__ __ __ _ __ __ __ _ __ __ _ __ __ __ _ __ __ _ ___t__ _ __ __ _ __ __ __ _ __ 1.1---R D A.-'I Fifty-Third Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Publised every morning except Monday during the regular University year, and every morning 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 earler $4.25, by mail $5.25. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1942.43 F9Pn E9 O FOR NATION..L ADVERWTI.NO Y National Advertising Service,,Inc. College Publishers Representative 42} 1ADtsoN AvE. NEW Yor.. N. Y. CIICca~o -Tom*"LoSrARGELES s SAN FeANcisco Editorial Staff "P-please; don' qui AdOlf will dive us help!" Homer Swander Morton Mintz. Robert Mantho George W. Salad Charles Thatcher. Bernard Hendel Barbara deFries, Myron .Dann. * Managing Editor . * Editorial Director . . City: Editor . Associate Editor . . . . Associate Editor . . Sports Editor Women's Editor Associate Sports Editor siness Staff Business Manager . Associate Business Manager women's Business Manager Women's Advertising Manager . Publications Sales Analyst Bu Edward J. Perlberg Fred M. Ginsberg . Mary Lou Curran Jane Lindberg James Daniels . Telephone 23-24-1I NIGHT EDITOR: IRVING JAFFE Editorials published in The Michigan aily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only.< REGISTER TODAY: Blood Bank Drive May Not Fill 200.-Pint Quota DESPITE its importance, there is danger that the present Blood Bank drive Will not fill its quota. Two hundred pints of blood can save the r lives of 200 men. The lack of this blood can kill them as surely as an enemy bullet. Although the University has unhesitatingly pledged 20 pints, we must face the fact that only 135 students have registered so far to be ready for the Red Cross Tuesday. Today is your last chance to register. Are you gbing to ignore the call of American fight- ing men? - Stan Wallace FARM BLOC: 'Redefined Parity' Will Pave Way For inflation THE Congressional farm bloc is working over- time again in an attempt to redefine farm parity to include labor costs, despite the "unal- terable opposition" of the President and the objections of Price Administrator Leon Hender- son. The Farm Parity Price sill passed by the House the day before yesterday would raise parity levels by 10 or 12 per cent, and would result in a substantial increase in the cst of living. A similar bill isbeingpushed in the Senate. The redefined parity would probably crack present retail price ceilings, and price control simply wouldn't work. The farm bloc argument is that laborcosts have gone up, and that the farmer is now facing a labor shortage that may result in a food shortage." GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES, or a labor draft, may(have to be used to keep workers on the farms, but letting the farm bloc push through its "redefined parity" will pave the way for an inflation that will make both fighting the war and post-war reconstruction much more difficult. - Bob Preiske AND QUIETLY: Union A dvertisements Encourage War EfforT IN the midst of glaring headlines announcing Allied victories, of motion picture stars sell- ing millions of dollars of bonds with kisses, less newsworthy acts by citizens and organizations ofttimes go unrecognized or unknown by the public. Such has been the policy, quietly adopted by the Michigan Union, of placing a large por- tion of their advertising funds at the disposal of such patriotic projects as the blood drive, the Post-War Conference and similar projects. Advertisements have been used to encourage public participation in these war activities. The Union has completely refrained from iden- tifying these projects with the Union for ad- Vertisejment's sake. There has been no 'cour- tesy of the Michigan Union' statements in the ads., Such actions as these, quietly carried on by individuals and organizations, really constitute an essential part of our war effort. Such actions should be recognized and commended. - John Erlewine CTAP A 1Tfl TfbNTflQ. At LIBERAL SETBACK Cripps' Demotion May Delay Post-War Change ONCE AGAIN it appears as if the present Brit- isli government is trying to delay, if not de- feat, any real post-war change in Great Britain. For with the removal from the war cabinet of Sir Stafford Cripps, one of England's greatest iberals and foremost political thinkers, the inten- tion of the British ruling classes to block social reform in their own country and correspondingly to oppose an international organization that may threaten the wealth and power of the imperialists is made increasingly clear. Cripps came into the cabinet when the popu- larity of the Churchill government had suf- fered severe setbacks as a result of the disaster at Singapore and the long string of British War defeats. His appointment was intended to halt criticism and lend concrete support to the long-expressed hope that the British govern- ment would at last surrender to the demands of Ia modern society by undertaking needed reforms in the post-war era. Throughout the entire war, of course, British conservatives have tended to imply acceptance of a more liberal program during the great crises of battle and then return 'to their former reac- tionarystand as soon as victory seemed assured. Recently, as British arms began to inn victories on the far-flung battle fronts of the Middle East, these conservatives started to publicly disclaim any progressive policy. It is too early to tell whether the government has abandoned its re- form plans, but an ominous trend is clear. Many forward-looking British observers have' noted the absence in the King's speech to Par- liament' of-any promise of educational reforms, ora colonial charter They view the Churchill cabinet shakeup as further evidence of a return to the old order of things. It is accepted that Anthony Eden will be selected }y the conserva- tivesto lead Britainduring the post-war years, and as Cripps was pushed more into the back- ground; Eden was given a position of leader- ship in the House of Commons. Churchill's domination of the war cabinet is still complete. Military victories have increased his popularity to the highest peak since he be- came Prime Minister. The full impact and sig- nificance of his latest internal move may not as yet have been grasped by the British people. With this seeming public unconcern, Churchill may go as far as to return Lord Beaverbrook to power and replace Ernest Bevin, the great Labor Minister. 0NE THING is made perfectly obvious by the shifting British political scene. The con- servatives there, typical of those in .the rest of the United Nations, do not intend to lose any of their prerogatives in a great post-war reform. They will block not only progressive steps in their own countries but on an international scale as well. There is still one basic hope. That is the everlasting faith in the common people. Their sons will have fought and died in this war. They are insisting on a new and better way of life. Their aim will not be denied by Churchill, the British conservatives, or any other group anywhere in the world. - George W. Sallad6 Arbor the projectionists and theatre employes should be commended for giving a two-fold con- tribution. By giving their time for monthly matinees for which scrap metal will be the admittance fee they-not only are collecting valuable scrap but DREW PEARSON'S MER RY-GO-ROUND WASHINGTON-Inside word about Governor Lehman's new job as world food administrator is that it will be one of the most important in Washington. Not only will it require a tremendous staff with agents all over the world, but it may plant the seeds of a United Nations organiza- tion to keep the peace after the war. This latter goal will not be deliberate. But since Lehman's job is to feed the United Nations, he will quite naturally build up a United Na- tions organization which could be switched over to peace machinery after the war. GOP Chairman If ex-Congressman John B. Hollister of Cin- cinnati gets the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee in St. Louis next week,-chalk up round one for Ohio's Governor Bricker as GOP candidate in 1944. Hollister is a friend of Wendell Willkie but he is much more friendly to Bricker. In fact, he is a Taft man, and Taft has withdrawn from the race to swing his support to pricker. Hollister is not an isolationist, belongs to the conservative wing of the party, was elected to fill the vacancy of the late Nick Longworth, served-in the House for six years. He is a di- rector of New York Life Insurance, Chesapeake and Ohio R.R., Pere Marquette R.R., Virginia Hot Springs Co., Charleston Shipbuilding Co., and various other corporations. In general, he represents the old "back to nor- malcy" policy which flourished in 1920. Merry-Go-Round Herbert Bayard Swope, ex-editor of the old New York World, passed by the building of his old friend, Eugene Meyer, publisher of the Wash- ington Post, decided to call on him. He told the elevator boy: "I want to go to the office of Mr. Eugene Meyer." "Eugene Meyer," said the boy, "do he work here?" . .. Eve Curie, daughter of the great radium discoverer, came back from her recent trip to India baffled by Mahatma Gan- dhi's pacifism. She found him sincerely believing that it was better for his country to stage a sit- 'down regardless of threatened invasion ... One of the many who telephoned Secretary Ickes hoping that he accept the offer of Manpower Chief and Secretary of Labor was Representa- tive Gene Cox of Georgia. Cox is a labor-baiter, is vigorously opposed to most of Ickes' New Deal policies, but wanted him on the job nonetheless. (Copyright, 1942, United Features Syndicate) 1 . DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN SATURDAY, DEC. 5, 1942 VOL. LIII No. 53 Al notices for the Daily Official Bul- letin are to be sent to the Office of the President in typewritten form 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 Faculty Tea: President and Mrs. Ruthven will be at home to members of the faculty and other townspeople on Sunday, Dec. 6, from 4 to 6 o'clock. Cars may park in the restricted zone on South University between 4:00 and 6:30 p.m. German Table for Faculty Mem Bers will meet Monday at 12:10 p.m. in the Founders' Room Michigan Un- ion. Members of all departments are cordially invited. There will be a brief talk on "Japanische Personen- und Ortsnamen" (postponed from November 9) by Mr. Laporte. Messiah Rehearsals will be held as follows- Choral Union in Music School Bldg.: Sunday, Dec. 6-2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 8-7:00s p.m. Choral Union and University Or- chestra in Hill Auditorium: Thursday, Dec. 10-7:00 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12-2:30 p.m. The RCA Manufacturing Company, Inc., of Indianapolis, Ind., is sending a representative Tuesday, Dec. 8, to interview communications and elec- trical engineers, mechanical, indus- trial, and chemical engineers, also physicists and technical writers (physics or electrical engineering). Interviews will be scheduled at 20- minute intervals. Call Ext. 371 imme- diately. Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information The Bausch & Lomb Optical Com- pany of Rochester, N. Y., have can- celled the representatives visit to the campus today, Saturday, Dec. 5, but will be coming'out in the near future. We have received the appli- cation blanks which they request be filled out now in order to know how much time to allow for interviews on the campus. The openings are in physics, chemistry, and mechanical engineering. Both men and women will be considered. If interested, call Ext. 371 immediately. Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information The University Bureau of Appoint- ments has received notice of the fol- lowing: For Xmas vacation work-rush mail handlers for the local railroad sta- tions-Detroit: U.S. Civil Service: Junior Inspectors, Wage & Hour Division, Department of Labor-Jan. 5, 1943-$2,300. Further information may be had from the notices which are on file in the office of the Bureau of Ap- pointments, 201 Mason Hall, office hours 9-12 and 2-4. Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information Lectures Lecture in Surgery: Dr. Philip D. Wilson, Clinical Professor of Ortho- pedic Surgery at Columbia Univer- sity, will lecture on the subject, "The Treatment of Compound Fractures Resulting from Enemy Action" (illus- trated) under the auspices of Nu Sigma Nu fraternity with the au- thorization of the Department of Surgery, on Monday, Dec. 7, at 1:30 p.m. in the University Hospital Am- phitheatre. All interested are wel- come attend. Oratorical Association Lecture: Ilka Chase, popular artist of stage, screen and radio, will be presented Monday evening at 8:15 in Hill Auditorium as the fourth number of the Ora- torical Association Lecture Series. Miss Chase's subject will be "The Psychology of Being a Woman." Tick- ets may be purchased today from 10-12 and Monday from 10 a.m.-8:15 p.m. at the box office, Hill Audi- torium. "Gas Defense Lectures: Lectures on the war gases and their relation to civilian defense will be given for seniors, juniors and sophomores of the departments of chemistry, chem- ical engineering, pharmacy and bio- logical chemistry on Tuesday, De- cember 8, and Friday, December 11, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 165, Chemistry Building." Academic Notices Biological Chemistry Seminar will meet on Tuesday, December 8, at leader of the Ukraine. The dry humor of this colorful character with the noisy bravado of his peasant com- rades makes the picture worth seeing. At the same time these very charac- teristics prevent any deep symph- thetic feeling from developing in the audience, which seemed surprised to find itself chuckling. It would be a mistake, however, to assume that the film has no powerful scenes. The merciless shelling of a defenseless village for a moment brings the war close to home. The gestures of the actors are crude and displays of emotion are frequent, NEW YORK-ISOLATION'S NEW FACES: Mr. Hoffman, of Michi- gan (the nearly automatic Con- gressman, because you can nearly always predict what he is going to say), mutters about how the people of New England may go cold and hungry this winter for the benefit of foreigners, meaning allies. Tlie New York Daily News (the newspaper with the nearly auto- matic editorial page, because you can nearly always predict what It is going to say) chews about how' we are stripping Americans to feed the world,suckers. So! Just about the time the trend towardhbetter war aims succeeds, this other trend, toward rousing the most insular and parochial of American sentiments, may also ma- ture. They may run into each other, head-on. This is one of isolation's new faces. It does not, at the moment, object to sending American boys abroad, but it is beginning, tenta- tively, to object to sending Amerk- can food. THE BEANS ISSUE DON'T KNOW how you can add up a political position which holds that it is perhaps all right to send an American soldier abroad, but wrong to send an American can of beans. This is one more of those mys- terious, dreamy aspects which iso- lation wears during wartime. At bottom, every sincere one-time iso- lationist ought to be pleased if we can win victories with food instead of lives. But the remnants of iso- lation will not give up the chance to make much of the food issue, to chivvy a little, to stroke a few na- tional nerves the wrong way, to build up that legacy of resentment of whichsome few men expect to be the heirs. Another of isolation's new as- pects is the look of hate it turns uponmWendell Wilkie, who has become' a new "that man." Oddly, before the war, isolation used to make much of England's imperialism. Now, when Mr. Willkie raises exactly the same issues, isolation is outraged. It denounces him.' It doesn't want to hear about doing anything for those colonies, of whose sufferings it once made so much. Convinced at the outset that this war is meaningless, it wants to make good and sure it stays meaningless. MANY PRIVILEGES IT WANTS the privilege of attack- ing England for having colonies, and also the privilege of attacking --sAmI GAFPOAs I'd Rather Be.Right anyone who wants to do anything about colonialism. It seeks, in fact, many conflicting privileges, like the privilege of supporting the war and also the political privilege of bemoaning its cost in food and fuel and regulation: In this curious, and, as I say, dreamy fashion, the remnants of isolation are able to say whoopee, hit him again, when we'battack the enemy, and also to mutter about the darn bureaucrats when govern- ment tries to collect the food and fuel and metal with which to hit 'him again. CULT OF 'THE MEANINGLESS IN OTHER WORDS, what is left of isolation has developed a cer- tain cult of meaninglessness. Part of the credo is that govern- ment is a monkey or a cretin; that government is the funniest thing you ever saw; that pretty near everything government does is fee- ble, inept or comic. This is the last big shell left in isolation's battery. It is a {dangerous one. For, if gov- ernment attempts to .do anything after the war to make the world more stable, the isolationist argu- ment will not be against the plan, but against the government; if iso- lation can establish that govern- ment is an idiot it will destroy war aims without having to discuss, them. It needs a purposeless, meaningless world in which to do its business, and thus it enjoys get- ting the discussion of government down to an incoherently leering level, like some of the overtonesin hcurrent wrangle about official questionnaires. One senses this somewhat nihil- Istic disbelief in purpose, when.the relicts of isolation mock A~t the dream of a "Quart ofmilk a ,;for the World's people, but, quite often,urge sa national lottery to 'solve our ills. When a lottery makesmore sense than a quart of milk, there is re- vealed a hankering for a formless, irrelevant sort of world, one that can stagger along, concealing its losses, masking the cost of national existence, even pretending that there is no cost; that life must be a gamble and that a gamble can pay for it. So, the fight for better war aims has to be more than a yammer at the President to make up his mind; it is going to be a conplicated struggle, on the home front, against 1al the giggling battalions of ob- scurantism (Copyright, 1942, N.Y. Post Syndicate) 7:30 p.m. in Room 319 W. Medical Building. "The Metabolism of Io- dine" will be discussed. All inter- ested are invited. Phi Eta Sigma tutors will conduct a short review session in Ch. E. 1,. Monday, Dec. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 244, West Engineering Building. This is a part of the free tutoring service offered by the Society. Tutoring in freshman engineering Mathematics and Chemistry 3, 4 and 5E will be conducted Tuesday, Dec. 8, Room 273, at 7:30 p.m. Doctoral Examination for Robert Clarence Werner, Chemical Engi- neering; thesis: "An Investigation of the Sodium-Lead Equilibrium Phase Diagram between' the Range of 50 to 75 Atomic per cent Sodium," will be held today in 3201 East Engineer- ing, at 9:00 a.m. Chairman, L. Thom- assen. By action of the Executive Board,, the Chairman may invite members of the faculties and advanced doc- toral candidates to attend the exam- ination and he may grant permis- sion to those who for sufficient rea- son might wish to be present. C. S. Yoakum Doctoral Examination for Jack Stiles Dendy Zoology; thesis: "The Fate of Animals in Stream Drift When Carried Into Lakes," will be held today in 3089 Natural Science, at 2:00 p.m. Chairman, P. S. Welch. By action of the Executive Board;' the Chairman may invite members of the faculties and advanced doc- toral candidates to attend the exam- ination and he may grant permis- Sion to those who for sufficient rea- son might wish to be present. C. S. Yoakum Concerts An all-girl woodwind recital will be presented at '8:30 p.m., Tuesday, December 8, in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, under the direction of Wil- liam H. Stubbins and William D.' Fitch of the School of Music faculty. It will consist of music by Farnaby, Arne, Mozart, Glinka, Saint-Saens, Hosmer, Guilmant and Pierce, and will be open to the public. Choral Union Concert: The Bos- ton Symphony Qrchestra, Serge Koussevitzky, Conductor, will give the sixth program in the Choral Oinh. Events Today Athena Literary Society will meet this afternoon at 1 o'clock in the League. Ensian picture will be taken. Pledges are to attend. Pi Lambda Theta Initiation today at 4:30 p.m. at the League. Michigan Outing Club will go on a hiking hostel today to the Saline Valley Farms, leaving Hill Auditor- ium at 1:00 p.m. and returning Sin- day forenoon. Small charge. All stu- dents are welcome. For further in- formation, call Dan Saulson (2-3776) or Dorothy Lundstrom (2-4471). The Art Cinema Leage will pre- sent the Russian movie "Guerrilla Brigade," plus 3 Russian short sub- jects at the Mendelssohn' Theatre today and Sunday at 8:15 p.m. 4l proceeds will be given to Russian War R-elief. A Work Holiday and Toy Party will be held at Lane Hall today, 4:Q0- 8:00 p.m., to repair and paint old toys. Admission will be a new toy. Wesley Foundation: Tonight, 8:30- 11:30, Swing Party in the Wesley Lounge. Games, dancing, and num- bers by three pianists. Coming Events Varsity Glee Club: Rehearsal will begin at 3:30 sharp Sunday after- noon at Ann Arbor High School Au- ditorium, Washington and State streets. Acolytes will meet on Monday, Dec. 7, at 7:45 p.m. in the East Confer- ence Room of the Rackham Building. Prof. R. W. Sellars will read a paper 'on "Verification of the Categories: Existence and Substance." Anyone interested is welcome. Graduate Council: Social Commit- tee meeting Monday, December 7, at 5:15 pm.in the Rackha Bulig Men's Lounge. Attention Marine Reservists: Since many students on the campus are enlisting in the Candidates Class of the Marine Corps Reserve, a meeting of all Marine Reservists has been arranged for them to get acquainted on Tuesday, December 8, at 8:30 p.m. in room 304, Michigan Union. All women interested in living In a co-operative house in Feb are CINEMA. SOMEWHAT surprised to be spared the grim horrors of modern battle was the small Art Cinema audience which saw the Russian film 'Guerrilla Brigade' last night. Instead of slit throats, strangled sentries and horrible atrocities commonly associated with this deadly warfare, show goers were treated to a rather pleasant living war story handled in Hol- lywood style, plenty of action but little bloodshed. Watching the battle scenes it is constantly necessary to remind yourself that this is war,