pacific. How many of these Americans had it shown to them that Mr. Maas proposes that we pretty much forget about Europe, and turn our effort into' an idiot war of the white and yellow races? That was a liberal's job, and it was not well done. I read one article, in Time, which dis- cussed Mr. Maas' views on unity of command at length, and did not once mention his peculiar concept of the nature of this war, which has a bearing on the competence of his testimony. Sometimes I have the odd feeling that, in the controversies of the last few months, the liberals of America have been had. A FULL-SCALE effort is underway to alter completely the domestic base of Mr. Roose- velt's management of the war, and those undif- ferentiated liberal gusts of rage at flyspecks in the production program, and missteps in diplo- macy have been useful to politicians and publi- cists who have only minor concern with the spot issues involved. This does not mean we must refuse to criticize, or ease up on that animal, Darlan. It does mean that every subject, from darlan- ism to coffee rationing needs discussion in the light of the unceasing effort now being made to take the war away from Roosevelt, whether that is to be done by giving it to General Mac- Arthur, or by giving it to a Congressional coali- tion, or by dismissing a third of Mr. Roosevelt's civil staff in the name of economy, or by with- drawing appropriations. The question is whether liberalism in America can become consequential, or wheth: it will tear itself to bits in a series of hunch plays, potshots at easy marks, and so on. TIf at lat half th hulk of 1ihral r ionrmir.ccp Ac AXE e 9ind By TORQUEMADA SINCE my affirmation of faith last Wednesday, a little scene has beenseveral times enacted on campus. I am walking down the diag, and one of the few people who know my identity comes up: "Thank you, thank you, good Torquemada, you have given me a new faith and strength to carry on. But who is this Frank Graham, whom you call one of the greatest men in America to- day?" Herewith, an explanation. This summer, a bunch of us from The Daily went to Washington for an International Student Assembly. Mr. Frank Graham, president of the University of North Carolina, was announced as chairman of one meeting, at which Mrs. Roosevelt and William Batt, of the WPB, were to speak. The two speakers both Said nothing rather pleas- antly. After they had finished, Graham got up to deliver five minutes of closing remarks. THERE were six of us there from The Daily; five were very proudly blase, but when Gra- ham had finished, each of us agreed it was 'the best speech he had ever heard. I was moved al- most to tears. WE WENT to see Graham after the meeting, but he had to go; his duties as a member of the War Labor Board didn't give him much time for kibitzing. Later, we happened to be talking to some kids from North Carolina and asked about Graham. Everything they said about him was good. He's the type of man who goes to the dorms every Christmas, and takes all the kids who haven't gone home to his house for dinner. The few from North Carolina to whom we talked thought he was magnificent. His national repu- tation is tops, because under his presidency, North Carolina has risen to first rank among American universities. I do think that Frank Graham is one of the greatest men in America today. Greatness doesn't mean too many things. It calls for a personal decency and considerateness, a hu- manity,.and an intelligence directed toward a faith in progressive social good. Frank Graham has all these things. Unfor- ttnately, his greatness is not too much crowded. D.omfinic Saysj THE CONFLICTS of costs during war with the needs on the part of persons constitutes a major problem. We have the case of juvenile de- linquency, already skyrocketing. Therefore, insti- tutions for prevention, for child care, for social improvement and for family security should be increased. Yet here is the Director of the Michi- gan Child Guidance Institute advising the elimi- nation of his service, to reduce costs during war. The debate actually centers in objectives. Must we win the war of the democracies in such a fashion that we have a depleted population when it is over? Will a father whose small son is home be a better Marine out there on Sitka when we surround that son with defenses or when we neglect him? Can we meet Totalitarians with more vitality when we know we maintain per- sonal security of our weaker members in society, or when we focus attention on machinery, battles, power and permit war effort to become an end WASHINGTON -- Shortly afte gaunt, grey "Berny" Baruch wrote hi rubber report recommending gasolin rationing throughout the entir U.S.A., he told Water Teagle, chair man of Standard Oil of New Jersey "Walter, if you don't come through on this synthetic rubber, you might just as well go ump in the river." What Baruch referred to was tha he had recommended the freezing o the Jesse Jones program for syn thetic rubber, by which the prepon derance of all synthetic rubber con tracts were awarded to the Standar of -New Jersey group with its asso ciated companies. This was the group which had co operated with Germany's I. G. Farbe and was charged by the Justice De prtment with holding rubber patent away from the American public. Baruch explained in his report, an has since elaborated to friends, tha he had to freeze the Jones program because there was no time to mak changes, even though many expert contended that the alcohol proces was the quickest and best way o making synthetic rubber. However, what most people do not know is that the big rubber plants given to the Standard Oil group were only in the blue-print stage when the Baruch report was written. Only one or two of them even had their foundations started. Furthermore, they require a tre- mendous amount of iron, steel and other strategic materials. Finally there is grave doubt wheth er the plants can be finished on time. They are due to be completed July, 1943, seven months hence. Bu many experts believe they will not be finished and actually in operation until January, 1944. That is why Ba- ruch warned Walter Teagle that if his plants weren't finished on time he might as well jump in the river. Some. people now are speculating that this may have been why Teagle and two vice-presidents of Standard, Edward J. Sadler and D. L. Harper, resigned this week. Anyway with the midwest now boiling mad over gas rationing, people are going to be a lot madder if synthetic rubber doesn't cope into production on time. NOTE: - First synthetic rubber plant will start operating in about two weeks, but this is an alcohol plant, not the slower, more expensive petroleum process, which the Baruch Committee believed would produce the best rubber in the end. (Copyright, 1942, United Features Synd.) a dreamer to its capital during a world war. That is much. However, the industrialists, the engineers and other determined fighters with the editors and the publicists have not taken up that address. How shall we pay for the war? By what means shall we profit from the war's destroyed cities? By what plan are we of America to sell high after the war? These questions all stare at us in cold type to an- neunce that Mr. Wallace in his lec- tures was not making himself popu- lar in affluent circles. THIS conflict must at first be a de- bate, we hope a good-natured de- bate, between two types of citizens. That is the American way to every new social good. On the one hand are the persons who very definitely ap- preciate the dangers in losing the war, who are indispensable in vigor or power, and who know what a vast cost we are facing. With them are the technical leaders, the men of applied science and the military who direct the enterprise in the field as well as m Washington. On the other hand, far to the outskirts of the war, as it were, are the men ofsocial vision, our educators, philospohers, religion- ists, mothers and fathers of children, vonth who nreh mntiv±.ar h hnaf f s Ee C E2 fs DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN d | (Continued from Page 3) t -______________ c at 2:00 p.m. All students welcome e For further information call Dan s Saulson (23776) or Dorothy Lund- s strom (24471). f Festival of Choral Music by eleven church choirs from the Ann Arbor District of the Methodist Church this evening at 8 o'clock in the First Methodist Church, State and Wash- ington streets. The public is invited Coming Events Junior Research Club will meet in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham - Building at 7:30 p.m., on Tuesday December 1. There will be introduc- tion of new members, and the pro- t gram will be given by R. L. Garner of Biological Chemistry and L. C. Ander- son of the Chemistry Department. The University of Michigan Flying Club' will meet on Tuesday, Decem- ber 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the Michigan Union. Arrangements for the En- sian picture are to be made and it is important that all members be present. Anyone interested in tr."m- bership is also invited. The 1942 Michigan Concert Band presents its seventh annual Var;ity Night, Tuesday, December 1, a;, 8:30 p.m. in Hill Auditorium. The Varsity Glee Club and campus talent will be featured on the programh. The University of Michigan Inter- national Relations Club will meet Monday night at 7:30 in Room 231 Angell Hall. The discussion, led by Mr. E. W. Mill of the Political Science Dept., will concern "The Problem of Empire in the Post-War World.", Women's Glee Club: Monday, 4:00 p.m. Rehearsal. Pictures for 'Ensian taken. Wear dark skirts and white blouses. 7:15 p.m.: Appearance ;.t Football Banquet at the Union. De- The U. of M. On The Air 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 Slosson, news commentator. TUESDAY: 2:45 p.m. WCAR, Dram- atic program, "Strings for the Bal- loon," directed by Mr. Donald Har- gis. WEDNESDAY: 2:45 p.m. WCAR, Dramatization, "Uncensored Let- ter," directed by Prof. David Owen. At 6:15 p.m. WWJ, Prof. Slosson. At 10:30 p.m. WJR, Miss Rhoda tails to be announced at rehearsal. Tuesday evening: Appearance on Varsity Night. Bibliophiles will meet with Mrs. Frank Jobes, 1315 Packard St., on Tuesday, December 1, at 2:30 p.m. Episcopal Students: There will be a celebration of Holy Communion t Monday morning, St. Andrew's Day, at 7:30 in Bishop Williams Chapel, Harris Hall. Breakfast will be served following the service. FistChurches S FirstChurch of Christ, Scientist: Sunday morning service at 10:30. Subject: "Ancient and Modern Necro- mancy; Alias Mesmerism and Hyp- notism, Denounced." Sunday School at 11:45 a.m. Free public Reading Room at 106 E. Washington St., open every day except Sundays and holi- days, 11:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; Saturdays until 9:00 p.m.' Zion Lutheran Church Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Sunday with Rev. Stellhorn speaking on "Jesus Still Comes as Zion's King." Trinity Lutheran Church will hold its services at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, the Rev. H. O. Yoder speaking on "The Imperishable Food." The Lutheran Student Association will hold a fellowship meeting Sun- day at 5:30 p.m. Rev. H. O. Yoder will lead a discussion on "What is a Christian Marriage." The First Baptist Church: 10:00 a.m.: Undergraduate class at the Guild House, 502 E. Huron St., to study Paul's Epistle to the Romans. Graduate class at the Church to con- sider "What Can We Believe about Hell and Punishment?" 11 :00 a.m.: Sermon, "New Life in Christ," by Rev. C. H. Loucks. 7:00 p.m.: The Roger Williams Guild meets in the Guild House. "The Church at Work on So- cial Frontiers" will be discussed. Unitarian Church: 11:00 a.m.: Pro- fessor Lowell J. Carr will speak on "What about Delinquency?" 7:00 p.m.:-Student supper. 8:00 p.m.: Stu- dent meeting followed by square dan- cing. Memorial Christian Church (Disci- ples): 10:45, Morning worship, Rev. Frederick Cowin, Minister. 7:00 p.m., Guild Sunday Evening Hour. A stu- dent panel will discuss "Education and Religious Living." The meeting will be held at the Guild House, 438 Maynard Street. A social hour and refreshments will follow. First Congregational Church: At the morning service at 10:45, Dr. L. A. Parr will speak on the theme, "God's Selective Service.' Student Fellow- ship at 7:00 p.m. A discussion on "Christian cooperation." A period of recreation. Refreshments.