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ITS ALL OVER:
Ending Of Enlistments
Is Democratic Step
THE FUTURE OF COLLEGE MEN was made
much more definite last week when the Pres-
ident ended enlistments in the'armed forces.
No longer is there -the worry and hurry to get
into officers' training programs to stay in school,
and there is no need to decide between the
Army and the Navy.
College men like everyone else in the na-
tion will, be drafted. And they like every-
one else will go into officers' training in the
armed forces if they have the stuff for it.
Many men in uniform will be sent to colleges
for extra training and may receive academic
credit for their work. Education will not be
ended in the Ariny.
The injustice .of allowing men who had
money enough to attend colleges and auto-
matically become officers is now ended also.
In the future the best men will become of-
ficers, as they should in a democratic army.
-Lee Gordenker
WILLKIE-ITE:.
Republicans Are Urged
TO Drop Party Issues
T HE REACTIONAR Y ELEMENT of the re-
publican party has failed in its latest at-
tempt to regain control of the organization.
In the defeat of Werner Schroeder for the
:national chairmanship, brought about by the
progressive forces under the leadership of Wen-
dell Willkie, one more step has been taken in
removing from the party those elements whose
negative attitudes and policies resulted in the
democratic landslide of 1932 and 1936. But the
Republican Party must bear in mind that while
these forces have been defeated in the election
of Harrison Spangler, they still maintain con-
siderable power. Schroeder, a notorious isola-
tionist, came dangerously close to achieving the
national chairmanship. The liberal Republicans
must take it upon themselves to continue to
remember the words of Wendell Willkie's Lincoln
Day Address of 1941, when he stated that the
CONTRAST:
Uruguay Election Fervor
Shames U.S. Laxity
THIS IS THE STORY of two elections held
last month.
They were held in two different countries,
each on the American continent.
In one of these elections, a 70-mile storm
swept through the nation on balloting day. Nev-
ertheless, 60 percent of the electorate showed up
at the polls. And the result was a landslide for
the liberal, democratic, distinctly pro-United Na-
tions presidential candidate.
In the other nation, election day in most
parts was an ordinary day. There was no
storm. It didn't even rain in. most areas.
But only about 35 percent of the eligible
voters bothered to go to the polls. That 35
percent sent to the national legislature a
number of the country's outstanding re-
actionaries and recalcitrants. Yet people
in that nation still talk with bland assur-
ance about fighting the war for the sake of
democracy - even those who voted for men
who don't particularly care about democ-
racy, one way or the other.
The nation whose people seem so thoroughly
aware of their suffrage and safeguard it as a
privilege not to be taken for granted, is little
Uruguay.
If you don't know what the other nation
is, just ask Clare Hoffman, Ham Fish or
Curly Brooks. They'll be glad to tell you.
They have good reason to relish the memory
of that election.,
-Irving Jaffe
role of an intelligent oppdsition is not simply to
oppose everything which the party in power
favors, but rather to take a constructive stand
attempting to put forth a better program of
its own.
NOW THAT THE REPUBLICANS have core
into a position where, through their power-
ful forces in the House of Representatives, they
can greatly influence legislation, they must
remember Mr. Willkie's words not only for the
benefit of their party, but as a responsibilityj
to the entire American people.
-Monroe Fink
DREW Ch
PEA RSOWS
MERRYGO-ROUND
WASHINGTON- Backstage, the battle of the
peace after the war, similar to the battle which
took place over the League of Nations in 1920, is
already getting under way. Republican isolation-
ists very cleverly are now laying the groundwork
for the fight they expect to wage after the war
is over.
First skirmish in the fight -is now taking
place over the most beautiful woman ever to
come to Congress, Clare Boothe Luce, author
of "The Women," "Kiss the Boys Good-bye,"
"Margin for Error," and wife of the Time, Life
and Fortuna publisher.
Mrs. Luce, Republican Representative-elect
from Connecticut, aspires to sit on the House
Foreign Affairs Committee. An ardent interven-
tionist, Mrs. Luce long advocated this country's
entry into the war, has travelled all over the
world, knows foreign affairs intimately.
However, Republican isolationists on the
House Foreign Affairs Committee do not wel-
come Mrs. Luce. On the Committee are such
well-known isolationists as Ham Fish of New
York, Karl Mundt of South Dakota, Mrs. Fran-
ces Bolton of Cleveland. They do not say that
her anti-isolationism is the reason they don't
want Mrs. Luce on the Committee. They put it
on the ground that there are already two
women members-Mrs. Bolton and Mrs. Edith
Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts--and they
don't want three.
Real reason, however, is that the fight over
the peace treaty after the war already is start-
ing, and Republican isolationists want to stack
key committees with members who believe as
they do. For in Congress, the Committees domi-
nate.
Note: Republican members of the Foreign Af-
fairs Committee who favor Mrs. Luce include
"Doc" Charles Eaton of New Jersey and Foster
Stearns of New Hampshire, son of Frank Stearns,
Boston °merchant and intimate friend of Cal
Coolidge
Capital Chaff
Suggestion to book publishers: Try to per-
suade Mark Thistlewaite, former secretary to
Vice-President Marshall, to publish his book on
Tom Marshall. Now in a safe deposit box, the
book contains the inside story of how various
senators tried to persuade Marshall to take over
Woodrow Wilson's duties as president when he
became ill, and how Marshall refused . . . War-
ner Brothers' screening of Ambassador Joe Da--
vies' book "Mission to Moscow" is going to give
some of the real lowdown on how seeds of war
sprouted, and on the Moscow treason trials, re-
garding which Stalin was right after all.
(Copyright, 1942, United Features Syndicate)
recommend a revision which might lead to trage-
dy?
Which brings up our third question: Why
hasn't the building inspector issued public re-
ports on ,the condition of buildings other than
the Majestic Theatre which, after all, is not
in use at present and constitutes only a poten-
tial menace to the lives of Ann Arbor citizens?
iWuhv should lives h endanre fo lev m one
DAILY OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 9, 1942
VOL. LIII No. 56
All 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
Student Tea: President and Mrs.
Ruthven will be at home to students
this afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock.
Protection of University Property
Against Theft: Whenever it becomes
known that property has been stolen
or is missing, noice should be given
with utmost promptness at the Busi-
ness Office, Room 1, University Hall.
This applies to articles owned by the
institution or owned privately.
For the protection of property it
is important that doors and windows
be locked, inside doors as well as out-
side doors, when rooms are to be left
unoccupied even for a brief period.
The building custodians cannot be
responsible for conditions after the
hours when they are on duty or when
persons with keys to buildings un-
lock doors and leave them unlocked.
It is desirable that department heads
make a careful check two or three
times a year of all keys to quarters
under their charge, to make sure that
keys have not been lost and are not
in the hands of persons no longer re-
quiring their use. It is strictly con-
trary to University rules to have
duplicate keys made or to lend keys
issued for personal use.
A reward of $50 is offered to any
person for information that directly
.or indirectly leads to the apprehen-
sion of thieves on University prem-
ises. Shirley W. Smith
Applicants for Enlisted Reserve: All'
students between the ages of 18 and
38 who have filed applications for
any of the enlisted reserve programs
on or before Dec. 5, 1942, must com-
plete their enlistment before Dec. 15.
Any such students who have yet to
obtain papers or documents necessary
for enlistment should do so as quickly
as possible. The War Board Enlist-
ment Office, The Health Service, the
ROTC and NROTC will exert every
effort to accomplish these enlistments
before the 15th.
-B. D. Thuma
Armed Forces Faculty Adviser
If you wish to finance the purchase
of a home, or if you have purchased
improved property on a land contract
and owe a balance of approximately
60 per cent of the value of the prop-
erty, the Investment Office, 100
South Wing of University Hall, would
be glad to discuss financing through
the medium of a first mortgage. Such
financing may effect a substantial
saving in interest.
University offices and libraries will
be closed at Thursday noon, Decem-
ber 24, for the remainder of the week.t
Choral Union Members whose rec-
ords of attendance are clear (no un-
excused absences since the last con-t
cert) will please call for their passes1
to the Boston Symphony Orchestra
concert, today, between 10 and 12,
and 1 and 4 o'clock, at the office oft
the University Musical Society in
Burton Memorial Tower. After 4
o'clock no passes will be issued.
Charles A. Sink, President
Varsity Glee Club: There will be
no meeting Thursday evening. t
Students: A list of graduates andt
former students now in Military Ser-
vice is being compiled at the Alumni
Catalogue Office. This list already
numbers approximately 6,000. If yout
are entering Military Service, pleaset
see that your name is included in thist
list by reporting such information to1
SAMUEL GRAFTON'S
NEW YORK- I can't imagine Pro-
fessor Harley L. Lutz of Princeton,
delivering a speech last December
calling on business to fight a 'desper-
ate civil war" against government
controls.
He did it this December, before the;
National Association of Manufactur-
I ers, using a phrase which would have
made a national scandal had it
popped up at a labor convention.
We are feeling better now, partly
because of the recent North African
successes. As war prospects improve,
current speech slips back into the in-
vective patterns of peace-time.
If Butter Were a Dollar
SOMETHING of the same situation
obtains in the field of bickering
over price controls.
I put it to several business men in
the dairy line: "What would the price
of butter be tomorrow if there were
no ceilings?"
The consensus was that a great
deal of butter would be selling at $1
a pound. One man, who has sold but-
ter for twenty years, said he was sure
it would be possible to get $1.25.
If butter were selling at $1.25, price
controls would be a lot more popular.
Leon Henderson would be receiving
Christmas cards, and there would be
public prayers for his health.
As it is, under the protection of the
ceilings, we can enjoy the luxury of
cussing out the regulatory devices on
which they depend.
The Mood Changes
k IMILAR ebullience is showing up
in England, where, as here, every-
body feels much better.
Mr. Churchill's tart phrase about
not desiring to "preside over the liqui-
dation of the Empire" would not have
been uttered the day after Singapore
fell.
No, then the talk was about work-
ing out a plan to free India, and Sir
Stafford Cripps was sent on his way.
In England, as in America, when
prospects are dark we hear that this
is a people's war; when chances
brighten we are more likely to hear
that "we are not fighting to give a
quart of milk a day to every Hotten-
tot."
This forward-and-backward move-
ment shows up most amusingly in thei
field of rubber.
Last summer, when we were a bad-
rBe Right
ly frightened nation on the rubber
crisis, every commentator in th'
country was on his knees asking gov
ernment to do something instant
drastic, terrific and colossal, abou
rubber.
What's Washington Doing Here
ONCE we started on a rubber pro
gram the mental climate changed
Now we hear that it is a hell of
note to make a man fill out a lon
questionnaire in order to get a ney
truck tire.
One Senator even put it qui
bluntly, wanting to know what gov
ernment was doing, poking its n
into a man's private business, any
way9
As we begin to get out of. trouble
the spirits of those who want to wi
the war meaninglessly begin to ris
sharply.
The pale, pastel hope, held by some
that nothing further will have to b
done to rout unemployment and wan
and colonialism out of the world be
gins to take on more vivid colors.
Old Gag
THE OLD American dream of get
ting along with little or no govern
ment sits up in bed again, and call
for a hearty breakfast.
It was a shock, last week, to hea
a man say that he wasn't fighting t
"put a TVA on the Danube."
It brought a laugh, being precisel
as funny as M. Flandin's remark to
the French, in 1939: "I don't want t
die for Danzig."
A section of public opinion is livin
from day to day, from hand to mouth
in a happy-go-lucky, skylarking man-
ner. It will deduce the whole futur
of the world for -you from one day'
cheerful headlines.
Yet this is only a kind of vacation
We shall one day have to find peace-
time jobs for 15,000,000 soldiers
and war workers. The wise man will
swallow some of his gags. The higher
he gets now, the lower he'll be then.,
This war cannot end meaninglessly,'
in a gale of laughter, because while
statesmen can be defeated with the
ridicule treatment, problems can't be
solved thereby. It's a pity that a
problem will not respond to a mood;
it would be such fun to sneer the
world out of countenance.
(Copyright, 1942, N.Y. Post Syndicate)
Hill Auditorium. The program will
consist of Haydn's Symphony No. 88
and the much discussed Shostakovich
war symphony No. 7. Tickets will
be on sale at the office of the Uni-
versity Musical Society in Burton
Tower until five o'clock, and after
7 o'clock at the Hill Auditorium box
office.
the Alumni Catalogue Office. This
courtesy will be greatly appreciated.
---Lunette Hadley, Director
Aluimni Catalogue Office
Bowling for Women: The bowling
alleys at the Women's Athletic Build-
ing will be closed until after the
Christmas holidays.
Lectures
Frank N. Wilson Lecture: Dr.
Emmanuel Libman, Cardiologist of
New York City, will give the annual
Frank N. Wilson Lecture in Cardiol-
ogy, for the faculty and members of
the Junior and Senior Classes of the
Medical School on Monday, Dec. 14,
at 1:30 p.m. in the University Hos-'
pital Amphitheatre. The subject of
the lecture will be "Libman-Sacks
Disease."
Lecture: Miss Miriam Rose, Secre-
tary of the British Council, will give
an illustrated talk on "British Arts
and Crafts" on Thursday, Dec. 10,
at 1:30 p.m. in Room 346 Architec-
ture Building. The public is invited.
Medical Lecture: Dr. Charles Bren-
ton Huggins, Prdfessor of Surgery of
the University of Chicago Medical
School, will speak on Thursday, Dec.
10, at 8:30 p.m. at the Rackham
Graduate School on "The Physiology
of the Prostate Gland and its Rela-
tion to Tumors." This talk is under
the auspices of the Alpha Omega Al-
pha honorary medical society. All in-
terested are. invited.
La Sociedad Hispanica announces
a lecture, "Lazos de amistad entre
los mejicanos y los estadounidenses,"
by Dr. Hirsch Hootkins of the De-
partment of Romance Languages, on
Thursday, Dec. 10, at 4:15 p.m. in
Room D, Alumni Memorial Hall.
Tickets may be obtained at the door,
from any Spanish teacher, or from
the Office of the Secretary of the
Department of Romance Languages.
A cademic Notices
Chemistry Colloquium will be held
today in Room 303, Chemistry Build-
ing, at 4:15 p.m. Professor F. F.
Blicke will speak on "Development of
Synthetic Local Anesthetics."
Concerts
Choral Union Concert:The Bos-
ton Symphony Orchestra, Serge
Koussevitzky, Conductor, will give
the sixth concert in the Choral Un-
ion Series this evening at 8:30 in
Charles A. Sink, President
Events Today-
Interviewing for Orientation Ad-
visers will continue from 3:30 to 5:30
p.m. today, Thursday and Friday in
the Undergraduate Office of the
League. Today, Service through Ul-
rich; Thursday, Underwood through
Zumack, and Friday, anyone who was
unable to be interviewed at her ap-
pointed time.
The Faculty Women's Club will
meet today at 3:00 p.m. at the Mich-
igan League. Each person should
bring a sharp knife or scissors to
cut greens.
Coming Events
Graduate History Club Meeting on
Thursday, December 10, at 8:15 p.m.
in the East Conference Room, Rack-
ham Building. Refreshments and
election of officers.
All student and faculty members
of the School of Public Health are
invited to attend the Christmas party
given by the Public Health Club on
Friday, December 11, at 8:30 p.m. in
the Rackham Building.
The University "Pops" Band wil
meet Thursday, December° 10, at 7 :30~
Pam. in Morris Hall. This is for or-
ganizing the band and will end by
8:30. Please attempt to be present.
The Inter-Racial Association will
present Leonard B. Troutman at tha
Michigan Union on Thursday at 8:00
p.m. He will talk on "Twenty Cen
turies Behind the Veil." All inter-
ested people are urged to attend.
La Sociedad Hispanica will mee
on Thursday, Dec. 10, at 8:00 p.m.
in the Michigan League. Program:
Sr. Jose Perdomo will speak on "Col
ombia: aspectos culturales y sociol
ogicos"; Sra. Roberto F. Olmedo o
Paraguay will sing popular Spanish
songs, and poems will be recited by
Mary Ellen St. John and E. McCarus.
Everyone interested is invited.
Graduate Party on Saturday, Dec
12, 9-12 p.m. in the Rackham Build-
ing. All graduate ;and, professiona
UNFINISHED BUSINESS:
City Council Failed To Junk Ordinance Revision
Reopening Majestic Theatre, Hotel, Firetraps
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The
Pointed'
UESTIONS and rumors pile ever higher on
the proposed revision of City Ordinance 145,
Section 10, which will have much to do with
whether or not such officially labeled fire traps
as the Majestic, Theatre will reopen, perhaps to
provide a local sequel to the Boston holocaust.
In as neat a- rendition of the old Army game
as we have ever seen the Common Council
Monday night again tabled the measure, this
time until Dec. 28. The revision, which would
allow frame-constructed theatres and hotels to
remain open, was declared unfinished business
by Prof. John D. Waite, of the Law School, who
is chairman of the Ordinance Committee. Pro-
fessor Waite later told this reporter that he
released the matter because "it was no longer
a matter of committee report."
When the ordinance was later brought up as
airing of the whole matter in The Daily edi-
torial columns? Several aldermen answered
this question by saying that it was too late in
the evening to act on the measure, while others
said that necessary reports by the building in-
spector were lacking.
DO THE gentlemen of the Council, then, con-
sider the safety of hundreds of the citizens
whose interests they are elected to protect sec-
ondary to the loss of an hour or so of their own
sleep? And why wasn't the building inspector's
report available? Why wasn't Maulbetsch asked
to appear? He doesn't know and neither do we.
Major question number 2: Why was a re-
vision of the existing ordinance-which would
close structurally dangerous theatres and iho-
tels on Jan. 1, 1943-recommended in the first
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Pen
ROGER BABSON has a queer no-
tion of the Midwest state univer-
sity. Now he's talking about those
wild-haired radical economics profes-
sors spouting a lot of nonsense in all
the Midwest state universities. And,
'since his statement was all-inclusive,
we guess he must have meant Smith-
ies and Watkins and Sharfman here
at Michigan. Yes, and next Sunday
he'll probably have Indians popping
out at you from a tree and pointing
arrows.
Prof. Carleton Wells of the Eng-
lish department is reported to have
dubbed Samuel Grafton the Thom-
.4.
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