THE3 MilC-H1IGAS -DAILY ' TSDATI EC. , 1942 Fifty-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 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 republicationof 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, Associated Collegiate Press, 1942-43 REPRESENTED POR NATIONAL ADVERTIaING Y NationalAdvertising Service, Inc College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N.Y. CICAGO * BOSTON . LOS ANGELaS *SAN FRANCISCO Editorial Staff Cast your bombs upon the watrr and - ~ - . 77 J _ "a. THE BEVERIDGE PLAN: Blueprint Against Poverty Homer Swander Morton Mints. ;Robert Mantho George W. Sallad6 Charles Thatcher Bernard Hendel Barbara deFries Myron Dann . .* Managing Editor . Editorial Director * . - City Editor .* . Associate Editor * .Associate Editor S. - Sports Editor . . Women's Editor Associate Sports Editor . . . Business Staff Sdward J. ]erlberg Fred M. Ginsberg Mary Lou Curran Jane Lindberg . James Daniels . . . . . . . Business Manager . Associate Business Manager . Women's Business Manager . Women's Advertising Manager . Publications Sales Analyst Telephone 23-24-1 NIGHT EDITOR: HENRY VINKEMULDER Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. By LEE GORDENKER A RUNNING JUMP toward the fulfillment of one of the Four Freedoms-freedom from want- was made in Great Britain recently when Economist Sir William Bever- idge, head of a parliamentary plan- ning committee, presented his 175,000-word report to. the House of Commons. It's only a blueprint now, but it shows one path that England may follow when the fighting is over- providing her 1935 Parliament can cast off its conservative convic- tions. From his birth to his death ev- ery worker would b- protected by a comprehensive, all-encompassing social security system. A huge employer-worker-government pool would provide social benefits and every person in Great Britain from duchess to ditehdigger would be compelled to contribute to the pool. A new Ministry of Social Secur- ity would administer a program that not only provides the existing old-age pensions but furnishes medical care, marriage payments, motherhood benefits and full un- employment and disawiIty com- pensation. Old-age benefits--no longer a de- grading handout, but a social in- surance payment-would be dou- bled. Death benefits would be paid to the beneficiary's family. HE most unique portions of the program are those planning full medical care in place of the partial plan now existing, the payment of women at the time of their mar- riage to compensate for the change in social security status and pay- ment of benefits at time of child- birth. At the present time in many in- dustries Great Britain requires workers to hold health insurance policies providing partial protec- tion. The Beveridge plan provides full protection and abolition of payments to private companies, substituting a governmental in;- surance. The wealthy insurance associations in England are ex- pected to fight this proposal to the last 'ditch. to women marrying, the govern- ment'pool would pay up to $40 to make up the difference in status. But all benefits would not stop there, for the housewife and moth- er would be recognized as a person deservingdbenefits equal to those of the industrial worker. Industrial disability compensa- tion would be stepped up to the level current in the United States while special benefits would be al- lowed for workers in dangerous in- dustries. All compensation except for dangerous occupations would then be equalized. PERHAPS its most important feature is that the plan would provide insurance to be paid in times of general unemployment so that workers would not be de- pendent on inadequate private charity or government doles, but would be supported at least at sub- sistence level from their own pooled savings. The crucial point in the entire plan is that it is compulsory and not based on an ability to pay prin- ciple. Nearly every person in the United Kingdom would participate. Payments-contrary to the United States' practice--would provide subsistence to all the aged, dis- abled and unemployed. The amount contributed through taxes has no bearing on the amount received in benefits. Many of the future argu- ments against the plan will be based on this equalizing principle. The loudest complaints against the program will undoubtedly come from the insurance companies, who will be cut out of the major portion of their business as the government takes over many of their functions. However, the program's justifica- tion is clearly that it would provide freedom from want systematically for all Britons. IN SPITE of the expected shouts of woe from the powerful in- surance associations, the individual citizen would find that hik insur- ance and health costs are smaller. The cost to the government will be approximately what the pre-war relief budget provided. The citi- zen's taxes will be slightly higher, but he will not pay as much for medical services or his insurance. It will be a time of great battle in the British Parliament when the serious debate begins. Conservatives will raise the cry of socialism as they always have in both Britain and the United States when a plan to provide for the common good is projected. This plan, however, is not a socialistic blueprint. The nation's business would not be taken over -by the state. LEFTISTS may object on the ground that the causes of un- employment-as they see them- would not be eradicated. The plan partially answers that, too, by pro- viding the workers of Britain with spending power even though they may be out of work. Thus, business activity will not fall to the low depression levels as it always has after a crisis. As business regains confidence because the expected decline in trade has not occurred. it will make new investments and help bring back prosperity. It is true that the plan can do nothing about mistakes by business or remedy strictly monetary diffi- culties. But it does not propose to do that. And charges of commu- nism are based on foolish notions of both communism and the Bever- idge plan. The attempt to push the Bever- idge plan through Parliament may precipitate the greatest parlia- mentary squabble since the war be- gan as the conservative majority attacks its provisions. Labor may leave .the government if the oppo- sition becomes serious enough. At any rate, the Parliament elect- ed in 1935 in a time of reaction to the liberal Labor programs of the '30's can hardly be expected to show a tolerant attitude to one of the most progressive plans ever formu- lated in England. But it is time that Parliament realized that it will face a situa- tion analogous to that at the end of the last war: social benefits and planning or riot and revolution. ~ , . ,. BOMBER FUND: Analysis Of Plan Shows Setup Is Not Complex .BOMBER-SCHOLARSHIP Chairman Coral De Priester's statement that "too many small campus groups don't yet know the full signifi- cance of the Bomber Scholarship and its impor- tance to the University war effort" hit the nail sq arely on the head. Recently all manner of comment regarding the complexity and intricacy of the plan has been heard on campus. One dormitory group, while unopposed to the spirit of the plan, felt itself obliged to reject the Bomber Scholarship Plan because of what they construed as an ambiguity concerning the term "armistice." Campusites in general have had only vague notions about the provisions of these scholar- ships to student war veterans and many have been unaware of the fact that any student, having completed a year of college with satis- factory marks and a year of service in the nation's armed forces, is eligible for a scholar- ship Actually the Bomber Scholarship works this way: any campus organization is urged to volun- teer funds. The money will be invested in war bonds for the duration and after the war the bonds will be redeemed. Students who can satisfy the education and the service requirements are then eligible for a scholarship with which they can continue their education. O DATE the plan is $9,000 to the good since its organization last March but a goal of an additional sum of $15,000 has been set for this year. This week every group on campus will be contacted and will receive a copy of the consti- tution. These groups should realize the basic sim- plicity of the plan and then take steps to vol- unteer funds and to eliminate their minor ob- jections. - Bud Brimmer INCOME LIMIT: Communism Charges Termed Unwarranted BIG BUSINESS MEN who have been warning that high. taxes are killing the profit incen- tive were emphatically corrected the other day by a Commerce Department report which re- vealed that after tax deductions 1942 profits were 160 per cent of 1939 earnings. There are, of course, plenty of patriotic and sincere enterprisers and owners whose first concern is winning the war, and who don't look upon the war as an easy method of fea- thering their pests. But there are also plenty of men who are waging a phony campaign against income reductions, a campaign which is indicative of a determination to playythis war for'all it is worth and for all the money it can yield. Lamon DuPont has said: "Deal with the gov- ernment and the rest of the squawkers the way -you would .with a buyer in a sellers' market. If the buyer wants to buy, the has to meet your price." Which can be paraphrased to, "Get all you can boys, because the government and the country needs your products. Soak the people and soak them good, because this is our chance to pile up the big money." EX-NAM PRESIDENT W. P. Witherow has as- dv AXE to' pin4 By TORQUEMADA MORE than anything else right now I am in- terested in the care and feeding of young minds, such as my own. It really becomes a ter- ribly vital matter the more you participate in or look on current discussion of the more important political issues of the day. If you read the Ameri- can press to any extent, if you listen to speeches, and discuss issues, and write papers for classes, you have to be terribly aware of all the little nu- ances of opinion-moulding. You have to wince with embarrassment for someone who says, "What he says is all very well, but supposing he were the one whose salary was cut." All this is one kind of thing, and what you come to expect from the daily newspapers, and Gerald Smith. But what about when someone you respect says something that is not so ter- rific? The propaganda tricks distort the truth, and that is a terrible thing. But what about Bertrand Russell's analysis here last Saturday? Mr. Russell isn't the type of man to do much name-calling. But when he gives a lecture that has such obvious mistakes of emphasis, what to do? What about the type of journal for which we have a lot of respect? To use the bandwagon technique in proselytizing is bad, but look how the poll tax question was treated, by the "right" people. Hosannah defeat of the pol tax-a step toward American democracy, and let the argu- ment go at that. The poll tax is an entering wedge of progress in the South, everyone no doubt agrees, but why not present the whole question-the fact that the negroes don't vote because they are intimidated; the fact that if you remove the poll tax you enfranchise more of the poor whites, who will promptly reelect such reactionaries as now represent the South in the Senate, the fact that it is not a completely des- picable approach to think that to the extent that internal social progress may hurt the war, that social progress is bad. Negroes would be much happier about remov- ing the poll tax, and would possibly work harder fcr the war effort. But the South wouldn't love the North for this imposition of democracy (and the South still thinks very largely in regional terms). I have been against the poll tax and I'm sure the poll tax has been quite resentful), but I haven't liked the white-washy approach, or the way its advocates assume an aura of telling the whole truth so help them God. Possibly my whole objection is towards re- garding social progress as a very simple thing. A speech says too little which is confident that war will end if we but sterilize the instruments of war. An editorial writer does himself and his ultimate cause injustice if he views social progress as a relatively simple series of conflict resolutions. The world is quite full of a number of things, is a tremendous complex. must disappear for the duration of the war, just as the right to strike and opportunities for wage increases have already disappeared. Our form of society and government during this war is already vastly different from any we have known. Business as usual has to go, just as life as usual has to go, and a limit on in- comes, rather than just one on salaries, must be enforced. If we grant that the only real incentive to I'd Rather BeRight_ -- By SAMUEL GRAFTON NEW YORK - The rebellion against Mr. Roosevelt still palpitates. Two months ago, when the whole country was watching the progress of the price-control bill, farm members were de- feated in their effort to raise parity prices. The national eye was on them. They quit. Last week, when nobody was looking, the Pace Bill was slipped through the House by unanimous consent. This was the most furtive passing of a major measure ever seen. The bill may raise the annual cost of living $3,500,000,000, but it went through like confirmation of an ap- pointment to a third-class postmastership. Mr. Pace, of Georgia, author of the measure, confessed he did not know what effect it Would have on the cost of living.. I invite contemplation of what would happen should Mr. Leon Henderson, with a merry look in his eye, announce that he had just raised the price of butter 10 cents, that he did not quite know what the result would be, but was doing it anyhow. THE JOY RIDE THE PACE BILL may have the most serious results. Many sound and thoughul commen- tators have opposed it. Why did it pass so easily, hardly putting its hea into the House chamber before it was stamped approved and sent on to the Senate? I ask those who have so gleefully been leading a generalized opposition to the Pres- ident whether they do not share resonsibil- sty. They have deliberately raised the temperature of opposition, so to speak; they have held a match under it; they have made opposition to the President a virtue in itself. They have des- cribed our rubber rationers as clowns. They have pictured Mr. Ickes as a bureaucrat gone mad. They have cultivated the credo that all govern- ment is idiotic and all opposition meritorious. They have skylarked because they thought they had discovered a Henderson form "named" No. 1-1071-PLOF-5-NOBU-COS-WPB. (Later on it was revealed that this wasn't the name of the form at all but merely code instructions to the printer as to number of copies, stapling, wrap- ping, etc.) They have revived an old bill to take away from every government agent the power to make binding decisions. The atmosphere has been that of a binge, or a joyous party. Men who set out to create such an atmosphere ought to realize that, if they succeed, anything can happen. In the House, it just has. YOU START WITH 1-1071- LOF YOU START WITH a storm of spurious laugh- ter over Code No. 1-1071PLO, etc. You end with a new price bill which almost nobody wants. The merry game has suddenly turned serious. But what's the difference; it's all opposition, isn't it? It's against the President, isn't it? The unsolved problem of how to oppose the President during war (and on many issues opposition is a duty) calls for the best thought of the best minds in America. The spirit of Hallowe'en is not quite the answer. NOT WITH A STONE YOU CANNOT DO the things we are going to DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN SC' The Pointed N Pen HEY'RE democratizing the Rhodes Scholar now. The New York Times reports from London that U.S. Army officers and enlisted men who can take the time off will be given a' chance to attend Oxford University for a week. Courses will be taught, the story said, "by eminent educa- tors." FROM Cecil Brown's book Suez to Singapore, now running in in- stallments in the Detroit Free Press "Cologne, Berlin, Dresden and mili- tarism. Gestapo, Hitler Jugends and a nation preparing for war, egotistic, flexing muscles to smash, hatching dark schemes for enslavement, twist- ing souls into devilish forms. These are not Nazis, not Junkers, not Prus- sian militarists. These are the Ger- man people sup-porting Hitler in his dream for world conquest. Not Nazis. Germans, the German people. Something we've thought all along. You can't separate the Nazis and the German people. They wanted Hitler. They wanted this war. Hitler came along just in time to lead them to war. If not Hitler, somebody else would have done, too. Just to get things straight. "Not Nazis. Germans, the German peo- ple." THE campus controversy about the rule shelving "house parties" for the duration isn't as important as it might sound. But we'll string along with the students. After the "re- minder" by the Student Affairs Com- mittee in Thursday's Daily, investiga- tion showed that the student mem- (Continued from Page 2) The intention was only to make it possible to have such initiations in case both the fraternity and pledge concerned desired this arrangement. The attention of fraternity officers is called particularly to the necessity of conducting their initiation and pre-initiation activities in accordance with certain rules adopted by the Committee on Student Affairs and the Interfraternity Conference sev- eral years ago. These rules provide: (1) That there shall be no physical mistreatment of initiates, (2) That all initiation activities shall take place inside the fraternity house, and (3) That they shall be conducted in such a way as to avoid interference with classes and study. Committee on Student Affairs -J. A. Bursley, Chairman January 1943 Graduates in Me- chanical, Electrical, Civil, Marine, and Industrial Engineering and Bus- iness Administrationt Dravo Corpor- ation, Pittsburgh, Representative, will interview Seniors of the above groups, Wednesday, December 9, in Room 218 West Engineering Building. Interview, schedule is posted on the Bulletin Board at Room 221 West Engineering Building where application blanks are obtainable. The application blanks for the Michigan Bell Telephone Company, Detroit, interviews have been received in our office. Women with appoint- ments will please call for them im- mediately. The Company's represen- tatives will be here Thursday and Friday, Dec. 10 and 11, to interview February women graduates. The openings will be in district offices which are located in the main cities of Michigan. Interviews are being scheduled at fifteen -minute intervals. Call Ext. 371, office hours 9-12 and 2-4. Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information The International Business Ma- chines Company is sending a repre- sentative to interview February Wo- men graduates to do customer con- tact work. Offices are located all over the country. Appointments are open from 2:30 on, this afternoon. If inter- ested, call Ext. 371 immediately. Lectures "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 today and Friday, December 11, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 165, Chemistry Building.", Medical Lecture: Dr. Charles Bren- Medical Building. "The Metabolism of Iodine" will be discussed. All inter- ested are invited. Chemistry Colloquium will be held Wednesday, December 9, in Room 303 Chemistry Building at 4:15 p.m., Professor F. F. Blicke will speak on "Development of Synthetic Local An- esthetics." Concerts A woodwind recital under the di- rection of William 11. Stubbins and William D Fitch will be given at 8:30 tonight in Lydia Mendelssohn Thea- tre when sixteen girls will appear in a program of works by Farnaby, Arne, Mozart, Glinka, Saint-Saens, Hosmer, Guilmant and Pierce. The public is cordially invited. The Regular Tuesday Evening Rec- ord Concert in the Men's Lounge of the Rackham Building at 8 o'clock will be as follows: Beethoven: Sym- phony No. 7; Hanson: Lament for Beowulf; Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2. Events Today Mathematics Club will meet this evening at 8 o'clock, in the West Con- ference Room, Rackham Building. Dr. Civin will speak on "Two-to-One Mappings." Botanical Journal Club will meet tonight at 7:30 in Room N.S. 1139. Repbrts by: Solon Gordon, "Theory of Autocatalytic Synthesis of Poly- peptides and Chromosome Reproduc- tion;" Betty Schwartz, "Effect of Trace Elements on Plant Growth;" Lucille Kell, "Effect of Auxins on Protoplasmic Streaming." Army Ordnance Association meet- ing tonight at 7:30 in the Michigan Union. The Polonia Society will meet to- night at 8:00' in the International Center. All persons of Polish extrac- tion are cordially invited. Refresh- ments. The University of Michigan Flying Club will meet tonight at 7:30 at the Union. All members please be present as the Ensian picture will be taken. 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 tonight at 8:30 in 'room 304, Michi- gan Union. Theology Seminar: Dante's "Divine Comedy" will be discussed at th meeting of the Theology Seminar, led byu Thmilion (ZalIn. i-ndA.r . 4 .qf!n E.