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SAN FRANCISCO Confidentitilly, Ilerman--I'm beginning to onder if VICTORY ON THE HOME FRONT: het'en il iy z. :5+ _ ' 4l S C'i VA "y.. 1rrr rf cif ti L r" 5 YY, :<< 'J r t t flPj -q .TAE sus°_ -. _ , _ - " - _ ". .. !" j { 3 s . Awl I - I l~aft Lauds Givl~lc Editorial Stafff John Erlewine . Bud Brimmer. Leon Gordenker . Marion Ford . Charlotte Conover . Eric Zalenski Betty Harvey James Conant * Managing Editor *Editorial Director City Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor . . . . Sports Editor . . . Women's Editor Columnist Edward J. Perlberg Fred M. Ginsberg Mary Lou Curran Jane Lindberg . Business Staff . . . . . Business Manager * . Associate Business Manager . . Women's Business Manager . . Women's Advertising Manager Telephone 23-24-1 NIGHT EDITOR: PAUL HARSHA Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. ' . HE word "absenteeism" has be- come suddenly a common word in the vocabulary of Americans watching our war effort. A rate from 10 percent to 14 percent re- ported from many places stirs us to anger or fear, and sometimes to vigorous measures. I find, however, that production men are far more disturbed by an- other word, not newly coined and not so commonly heard, "turn- over." That is probably a more ac- curate emphasis. Our Health and Welfare Services welcome the new concern with both absenteeism and turnover. For two years we have been preaching that materials and their end products, tanks, guns, planes and ships were not the whole story, but that people made them. We have whispered, pleaded, and roared that not only the conditions in the plant, but everything that affected the state of mind of the worker, affected production. When I played inter- collegiate football and basketball 25 years ago, it was "mental at- titude," not just a strong back and a weak mind. It was true of ath- letic teams, and it is true of in- dustrial teams. Some industrialists have gone to extremes in proving that proposi- tion. Henry Kaiser on the Pacific Coast provides medical care for his workers' families. Jack and Heintz make every worker an associate In a business whose breath-taking im- portance they have sold to the youngest office boy. Grumman Air- craft has waiting service to fix flats or to get ration cards for every last worker who otherwise would not only take valuable time, but get sore. Somebody else puts a beauty shop in the plant to keep his girls from laying off a day to get that permanent. O UR story has to do with just plain every-dlay essentials of living, pure running water, sewage in pipes-not ditches, medical care, schools and play-grounds for the kids, decent attractive leisure- time activities for the grownups. Transportation and housing aren't our baby, but sometimes, as in the Detroit area, we have a man on the War Manpower staff doing our stuff and chasing down details on where to live and how to get there as well. You are dealing with just good every-day intelligent mobile Amer- icans. Underline the word "mobile." They move easily, like a ball. They picked up in winter, packed the jalopy and went south. They went north in summer. Some of them didn't work for quite a while, be- cause nobody would hire them. Some never worked because they were too young or they were gals. Now they're all working. all that aren't in the Army or Navy. Maybe they are absent, and may- be they move too often. But I'll lay down a big red apple that they are working several hundred per cent more than they ever worked before and they are moving a whole lot less than they used to. They are are doing better than they did, not worse. Let's not damn them, but Labor Statistics According to figures issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' strikes in war industries ac- counted for about 1,900,000 man-days lost in the first nine months of 1942. The number of industrial man-days lost in 1942 because of illness and accidents has been estimated at 484,059,000 accord- ing to figures by Carl Brown in the January issue of Nation's Business published by U. S. Chamber of Commerce. It is estimated (PM) that 35,- 000,000 man-days are lost an- nually because of "willful" or "voluntary" absenteeism-that is when a worker stays away from job, although he is neither sick nor on strike. * * * By approximating for the whole of 1942 on the basis of the average for the first nine months, the number of man- days lost on account of strikes is about 2,500,000. From these figures, it is evident that, con- trary to popular belief, the number of man-days lost on account of absenteeism is four- teen times, and the number lost on account of illness one hun- dred and three times, as great as those caused by strikes in war plants. find out how we can help them do better yet. For instance, let's quit comparing war workers with men in uniform. They are both in uniforms of a kind, and draft boards which are by and large mighty fair are de- ciding which it will be. The war workers would show up just as well on Guadalcanal and New Guinea as the boys who are there because they are just the same kind of Americans. We take care of our soldiers and sailors as well as we can in housing and clothing and feeding and recreation, depending -n E - --ort on where they are. We can't do any less for war workers. These war workers have had some pretty lousy conditions to live and to work. It's improving and that fairly rapidly. But don't ex- pect a man or woman with a rep- etitive operation in an important assembly line to have the incentive or to accept the conditions of the soldier under a dive bomber in Tunisia or stalking a Jap sniper in New Guinea. War workers are en- titled to a decent house, sanitation, care of their children, a minimum health provision, and some meas- ure of social life and recreation with their fellows. To the person who says to me, Don't you know we're in a war? I would simply say. Sure, you dumb- bell, but do you want production or don't you? If you do, give workers living conditions and see to it that their boss and his executive organ- ization, not the newspapers or the services or the government or any outsiders, the people who lead them on the working front, show them and convince them that what they are doing is about the most im- portant part of the war effort. It isn't a question of pay or bonuses or gadgets or services as such. The fact the loss takes care of them shows them the boss thinks they are doing an important job, that their time is valuable and can't be wasted. What are they going to think if we don't give them anything but trailers or open sewers or one movie per 200,000 people and food in greasy spoons? We certainly don't show them we think their job is important. W ASHTENAW and Wayne and Macomb Counties had the toughest job in the United States and they and their people have done an outstanding job. Here in Washtenaw you took the lead by setting up a county health unit and the other two won't be able to look at that long without following suit. We in the Federal Govern- ment haven't moved as fast or in as united a fashion as we should, but we're getting there. This talk of absenteeism and turnover is coming at just the right time be- cause part of the causes are the lack of just the facilities and ser- vices we are trying to help you get. This is a tough war and it will be won by people. It is people we work with, you and I, in these commun- ity efforts to organize ourselves for effective production. This home front is a second front we can all open now and continuously until all fronts bring victory. -Charles P. Taft 'LAST MEAL' Wolverine Co-op Helped Students of University THE ANNOUNCEMENT that the Michigan Wolverine, cooperative eating establishment, will serve its last regular meal today closes, at least temporarily, one of the most worthwhile activities on campus. Beginning on a shoestring in the dark days of the depression, the Wolverine has continually grown in size and now it is recognized as the largest unit of its kind on any college campus in the country. A borrowed $10 bill and a handful of stu- dents determined to stay in school started the organization in 1932. Their activities centered in the basement of Lane Hall till they moved into their present quarters in 1937. The primary aim of serving low-cost meals so that students with a limited income could stay in school and obtain their education has been more than satisfied. NOW, the strain of present economic conditions has put an end to their activity, but the op- portunities they have presented and the students they have helped bear witness to the good they have wrought. Born of distress and raised through hardship, the Wolverine has made a name for itself in Uni- versity history which will not soon be forgotten. - Stan Wallace IAT IN RING: Willkie's Presidential Bid Faces Stiff Competition AMID rumors of President Roosevelt's views on the question of a fourth term, hats are al- ready starting to fly into the presidential ring. Since it is difficult for any Democrats to sound forth publicly their presidential ambitions, most of the early activity seems to be coming as it did in the last election from the Republican side. Here we find Wendell Willkie, the 1940 standard- bearer already fully engaged in gaining support for his desired renomination. Herbert R. Hill reporting in Sunday's New York Times on Willkie's recent trip to Indiana had this to say, "Mr. Willkie has now more spontaneous support in Indiana than he did up to the moment of his nomination in 1940. And while rank and file Republicans and inde- pendents in Hoosierland have continued to regard him highly since, it was not until last week-end that the Republican party leaders decided to jump to his new bandwagon." Following on the heels of this article came an announcement from the Republican leader of Connecticut pledging his organization's support. FROM this information it is apparent that Mr. Willkie' drive having as its aim the capture of the GOP convention in June of next year is at this early date already underway. However, this time Mr. Willkie besides cop- ing with the political animosity of many of the reactionary elements in his party must in ad- dition compete with a Taft enriched with the political experience of four more years in the Senate; a Dewey, who with his newly an- nounced program of social legislation appears 0 0 Dominic Says MANY today are concerned with the contradic- tions of life, who normally would miss the search for meaning entirely, or mistakenly post- pone it to old age. The thousands begin to un- derstand what George Meade meant when he wrote, "It is natural then to demand a different world where that discrepancy, between the soci- ety we experience and the ideal, is not found." "That is the assumption," he adds, "that has lain behind all religions.'' The dynamic personality, always attractive both to youth and age and doubly significant in our epoch, seems dependent on a similar reac- tion. The man whose hope is centered on an existing society, its possessions, conveniences, privileges, and complacent routine, is emotion- ally powerless. But the healthful person, whose eye roves and whose heart hungers for values afar, is emotionally powerful. Between a gen- eration fully satisfied and one adequately moti- vated, we would choose the latter. For this rea- son, the men who are able to wrap in one bundle the peace and the war, are those who will both contribute most and live best. It is Raymond B. Catell in his little book "ThesReligious Quest" who insists thatbthe good follower, as well as the good leader, is as a skillful mountain climber. He can always adjust the pack on his back as well as his own weight, not to the secure foot on which he stands, but to the foot he is swinging to the untried crag ahead. Insofar as the individual feels that he is ac- complishing a movement of moral significance or contributing toward some end in the universe with which our own purpose ought to be aligned, says Meade, "he has the sense of salvation." He is becoming one with an end or purpose not his own in which he finds completeness. -Edward W. Blakeman Counselor in Religious Education VIA SPAIN: Supplies Sent to Spain Would Bolster the Axis JUST as it was expedient to sacrifice Czechoslo- vakia in October 1938, to satisfy the insatiable appetite of Adolph Hitler, just as it was logical to send Japan oil to prevent her from seizing the Dutch East Indies, so we are now being told it is expedient to send stores of oil, cotton, food and other products to Spain to aid in the develop- ment of a peace economy. In glowing terms Carlton Hayes, our ambassa- dor to Madrid described how Spain is effecting a vigorous economic renaissance under 'the wise discretion of a government which while fostering work of peace at home, has held aloof from any war abroad.' While it is necessary to be diplomatic, to glorify your enemies is another thing. Let us not forget the origins of the present Spanish government, built as it was with the economic resources and the "volunteer" Legions of Hit- ler and Mussolini. Let us not forget that Franco is still very much in debt to these "illustrious" gentlemen for that aid. Bearing this in mind it is easy to see that there is more than just the fact that she is a neutral in the noliv fGemn hnte nm,.. a~re nn,-. t a I'd Rather Be Right_ By SAMUEL GRAFTON MR. ROOSEVELT is getting the old one-two now. The scene is becoming a shambles- Let us trace one of these lines of attack against the President, any one, at random, and see what we find. Take the farm problem. Mr. Roose- velt is accused of muddling it. He has, for ex- ample, been charged with letting the farmer pur- chase too little farm machinery; about one-fifth normal, in fact. That hurts. Who did it? Did Mr. Roosevelt do it? The pictue is of Mr. Roosevelt denying ma- chinery to the farmer, out of sheer biliousness. Let us fade back to spring, 1941. The steel in- dustry has been asked whether it can meet de- fense demands, with existing capacity. It re- ports that it can; it reports that it will even have a surplus. Long, sarcastic editorials, in a dozen places; the bureaucrats want to overbuild the steel industry, when everybody knows we have enough steel. Wheeee! T e decision is made, not by bureaucrats, but by private steel experts. No new steel mills. ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER THE PRESIDENT accepts that finding. I quote now, merely as a sample, from an edi- torial in the New York Times, March 1, 1941: "The announcement should put an end to the demands which were being made by various eco- nomic planners for a large expansion of steel capacity. An unnecessary increase in steel plants at this time could only have injured the defense program . . " How lofty! How final! Those dirty economic planners, they want more steel capacity. These are the same dirty eco- nomic planners now charged in many places with callously withholding steel machinery from the farmer. The very same. One thing leads to another, but you would rarely guess it from some of the stuff that you read. FIGUREZ-VOUS, THE NOISE DO NOT say the administration has not mud- dled. It has muddled often. It muddled, probably, in accepting the Gano Dunn steel re- port. But figurez-vous, the noises that would have risen had it rejected it, the hideous clamors that would have been raised to high heaven. All I ask is for a decent humility in discussing these things, and for a little less of that kind of com- ment which pictures a tired man in the White House as a willful muddler, an ecstatic muddler, as a man who muddles deliberately for an hour each day after lunch, probably with a gleeful smile and his tongue joyously out. Nobody ever adds up past attitudes, to see what part they played in producing present re- sults. Actually (surprise! surprise) this country is still a democracy. The steel decision was a democratic decision, reached after consulta- tion with the industry. The President, and this, too, may surprise you, was absolutely without power, under our way of life, to run counter to the solemn findings of that industry and its journalistic supporters. The ensuing. noise would simply have been too sharp, too high. These curbs on the President are as sharp as anything in the Constitution. JOINT AND MUTUAL MUDDLING BUT next to no expression is ever given to the obvious truth that a good deal of our mud- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN SUNDAY, FEB. 28, 1943 VOL. LIII No. 101 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 by11:30 a.m. Notices Public Health Assembly: Doctor Albert McCown, Medical Director of the Ameri- can Red Cross, will speak before a Public Health Assembly at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, March 1, in the Auditorium of the Kellogg Foundation Institute on "The Red Cross and the War." The public is invited to attend the lec- ture. Faculty, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: The regular meeting of the faculty will be held in Room 1025 Angell Hall on Monday,March 1, at 4:10 p.m. The reports of the various committees have been prepared in advance and are included with this call to the meeting. They should be retained in your files as part of the minutes of the March meeting. Edward H. Kraus AGENDA: 1. Consideration of the minutes of the February meeting. pp. 932-935, which have been distributed by campus mail. 2. Consideration of reports submitted with the call to this meeting. a. Executive Committee-Professor L. I. Bredvold. b. Executive Board of the Graduate School-Professor C. S. Schoepfle. c. University Council-Professor H. H. Willard. d. Deans' Conference-Dean E. H. Kraus. 3. New Business. 4. Announcements. School of Music Faculty Meeting will be held at 4:15 p.m., Tuesday, March 2, in Room 305, School of Music Building. All members of the faculty are asked to attend. job, and we cease to be democrats -when we want to assess the blame. We tap a toplofty blackjack on the skulls of those who want more steel mills; we create a political cli- mate in which those mills cannot be German Table for Faculty Members will meet Monday at 12:10 p.m. in the Found- ers' Room, Michigan Union. Members of all departments are cordially invited. There will be a brief talk on "Soziologie in der Praxis" by Mr. Hanns Pick. Fraternities and Sororities: Student pro- tection against tuberculosis concerns non- student adult house janitors and food handlers. House heads are advised to check on this before employment. Check- ing may be done by sending them with a letter to the Health Service between 10 and 12, or 2 and 4 on week days, except Satur- day. An x-ray examination will be given at small cost to the house. Warren E. Forsythe, M.D. Director, Health Service Seniors in Engineering & Wood Technol- ogy: Mr. C. E. Lentz, General Superinten- dent, of The Singer Manufacturing Com- pany, South Bend, Ind., will interview Seniors in Engineering & Wood Technol- ogy, on Friday, March 5, for prospective positions with their company. They are now engaged in building airplanes and air- plane parts. Students who have an interest in this field, particularly in ply-wood con- struction, are most desired. Interviews will be held in Room 218 West Engineering Building andinterview sched- ule is posted on the Bulletin Board at Room 221 West Engineering Bulding. Lectures University Lecture: Professor R. S. Knox, Department of English, University of Tor- onto, will lecture on the subject, "Recent Shakespearian Criticism," under the auspi- ces of the Department of English Language and Literature, on Monday, March 1, at 3:15 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. The public is invited. University Lecture: Sir Bernard Pares, English historian and diplomat, will lec- ture on the subject, "Russia Now," under the auspices of the Department of His- tory, on Tuesday, March 9, at 4:15 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. Sigma Xi Lecture: Dr. D. W. Bronk, Pro- fessor of Biophysics, Director of the John- son Research Foundation and Director of the Institute of Neurology of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, will speak on the A cademic Notices Bacteriology 312 Seminar will meet Tues- day, March 2, at 4:15 p.m. in Room 1564 East Medical Building. Subject: "Growth Requirements of a Butyl-Acetone Organ- ism." All interested are invited. Math. 348, Seminar in Applied Mathe- matics, will meet on Monday at 4:00 p.m. in 318 west Engineering Bldg. Dr. Thrall will talk on matrices. Biological Chemistry Seminar will meet on March 3 at 7:30 p.m., in Room 319, West Medical Building. "The Utilization of Carbon Dioxide" will be discussed. All interested are invited. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Schools of Education, Forestry, Music, and Public Health: Students who received marks of I or X at the close of their last semester or summer session of attendance will receive a grade of E in the course or courses unless this work is made up by March 8. Students wishing an extension of time beyond this date in order to make up this work should file a petition ad- dressed to the appropriate official in their school with Room 4 of U.H. where it will be transmitted. Robert L. Williams, Asst. Registrar Students who plan to enter one of the following professional schools: Law, Busi- ness Administration, or Forestry and Con- servation at the beginning of the summer term on the Combined Curriculum must file an application for this Curriculum in the Office of the Dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, 1210 An- gell Hall, on or before March 1, 1943. After this date applications will be accepted only upon the presentation of a satisfactory ex- cuse for the delay and the payment of a fee of $5.00. German I Make-up Final Examination will he given Saturday, March 6, 10 to 12 a.m., in room 306 University Hall. Students who plan to take this examina- tion must obtain written permission from their Fall term instructors and sign in the office of theaGerman Department, 204 University Hall. In other courses make-up examinations will be arranged by the instructors concerned with students who are entitled to them. Make-up examination for Psychology 31,