PAGE f' (F TH'IE MICH1IGAN~ DAILY 5ATuvj)Av* MAY. 15, 1943, , I t 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- day and 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 44PRESENTSD FOR NATION4.1 ADVERrTi4G MY National Advertising Service, Inc. Colee Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVe. NEW YORK. N. Y. CINIAGO * 0TOn * Los A MISES * SAN FRANCISCO Editorial Staff "Und remember-don't lead with your soft underbelly!." DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN John Erlewine Bud Brimmer. Leon Gordenker Marion Ford . Charlotte Conover . Eric Zalenski. Betty Harvey James Conant . B Frank M. OBrien . Howard Baumgarten Rosalie Frank . . Managing Editor . Editorial Director * . City Editor . Associate Editor Associate Editor . . Sport Editor . Women's Editor . . Columnist udiness Staff . . . . Business Manager . Associate Business Manager . Woman's Business Manager Telephone 23-24-1 NIGHT EDITOR: MARJ jORRADAILE Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. x,-' ~ '*~,*- -.-IT . - - X17 TRADE PACTS: Senators Should Tun From Reactionary Path WHEN A MAJORITY of House Representatives succeeded Thursday in pushing through the reciprocal trade agreements bill with only one compromise-the reduction of the program from three to two years-they indicated clearly that this time America must not turn back to the road of isolationism. By a vote of 342-65 members of the House went on record as favoring active collaboration with other nations of the world by trading as a means of preventing another global war.a Republican opponents fell back on the good old moth-eaten argument that the President was, usurping 'powers that rightly belonged to the legislature, but fortunately the majority of rep- resentatives didn't fall for it. The important question is not who makes the trade agreements; the real concern sould be what kind of trade agreements are made. Just compare the record established by the "new deal" trade policy to that established after the last war and before the Roosevelt regime. Since 1933 our total exports have jumped from $1,675,000,000 to $3,349,000,000 in 1937. Our im- forts rose from $1,447,000,000 in 1935 to $3,083,- 000,000 in 1937. This reciprocal trade policy, which embraces-most of La-tin America, has gone a long way toward erasing the feeling of distrust and suspicion which our South American neigh- bors had borne toward us as the result of our "dollar diplomacy" during the 1920's. And 4how did Congressmen deal with the trade and tariff question during the decade following World.War I? Did they succeedin lowering tar- iffs on goods coming in from South America? Did they strive to promote better relations among the United States and European nations by adopting a free trgde program? Did they just once push through a tariff law that in general set the duties .lower than they were a few years before? They did not. This was the record of isolationist Congress. The problem, then, which :should be faced squarely bythe senators of this Congress when they vote on the reciprocity agreement is whether the American people are willing to abandon the achievements 6f this "swap" trade policy to the uncertalty ofa tariff law passed by a possible reactionary Congress in the future. -Virginia Rock WPB RELEASE: U.S. Has Truly Become 'Arsenal -of =Democrac y' IN A MOVE aimed at re-examining five to five and -one .half billion dollars of contracts for the construction of new war -facilities, the War Production Board -declared Wednesday that the United-States has now all the plant and machine tools it needs to beat the Axis. Coupled with our itory in North -Africa this news