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MERRY-GO-ROUND
By DREW PEARSON

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WASHINGTON-An inside fact
about the coal mine dispute is ttht
it goes much deeper than an argu-
ment over wages. It gets down to
a clash between two old friends,
now enemies, plus a basic struggle
over whether or not we shall head
into a hurricane of inflation.
The two personalities, John L.
Lewis and Franklin D. Roosevelt,
have been working up to this
battle for a long time. Once they
were the closest of political al-
lies. Lewis contributed $250,00
in one lump to Roosevelt's elec-
tion campaign, put up a lot of
other dough whenever needed.
John L. also was consulted on
all sorts of things. He had the run
of the White House, could tele-
phone the President direct, threw
his weight behind most of the New
Deal program.
Gradually they drew apart. This
was partly because both are strong-
willed gentlemen, did not agree on
everything, didn't want to yield to
the other. Partly it was because
the President quit calling Lewis in
for consultation. Actually he had
gone along with Lewis in his or-
ganization of "Little Steel", in his
captive coal mine strike, had cre-
ated the National Labor Relations
Board, put through the greatest
labor reforms in 150 years of
American history. However, John
L. is not an eagy man to satisfy.

-ewis's Last Battle
Partly also they drifted apart
over the war. Lewis, a natural iso-
lationist, believed that Roosevelt
wanted war. This brought the final
break, when John L. bolted to
Willkie.
That breach - never healed -
helps make the coal mine dispute
difficult. John L. is determined to
win the battle not merely for the
sake of his miners, but because it
is a showdown with his old friend,
now enemy, the President of the
United States. His personal pres-
tige is at stake. If he loses, it will
be his last battle. For his miners,
who did not follow him to Willkie,
who have resented Lewis's organ-
ization of dairy farmers, chemical
workers, etc., are getting restless.
Actually the miners' wage dis-
pute, taken alone, should not be
so difficult. Probably they are
entitled to some increase. Un-
questionably living costs have
shot up in their areas. Unques-
tionably men are deserting the
mines for higher paying war in-
dustries.
On the other hand, the miners
automatically got their weekly
wages upped by $13.50 a week for
skilled bituminous miners when
the mines, went from a 35- to a 42-
hour week. This gave them time
and a half for the extra seven
hours.
One solution of the current con-
troversy would be to put the mines
on a 48-hour week, which may be

necessary anyway because of the
shortage of mine labor. This would
give skilled miners another $13.50
a week, would mean $27 a week
more income in the last two years.
However, none of these com-
promises would satisfy John L.
Lewis. Friends say he demands a
straight-out victory.
I flation Waterspout
Such a victory will be resisted
to the bitter end by the President
for several reasons. Chief reason
is that if Lewis gets an outright
$2-a-day wage increase or any-
thing approaching it, a long list
of unions which have been denied
increases and swallowed their
medicine will immediately come
clamoring back. The aircraft
workers who were rebuffed recent-
ly by the War Labor Board, prob-
ably would strike if Lewis now
squeezes $2 out of the WLB and
they still failed to get their in-
crease.
Even more vehement would be
the farmers. Most of ihem hate
John L. Lewis. The President
knows this. He also knows that
he never could hold down far-
rhers' price demands if Lewis
wins his battle. That, of course;
opens up the whole waterspout
of inflation. And that is why the
grim battle between those two
one-time friends actually Is al-
most as Important as the cur-
rent battle for Tunisia.
(Copyright, 1943, United Features Synd.)

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PUBLIC OPINION:'
Gallup Poll Results
Rebuke Isolationists
AMERICA'S Colonel McCormaks, Claire Hoff-
mans, Hearts, and other subscribers to the
"Old Testament of Americanism"-isolation-
were rebuffed this week.
This time they weren't just called "Dunder-
heads" again; the rebuke wasn't that direct. It
came in the form of a discrediting of their sepa-
rationist creed and it was a representative group
of Americans that did the discrediting.
Director George Gallup of the American Insti-
tute of Public Opinion, whose polls have proved
unusually reliable in the past, now reports that
the majority of Americans favor Senator Ball's
resolution which would have the United States
take the initiative in oxganizing the United Na-
tions for war and post-war action.
He probed the public's view on three aspec.ts
of our international relations problems, but the
most important question that he asked was,.
"After the war do you think the united States
should stay out of world affairs or take ,n active
part in world affairs?"
To this question 70% of both De no'i0c
and Republican voters favored America's as.
simption of her place in wor affairs, while
only 14% said that this cojmtry should hide
bphind a Chinese Wall of the Western feni-
sphere.
DR. GALLUP also asked, "Should the, govern-
ment take steps now, before the end of the
war, to set up with our allies a world organiza-
tion to maintain the future peace of the world?"
The affirmative vote was an overwhelming 64%.
The results of this poll should be disheart-
ening to the isolationists and the "Globaloney"
supporters who would wreak havoc on our
dreams of a better post-war world, by separat-
ing America from the era of internationalism
that is soon to be. It shws that the straws in
the wind are against them. If nothing else,
World War II is teaching the people that the
isolationist doctrine is untenable.
-Bud BruiMuer
HOUSE DIVIDED:
Congress Disunity May
Destroy Our Democracy~
WHEN national unity is today needed more
than ever in this country, the United States
Government is in the precarious position of a
house divided against itself.
On almost every recent issue of national pol-
icy no immediate action can be taken because
of internal differences arising between the Ad-
ministration and Congress, and within Congress
itself.
In some cases, as with Roosevt's $2,06"
salary ceiling, Dfeniocrats unite with Repub-
licans against the policies of the President.
Sqinetimes the line is drawn on a paty basIs,'
but grzdually the whole iss e evolves into a
battle between, the President and Congress.
The conquered and beleaguered nations of the
world, who once looked to the United States for
leadership and help as the only nation they
could trust, are beginning to feel that there is
no hope for them, that America will never be
their salvation. This feeling is the most danger-
ous one possible with a view to winning the
peace as well as the war.
1EMain poin, however, is still, not "why
the battle", but tr nMere fact of its exist-
ence. Anerieca, supposedly the. leading democ-
r.v, af fht- ...rl. k, Nm.m rfa o..-himnd..

STUTMBLING BLOCK:
Red Execution of Poles
Endangers Stable Peace
LTHO.UGH there have been many stumbling
blocks along the road of Soviet-American
relations, a recent incident which incited a wave
of anti-Soviet sentiment now threatens our
relations with the U.S.S.R. for all time. The
trouble came up with the execution of two Polish
"socialist" labor leaders, Alter and Erlich, for
allegedly conspiring to bring about a peace be-
tween Germany and Russia.
The Soviet Union, to date, has issued al-
most no iniqrwation on the case other than
thge eryptic annognceents of the executions
and charges. These charges are hard to be-
lieve without -further justification since both
of the executed men were outstanding leaders
o ,the Jewish minority in Poland, and as such
ardent anti-Hitlerites.
Alter and Elich were not socialists in the
true sense of the word. Both were members of
the Polish parliament during the days of the
Smigly-Ridz dictatorship, when militant Marx-
ists langished in prison and anti-Semitism was
' ampiit..
S The. viet Union's fax- pas or crime, de-
Soun. further developments, was not in
"liquidating two outstanding leaders of hu-
manitW" )b*t rather in executing two impor-
tant leaders of a foreign country without
adequate explanation to the world at large.
M9any Americans may ask in all sincerity,
"What is the significance of the killing of two
men wlhen milions are dying? Must we risk
the peace for two foreigners?'
The..answer is that we must ask the Soviet
Government for a detailed explanation now
if we are even to hope for a stable peace. We
mut do this because the Incident is and will
be used by reactionaries to line up public
opinion against an understanding with Rus-
sia. bpsed on mutual faith,, which might well
lose us the peace.
There is only one way out of this entire' un-
pleasant situation. The Soviet Union must be
prevailed upon to issue a complete, logical and
detailed explanation of the case. This explana-
tion must then be accepted as the true word of
a trqsted ,and courgeous ally, unless proved
false beyond A shadow of a doubt.
- Ed'Podliashuk
AT LONG LAST.
State Finaly Passes
Rea-pportionment Bill
T NG LAST the citizens of the State of
Michigan can cheer without reservation an
act passed by the State. Legislature.
After eighteen years of partisan haggling
over the vital issue of reapportionment in the
State Legislature, the Legislature Friday
passed the first reapportionment. bill in this
state since 1925.
Wayne County, which has been on the short
end of a one-sided deal in representatior, gained
six seats in the House, Oakland County obtained
two additional seats, while'Washtenaw, Macomb,
Ingham, Saginaw, and Genesee counties were
given one more seat under the new system.
- HR IMPRESSION that the bill was passed
peacefully by both houses because of its vital
civic nature was hardly the case. Senator Joseph
Colon, a Wakefield Republican, raised strong
opposition before its final passage.
Michigan now has a rea ortioned State
House of Representatives, but not without selfish

I'd Rather
Be Right
BySAMUEL GRAFTON
NEW YORK, March 27.-My feeling about the
Rumi plan is that it is important, but not that
important. I do not see why a tax scheme which
even its sponsors describe as "a mere bookkeep-
ing transaction" should form a major line of
cleavage between the two major parties during
a major war. Why need mere bookkeeping go
to our heads?
Yet it is happening. The Republicans (as
shown by their committee-room behavior and
minority reports) are dominantly pro-Ruml.
The Democrats are either anti-Rum or else are
acting like whirling dervishes on the issues.
And there is. something fake about the curi-
ously high temperature of this battle. Why these
vast rages? Why these magnificent angers, these
spectacular verbal fireworks over what is, at
most, a technical tax reform?
The opposition now describes every man,
woman and child in America as crymig for
the Ruml plan; the Treasury as standing only
to benefit by it; and the administration as
opposing it out of sheer dog-headedness. In
fact, the opposition has, by now, made far too
good a case for the Rum plan, so good that
it can only explain away the administration's.
opposition on the ground that it has gone
stark, staring crazy.
The administration, countering, calls the
Ruml plan (which is a plan to collect this year's
income taxes on this year's income, not on last
year's income) a plan to let the millionaires
escape without paying taxes for last year. But
millionaires would pay just as much money out-
of-pocket, or more, this year with the Rurnl plan,
as without it; and, in any case, Mr. Ruml'pwn
quiet acceptance of the principle of a windfall
tax to make up inequalities has gone almost
unnoticed. Only in the case of a millionaire
who cunningly decides to die early in the current
fiscal year would the estate save a year's incoime
taxes, and a special inheritance tax could take
care of that. I
So the plan is not nearly so bad as admin-
istration describes it to be. Remarkably
enough, it is not nearly so good4as it friends
find it to be, either. (It is still my point that
a suspiciously big fight is being made over a
curiously small issue, and I will get back to
that point, soon.)
The big pro-Ruml argument is that the plan
puts us on a "current" basis, paying taxes on
income as earned this year, not on the dead-
and-gone income of last year. If so, it works
backward, too. Any intelligent taxpayer can be
his own mere bookkeeper and engage in his own
mere bookkeeping.
All he need do is to say to himself: "This year
I am earning so -much, and paying so much,
and have so much left. What I pay is my tax
bill for the year. I pay it. Thus I am current.
Whether my taxes are calculated on last year's
earnings, or on any other formula, is irrelevant.
What difference does it make, so far as pay-as-
I-go is concerned, whether my this year's taxes
are based on my last year's earnings or on the
size of my hat?"
Many of the Ruml arguments can be worked
backward, as well as forward.
It is said that, under the present system, the
taxpayer is always "in debt" to his govern-
ment, always a year behind. It could be said,
with eual .iustice, that our generous govern-



DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN

SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1943
VOL. LIII No. 123
All notices for the Daiy Official But-
letin are to be sent to tht Offlce of the.
President in typewritten fout. by 3:30
p.m, of the day preceding its publica-
tion, except on Saturday when the no-
tices should be subhiited by 11: : a.m.
Notices
School of Education Faculty: The reg-
ular meeting of the faculty will be held
on Monday. March 29, in the University
Elementary School Library. Teav will be
served at 3:45 p.m. and the meeting will
convene at 4:15 p.m.
Summer forestry work in the West:
Both forestry and non-forestry students
are needed for forest fire control and tree
disease control work during the summer in
Oregon, for the Department of ithe In-
terior, and throughout the entire Western
States area for the United States Forest
Service, Department of Agriculture.
War gives forest fire protection added,
importance, and students may consider
employment in this work a patriotic serv-
ice. Wages will amount to 130.00 a
month, less deductions for board where
this is furnished and a small deduction
for quarters where the workers camp in
permanent buildings. Ordinarily there
will be a six-day week of forty-four hours;
and special training will be given at the
beginning of the. work. Such a summer
will amount to good hardening experi-'
ence for students who expect to enter
the Army in the fall. Students 1? years'
of age are particularly desired.
Inquiries may be made and applications
are available at Room 3652; Natural Sci-
ence Building, Saturday mOirning; be-
tween-9 and 11, March 27.1
S. T. Dana, Dean
Sunnuer work with TVA:
Students who have completed their
basic forestry' courses, particularly' plane
surveying, forest mensuration, and den-
drology, are needed for timber survey
summer work on Authorty lands by the
Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville,*
Tennessee.
Candidates should be in good physical'
condition, able to swim, since' they will
travel by boat and live on' houseboats,
and should have a taste for outdoor living'
In sparsely settled country. Salaries, basedI
on a six-day week, are expected to be
$133.83 per month. The Authority wilt
furnish living quarters, equipment and'
travelon the job. Emloyes will, furnish
their own transportation from school or
keeping? Why so much noise about
mere bookkeeping?
As so often, one finds the answer
in the 'curiously limited role assigned
to the opposition, even during war,
under the American party system.
The opposition has no formal tasks.
It has almost nothing to do but make
a rumble about Ruml. The Repub-
licans might well have been invited
in, formally, to participate in shap-
ing a national tax policy. during- the
crisis. But they have been doomed
to work from the outside. The RumlI
hubbub, so safe and so irrelevant,
is a-godsend. (A godsend to -isola-
tionists, too; see how they rejoice -in
this issue!) What should have been
a minor squabble. among .techniciansI
becomes a national issue, as theI
opposition seeks to prove that it is

home to the base of operations, and will
provide their own subsistence and bed-
ding.
Applications are available and inter-
views may be obtained at Room 3052,
Natural Science Building, Saturday morn-
ing, between 9 and 11, March 27.
S. T. Dana, Dean
Academic Notices
Provisional Rifle Company: The com
pany will form at the old ROTC head-
quarters at 1:00 p.m. today. All men in
the reserves and those with previous mill-
tary experience who are Interested in army
field ,work are urged to attend.
Freshman Health Leetures (Men):
Spring term freshman men and other
men' Y&0 have not passed the required,
ealth leoctures may attend them in Room
25 Angell Hall at either 5:00 or 7:30 p.nm.
Lecture No. 1-April 1; No. 2-April 2;
No. 3-April 8: No. 4-April 9; No. 5-
April 15; No. 6-April 16.
Warren E. Forsythe, M. D.
Notice to Students Taking Freshman
Hygiene Lectures:
FINAL EXAMINATION
SEATING ARRANGEMENT
All students seated in rows A through K
at the lectures, take their final examina-
tiont in Naural Science Auditorium. All'
those whose seats are back of row K take
their' examinations in room 165 of the
Chemistry Building.
Fina Examinations:
Section I ....................March 29
Section II..................March 30
Margaret Bell, M. D.
Medical Adviser for Women
All those planning to write the prelim-
inary examinations for the Ph.D. in Eng-
lish, please get in touch with me before
April 1.
Norman E. Nelson
English 47 will meet in 3231 A.H. Mon-
day* night, 8-10.
E. S. Everett
Riding Classes: Women students inter-
ested In elementary or intermediate rid-
lig classes may register in Office 15, Bar-
bour Gymnasium, before Monday, March
29.
Concerts'
May Festival Tickets: The' over-the-
counter sale of Season Tickets (6 con-
certs) for the Golden Jubilee Xfay Festi-
val, at $8.80-$7.70-$6.60 each-wiU begin
Monday morning, March 29, at 9:00 o'clock,
at the offices of the University Musical
Society in Burton Memorial Tower.
The performers are as follows: Fritz
Kreisler; vladimir Horowitz; and the fol-
lowing 'artists from- the Metropolitan Op-
era Association: Lily Pons, Stella Roman,
Astrid - varnay, Kerstin Thorborg, Fred-
erick- Jagel, Salvatore Baccaloni, and Alex-
ander Kipnis. The Philadelphia Orches-
tra, Eugene Ormandy, Conductor, and Saul!
Caston, Associate Conductor; University
Choral Union, Hardin Van Deursen, Con-
ductor; Festival Youth Chorus, Marguer-
ite- Hood, Conductor.
Charles A. Sink, President
Organ Recital: Palmer Christian, Uni-
versity Organist, will open a group of
Wednesday organ recitals at 4:15 p.m.,
March 31, in -Hill Auditorium. The pro-
gram will .include works of Bach, Weitz,
Novak, Daniel-Lesur and Mulet. The pub-
lic is cordially invited.

Exhibition, College of Architecture and
Design: Alpha Alpha Gamma, honor so-
ci~ety for women in'arehitecture; decor-
atve design, and landscape achiteeture,
is showing photographs in architectuWe.
sculpture, and decorative design by prAc,
ticing members of tie, society. Thrd
floor exhibition roomArchitecture tild-
Ing. Open daily 9:00 to 5:00, except Sun-
day,' through March 31. Open to the
public.
Exhibition: Professor Shu-chi Chang,
of the Fine Arts Department in the Na-
tional Central University In Chungking,
will present an exhibition of contem-
porary Chinese painting and demonstrate
his own painting daily until March k.'
Open to the, public daily, '1:00-8:00 P.M.,'
in the Grand Rapids Room of the Michi-
gan League. No admission charge.
Churches
First Congregational Church:
Church School, 9:30 and 10:30 a.m
The 10:90 a.m. Symposium wll be ao-
dressed by Professor L. Waterman on
"What I Think About the Future of Reli-
gion?"
At the .10:45 worship service Dr. L. A.
Parr's subject will be, "What Is the
Church Doing?"
Ariston League High School group mieets
at 5:30 p.m. Mr. E. J. Abbott will lead a
discussion on "Christian Beliefs".
Joint meeting at 7:00 p~m of the Con-
gregational and Disciples Guilds.
Mr. Kenneth Leisenring_ wll talk on
"Arie We Fighting for a New World or the
Old World?"
The Ann Arbor Meeting. of Friends
(Quakers) will meet for worship Sunday-
at 5:00 p.m. in Lane Hall. A meeting for
business will follow. All interested are
cordially invited
Memorial Christian Church (Disciples):
10:45 a.m., Worship services. ReV. Fred-
erick Cowin, Minister.
7:00 p.m., Guild Sunday Evening Hour.
mr.. Kenneth' Leisenring, instructor in'
the Meteorology unit, will speak to a joint
meeting of Congregational and Disciple
students at the Congregatinal Churc..
The subJecqt; will be "Are We Fighting for
a New World or the Old War?" A social
hour and refreshments will follow.
Evangelical Lutheran Student Chapel:
Sunday ata11:00 a.m., divine service in
the, Michigan League.Chapel. Sermon by
the Rev.Alfred Schelpsp "The Signifi-
cance of the Scourging of Jesus".
First Baptist Church:
10:00 a.m.: The Roger Williams Qass
will meet in the Guild House, 502 E. Huron'
St.. to study the Gospel of John.
11:00 am.: The Sermon, "My Share", by
Rev. C. H. Loucks.
7:00 p.m.: The Roger Williams Guild
will meet in the Guild House. Professor
William B. Palmer will spdak on "The Eco-
nomic Bases 'for a Durable Peace".
First Methodist Church and Wesley
Foundation: Student Class with Professor
George E. Carrothers, leader, at 9:30 a.m
Morning Worship at 10:40'o'clock..,Dr. ,C.
W. Brashares will preach on "Refresh-
ments of Mercy." Wesleyai Guild' meet-
ing beginning with supper at 6:00 p.m.
Program' at 6:45 pim. D I scussion of th6
subject: "Re-educating Axis Youth."
First Presbyterian Church:
Morning Worship--10:45. "The Mystery
of Pain", the third in the series of' Lenten"
sermons on "The Penitential Psalms", by
Dr. W. P. Lemon.
Westminster Student Guild supper houi
at 6 o'clock, folloyed by the third Lenten
studv oan "F.ahsin'tl Ufp- n- IQ' t