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OPA SUGGESTION:
Labor May Benefit
From Cost-Plus Plan
OPA administrator Prentiss Brown had, we
hope, something up his sleeve when he an-
nounced yesterday that a two-dollar-a-day wage
increase for miners would cause all other unions
to demand higher wages and hence will mean
losing "the fight against inflation," while at the
same time announcing the scratching of the price
ceiling plan in favor of the cost-plus system.
What the workers want is a higher standard
of living, and they can get this by either higher
wages (which leads to inflation) or a lowering
of the cost of living. Either of these measures
will raise the real income of the worker. Mr.
Brown is evidently trying to do it by the latter
method. What good- will it do labor to get by
means of threats and strikes a dollar raise
every month if the cost of living also goes up by
the same amount?
Brown should be given a fair chance to con-
trol prices, but it must be kept in mind that
labor has a right to demand that their REAL
WAGES be kept at a fair level.
Charles Bernstein
ON CHINA:
Prof. Gale interprets
Wartime Campus Poll
FOLLOWING are the results of a poll of stu-
dent opinion taken on campus early this
week, with an interpretative statenent by Prof.
Esson M. Gale of the political science depart-
ment.
The poll was the second in a series on post-
war problems sponsored by the Pot-War
Council in conjunction with The Daily.
Question: Which one of these statements do
you agree with the most? Agree with the least?
Answers: (1) Our first military objective is to
cooperate with China to knock out Japan, 37.6%
agree with most, 18.8% agree with least; (2) As
much as we would like to help China, for the.
present we must concentrate on knocking out
Germany, 45.7% agree with most, 4.9% agree
with least; (3) We must knock out Germany
first, even at the expense of losing China as an
ally, 3.7% agree with most, 63.3% agree with
least. No opinion, 13%.
* * * *
Prof. Gale's Analysis
THIS POLL exposes some surprising features.
To begin with, a proportion of 13% of the
opinion sampled in it indicates, in the words of
Prof. Pollock in interpreting the results of a poll
on future Soviet action, that "the question hasn't
been talked about enough."
This impression of lack of awareness of the
equally formidable enemy across the Pacific is
borne out in the preponderance of opinion ex-
pressed in reply to question 2', (45.7%). Here,
possibly parroting the press and the administra-
tion, the opinion says that Germany is enemy
No. 1, while the task of defeating Japan can
safely be relegated to an indefinite future.
Even the 3.7% representing the extreme of
ignoring the critical role which China must
play in the defeat of our special adversary,
Japan, is astonishing, to say the least. It again
is indication of the American pre-Pearl Harbor
lake .92
By Jason
Hi Soldiers!
Hepcats keen!
Dance to the merry melodies
Of the quintette queens!
T HE BOYS of the 1694th service unit, sta-
tioned at the East Quad, are getting a warm
reception to Ann Arbor these days. For nearly
two months nobody knew that they existed.
Then Hillel-and the Ann Arbor USO club,
which provided the jingle above-started the
ball rolling. Now everyone's climbing on the
proverbial bandwagon.
First it was the Pi Phi's. Last week it was
Stockwell. The men of the 1694th-and the
new Meteorology School arrivals-are being
entertained at Betsy Barbour this Saturday
afternoon and at Mosher-Jordan Saturday
night. Flaming posters-"meet YOU at Mosh-
er . . , '' are urging them on.
Curious to find out if a soldier's life at Mich-
igan is as glamorous as it sounds, we asked
Lieutenant Spence, commanding officer of the
1694th, just how these parties really work out
"Very, very excellently," was his unqualified
answer. "We've gotten a fine response from the
girls in the organized houses and dorms. The
girls seem to get quite a kick out of it, too; in
time of war, you know, everybody loves a uni-
form."
HOW MUCH spare time do the men have?
"Not very much. A lot of them spend Satur-
day night just sleeping. It's a tough schedule:
D lot tougher than anything I ever hit in college."
Lieutenant Spence beat us to the punch in
bringing up one thing that was bothering us
about these parties for the military.
"We have Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant
boys here. There's no discrimination. Even the
Greek-letter houses are throwing their doors
wide open. That's Army policy, of course; we
couldn't accept an invitation that specified the
race or religion of the men they were asking.
There are no lines drawn here."
That impressed us. Lieutenant Spence and
the type of Army he represents might, it
seemed to us, help to break down the preju-
dices that are deep-rooted even on a college
campus. "I don't know," he said. "I hope so;
it might make people broad-minded, have
more respect for other people's religious pref-
erences. We're all in it; we might as well all
carry the ball together."
L IEUTENANT SPENCE had mentioned Greek-
letter houses. Racial and religious tolerance
doesn't check with some things we've heard
about them. So we put a prominent sorority
member on the spot.
She didn't figure that anti-Jewish feeling
on this campus was a matter of pre.iudice at
all. "It's what I've always heard since I've
come up here, that's all," she told us. "Some
of the finest people I know around here are
Jewish. But-I don't know-it's just a cus-
tom, I guess. You just don't date that way."
I went to Virginia Morse. president of Pan-
hellenic Society, to find out whether such soror-
ity traditions apply to the Arimy.
Miss Morse personally felt that, "enter
taining soldiers, any group on campus will -put
I'd Rather,
Be Right_
BySAMUEL GRAFTON
NEW YORK- It has become fashionable to
regard the refusal of the American people, 23
years ago, to get hot about the League of Nations,
as an historic instance of popular stupidity.
Nobody has yet uttered the simple and conclu-
sive answer that the American people did not
become excited on behalf of the League, as then
constituted, because the League was not very
exciting.
Why blame the audience, when the show
lays an egg? The people are the constants, in
any political situation; if a particular scheme
fails to appeal to them, the fault must lie in
the scheme. The business of denouncing the
American people as ineredible, fools for not
having taken a certain course of action, at a
certain time, is political infantilism. If you
want the people to endorse a plan you have to
get up a plan that they will endorse.
The American people just couldn't become ex-
cited (enough) about the international cast of
characters in charge of world affairs in 1919, and
who can blame them?
What was there about the Lloyd Georges,
Clemenceaus, Orlandos, etc., and the other hard-
ened eggs of that time to make the American
people go dancing on the green, kissing each
other in the streets, and dropping off to sweet,
secure dreams?
Does it really seem so reasonable now that
such men as these could, under any conceivable
conditions, have made a safe, secure, prosperous
world? I don't believe it, and the American
people, in their own instinctively accurate way,
didn't believe it, either.
The League proposed to do next to nothing
about the things that really make sense to
men, such as promoting individual security.
Its content was largely a proposal to set up
better methods for resolving international
quarrels of little immediate concern to the
average man. The average man responded
with boredom, which is the way he votes be-
tween elections. The League was not a failure
because it did not get popular support; it did
not get popular support because it was a fail-
ure.
So, when the next such proposal comes along,
those behind it had better make sure it is excit-
ing, if they want the people to be excited about
it.
Those of us who are in a frenzy of fear lest
the people once again will turn down some dull,
gray, meaningless international concoction, can
be assured now that if it is dull, gray and mean-
ingless, the people will turn it down. You have
to give them something they can't turn down.
That is the way democratic process exercises its
squeeze power on the reluctant.
If the brave new world turns out to include
understandings" with the remnant Junkers
of Germany, the royal household of Italy, the
Hapsburgs of Austria, the frozen faces of the
old French General Staff, and if it says noth-
ing to each man about meat on the table, the
people are very decidedly going to say fudge,
and turn it down, taking their chances on
luck.
(The bad thing about our dalliance with Otto
WE RRY -GO-
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WASHINGTON, March 17.-
With Democratic political popular-
ity at a low ebb throughout the
country, the voting public is now
getting a significant glimpse of
what it might expect of a Republi-
can Administration if elected. In
recent weeks the glimpse has been
a bit sour.
First there was the repeal of the
$25,000 salary limit which bene-
fited the grand total of 2,500 peo-
ple in the entire nation, in contrast
to the millions of wives and moth-
ers getting about $50 a month from
men at the front. Second came
GOP whoopla over the Rum plan
which would also be a windfall to
a handful of war wealthy.
Now comes the most interesting
test of all-the line-up of Repub-
lican senators behind the old Huey
Long gang to secure appointment
of a Huey Long judge to the 5th
Circuit Court of Appeals in Louisi-
ana, merely for the satisfaction of
embarrassing Roosevelt.
In the old days, when Huey
was staging filibusters and hurl-
ing jeers at dignified GOP sena-
tors, they kept their noses in the
air and stalked out of the Senate
chamber with holier-than-thou
written all over their faces. But
now they have swallowed their
pride and ganged up with the
remnants of Huey Longism-all
for the pleasure of embarrassing
FDR.
The judge Roosevelt refused to
appoint-and whom the GOP now
inferentially supports- is Huey's
old friend, Archie Higgins, who re-
cently voted against barring ex-
Governor Dick Leche from the
practice of law. Leche, another
Huey Long satellite, is serving ten
years in jail. But when his disbar-
ment case came before the Supreme
Court of Louisiana, Judge Higgins
remained loyal to the memory of
Huey and dissented from disbar-
ring the imprisoned governor.
Higgins Helps Huey
While the Kingfish was still alive,
Judge Higgins was even more loyal.
In almost every case coining before
the Louisiana Supreme Court
where one of Huey's policies was
involved, Higgins went down the
line.
In 1934, for instance, Huey's
candidate for election to the Su-
preme Court was Justice Winston
Overton, whose brother, Senator
Overton, is now so busy persuad-
ing Republican senators to vote
against Roosevelt in the current
judicial battle. Winston Overton
was opposed by Judge Thomas F.
Porter, anti-Huey Long man. But
two days before the primary,
Winston Overton died.
This left Judge Porter as the sole
candidate, and he got the Demo-
cratic nomination, which in Louisi-
ana is tantamount to election. But
Huey Long's machine refused to
accept his nomination and called
for a second primary on Oct. 9.
Whereupon Judge Porter secured
an injunction from a lower court
preventing Huey's Secretary of
State from putting any other can-
didate's name on the ballot.
But the Long crowd appealed to
the Supreme Court, where their
friend Judge Higgins agreed to hear
the case. But very conveniently
he placed the date of hearing on
Nov. 26, whereas the primary was
to be held Oct. 9. Thus, Judge
Higgins agreed to consider, six
weeks after the primary, the then
purely theoretical question of whe-
ther Judge Porter could be opposed
in a primary which already had
been held.Long beforehthe argu-
ment, of course, Huey had placed
another candidate, John Fournet,
on the ticket and Judge Porter had
been defeated. Chief Justice 0'-
Neill, vigorously dissenting, held
that Judge Higgins' opinion emas-
culated the election machinery of
Louisiana.
They Hate Roosevelt
On another occasion, Huey Long
had trouble controlling the police
jury of East Baton Rouge Parish.
So he jammed a bill through the
legislature permitting his gang to
appoint thirteen new members.
After their appointment, the new
Huey Long members brought suit
against the old members to pre-
vent them from doing business.
The lower court refused to issue the
injunction. But in the Supreme
Court, Judge Higgins came to the
rescue of his old friend the King-
fish, and wrote an opinion revers-
ing the lower court.
cates the guilty men and their sup-
porters; if it sets up governments
in Europe that do not require de-
odorizing; if it includes an ex-
change of national vows to stop at
nothing to achieve full employ-
T FINISH the Choral Union Series by turns. The audience loved him.
this year with a bang, we had- It was terrifying to watch.
hold your breath, girls-Nelson Eddy After the intermission Mr. Eddy
and he was, as. usual, himself in really went to town. Several folksy
technicolor. Mr. Eddy having been numbers were sung with incredible
my bete blonde since. I learned to archness and condescension. The
crown of this was the "Song of the
distinguish one note from another, Flea," a robust setting of a selec-
this was an occasion I shall not tion from Goethe's "Faust" as-
easily forget. Still, one learns from signed to Mephistopheles - sung
everything and last night, after years with Aunt Agatha's robustness, and
of wonder and bewilderment, I think the devilishness of Cousin Hubert
I realized the secret of his intense dropping an egg on her. Then
popularity. He is the complete and there was, "I Saw You There in the
all-encompassing Commonplace, the Moonlight," by Robert MacGimsey
ultimate word in the Average, the and it was very tender, and I mean
ideal Mediocre. T-E-N-D-E-R-. It was sung with
This is nothing to be ignored- that overstatement that passes ev-
life is short and we are surrounded; erywhere as emotion, and should
every day it is lapping at the front be apprehended by the police-I
door; many are lost each minute seriously think it bad for the young.
in it-the great Sea Ordinary. And HE REST was repetition of one
Mr. Eddy is one of the sirens E sort or another. Yet what rio ight
tempting us on to ruin as we sally have I to complain? Mr. Eddy has
madly forth to find culture. Cul- soda water to offer, and if his public
ture. It is quite plain that this think it champagne, let wine-drink-
is what he represents to his pal- ers stay away. I feel that to criticize
pitating public-and culture is a him is to desecrate an icon, for he
nice thing to have-and Mr. Eddy is his public, epitomized and ex-
makes it seem so easy. Of course halted. Even I could hardly resist
it isn't, but to say it's difficult "Danny Boy" so smoothly delivered.
would terrify so many that perhaps A concert baritone is a Trimmer's
it's better to be still., state of mind and can hardly help
And 'yet, he can be good-the op- himself.
ening selection by Handel proved As I write, Ann Arbor is dark
that-and made the ensuing vul- and Miss Faustine Klotch and Mrs.
garities all the more painful. There Epworth Wafflecamp are falling
was no excuse for his singing the asleep conscious of having had
scene from the "Magic :lute" with their timid, slender lives Justified
an inflection that had little to do for an evening. When they read
with its place and function in the thissoething. sn ty rn-
opera; and why in Italian? this, something will snap into In-
dignation, and letters will be writ-
THE RUSSIAN GROUP that fol- ten. Goodbye, kiddies.
lowed began with a brief song of --Chester Kallman
Gretchaninoff's, soberly and suavely
sung; as was the following folk song. Some of the new coffee substitutes
After this the bars were down. It contain such products as chicory, soy
has always surprised me that acting, beans, roasted barley, Mexican chick
that would be laughed out of Po, peas, roasted rye cereal, rolled wheat
dunk, is thought artistic if it resides flour, molasses, and corn meal. Some
safely in the inflection of a baritone's combinations are blended with cof-
voice. Mr. Eddy was darling and grim fee.
DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN
THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1943
VOL. LIII No. 115
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 l:30 am.
Notices
Physical Education for Womhen: Regis-
tration for physical education for the
outdoor season of the spring term will be
held in Room 14, Barbour Gymnasium:
Friday, March 19, 8:00-12:00 and 1:00-
5:00.
Saturday, March 20, 8:00-12:00.
Concerts
Faculty Recital: The third and final
program in the current Beethoven sonata
series will be presented at 8:30 p.m. on
Sunday, March 21, In Lydia Mendelssohn
Theatre. Mrs. Mabel Ross Rhead, pianist,
and Mr. Gilbert Ross, violinist, of the
School of Music faculty, will play Bee-
thoven's Sonata In F major, Op. 24, Son-
ata in A major, Op. 12, and Sonata in A
major, Op. 47.
The public is cordially invited.
The Senate Advisory Committee
convene in the Regents' Room on
day, March 19, at 4:15 p.m.
will
Fri-
Credit for School of Education students
entering the armed forces: By vote of
the Administrative Committee a student
withdrawing from the School of Educa-
tion to enter the armed services will be
allowed such credit, in full or pro-rated,
in his courses as his instructors recom-
mend. Instructors will be asked to give
special consideration to any graduating
senior who has completed at least half
of the term and who has a satisfactory
record. Any request for the adjustment
of credit should be filed with the Re-
corder of the School of Education, Room
1437 University Elementary School.
J. B. Edmonson, Dean
Freshmen in the College of Literature,
Science, and the Arts may obtain their
five-week progress reports in the Aca-
demic Counselors' Office, Room 108, Ma-
son Hall, from 8:30 to 12:00 a.m. and 1:30
to 4:30 p.m. according to the following
schedule:
Surnames beginning N through Z,
Thursday, March 18.
Surnames beginning E through M, Fri-
day. March 19.
Surnames beginning A through D, Sat-
urday, March 20.
Arthur Van Duren,
Chairman, Academic Counselors
Senior women are requested to obtain
caps, gowns and collars from Moe's Sport
Shop, 711 N. University, March 17-20, from
3:00 a.m. to 5:00 P.M.
Senior women must wear caps and
gowns in order to be admitted to Junior
Stunt Night at Lydia Mendelssohn Thea-
tre.
A five-dollar deposit fee is required, of
which three dollars will be refunded
when cap and gown are returned.
Lectures
T. R. Ybarra, authority on Latin Ameri-
can affairs and author of "Young Man
of Caracas," will speak tonight at 8:15
in Hill Auditorium as the closing number
of the current Oratorical Association Lec-
ture Course. Mr. Ybarra's subject will be
"Latin America Tomorrow." Tickets may
be purchased at the auditorium box office
today, 10 a.m.-8:15 p.m.
Lecture: Professor Anton J. Carlson of
the University of Chicago will lecture on
"The Existence and Nature of God" on
Friday at 8:15 p.m. in the Rackham Am-
phitheatre. A reception for. Professor
Carlson will be held at Lane Hall imme-
diately following the lecture. All stu-I
ients are cordially invited.
Lecture: Dr. C. Sverre Norborg, Pro-
fessor of Philosophy at the University of'
Minnesota, will lecture on the subject,
"Does Christianity Square with the
Exhibitions
Exhibition, College of Architecture and
Design: Italian majolica loaned from col-
lection of Detroit Institute of Arts-
pitchers, bowls, plates and tiles of 14th
& 15th centuries; also fragments typical
of several phases of majolica technique.
Ground floor corridor, Architecture Build-
ing. Open daily, 9 to 5, except Sunday,
until March 26. The public is Invited.
Events Today
The regular Thursday evening record
program in the Men's Lounge of the
Rackham Building at 8 p.m. will be as
follows:
DeFalla:Cubana; Nights in the Gar-
den of Spain.
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe; Introduction
and Allegro; Quartet in F; Concerto for
Piano. and Orchestra; LaValse.
La Sociedad Hispanica members and
Spanish play committee members and
actors will meet in Room 303 Romance
Language Building today at 4:00 p.m.
The Merit Committee will meet today
at 4 o'clock in the Undergraduate Office
of the League.
Inter-Racial Association is presenting
a symposium tonight at 7:45 at the Mich-
igan Union on the role of racial and na-
tional groups in the war, entitled, "Our
Part in Victory." The speakers are Dr.
Dai, Syed Kadri, Rabbi Cohen, Rev. Car-
penter and A. K. Stevens.
Michigan Dames home nursing group
will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in North
Hall.
Coming Events
House Presidents Meeting: A required
meeting of all house presidents is to be
held Friday, March 19, at 4:00 pm. in the
Michigan League.
If for any reason the president cannot
attend the meeting, she must send a
substitute.
Alice C. Lloyd,
Dean of Women
The Research Club will meet in the
Amphitheatre of the Rackham Building,,
Wednesday evening, March 24, at 8 o'clock.
The following papers will be presented:
"The Use of Comedy in Kleist's Amphi-