THlEMICHIGAN DAILY BuN z ; i 1 4 *31 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 republication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in thistnewspaper. All rights of republicatiou 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 NEPRESENTE FOR NATONAL AcVERTI.NG BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CHICAGO . SOSTON' Los ANGELES * SAN FRANCISCO. Editorial Staff "Now-kiss papa!" 77 Y ~z ilk r--" F o,- .7 yyA ..n Homer Swander Morton Mintz. Robert Mantho George W. Sallad .. *barles Thatcher . Bernard Hendel . . Barbara deFries Myron Dann . Managing Editor S . Editorial Director . . . City Editor . . . Associate Editor . . Associate Editor . . . 1Sports Editor . . . Women's Editor Associate Sports Editor Business Staff JMward J. Perlberg Business Manager Bred M. Ginsberg Mary Lou Curran ane Lindberg . mes Daniels . Associate Business Manager Women's Business Manager Women's Advertising Manager Publications Sales Analyst Telephone 23-24-1 NIGHT EDITOR: BUD BRIMMER Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Ifloiinie Says E VERY alumni discususon ocollege fraternities is a sturdy tribute to the ideal of a campus family. Here is introduced an array of personality principles, one of which is the nature of a "free person." Many confuse "free person" with the "irresponsible individual," whereas these are almost opposite concepts. Freedom is reached by way of the community. "It is or- dained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free," said Burke. Obedience to the higher will, the wish of an ethical God, is what we mean by temperance. A community can te created only by such voluitary chosen self-restraint. The eagerness of mil- lions planning to get home for Christ- mas suggests how tenacious the tc- loved community may become. Group status is satisfying. This is the Chap- ter's aim. Home, that face-to-face Kingdom of God on earth, is illustra- tive of the mutual support of person and community. A FREE person, with controli over given common instruments, must apply himself, his power, whether spiritual or material, to the welfare of the community, or he begins to be slave, not free. In our age of applied science, machines, services, controls, conveniences, we are remote from our neighbors apparently, but actual- ly we are even more interdependent. Observe a fire, a rationing -or any other sweeping social event. It is only by an inner temperance, constantly exercised as a struggle on the part of the strong for the weak, the wise for the foolish, the mature for the child, that the entire apparatus of society can be made to hold together and perform its appointed work. When such dedication takes place and a coordinate functioning of all the sev- eral parts results, then there can emerge the free person. But let one irresponsible individual show up at any pointa long the line between the servant who starts the city pump and the mayor who presides over the vast city's behavior, and the whole society is weakened and the efficiency tends to collapse. Then a subtle slav- ery begins to take the place of free- dom. LOYALTY is that deeper confidence by which nations endure inner strain, tension, deception and mer- cantile competition, or can thrive in spite of political pressures, the pyra- miding of credit and paralyzing fear. It is the religious loyalty among per- sons, each obeying some higher law, not man, and every worshipper say- ing with Hagar, "Thou, God, seest me," which makes life worth living and a community of free persons a benefit for which each would gladly die if need be. If the experience we share during this Christmas, where we cement anew our family units, arrest for a few days the divergent impulses in community life, shame evzry hate-breeding agent and halt racial prejudices momentarily, could be stretched around the year, our na- tior- could quickly rise above the pain, loss and fer of our decade and achieve that community experience we call morale. It is only by such morale that our representatives, he- roically engaged in hard places, can be made to feel that they are men and America is home. The very stars in their course lend assurance at Christmas because on that occasion, "community" and "person" mutually susgtain each other. Counselor in Religious Education -Edward W. Blakeman 8 SAMUEL GRAFTON'S Pd Rather Be Right (1942, Chicago Times, Inc. GOODFELLOWS: Reaffirm Democracy By Supporting Drive TO]MORROW several hundred University stu- dents will take to the streets of Ann Arbor to sell Goodfellow Dailies in the annual drive con- wted by The Daily for the benefit of the needy. As this second war Christmas approaches the Gooofellow spirit should be typical of a re- iakened America that fully appreciates and is -illing to fight for our democracy. The drive is an appeal to the student, the teacher, the defense worker, the foreman and 1he factory boss to reaffirm their faith in the American way of life by giving generously for the support of their fellow, but less fortunate, men. Already many organization have con- tributed to the Goodfellow drive. Their re- sponse is gratifying and appreciated. But the goal is still far from attainment. In the last few years a noticeable decline in receipts from the campaign has been noted. The peak year was only slightly more than thirteen hun-. dred dollars collected The money secured is divided between the Student Good Will Fund, the Family Welfare Bureau and the textbook lending library. THIS year the drive is aiming at surpassing the all-time high record. The need for charity aid and relief agencies is ever more important to a nation engaged in a struggle for its existence. There is still time for the many student organiza- tions to add their names to the rapidly growing list of contributors. The rest of us have our op- portunity tomorrow. Be a Goodfellow! - George Sallade STALLING: House Group HMinders Yital Beef Imports NOW the House Ways and Means Committee is a body of men who know on which side their beef is fat. With meat rationing pending, they spend their time, and valuable time it must be, de- bating about giving the President power to lower tariffs. The arguments are usually fine ones about bringing cheap foreign products to America. Among those products is beef from the Argen- tine. There the beef grows fine and fat and the best beefsteak in the world is exported. BUT the House Ways and Means Committee is not hungry for its meat and considers ser- iously the arguments against bringing the much- needed meat here. It would be fine to go without beef for the duration of the war while it rotted in the Argentine. - Leon Gordenker LA GUARDIA: He Is Now Crusading Against Bingo Games IT HASN'T been so long ago that solemn articles used to appear in the newspapers suggesting that Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City, would make a first-rate President. There was always some question as to what ticket he might run on, but the perennial booms at least indicated the general high opinion of LaGuardia's ability and stature. He was a fighting progressive, a man who got things done, a belligerent apostle UE to a few differences of opinion and some misunderstandings and misinterpretations, what started out as a short review of the Boston Symphony's concert has become a lengthy con- troversy. It is at least gratifying to a reviewer of music that there are people on the campus who take their music seriously, even if they do not agree with him and write to say so. That this would entail also a discussion of his personal life and prose style he hardly had a right to expect, but even this has occurred. To begin with, he should like to explain that due to lack of space, which is no one's fault these days, the review was cut by the editors, so that points that might have been made clearer remained only oracular and unspecific. In particular, there were a short' list of Shos- takovich's orchestra devices and mention of a specific loan from Sibelius' Fifth Symphony; -but this would hardly make much difference now. Neither would a page of assurance that he not only heard the Haydn Symphony and enjoyed it immensely, but even was standing at his seat singing the National Anthem at the opening of the concert. It has all gotten far beyond that. First of all, however, there seems to have been some misunderstanding of the reviewer's term "second rank," by which he did not mean the same as second rate. By composers of second rank he humbly enough meant only to say that they were not in the class of, for example, Mozart, Beethoven or Handel. If this sounded high-hand- ed, he apologizes. There seem also to have been a few minor misunderstandings, but they appear mostly to have been due to a slight difficulty in managing English and have nothing to do with music. MAINLY, though, your reviewer is puzzled at what people want from him. Mr. Bentley be- rates him for not being aware of the Larger Im- plications of Life, while a certain Mr. Stubbins in an unpublished opus pictures him in a series of horrifying attitudes, the most crushing of which is the reduction of music to programmatic terms. Well, what is it boys, Life or Music? Your reviewer is afraid he believes that "Life" exists in music only so far as the music sustains itself; if that is programmatic or self-loving, then he doesn't understand the words. As far as Ra- vel's Bolero goes, he has profound respect for the virtuosity that sustains its hackneyed excitement. If he does not, however, think that the crescendo is the acme of art, perhaps that is pettiness. Who can be sure? If he thinks more has been said of war by eight instruments in Stravinsky's L'His- toire d'un Soldat than in all of the Seventh Sym- phony, that is, after all, what he thinks. If he is suspect of any music that pretends to be the spirit of a people, even if it be scored for three more tympani and a brass band of blood and fire, perhaps it is because he believes in music as music and not as a form of escaping political responsibility by having political experience as concerts. If he is sorry for being, at times, tactless he can only look to his own critics and admit that as far as tactlessness goes, he is, after all, only an apprentice. - Chester Kallman EDITOR'S NOTE: We're calling off the fire- works on Mr. Kallman's review, and thanks to everybody for taking such an interest. If there's something else you'd like to write in about, we'll be glad to hear from you. with the press on the reporting of City Hall news. He is announcing a recipe for making coffee from 'fl'-f l avAfll'C Cf'flh DREW PEARSON'S ERY-GOOUND WASHINGTON- Diplomatic dispatches from Europe report that the German death rate is going up and the birth rate is going down. Also the number of German soldiers killed or permanently disabled since the war began now totals 1,900,000. This estimate was made before Russian counter-offensive began, and before the British turned back Rommel in Egypt. Obviously, therefore, the total is now well above 2,000,000. This does not include prisoners nor men suf- fering minor wounds. If these were included, the total casualty figure would be, according to ac- cepted military ratios, more than twice the basic figure, or approximately 5,000,000. Meanwhile, exact figures on the German birth rate have been received. These indicate the usual wartime downward trend of births, despite Hit- ler's frantic efforts to make procreation popular. The birth rate was 20.5 in 1939 per thousand, 20.4 in 1940, 18.8 in 1941, but for the first three months of 1942 took a drop to only 15.8. Neutral diplomatic sources report that business men in Germany are beginning to foresee defeat. But the people as a whole will not be aware of approaching defeat, and their morale will not crack, until the German army suffers a major military reverse. The heavy casualties, now com- parable to the total suffered in the first World War, are not enough in themselves to cause popular revolt, as long as the German armies suc- cessfully dominate Europe. But when Rommel is cleaned out of Africa, and when that news seeps into the German conscious- ness, we can look for popular discontent, plus burning distrust of the Nazi military machine. Cordell Hull Looks Back Speaking among intimate friends, Cordell Hull looks back on a year of war and borrows a color- ful hill-billy phrase to express his opinion of iso- lationists. "If we hadn't done our part, we would be friendless," he says. Then, to complete 'the pic- ture of loneliness, his mind goes to the scene of a desolate farm field, where the fodder has been eaten away from the stakes on which it was stacked, and a lone bird looks for a stray seed. "We'd be as lonely as a martin sittin' on a fodder pole," he says. And for certain individuals who opposed the policy of intervention, Hull has this phrase: "He's a one-gallus farmer." The delegation who come down from New York to present petitions urging rapid-fire action in foreign policy Hull calls "the Hosanna shouters." Only the persons who see Hull in small circles realize how close he still is to Tennessee. One such friend was recalling recently an incident in Hull's young manhood which illustrates his sense of humanity. Hull was riding horseback through the Ten- nessee hills and came to a swollen stream. On the bank of the stream was a carriage, with a man and woman, and a child's coffin. They were un- able to cross without submerging the coffin in the stream. Hull lifted the coffin over his head, and walk- ing into the cold water up to his armpits, carried it across the stream. Then he mounted his horse and rode on. Italian Unrest Those who expect the bombing of Italy to NEW YORK - SHIFT PLAY: Please note that Washington is now talking about heavy cancella- tion of certain existing war con- tracts. The construction of new facilities especially will be hit. There will even be unemployment in some sections of the country. What does this mean? It means we have taken the offensive. It means we know what we are doing. Every argument in favor of the second front which was offered last fall has been validated by this change. It will be remem- bered that some of us said then that the policy of the defensive led to a program of mere bigness; the defensive makes us try to build everything in the world, all at once, never knowing what would be needed, where or when. There is no limit to what you need when you are on the defen- sive, because you can build your defensive wall of weapons up to the sky. Remember that man- power official who wept that we would need a population of 300,- 000,000 people to complete our program?) WE'RE MAKING THE DATES HE change of policy to the of- fensive, decided long ago, but made manifest only last month in the African campaign, eases our production pressure almost at once. This shows up in the most posi- tive, unmistakable way. Major General Campbell, chief of ord- nance, reveals that a large part of the department's plant capa- city, used for weapons and fuses of all kinds, has been turned over to the air forces. These facilities are now making special materials for a specific, offensive job, where once they were incessantly busy preparing for any unknown threat that might come around any cor- ner at any unexpected time. Now we are picking the corners and the times. A TALE OF 20 DAYS G ENERAL CAMPBELL points out that as many as twenty days now go by, during which not a single anti-aircraft gun is fired in England. An enormous reserve of anti-air ammunition is built up during such periods, which per- mits shifting the factories involved to production of offensive weapons for use in distant theatres. Those offensive weapons, when success- fully employed, whether on the Russian front, or in Africa, or in Europe, make it even less likely that England will have to use anti- air shells. at home. The question is one of style, of whether we have, or have not, a grip on the war. Curiously, we need much more manpower, many more weapons, many more fac- tories, when we do not have a grip on the war, than when we do. This is whatthe second front debate was about, whether we were producing for a definite win-the- war objective, or merely produc- ing. Before our offensive policy was determined upon, our procure- ment officials could do only one thing: cry endlessly for more. Now they have made a tremendous ad- vance, in terms of style. They can say: "Stop producing this article entirely. Let's have half as much of the other. And let's have twice as much of the third." The order to stop producing certain articles, because we don't need them, be- cause we have a plan, because we know where we are going, is much more exciting and promising than all of last spring's agitated cries for "More!" HITLER'S TURN? NOW let's note that every sign shows Hitler to be caught in a desperate manpower crisis. He is importing foreign workers (i.e., importing trouble) into Ger- many at an accelerating rate. He was so hungry for French man- power that he was even willing to blow up the useful facade of the Vichy government to get it. One out of five workmen in Germany is now a foreigner; the population of Germany was never less "pure" than now, after ten years of being led by a racial purist. Can this need for more production in Ger- many be linked with the passing of Germany to the defensive? In other words, is a great, tear- ing shift under way in the War, and is Germany slipping into the same insoluble problems of unlimited defensive production which were ours last spring and summer? Isn't Germany making the ack-ack shells while England and America turn to bombers? If so, we have won a profound, concealed victory, one of those victories which truly change the shape of the future, and the argu- ments of those who pleaded for the offensive have been gloriously substantiated. (Copyright, 1942, N.Y. Post Syndicate) The U.ofM. On The Air TODAY: 9:00 a.m. WJR, The Girl's Glee Club, directed by Bill Sawyer. At 1:45 p.m. WJR, Prof. James K. Pollock, news commentator. MONDAY: 2:45 p.m. WCAR, Dr. Paul Cuncannon, news commentator. At 6:15 p.m. WWJ, Prof. Preston t Slosson, news commentator. TUESDAY: 2:45 p.m. WCAR, War Department skit, directed by Mr. Donald Hargis. WEDNESDAY: 2:45 p.m. Original play by a student, directed by Prof. David Owen. At 6:15 p.m. WWJ, Prof. Slosson. At 10:30 p.m. WJR, Dr. Ralph Pino, editor of The Detroit Medical News. THURSDAY: 2:45 p.m. WCAR, "Tell Me, Professor," directed by Prof. Waldo Abbott. FRIDAY: 6:15 p.m. WWJ, Prof. Slos- son. This will be the last program until after Chiristmas vacation. The U. of M. will return to the air on Jan. 5. ber 24, for the remainder of the week. Offices and libraries will be open and classes will be conducted on New Year's Day, January 1. Pre-Meteorological and Meteorolog- ical Training Programs: A repre- sentative of the Meteorological Re- cruiting Board is to meet students interested at 4:15 p.m. Monday, Dec. 14, in Natural Science Auditorium. B. D. Thuma, Armed Forces Faculty Adviser Members of the Faculty, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Pursuant to the action of the Fac- alty on Monday, December 7, there will be a special meeting of the Fac- ulty of the College of Literature, Sci- ence, and the Arts in room 1025 An- gell Hall at 4:10 p.m. on Thursday, December 17, to consider possible read justments necessitated by the emergency situation. A large attend- ance is desired. Edward H. Kraus Christmas recess: By action of the Regents the announced time of the Christmas recess has been changed to the following: Christmas recess begins Friday evening, December 18; classes resume after recess on Wednesday morning, December 30. Classes will be held on January 1. The above changes are occasioned by transportation conditions during the holiday season. University Automobile Regulation: The automobile ruling will be lifted from Friday noon, December 18, to 8:00 A.M. on Wednesday, December 30. Dean of Students Seniors, College of Literature, Sci- ence, and the Arts, School of Educa- tion, School of Music, School of Pub- lic Health: Tentative lists of seniors including tentative candidates for the Certificate in Public Health Nur- sing have been posted on the bulletin board in Room 4, University Hall. If your name does not appear, or, if included there and is not correctly spelled, please notify the counter clerk. Robert L. Williams DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN SUNDAY, DEC. 13, 1942 VOL. LIII No. 60 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 To the Members of the University Council: There will be a meeting of the University Council on Monday, December 14, at 4:15 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. The agenda includes a communication from the Director of the General Library and the presentation of a memorandum from the University War Board by the President. All regular meetings of 'the University Council are open to the members of the University Senate. Registration for Selective Service: 1. Who Shall Register. All male stu- dents who were born on or after July 1, 1924. Foreign students must regis- ter and give country of citizenship. Those who have alien registration cards must give the number. Those who have taken out first citizenship papers only are not citizens of the United States. Anyone who fails to register must individually bear full responsibility for this failure. 2. Place of Registration. All male students born on or after July 1, 1924 should register with the Ann Arbor Selective Service Board which will were born on or after July 1, 1924. but not after August 31, 1924, shall be registered on any day during thej week commencing Friday, December 11, 1942, and ending Thursday, De- cember 17, 1942. Those who were born on or after September 1, 1924, but not after October 31, 1924, shall be regis- tered on any day during the week commencing Friday, December 18, 1942, and ending Thursday, Decem- ber 24, 1942. Those who were born on or after November 1, 1924, but not after December 31, 1924, shall be registered on any day during the per- iod commencing Saturday, Dec. 26, 1942, and ending Thursday, Decem- ber 31, 1942. During the continuance of the present war those who were born on or after January 1, 1925, shall be registered on the day they attain the eighteenth anniversary of the day of their birth; provided that if such anniversary falls on a Sunday or a legal holiday their registration shall take place on the day following that is not a Sunday or a legal holiday. 4. 'Registration during Christmas Vacation. Students who return to their permanent homes for their Christmas vacation should register with their local board at that time, provided the above schedule did not call for their earlier registration. 5. Registration Certificate. Each registrant will be given a registration certificate which he should carry at all times, "as he may be required to show it from time to time." 6. Change of Address after Regis- +i-+io Pon +zfiri n ai nh . a