-P Air, Z~7$~r. ~ ~~~~1~~-~ 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- rlay :ind 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 this newspaper. All rights of repub- lication 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 car- rier $4.25, by mail $5.25. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1942-43 'The Trojan bull. eLICPJto the &diior A9 Q=A HPLENTED FOR NA11OF P- " . National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADIsON AVE. NEw YORK. N. Y. cCAGO * BOSTON x Los ANGELES- SAN FnAmCIsco Ed Bud llrimmer Leon Gorcienker Marion Ford . Charlotte Conover Betty Harvey Jlames Conant B Elizabeth Carpenter Pat Gehiert Jeanne Lovett Martha Opson Sybil Perimutter Molly Winokur Margery Wolfson . Barbara Ptro Rosalie Prankc ditorial Staff ,isines.s Staff . Editorial Director . . City Editor Associate Editor . Associate Editor * Women's Editor Columnist . . Local Advertising Circulation Service Contracts Accounts . . National Advertising Promotion * Classified Advertising Women's Business Manager Karpinski on. Rum! An open letter to the Economic Club of Detroit. Gentlemen: Having received a letter com- plaining of "criticisms of the dis- courtesy" that I am presumed to have shown at the meeting of the Economic Club of Detroit in honor of Beardsley Ruml", I venture to reply. The President, one Allen B. AIR TRANSPORT Four one-hundredths of 1 per cent comprise the total losses of the Air Transport Command of the United States Air Forces during February, the heaviest month to date for de- livery of aircraft to the battlefronts. Behind this cold figure reported by Major Gen. Harold L. George, chief of the command, lies an almost in- credible story of skill, resourceful- ness and expert achievement. It reflects high honor upon the joint accomplishment of the com- mand and of the American flag air- lines which have contributed planes, men, equipment and priceless know- how to the extension of this service on a global basis. For the planes of the Transport Command have been operating not on the well-lighted: familiar airways of continental United States or the trade routes that lead to the other Americas, guarded by elaborate systems of radio aids and meteorological serv- ices. They have been operating day and night over lands and seas rela- tively uncharted for wings. They have pioneered, in a matter of weeks or months, routes halfway around the world, to bring new equipment as well as material and important per- sonnel to our fighting forces every- where. Planes under General George's control span the South Atlantic to Africa and cross the Dark Continent to serve Cairo, Russia and even Chungking. They are equally at home on the skyways from Maine above Labrador to Britain and in the broad reaches of the Pacific from the Gol- den Gate to Diamond Head and thence down the chain of island stepping-stones to Australia. They go wherever armed men eagerly await new weapons with which to beat down the threat of the Axis; wher- ever medical supplies or emergency rations or repair parts are demanded by the insatiable appetite of war. Not one has been lost on the long Pacific ferrying route as the result of enemy action. -The New York Times Crow, does not indicate whether the discourtesy was to the Club or to Mr. Ruml. Apparently Mr. Ruml did not feel any discourtesy in my having a printed pamphlet enu- merating objections to the plan which have been clearly stated by the President of the United States and by U.S. Treasury officials. Mr. Ruml stated that he would be glad to have the pamphlet. I gave him four copies. At the speaker's table I noted some fifteen mem- bers reading the pamphlet and apparently these gentlemen sensed no discourtesy. The fact that there is a war on that has taken billions of dol- lars and may take millions of lives of our sons and daughters impresses me far more than any niceties of discourtesy to a man who has attempted to divert the public funds from the treasury into the pockets of the rich. Bil- lions of dollars under the nefari- ous plan of RumI would. have gone into the pockets of the rich, some goodly portion of it into the pockets of men at the, dinner. I happen to know the boys of quite a few members of the Eco- nomic Club, boys who are in our armed services. One son of mine is in Africa and another is a flier in the Navy. Some of these boys might lose their lives if we allow swindlers to divert tax money from the treasury into the pockets of those already enjoying fabulous profits out of war gains. Some of you gentlemen of the Economic Club might write your sons in the service and ask them whether it is important to give millionaires and people of incomes above $25,000 a bigger share of their unholy profits or use such profits to prevent the death of our sons in the active services. There is no nicety, for exam- ple in Monday's Detroit paper, which attacks in a dirty, mali- cious manner the Honorable Robert L. Doughton, Chairman of the Ways and Means Commit- tee, an old man, a patriot who has devoted tremendous energy into securing proper taxes to. protect the lives of our fighting. men. The "freedom of the press" to delude the public has been, overworked in the opposition of the wealthy to any just plans of taxation. Future generations will not hon- or those Congressmen who, took off the $25,000 limit on salaries and who have thus far refused to put that limit on incomes. These Congressmen seem determined to protect the rich and to extract from the poorest taxpayer money that he needs for bread. In England the effective limit on all Incomes is about $20,000, andathose who love liberty and the lives of our boys should see to it to electing Congressmen who put blood ahead of dollars in their thinking. For the reason that I know that the life of an American boy is more precious than rubies. I did forget the professorial dignity which commonly weighs so heavily upon me, and I personally dis- tributed these pamphlets giving my opposition to the RumI -plan. I regret only not to have reached all those who were there. I regret deeply that so many wealthy can- not face the realities of the tax situation without thinking first about their pocketbooks and a very poor last about the defense of their sons. My desire is to see that prof- its of the war and the income of the nation, even to the last cent of the rich, is placed at the service of these boys who are fighting our battles. If that be treason or discour- tesy, make the most of it. Louis C. Karpluski Ap*logies to Drake T HE DAILY slipped Tuesday when it headlined a news item "'U' Draft Evader Arrested". Ac- cording to American standards of law and fair play, a man is not considered guilty of a charge until so declared in court after an open trial. You owe Drake an apology. Incidentally, the charge is a bit silly in this instance anyway. Mr. Drake has not tried to "evade the draft" at all. He is refusing mili- tary (not civilian) services as a religious conscientious objector and has kept the authorities informed of his whereabouts at all times" His present .difficulty arises from the failure of Selective Service authorities to recognize the sii- cerity of his conviction-but since when has one man been able reli- ably to determine the sincerity. o another? So, to demonstrate his sincerity, Drake will probably have to spend three to five useless years in a Federal Penitentiary at public expense, rather than the duration in a Civilian Public Service camp at his own expense doing useful work for his country. R..Frederick Christnian (Editor's Note: Thi, Dlily. is sorry. We apologize to Mr. Drake). Telephone 23-24-1 NIGHT EDITOR: JANE FARRANT Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff --" and represent the views of the writers only. WORTHY CAUSE: WSSF Sets High Goal 'i Ioelp World Students T HERE ARE bond drives and cancer fund campaigns; there are drives for Russian War Relief, and University Tag Day, but today a new drive will open for the benefit of the World Student Service Fund, This campaign, which is carried on annually among students, faculty, and educational insti- tutions of the United States, will attempt to collect $300,000 to aid students and internees in war-torn areas of the world. All the money collected from nine nations of the world is cabled to international headquar- ters at Geneva, Switzerland, and in China where it is used to furnish food, clothing, books, schol- arships and medical care to students and pro- fessors whose lives have been upset by the war. This year the goal for the University of Michigan campus has been set at $2,000. One- thousand dollars in American money would help furnish books for a devastate4 library of a medical college in Russia. In China $600 would equip and operate for a year one Stu- dent Center with facilities for bathing, recrea- tion, and study. One dollar would be enough to provide soy bean milk for a month to a Chinese student. In Greece $2 will buy and transport enough powdered milk to supply a tubercular student for a month. We, as American students, have been fortunate in being able to study at colleges where we have no fear of nightly bombing raids and invasion; let us help those less fortunate by contributing to the WSSF drive this week. - Virginia Rock NEW VISTAS: Labor Education Opens Up Wide Post-War Field ILAST WEEK Willard Martinson, A.B. '36, Edu- cational Director of UAW-CIO Local 50, spoke here on campus at a meeting of the Ameri- can Association of University Professors. The theme of the meeting was "What the Public Will Demand of the University in Post-War Educa- tion?" On this subject Mr. Martinson discussed labor's point of view on the subject, posing sev- eral pertinent questions which could allow much thought and planning. Mr. Martinson asked, in effect, that labor get a fair deal by the institutions of higher educa- tion in the post-war days. He asked for some- thing similar to a training program for labor, and made a very good point about the usage to which universities and colleges have been put in the past. Education serves as a servicing center for business, agriculture, and most all of the professions. The business administration school yearly turns out a goodly number of well- trained, qualified leaders for business; agricul- tural colleges, such as Michigan State, turn out enlightened leaders for that field but very little is done about the laborer and his leaders. "Workers do now have a defined-enough place and an important enough job to also need and merit this type of servicing," Mr. Martinson stressed. He made a very true point here. Labor has been going through a rough transitional period but it must be recognized for the impor- tant place that it holds. In connection with this, the unions are realiz- ing more and more the importance of education in their work. Illustrating this point there was an article in last week's "CIO News" which said, "To combat misinformation and misunderstanding leaders in labor education have been experimenting with new techniques to meet our present day prob- Take 9t OP' Xea'e f49t By Jason F YOU'VE heard anyone speak bitterly of the newspaper "PM" in the last month, he's prob- ably either a close relative of Lieut.-Gen. Brehon Somervell or a student of German 32. Because PM, through its columnist Frank Sullivan, has unloaded a verbal barrage against the native tongue of Hitler and Goeb- bels. German, Mr. Sullivan thinks, is an in- sult to the vocal organs. He characterizes it as "ear-splitting jaberwocky." The particular German student who button- holed us was so incensed that he wrote PM about it. The letter was deeply sarcastic, but a trifle on fhe laconic side-one sentence long, to be exact. Just in case the editors of PM don't get it-we didn't, when he read it to us-we thought this would be a good place to elaborate. Of course, Mr. Sullivan has already received complaints, pointing out that German was spok- en by Goethe and Schiller as well as by its pres- ent exponents. Some of PM's correspondents go so far as to bring in Mr. Sullivan's Irish ancestry. Others just call him a "low-brow," and leave it at that. But PM gave Sullivan the last word, and he countered with another blast against lovers of the language. It was this second piece which particularly irritated this member of German 32. "Certain innocent and kindly remarks this de- partment directed at the German language re- cently brought a small flood of letters," Sullivan starts out. "Two sadistic critics even wrote their tirades in German, which comes under the head- ing of cruel and unusual punishment." PM's columnist goes on to quote at length from Mark Twain; "one critic," he says, "wrote sternly that Mark Twain was only fdoling when he wrote that essay, The Awful German Lang- uage. Well, if I may adopt the German practice of ending a sentence with a verb-the hell he was." After a healthy dose of Twain on the German language, we come to remarks by Sullivan on the same subject: "For one thing, no word of more than 14 syllables should be allowed . . . Secondly, the German verb should be unhitched from the end of the sentence, where it has been dang- ling heavily since the time of Emperor Dago- bert the Dudelsackpfeifer." Never having gotten past German 2, perhaps this column shouldn't undertake to contradict the learned Mr. Sullivan. But there is an an- cient language called Latin which employs a verb at the end of a sentence with consistent effect. Men like Caesar and Cicero used it. But perhaps they lived too long ago to impress PM. So you can understand the startled, hurt look on the face of our friend the German student when he read this essay in his favorite news- paper. He was sore, and with plenty of reason. T HERE'S another thing that someone should point out to Mr. Sullivan, to get serious for a minute. We're fighting a ruth- less gang of bandits, not the German people; certainly not their language. One of the best ways to win such a war is to impress the public with its grimness, to pound in the fact that our enemies are tough and ca'pable. I'd Rather L Be Right By SAMUEL GRAFTON NEW YORK, April 15.- Chew betel nuts and win the war. A return to states' rights will win the war. More planes for MacArthur will win the war. Which war? The war in Tunisia? Have a nut? Labor stays home and won't go to work; that's reason we are not producing. Look at our wonderful production record; that shows our way of life is the best. Keep calm. This is your Congressman, screaming. More betel nuts will win the war. More rationing will win the war. Less rationing will win the war. This administration doesn't plan enough. What does this administration think it can do, plan the whole future of the world? We have to learn to stop pushing people around, and also wipe out overtime pay. Have a nut? We need to put one man in charge of every- thing. Why should that man be in charge of everything? Anyhow, it is perfectly silly to try to work out the details of the post-war world until we know what Stalin wants. But, sir, I raise the question: Who gets the airlines? The soldiers are going to finish off these glob- aloney planners when they come back. The sol- diers are going to demand that a future be planned for them when they come back. Have a nut? We can't control the skies until we have a separate air force. We are doing so well in Tuni- sia because we control the skies. You have to keep civilians from interfering with the mili- tary. What does the-military mean by wanting an Army that big? This Army still doesn't understand anything about airplanes. Stop tell- ing the Army when to make an offensive, it knows best. Keep LaGuardia out of Washing- ton; we don't want politicians as generals. Let MacArthur run for President, we want generals as politicians. Wheeee! How about a nut? More betel nuts will win the war. Taking the offensive will win the war. Keeping men home as farmers will win the war. The Ameri- can home will win the war. Spending money on housing won't win the war. And, rememn- ber, the soldier doesn't want to find anything changed when he comes home, and how about throwing out all those federal farm agencies right away? Have a nut? Keep cool, and win the war. Trouble is the American public isn't excited enough. A return to local self government will win the war. What does this administration mean by having different draft rules in different places? This administration didn't do anything about the farm problem until it was too late. But if Washington tells us when to sow and when to reap, we shall go hungry. Want a nut? Paying more taxes will win the war. For- giving a year's taxes will win the war. There's too much money in the hands of the public; that's what makes inflation. The public doesn't have enough money to pay its taxes, that's why we need the Rum plan. The main thing is, this government doesn't know where it's going. The real danger is that it has a secret plan to change the American way of life. Sound sleep will win the war. Wake.-up, America Less name-calling will win the war. And not only that, but Washington is a lunatic asylum run by its inmates. Sacrifice will win the war. Good food will win the war. Wouldn't you like a nut? DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1943 VOL. LIII No. 139 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- tiees should. be submitted by 11:30 a.m. Notices War Bonds: Buy your War Bonds for April at University Cashier's Office. Or- ders may be sent through campus mail. University War Bond Committee Honors Convocation: The Twentieth Annual Honors Convocation of the Uni- versity of Michigan will be held Friday, April 16, at 11 :00 a.m. in Hill Auditorium. Classes, with the exception of clinics, will be dismissed at 10:45 a.m. Those students in clinical classes who are receiving hon- ors at the Convocation will be excused in order to attend. The Faculty, seniors, and graduate students are requested to wear academic costume, but there is no proces- sion. Members of the faculty are asked to enter by the rear door of Hill Auditorium and proceed directly to the stage, where arrangements have been made for seating them. The public is invited. Alexander G. Ruthven Naval Reserve Class V-1: Unless they have already done so, all V-i men who regard themselves as pre-medical or pre- dental students must register at the War Information Center, Michigan League Building. This registration must be ac- complished before April 17 if exemption from the v-1 qualifying examination is desired. B. D. Thuma, Armed Services Representative School of Education Convocation: The eighth annual Convocation of undergrad- uate and graduate students who are candi- dates for the Teacher's Certificate during the academic year will be held in Lydia MendelssohnTheatre today at 4:15 p.m. This Convocation is sponsored by the School of Education; and members of other faculties, students, and the gen- eral public are cordially invited. vice- President Yoakum will preside at the Convocation and Dr. Karl Bigelow, Direc- tor of the Commission on Teacher Edu- cation of the American Council on Edu- cation, will give the address. Michigan Schoolmasters' Club, April 15, 16, 17: Registration: Thursday, Friday, Saturday: Univer- sity Hall. Fridav and Saturdnv: Ractham Bild- at the beginning of the fall term on the Combined Curriculum must file an appli- cation for this Curriculum in the Office of the Dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, 1210 Angell Hall, on or before April 20. After this date applications will be accepted only upon the presentation of a satisfactory excuse for the delay and the payment of a fee of $5.00. Mail is being held at the. Business Of- fice of the University for the following people: Robert L. Barton, Joan Clarke, Bernard Patrick Collins, Jane Cooke, Private Frank A. Depweg, Private Edward R. Hamilton, Private George Johnston, F. N. Hamer- strom, Jr., Ellen Montgomery, Private. George F. Reynolds, Eleanor Sandiford, Ann Schumacher, Lamar R. SmithH. E. Tompkins, Oliver Woods, Muriel Yaberg, Leonard W. Zingler. Senior Engineers: Representative of General Electric Company will interview for prospective positions with their com-. pany in the Electrical Engineering Depart- ment on Monday, April 19, and in the Mechanical Engineering Department on Tuesday, April 20. Interview schedules are posted on the, Bulletin Boards of both Departments and interviews are available to Engineering Seniors. Application blanks which in- clude a Faculty Rating are to be returned to the interviewer in either Department. Lectures Lecture: The third in Hillel's annual marriage lecture series will take place Thursday evening at 8:00 at the Hillel Foundation. Dr. Rudolph Dreikurs, Pro- fessor of Psychiatry at the Chicago Med- ical School, will discuss the topic, "Prob- lems of a U.S.O. Hostess." No admission charge. Everyone is invited. Academic Notices ROTC Drill (Thursday Section): Com - pany D will 'Fall In' on Hoover Street in front of the IM Building in uniform with street shoes. Doctoral Examination for Leonwrd Ed- ward Miller, Chemistry; thesis: "The Syn- thesis of Substances Related to the Female Sex Hormones," will be held on Friday, April 16, in 309 Chemistry, at 4:00 p.m. Chairman, W. E. Bachmann. By action of th'e Executive Board, the Chairman may invite members of the faculties and advanced doctoral candi- dates to attend the examination and he may grant permission to those who for Exhibitions The twentieth annual exhlhlition of work by artists of Ann Arbor and vicinity Is being presented by the AnP Arbior Art Association in the Exhibition Oalleries of the Rackham Building, through April 23, daily, except Sunday; 2 to 5 after- noons and 7 to 10 evenings. The public Is. cordially. Invited. Event iToday. Phi Tau Alpha meets tonight at 7:30 in the, West Lecture Room, of the, R~ckharn Building. Professor John P. Winter head of the Department of Latin, will pX~sent an illustrated lecture on "Tunisia." T'he public is cordially invited. Sociedad Hispanica will feature its Ar- gentine Night" tonight at 8:00 in the League. Everybody welcome. The regular Thursday 'evening reorded program in the Men's Lounge of the Rack- ham Building tonight at 8:00 will be as follows: Handel: 'Defend Herl HeaVei, Where e're you Walk.. Schubert: Aufenthalt, Ave Maria. Brahms: Two Songs for Alto., Debussy: La Mer. Hanson: Lament for Beowulf. Prokofieff: Peter and the Wolf. Michigan Dames home nursing group will meet tonight in North Hall a't 8 o'clock. A mass meeting of all women- who hve signed up or who wish to sign- up' for mowing, raking, and planting around the University grounds will be held a' 5:00 p~m. today In the League. Any woman planning on participating in this project should attend this meeting. Coming Events Research, Clubt: The Memorial Meeting will be held inthe Amphitheatre of the Rackham Building, Wednesday evening, April 21, at eight o'clock. Robert Koch will be memorialized by Professor Fred- erick 0. Novy, and Thomas Jefferson b y Professor Dwight L. Dumond. Graduate Outing Club will meet at the west entrance of the Rackham Building at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 18; for a hike. All graduate and professional stu- dents are welcome. Hilel Student Council election will be held on Friday, 10 a m.-7 p.m. at Hillel Foundation and 1-6 p.m. at Lane 'Hall. The election will be conducted under the war q.w - ,zm --a_.m _.-f i I I I