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Publications Sales Analyst Telephone 23-24-1I NIGT' EDITOR: PAUL HARSHAI Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. r ' .-r A THORN: Censorship of British Criticism UnwarranUted i ENT Aericaa censorship of British press .riticisms condenmning North African policies is putting a thorn in our democratic'ideals-and probably a smile on Hitler's face. London daily papers for the past few 'weeks have been waging a powerful attack against an American-handled situation, yet almost ne of thed controversy has been allowed to reach the American people. So we find this thorn In the democratic rose- u4-a censorship amounting to suppression of, ajg+n discussion on a vital issue between two 1a It y partners. Because censorship has been sotti ct, Americans have been kept frot an- tring the charges nade against policies of the UntedI States. The same situation occurred in the reverse wheli ~the British censored American criticism of the Indian question. At that time it was the Bitish who were kept in the dark and were un- sblet^ answer charges against their policies. -In both eases open discussion would have ben of no harm to the isSue ani certaiily might have helped i i mutital understanding "etween two allies. ;~Botis- criticism of the way the politidal and mlili ±y situation is being handled is rating head- 'les in leading London newspapers. Accoints of appeasement influence in the French govern- reri, ecause Amercan policy left certain fac- ti hs i control, are being printed. Stories of mis- treatment of political prisoners under men who still hdld public office, express British disapoint- n ent in the situation. The London Daily Mail hinfs,; according to a recent report in PM, that x16rYe than, political difficulties and boggy Tuni- saata mud are delaying the Anglo-American forces u nder Gonera1 Eisenhower. The Daily Mail sug- gestfthat "poor staff work is responsible for the failure, particularly in the instance of Allied air support of the long-expected blow on Tunisia." 1uch- of the restlessness over the second front, ac2ording to London newspapers, is colored by the belief that General Eisenhower and the vic- torlbu ighth Armny together have engaged no more than 20 enemy divisions-and the press feels ihat at least 50 Axis divisions must be en- gaged to give relief to the overworked Russians. iOther London papers, the Times and the News Chronicle, in their demand for a second front express disappointment over the lack of speed with -which Eisenhower's forces are gathering th1e selves for the blow on Tumisia. They ask that-tIe 'obscurity' covering North African opera- tiors be lifted. l itt nine of these charges against American- supevised activities have-reached our ears. No open dicussion has been attempted to iron out Anglo-.Anercan differences. In the question of * redognizing certain French groups above oth- ers, a matter in which London and Washing- ton differ sharply, no attempt at reconciling opinions has been made. Further misunderstandings have arisen over Eisenhower's reasons for the acceptance of Dar- lan-reasons which were real aloud in secret ses- sion, of the House of Commons, but which the British public never even knew existed. By SAMUEL GRAFTON NEW YORK- I haven't spotted any trends for you lately, and I had better catch up, because there are all kinds of trends whizzing across the political scene like rabbits in a hurry. And if you let trends go unspotted, they multiply on you and may crowd you out of house and home. One trend is a growing public awareness of how far our State Department lags behind the realities of this war. This is new. A year ago, criticism of State De- partment policy was merely mystifying to most Americans. As recently as last February, Mr. Willkie, who has learned a lot in a year, actually delivered a speech attacking Mr. Roosevelt for not giving the State Department more power. Not long ago it would have been impossible for Mr. Hugh Grant, ex-Minister to Albania and Thailand, to deliver his speech of last week, ask- ing for "new blood" in the Department. The De- partment has been, until the present moment, the great unassailable, the single spotless vest of the Administration. PEOPLE ARE TALKING HE WAR is rushing to a head. There is a genu- inefeeling of climax, almost everywere in the world. Even those who were inarticulate, not to say dopey, a couple of years ago, now scent that a final showdown is coming between the forces of genuine democracy, and those men afflicted with." what I call "the sickness," men who began to flirt with fascism because they could not stand the tempo of lusty democratic change and progress and growth. 'Our Department of Justice has thus been emboldened to bring sedition indictments against more than two dozen Americans, pre- cisely because the public has become fed up on "the sickness," and wants no more of it. We are talking of indictments against Ezra Pound and Robert H. Best and other of the sick " gentry, who, with the arogance characteristic of their affliction, have been broadcasting for the enemy. A few years ago we used to walk somewhat timidly in the presence of the sick men; there was something of panic fright in our discussions of these blatherskites and their morbid press and platform. That has c anged. I believe the sick men are scared today. I give you that too, as a trend. - Now we come to the crux of it: Our -State Department has dealt consistently with those Frenchmen who are precisely and specifically the sick men of France. SO LATE, SO SLOW THE STATE Department has learned less, dur- ing the war, than has the Department of Jus- tice; its conceptions lag; it has not shared in the increasing boldness of the popular attack against the sickness, and the sick men. The constricted scale of the State Depart- nient's "success" in stopping the collaboration- ists of Martinique from broadcasting anti- American propaganda by short-wave is charac- teristic. These specimens have now been per- suaded to broadcast their poison on niedium wave only. I put it to you, whether that is the ci~s Fy, -DREW k~ t PEARSON'S MERRY-0-ROUND WASHINGTON- Rubber Czar Jeffers, who muoans that everything always goes wrong in Washington and wishes he were back in Omaha, is in for more trouble. Up in Philadelphia, Polish inventor Szukiew- Iez has been twiddling his thumbs waiting for a chance to tell the Senate how only two short years ago he built an alcohol rubber plant In Italy, now producing more than 10,000 tons a, year, and how he can get no steel or anything else to build a similar plant in Philadelphia- even with private funds. Down in Louisville, Fred Willkie of Seagrams, br'other of Wendell, is chafing at the bit because he is given the run-around in getting materials to build a rubber plant, again with private money and again using a quick alcohol process. Finally, right in Washington a group of Sen- ators are seeing red and saying "I told you so" over rubber delays. All of which illustrates the fact that sometimes Congress has done a better job than the Execu- tive in prosecuting the war. If the President had not vetoed the -Gillette Bill providing for syn- thetic rubber from grain alcohol we might be better off today. Last summer, Senator Gillette and his Agri- 'cultural Committee pointed out that rubber from alcohol was quicker, cheaper; that it would not use up as much steel as building big new petro- leum rubber plants; and that it would benefit the farmer. Saving Face For Officials However, the President had to save face for two high-up members of his official family. Jesse Jones had committed the nation to making rub- ber through the Standard of New Jersey patent group, the same crowd which at Nazi instigation withheld synthetic rubber patents from the U.S.A. Jesse didn't want to be reversed. Also the Gillette Bill took rubber production partially out of the hands of Donald Nelson. He objected. So FDR vetoed the Gillette Bill, sinultan- eously asking Bernie Baruch to study the entire rubber program and make recommendatoins. In the end, Baruch froze the rubber program already started, because, he said, it was too late to change-though most of the big new rubber plants to be built under the petroleum process, - requiring about $10,000,000 worth of steel and copper, still were in a blueprint stage. Baruch also recommended modified manufacture of rub- ber from alcohol. So the Gillette Committee held everything, decided to play ball. Instead of trying to 'pass its bill over the President's veto, it waited to give Jeffers a chance. But now that Jeffers has come out publicly, warning that the rubber program is seriously de- layed, and repeating some of the Senate's identi- cal warnings, Gillette et al are up in arms again. Capital Chaff The Army has found a new type of work for defeated Congressmen-semi-diplomatic jobs in Faculty (Cont ied from Pag 1) seems to me to be that the Board has been concerned with appeasing critics of The Daily rather than with upholding the principle of the freedom of the press. I would par- ticularly like to see the Board doeu- ment its record in this connectior. * * * A. K. Stevens, English depart- ment: Prior to ten or eight years ago The Daily was insufferable, a kind of multiple-mirror arrange- ment for literary narcissi. It was that most regrettable of all things in a democracy: a "kept" press- only it was "kept" by a coterie of elegant ut socially irresponsible editors and staff writers. But the Depression changed all that. The Daily acquired social consciousness -its nearest'approach to a consis- tent editorial policy. Unevenness in the application of that- policy and an occasional hystericalnote I find it easy to excuse; surely all readers must know that it is a student pa- per. I am particularly grateful for the "win-the-wa" zeal of last O- tober and November; I am sure it did us all a lot of good. W. B. Paer and George Ander- son, economics dept.: We - have enjoyed reading The Daily for sev- eral years and have been inipressed by the high calibre of perf~rmaie by its editors. It has provided a me- dium on its editorial page for the expression of all shades of student opinion. We should hate to see any attempt made to throttle consid- ered student opiiion no matter how radical or conservative it may be Roy W. Sellars, philosophy- department: The relatlonshp be- tween The Daily and the Board in Control has long, been a problem which needed public airing. I am glad to see that it has been brought into the opea for the public discus- sion which it- shouldhave. * * * John L. Brumm, chairman journalism departnien t Not know- ing all the facts involved in the present controversy, I have no com- ment to make on the merits of the case. It is very evident that there are two divergent interests to be reconciled, if possible-that of a group of students concerned with editorial enterprise and that of the tniversity faculty concerned with avoiding misadventures in pub- licity. It is inevitahble, perhaps, that, measurably as they fcel free to ex- press their views on current issues, student editors are sure, on occa- sion, to annoy, even exasperate, their elders, esecially those re- sponsible for public relations. The writing and editing of a newspaper is a precarious undertaking. A newspaper goes on trial before an undifferentiated public every day. No rule-of-thumb procedure can be relied on in its making- The most to hope for is freedom of expres- sion within the bounds of good taste and relative to matters concerning which the writers may be presumed to be adequately informed. Tie Michigan Daily is, I believe; widely recognized as one of the best col- lege newspapers. Carlton F. Wells, English depart- ment: The Daily in recent months has measured up to the high stan- dards of interest, resourcefulness, and vigorous thinking which I have come to expect from our widely re- spected student newspaper. Its edi- torial page has been alert, timely, provocative, independent. When I have disapproved on particular is- sues or with a particular editorial, I still have felt that The Daily was performing a proper function as an irritant or challenge. I should certainly deprecate any interference with the essential free- dom of the student staff members, --a freedom- that has been a part of The Daily's long tradition of outspoken and responsible jourinal- ism. Students (Continued from Page 1) any attempt to tamper with its pol- icies, seems highly out of order. I can think of a lot of things that need changing around here more than The Michigan Daily. Paul Wingate; IFC Secretary- Treasurer: Michigan traditions stand for democratic principles of learning and self-government. This being the case, let the current con- troversy at The Daily be ,the begin- ning of a campus instigated move- ment for a less one-sided, more democratic method of student gov- ernment. Packed bo'ards have toot often in the past given complete faculty control over matters of uir} tl'P la u 3i :u 1rirlC3 WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20, 1943 VOL. LIII No. 80- All notices for the Dl Offical BSul- letin are to be sent to the Offie of the Presideht in typewritten form by 3:30 p.m. of the. day preceding its publica- tlon, except on Saturday when the no. tirces should be submitted byr11:30s am. Notices Request -Federal Bureau of Imini- gration and Naturalization: In order to comply with instructions of the Federal Immigration and Naturaliza- tion authorities there wll be attached to each payroll cheekat -the end :of the-present month a blank which may be disregarded by every one who is a native born or naturalized citizen of the United States. All others should fill out this blank and return it ptomptly to the Business Office. -Shley W. Smith 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, theInvestment Office, 100 SouthWing'of University Hal, would be glad to discuss financing through the medium of a first mortgage. Such financing may effect a substantial saving in interest. Faculty, College of Engineering: There will be a meeting of the Faculty on-Friday, Jan. 22, at 4:15 pm., in Room 348, West Engineering Build- ing. -A. H. Lovell, Seretary Faculty Luncheon: Lieut. Col. Tho- mas ".M. Carter, District Chaplain, Second District Army Air Forces Technical Training Command, is speaking at a faculty luncheon at the Michigan Union today at 12:15 p.m. on our men in service as viewed by an educator. All are welcome. Identification Cards: All students reregistering for the Spring Term in February will be asked to show their Identification Cards at the time of' Registration. 'The presentation of this card will save the time of both the student and-those in charge of regis- tration procedure. Degree Program for Honors in Lib- eral Arts: Students interested in en- tering the Degree Program for Honors in Liberal Arts in the spring term -should leave their names with Miss Davis, Room 1208 Angell Hall, by Thursday, Jan. 21. Automobile Regulation- The Uni- versity Automobile Regulation will be lifted from noon on January 30 until 8:00 a.m. on Feb. 8 for all schools. Exceptions will not be made for indi- viduals who complete their work in advance of the last day of class exam- inations- -Office of the Dean of Students Students: A list of graduates and former students now in Military Ser- vice is being compiled at the Alumni Catalogue Office.- This list already numbers approimately 6,000. If you are entering Military Service, please -see that your name is included in this list by reporting such information to the Alumni Catalogue Office. This courtesy will be greatly appreciated. -Lunette Madley, Director Alumni Catalogue Office &tudents who pla to enter one of the following professional schools: Law, Business Administration, or or- estry and Conservation at the begin- ning of the summer term on the Com- bined Curricuhm must file an a mii- League Student offices or at the Un- ion Student offices, between three and five, any day this week, or to any member of the Finance committee. Attention, Graduating Engineers: To those men who have paid their class dues, caps and gowns will be available -to rent at the League Ball- room (second floor) on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, Jan. 20 and 21, from 2:00 until 6:00 p.m. The initial charge will be .$3.00; a refund of $2.00 will be made when the cap and gown are returned in good order-. All- caps and gowns must be returned to the League Ballroomn be- fore 3 o'clock on the afternoon of Saturday, Jan. 23. Academic Notices Pre-medical Students: Attention is again called to the Medical Aptitude Test of the Association of American Medical Colleges which will- be given here on Friday, Jan. 22. This test is a normal requirement for admission to- practically all medical schools. Moreover, many of - the local draft boards are asking that some evidence, such as the successful taking of thist test, be-furnished as a basis for defer- ring pre-medical students. Any stu- dent who is planning to enter a med- ical school and who has not previously taken the test should do so at this, time. It is extremely doubtful that any special tests will be given this year. Further information may be ob- tained in Room 4, University Hall, and tickets are still available at the Cashier's Office. University Choir (Ensemble 50): Male voices are needed for the spring term. Membership is open to students in any school or college of the Uni- versity whether electing the course for credit or not. Rehearsals Monday through Friday at 11 o'clock in Lane- Hall. Sacred and secular a cappella literature comprises the material for study. Contact Hardin Van Deursen, the director, Room 223, School of Music Building. Economics 12i: The class will meet today. -Margaret Elliott I will meet my classes today. Be prepared on Monday's assignment. -,. 6. Walker Speech Concentrates: Professor Hance will see students for program planning for the second semester on Thursday and Friday afternoons of this week. Please call the Speech Of- fice; ext. 526, for appointments. Mathematics 101, Topics in Calcu- lus, will be offered during the spring , term MWF at 8 in 3017 A.H., by Pro- fessor Hildebrandt, three hours credit. This course is intended for students who have already had a first course in calculus and require a rapid re- view of the techniques and applica- tions. Mathematics 20, Air Navigation, will be offered for four hours credit by Professor Carver during the spring term, in two sections meeting at I and 2 o'clock respectively. Both sections meet MTuThF in 3003 A.H. Mathematics Consultation Hours: All students in sections of Math. 7 or 13 taught by Messrs. Albers, Cote, Bennett, Grau, and Houghton, may consult one of these men for extra help on Saturday afternoon, Jan. 23, 1-5 p.m., in Rooms 404-406 South Wing. the publications organization which is very similar to what is occurring regularly in the meetings of the Committee on Student Affairs. On the Board, the action has, been definite limitation of the edi- tor-ial subject matter available for. publication. On the Committee, -it has been less obvious, yet purely a case of ideas presented by the fac- ulty and- administration dominat- ing -any .legitimate requests and presentations made by the student members of the Committee. * * * - Bob Ufer, track team: I feel stu- dents should,begin running student affairs, and should not be pushed around like a bunch of sheep. It's bad enough that the administration should cut out house parties and use the Committee on Student Af- fairs as. a Charlie McCarthy. But now that it is curtailing our opin- ions as expressed by The. Daily, I feel we, the students, should really. stand up and fight for our rights. Frank C. McCarthy, track tean,; John F. Zimmerman, retiring Gar- goyle business manager: We strongly support The Daily's effort to bring out into the open the struggle that has resulted once again from a lack of student rep- resentation on a Board of Control. This struggle is to us a greater one than merely removing a member of the Board. It is an effort to give the student body an effective free voice. * * * Ben Douglas, Michiganensian Business Manager, and George Ir- win, University Band Manager: This Daily controversy brings into the open one aspect of a more gen- eral question which has long been in need of airing. This is the matter of the right of students to question faculty authority in the administra- tion of student affairs. Students too often have been re- garded as creatures of immature judgment for whom all decisions must be made. However, it would seem that the student of today is more than ever aware of his re- sponsibilities, and is capable of handling these responsibilities. It is a relief to see that this problem has been brought up for discussion. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN