_ __ _E MICHIGAN DAILY_ i rtiA , Cri 24, 1944 I'd Rather Be Right By SAMUEL GRAFTON Edited and managed b' 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 isexclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or motherwise 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, 1943-44 NEW YORK, March 23.-It is Mr. Hull's cus- tom, when questioned on the absence of an Am- erican foreign policy, to get out his scrap book and show that at some time in the past an of- ficial remark or two has been made on each subject at issue. He can always prove it, for it is true, that we have said the proper things about world co-operation, democracy in Europe, etc. This collection of previous utterances and pious wishes is then struck lightly with a paper- weight and dubbed a foreign policy. The intellectual vigor of most American critics of foreign policy being approximately equal to the intellectual vigor of those officials who hailed and cheered the discovery of a Giraud in North Africa, this process usually silences the major critics. Sometimes it even brings down a fleck or two of abuse on the heads of those who, like your subscribed, may have helped to raise the issue in the first place. And so, about twice a year, a ripple of doubt stirs the pundits. A press conference at the ' State Department results. The pundits relax, with the air of men ashamed to have been caught prying. Mr. Hull can always prove that on such-and- such a date he said so-and-so; and that he said it with all the force at his command. It is quite true. On the level of belief, we have a foreign minister to be proud of. I doubt if there is an- other in the world so deeply, so personally com- mitted to so many splendid abstractions and impressive ideals. Mr. Hull's 17-point enunci- ation of a "foreign policy" this week is actually a kind of credo. It tells us what the man who wrote it thinks, and his thoughts are fine thoughts. He is for peace, he is for interna- tional co-operation; he is for an accord among the four great powers; he is for adjudication of international disputes; he is for a world in which there will be more trade and fewer weapons. If there is anything good possible, Mr. Hill is willing for it to happen. And he really is. B UT A FOREIGN POLICY is not a credo. It is not a scrap book, not an intellectual diary, not a catalog of wisdom and wishes. It is either a sword, or it is nothing. (Mr. Walter Lipp- mann calls it a "shield," but I prefer "sword," a sword being a better shield than a shield is.) A foreign policy is that which makes the things a nation wants to happen, happen. It has a functional meaning, or it has no meaning. A foreign policy is not a set of hopes; it is an instrument for fulfilling hopes. It is a mobilization of all of a nation's resources, in a system of threats and promises, for bringing about desired political ends. It is a combina- tion of political gardening and dry war. But Mr. Hull's patch of paper has very little functional meaning, either as sword or shield. It is not a foreign policy. It is, largely, a state- ment of Mr. Hull's hopes for the future. These actually require a foreign policy to bring them about. Let me clarify the point with just one illustra- tion out of a possible many: Both we and Russia want a Europe free of Hitler. If you will look toward the East in Europe, you will see guerrilla activity almost everywhere, popular movements, in Yugoslavia, in Poland, in the Baltic states, even in Hungary and Rumania, movements en- ergized by Russia, sometimes mobilized by Rus- sia, recognized by Russia. That is policy; not merely a wish, but an instrument; hope with shoes on its feet and a gun on its shoulder. . Now, if you look to the West, in Europe, you see almost none of this activity. Guerrilla war- fare fades out as you come toward "our" ter- ritory, and is replaced by individual sabotage. Where a flare of guerrilla action occurs, as in France, we have no organizational contact with it, and are, often enough, on bad terms with its leaders. We and Russia may have similar hopes for Europe, but on one side these hopes are implemented by a policy; on the other side there is tentativeness, timidity, delay, no policy. It is not what you hope for a nation that makes your foreign policy in regard to it; it is what you do about your hopes. There is our vacuum. There is our lack. (CopyrIgh~t, 1944, New York Post Syndicate) Jane Farrant Chire Sherian . -Stan Wallace: Evelyn Phillips , flarvey Frank Bud Low.. Jo Ann Peterson Mary Anne Olson . Marjorie Rosmarin Editorial Staff . .Managing Editor . . .EditorfilDirector . City Editor .Associate Editor . . .Sports Editor Associate Sports Editor . . Associate Sports Editor " 'Women's Editor Associate Women's Editor Business Staff Elizabeth A. Carpenter . . . Business Manager Margery Batt . . . Associate Business Manager Telephone 23-24-1 NIGHT EDITOR: RAY DIXON Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by in embhers of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. UP TO CONGRESS: Manpower Needs Call For Draft of Women ASTP UNITS are leaving college campuses all over the country because the Army needs more men in active service. Dastic slashes are scheduled in deferments for industrial workers, farmers and fathers. Men slated for air service -36,000 of them-have been transferred to ground duty. And still the women of the country are al- lowed, to do whatever they wish. Many, it is true, are making valuable contributions to the war effort. But we all know that many women are doing little or nothing. Few would suggest that women be drafted for combat duty. However, by doing work behind the lines, women could release a great number of men for combat. Women have had equal ed- ucational opportunities with men for many years and would be able to fill many positions \with little further training. Congress has steered clear of drafting women. It is probable, however, that even Congressmen, if they disregarded political considerations, would agree that a draft of women is necessary. -Barbara H-Ierrinton FREE SPEECH? Hoffman Jo ins Fight Between Dies, Winchell THE LATEST battle for freedom of speech received two more contestants this week as the fight of Rep. Clare Hoffman vs. the news- paper PM was added to the squabble of Rep. Martin Dies vs. Walter Winchel. Shortly after the Jergens Company, sponsors of the Winchell broadcasts, announced that Rep- resentative Dies would speak for 15 minutes following Winbhell's Sunday program, Repr sentative Hoffman joined the free-for-all. In a speech before the House, Representative Hoff- man, who has himself been associated with some of America's most dangerous home-grown fas- cists, attacked Winchell's sponsors. Engaging in a three-sided attack, Represen- r tative Hoffman sought to discredit Winchell, PM and the Jergens Company by suggesting that Andrew Jergens has had in his employ persons suspected of "disloyalty." This charge seems to be just another of those becloudirfg issues which Hoffman frequently employs to sidetrack the people about questions of public policy. In a number of broadcasts during the past few years, Winchell has informed the American public of the activities of certain public figures who were, and are, betraying their trust to the people or else using their positions to promote selfish interests. One of those Winchell has exposed is Representative Dies. And Dies, in an effort to silence this criticism, is picturing Win- ehell as a part of a conspiracy to discredit Con- gress. Now Representative Hoffman has joined the Dies forces. If Hoffman and Dies should be successful in muzzling Winchell, this incident may prove as black a mark on freedoms during the Second World War as the sedition acts were during the 1917-1919 affair. Both these fright- ened Congressmen seem very sure that all op- position to them is bad, therefore should be suppressed. -Betty Hoffman . The WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By DREW PEARSON VRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1944 VOL. LIV No. 101 All notices for the Daily Official flul- Tetin are to be sent to the Office of the President in typewritten form by :30 p.m. of the day preceding its publica- tion, except on Saturday when the no- tices should be submitted by 11:30 a.m. Notices Protection of University Property Against Theft: Whenever it becomes known that property has been stolen or is missing, notice should be given with utmost promptness at the Bus- mess Office, Room 1, University Hall. This applies to articles owned by the institution 'or owned privately. For the protection of property it is important that doors and windows be locked, inside doors as well as outside doors, when rooms are to be left unoccupied even for a brief peri- od. The building custodians cannot be responsible for conditions after the hours when they are on duty or when persons with keys to buildings unlock doors and leave them unlocked. It is desirable that department heads make a careful check two or three times a year of all keys to quarters under their charge, to make sure that keys have not been lost and are not in the hands of persons no longer requiring their use. It is strictly con- trary to University rules to have duplicate keys made or to lend keys issued for persohal use. A reward of $50 is -offered to any person for information that directly or indirectly leads to the apprehen- sion of a thief or thieves on Univer- sity premises. Shirley W. Smith Faculty, College of Engineering: There will be a meeting of the faculty of this College on Monday, March 27, at 4:15 p.m. in Rm. 348, West Engi- neering Building. The purpose of this meeting is the consideration of recommended procedure for return- ing veterans as presented by the Committee on Veterans' Service. Identification Cards will be given out at the Office of the Deanx of Stu- dents on Thursday, Friday and Sat- urday, March 23, 24 and 25. Martha Cook Building: Women in- terested in residence in the Building for the academic year 1944-45 are asked to complete their applications or to call for appointments at once. Mrs. Diekema. Phone 6216. Civilian Men having fall term lock- ers at Waterman Gymrtasium must workers over 25, and permit defer- ment of only 40,000 skilled war work- ers in the 18 to 26 age bracket. Alcohl S(botge .. . Senator Mon Wallgren of Wash- ington, tough-spoken member of the Truman Committee, has prepared a report burning up WPB moguls for hamstringing U.S. production of in- cdustrial alcohol because they don't want their own investments in mo- lasses-processed alcohol to be en- dangered after the war. For this reason, Wallgren charges, WPB mo- guls have side-tracked the new Ger- man process of producing alcohol from sawdust and wood waste. Among other things, Wallgren will report: (1) that we will still be 29,000,- OOO,gallons short of war alcohol in 1944 even if we produce up to the maximum estimate of 609,000,000 gallons announced by the WPB. (2) in the six months following last ,July, our industrial alcohol stockpile dropped from 138,000,000 gallons to only 80,000,000-a loss of 42 per cent in half a year. Wallgren charges that the 400,000,- 000 gallons of alcohol we hope to produce from grain would require 170,000,000 bushels, or five times more grain than we used for alcoh9l in 1939. "This might be all right if we knew we were to have the grain," Wallgren adds. But the Department of Agri- culture expects grain reserves to be lower by midsummer than they have been in five years. There isn't feed enough to maintain our present live- stock population, plus the fact that demands for food in 1944 and 1945 will be heavier.". Meanwhile, Wallgren clains "it is possible to produce all our alcohol from one source"-wood waste. "Why," he asks, "have months and years slipped by with virtually noth- ing done? Why do we continue to plunge blindly toward a crisis that may even jeopardize the success of our war effort. The real reasons are lost in the maze of problems within the War Production Board and in the conflicting attitudes of its execu- tives, some of whom seem trained to the belief that existing production methods are always best." (copyright, 1944, United Features Synd.) GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty C) 19 ') h gT~ IC8 C . _ "Maybe that dripping water faucet won't make any our water bill--but a nervous breakdown will run into difference in r~eaI moniey!" real money!" .1 .) WASHINGTON, March 23.-It hasn't leaked out, but the first real test in post-war planning has been going on backstage, and it looks as if the decision was going against the veterans. After all the talk about helping those who are making the big sacrifices on the war fronts and giving them an opportunity to reestablish themselves when they come home, newly ap- pointed war liquidator Will Clayton is fight- ing hard against the veterans. The issue came up when broad-gauged War Food Administrator Marvin Jones backed a proposal to take all the Army and Navy camps DEMOCRACY? Reactionaries Must Not Bock Anti-Poll Tax Bil T HE RIGHT of all citizens to vote in elections for the men who are to represent them is a cornerstone of democracy. j Battlecry of our Revolutionary War, "Taxa- tion Without Representation Is Tyranny," re- ferred to the injustice of the British Parliament making laws for the colonists who had no way to make their needs and wishes known to it. The founders of our nation fought and won a great battle against this form of tyranny. Yet in our great democratic nation today approximately 10,000,000 Negroes and poor whites are being denied the same opportunity to participate in the governing of their nation because they haven't the money to pay a poll tax. It amounts to this:.- more than one- fifteenth of the population disfranchised be- cause of poverty. Last year the House, recognizing the anomaly of a, tax restriction to voting in an enlightened democracy, passed the Geyer Anti-Poll Tax Bill with the overwhelming vote of 265-110. Since the time the issue was brought to the Senate, however, threat of a filibuster by the Poll-Tax Senators has prevented a floor debate. A recent dispatch revealed, though, that the advocates of the measure are becoming restive. "Cloakroom strategists for the. past week have been urging. a showdown, which now appears likely within the next fortnight," the report said. Another filibuster attempt by the Southern Senators whose almost assured reelections may be threatened by the passage of the bill is likely. This time we cannot permit a bloc of reaction- aries to halt the passage of a measure which would make our democracy more complete. 10,000,000 citizen-soldiers fight for democracy against our enemy, fascism. Can we permit 10,000,000 Southern citizens to be deprived of one of the basic rights for which those soldiers are giving their lives? -Kathie Sharfman purchased during the war and turn them into farm developments for veterans after the Arm- istice. Both Marvin Jones and Franklin W. Hancock, Farm Security Administrator and former Congressman from North Carolina, are urging the idea. But Will Clayton, until recently right-hand man to Jesse Jones and the biggest cotton broker in the world, argues that the land should be sold, with the former owners getting first crack at at. While Marvin Jones and Hancock don't,. oppose the theory of letting former owners buy the land back, they point out that, in actual practice, the former owners will not have the money, so that the land would go to the big land syndicates and insur- ance companies, thus increasing the concen- tration of farms into big estates. Dies' Slap-down... Wily old Congressman Adolph Sabath of Illi- nois, veteran Chairman of the House Rules Com- mittee, came through last week with a suggestion to which hard-boiled, brazen Martin Dies, John Rankin and Clare Hoffman had no comebacks. These three have been guilty of more per- sonal attacks on citizens of this and other countries than any three members of Congress in recent history. Hiding behind Congressional immunity, they have never hesitated to call anyone who has incurred their displeasure the most insulting names they could think of. Their statements have been preserved for posterity by the Congressional Record at the taxpayers' expense. When, therefore, they arose this month to demand that broadcasters be forced to permit members of Congress "unjustifiably attacked" on the air an equal amount of equally good time to reply to their attackers, Sabath took the floor and declared that the idea was a good one. He would extend the privilege of reply to any citizen unjustifiably attacked on the air, he con- tinued. Skillel Workers ... Inside fact about the hot debate on deferring industrial workers is that the President first signed an order for their non-deferment without even consulting his War Manpower Commis- sioner Paul McNutt, or his Director of Selective Service General Hershey, or the head of his War Mobilization board, Justice Jimmie Byrnes. To these three men, supposed to coordinate man- power problems, the President's first decision to ban all deferments of skilled war workers came as a bolt out of the blue. Then ensued a tug-of-war between the Army on one side and Donald Nelson, rubber czar Brad- ley Dewey et al, on the other. From this came the compromise to permit deferment of essential vacate or renew them by Monday, March 27. Attention Blood Donors: The April Blood Bank will be held April 13 and 14. Register for an appointment this Thursday or Friday from 1-5 p.m. in Miss McCormick's Office in the Michigan League. Professor Clarence I. Graham of Brown University will speak at 4:15 Wednesday, March 29, in the amphi- theatre of the Rackham Building. He will discuss "Some Problems in Visual Psychology." Professor Gra- ham, in cooperation with others, has conducted a number of experiments on visutal phenomena. School of Education Students: No course may be elected for credit after Saturday, March 25. Students must report all changes of elections at the Registrar's ffice, Rtm. 4, University H=ail. Membersip in a class dos not cease nor begin until all changes have been thus officially registered. Arrangements made with the in- structor are not official changes. Collecting of Rare Books. A non- credit course on this subject will be off ered by the Extension Service, starting Monday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m. Classes will meet for eight suc- cessive Monday evenings at the Clements Library. Anyone interested in collecting rare books or in rare book libraries may enroll. A fee of $3.00 will be charged. The course will be taught by Colton Storm and Howard Peckham of the Clements Library Staff. Students, College of Literature, Science and the Arts: No course may be elected for credit after the end of the third week of the spring term. March 25 is therefore the last date on which new elections may be ap- proved. The willingness of an indi- vidual instructor to admit a studicent later does not affect the operation of this rule. Students, College of Literature, Science and the Arts: Election cards filed after the end of the first week of the semester may be accepted by the Registrar's Office only if they are approved by Assistant Dean Wal- ter. Students, College of Literature, Science andtthe Arts: Students who fail to file their election blanks by the close of the third week of the spring term, even though they have registered and have attended classes unofficially, will forfeit their privi- lege of continuing in the College. German Departmental Library hours, spring term 1943-44 (204 Uni- versity Hall) : 1:30 to 4:30 Monday through Friday; 10:00 to 12:00 Times- day and Saturday. Room Assignments for Kothe- hildner and Bronsona-Thomas Prize Competitions, to be held Friday', March 24: Kothe-Hildner, 229 Angell Hall, 2 to 4 p..; Bronson-Thomas, 204 University 13al, 2 to 5 p.m. Any junior or senior in German who is interested in competing for the Bronson-Thomas prize in the amount of $38 should register at the depart- mental office, 204 University Hall immediately; students in German 31, 32, 35 and 36 arc ligible fr the Kothe -Hidner competition (awards of $30 and $20), but all registrations must be made aU the (departmental office by Thursay, March 23, at the latest. Make-up Examinations in history for the Fall Term will be held on Friday, March 31, in Rm. C, HH. Students wishing to take these exam- Sociology 62: lake-up final exam- ination will be given Saturday, March 25, at 10:00 a.m. in my office at 1027 E. Huron. Exi, jatons University Museums: a) Penicil- liu notatum, the fungus from which the drug penicillin is derived, b) Th'e Beginning of Human Indus- ry. College of Arhitecture and Design: "Brazil Builds," consisting of mount- ed photographs and wooden panels showing Brazilian 'architecture; cir- culated by the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Open daily 9 to 5, through, March 27; ground floor corridor, Arch it t re Building. The putblic is invited. Co-operatives hold Tea: All girls interested in living in a Co-op for either the summer or fall semesters are invited io a tea at Palmer Co-op, 912 Monroe, fronm four to rive-thirty. Saturday, March 25. The Executive Board of the Michi- gan Youth for Democratic Action will hold a meeting Saturday at 2:30 pm. at the Unrion. Everyone on the Board must attend, and all members are invited. Events Today Biological Chemistry Seminar will meet at 4 p.m. in Rm. 319 West Medi- cal Building. "Biochemical Aspects of Some Anti-malarials- Quinine and Atabrine" will be discussed. All interested are invited. Recreational Leadership Class- Women Students: The recreational. leadership class will meet in Barbour Gymnasium instead of the Womrien's Athletic Building today. Students are to come dressed for activity as planned. Hillel Foundation: Conservative religious services will be held in the chapel starting promptly at 7:45 p.m. today. Services will be con- ducted by AS Harvey Weisberg, El- liott Organick, '44E, and Rabbi Jehu- dah M. Cohen. Immediately follow- ing the services, Prof. Richard Ett- inghausen, Professor of Islamic Art, will present an illustrated lecture on "Islam and the Old Testament." The public is invited. Phony Food Scare. . For weeks now, delegations from New York State have been besieging Washington officials, demanding ac- tion against what they described as 'a plot by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey to discredit the administration through a phony food scare. Now, finally, Sen. Joe Guffey (Dem., Pa.), specialist in handling political fire- crackers, has blasted the Dewey forc- es, accusing them of Jnmaking food and farm problems a "political foot- ball." "There is no shortage of feed sup- plies in New York, and the North- east," Guffey charges. "Yet Gov- ernor Dewey, through his Food Com- mission and its allies, aid and abetted by Frank Gannett, has stirred up farmers and city consumers with stories of impending famine and loss of dairy herds. It is demoralizing to the home front, a disgrace to the great State of New York, and a blot on the record of the governor." --The New Republic raitttc> Prsirress . . A year ago everyone was concerned about the impending annihilation of small business, but like so many ex- pected calamities, this one hasn't hapnencd. An investigation reported BARINABY You don't know what it means to a congressman in this big cold city of Washington! A voice from home! A familiar face! What do you boys want?, -_---Where's that dam, The damnfar the brook? Friends I can report great progress! 1'm calling a caucus on the subject ofl the Great OMallev Dam. Andj By Crockett Johnson And when you return home, We ain't retainin . tell my many Without that dam. de' idends - , , / f__ _