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Menber, Associated Collegiate Press, 1943-44 NEW YORK, April 7.-The Willkie washout in Wisconsin raises the question of how in the heck we are ever going to sell the American people on internationalism. Mr. Willkie didn't get many customers. Was that the customers' fault, was his merchandise no good, or what? Let's begin by tearing up and throwing away all explanations which hold that the American people are thick in the head, or unawakened, etc. You cannot believe in the people, and also believe that the people are weak in the noodle. If the people (even the Republican people of Wisconsin) didn't vote for internationalism, that was either because they had thought it over and didn't want it, or because a poor case was made out for it. The theory might be of- fered that an inferior case was, in point of fact, made out for internationalism in Wisconsin. It was not a good case. It was all about how 7The Pendulum Jane Farrant Claire Sherman Stan Wallace. Evelyn Phillips Harvey Frank Bud Low. Jo Ann Peterson Mary Anne Olson Marjorie Rosmarin Editoria l Stafff Managing Editor . . Editorial Director * . . City Editor Associate Editor Sports Editor Associate Sports Editor Associate Sports Editor . Women's Editor Associate Women's Editor sStafff Business Manager Associate Business Manager Business Elizabeth A. Carpenterss Margery Batt . . Telephone 23-24-1 NIGHT EDITO : MONROE FINK Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. CONSUMER PAYS: FTC Inquest of Cigaret Advertising overdue r4E Federal Trade Commission hearings on a false - and - deceptive advertising complaint against R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, mak- ers of Canrels and similar actions against other makers of popular brands of cigarets promise to bring to light some pretty interesting facts. The cigaret advertising ballyhoo,vhich ranges all the way from testimonials by socialites and celebrities to alleged results of doctor so and so's sc1entific research is such a familiar part of the American scene that most of us ignore it. It is doubtful that such testimonials by so- cialites and "eminent scientists" have ever made one smoked switch to a particular brand, but the advertising goes on. Each year huge sums of money are spent for bigger and better billboards, -more spectacular advertisements, more assinine radio blurbs. Actually there is not a hair's difference among any of the leading brands as a thorough Reader's Digest survey proved about a year ago. The cigaret industry has long been a classic example of worthless competitive advertising, one of the more vicious aspects of our economy. And in this fact lies the significance of the hearings. An expose of the methods of the cigaret industry would do much toward eliminating one source of the evil and waste of competitive advertising. -Jennie Fitch FALSE RUMORS: Drastic Rationing of Gasoline Is Necessary IN SPITE of recent rumors to the contrary, Petroleum Administrator Harold I. Ickes has announced that there is no immediate prospect for increases in civilian gasoline rations. Still the stories of "unlimited supplies of gas being hoarded by the government," "gas rationing to make the American public 'war conscious'," and other similar bits of gossip continue to circulate through the country. Evidently, the average citizen cannot get it through his head that the gasoline situation in the United States is critical. The attitude in the Mid-West, where, the pinch was recently made even tighter, is especially unfavorable toward the government's petroleum policy. The temporary conditions of transportation shortage which for a time cut the Eastern ration to half that of the other states has led many to think that rationing is due only to regional shortages rather than a nation-wide lack of gasoline. At the beginning of the war this was true to a certain extent, but with the vast in- crease in the tempo of Allied war operations, especially in the air, the problem has become one of a serious shortage throughout this coun- try, and, unfortunately, on many of our fighting fronts. *We are now shipping abroad yearly almost as much oil as was produced in any peak year before the war. Production of petroleum in the meantime has shown a very small in- crease in the same period, let alone a 10 per cent rise which would be necessary t satisfy the thirsty tanks of the millions of American automobiles. Moreover, our vast industrial expansion is consuming great quantities of DISAGREEMENT is still rife as to why we Am- ericans are engaged in fighting this world war. Most people frankly admit they do not know, and the government's stabs at enunci- ating war aims have been so many equivocations. But, two noble institutions, Hollywood and the Press, or the spokesmen thereof, see almost eye to eye on the matter. They concur by and large, in the belief that this is simply a war of defense against Japanese aggressors. This view is bad enough, but its complement is worse. The very same groups feel that our boys have gone overseas and will continue going overseas for the sole purpose of returning, afterwards, to an exact replica of the U.S.A. they knew. The movie industry pictures pre-war America as an idyllic "Happy Land" of Boy Scouts, Don Ameches, clean fun, joy and plenty. How soon they forget breadlines, hoodlunts, syphilis, smut and starvation. With what deftness do they gloss over the sewage of racism that dripped no less disgustingly before Pearl Har- bor than now from the fringes of our society. War pulled us out of our rut, just as prepar- ation for war pulled ;Germany out of its rut. Overnight, war solved our weighty problem of unemployment with which a hard-working Ad- ministration had wrestled for ten long years; war-created sergeants fed nutritious food to boys one third of whom ran the risk, in normal times, of being felled by pellagra or some such malnu- tritional disease; war took the Negro from his Southern shanty and his squalid Northern slum, when physical disability did not bar him from the Army which itself was honeycombed with Jim Crow, but anyhow, replaced his rags with smart khaki; war and the conditions it brought about put more money in the hands of the con- sumer than he could use; war set the cogs of industry in motion-doubling and trebling and sky-rocketing our output. - WHEN the war ends, what then? The same old material problems will rear their ugly heads, only in a much worse way. If economists teach us anything it is that cyclical depressions, when left to run their course, not only recur but recur with increasing severity. We may well anticipate a gray-haired President Thomas Dewey looking, in 1948, around every corner for a coy prosperity that will not come around to dazzle twenty to thirty million jobless soup-kitcheneers. Even with this bleak eventuality in mind, one could be of reasonably good cheer, if the stand pat defenders meant only what they said or what they implied, If they did not practice triple talk.. They claim to believe, with Alexander Pope, that "what is, is good." In truth they believe, "what was, was better." They claim they are for the continuance of things as they are. They lie. They are for things as they were. They do not wish to stand pat. Would that they did. They do want to move backwards, and no bones about it. For a decade they have unwillingly stomached social legislation, and now they want to disgorge it-to partake of the diet a la 1924. Already the face of our land has changed ma- terially from the one that existed when selective service first went into effect. The CCC existed then, and if it existed now maybe juvenile de- linquency would not plague us so. The NYA existed then, and if it existed now, the deserving poor, of whom there are still many too many, would not be prohibited from a college education. The WPA existed then, and God-not to say the NAM-knows we will need it again soon enough. It is time we laid bare the tactics of our foes. Sen. McKeller's TVA phobia should be studied. He does not stand for freezing what is but for unfreezing what is and re-freezing what was in rural electrification. And so it goes with those responsible for the erasure of the National Re- sources Planning Board and those toying with the idea of emasculating the Wagner Act. Grudgingly did the rugged individualist give way to the commonweal; pantingly does he await the chance to re-form (but not to reform) the archaic lines of economic royalism and labor peonage. Beware the two-faced stand-patter, and his hydra-headed propagandists. -Bernard Rosenberg there ought to be an international council to settle everything, some big meeting room some- where; how no country ought to be allowed to do anything without the consent of Bolivia and Luxembourg; how we all have to agree on every border. The appeal was never stated in bread- and-butter terms. It was an appeal for votes for Utopia. But Utopia is not an issue in the netelection. Te people were asked to approve our joining some sort of elegant and stately international club. They could not focus clearly on this club, which is not surprising, because no one else can, either. The voters know perfectly well that Russia is not going to let an international club decide the question of her western borders, just as they know in their hearts that we would not accept an international decision if it were a matter of restoring a once-stolen Maine and New Hamp- shire to ourselves. THEIR sense of reality was further offended by the old League of Nations plea that we must help to save the world from collapse; that, if we do not join in, like good fellows, world affairs will go to ruin. Many of these high- minded arguments belong to the fight for the last peace. A world of a reborn Britain and a Red Army is not going to collapse if we stay out. Our own affairs might collapse. But that is a different story. And it was not told. The fact that Mr. Willkie could rebuff Rus- sia's border claims while presenting "the case for internationalism" shows that he presented the case on an extremely rarefied and unreal level. Few will die for that kind of internationalism, or even vote for it, because nobody really knows what it is, except for the feeling that it lacks edges. Mr. Willkie's case was a fine moral case. Morality is the mainspring of action in this warm and generous man. But morality as a sub- stitute for action is something else again. Mr. Willkie did not give the voters a foreign policy. He asked them to endorse his morality. Actually, he could have made "the case for in- ternationalism" on the score of pure, raw Ameri- can national interest. He could have beat the brains out of those isolationists who are quite willing to sacrifice the American national inter- est rather than come to an agreement with Rus- sia; in pursuit of which endeavor they have (against their own principles) made the Atlantic Charter, rather than American well-being, the issue of the moment. But if we break with Russia, we shall have neither a Charter, nor a frierl. Then where's our "internationalism"? To show how the Wisconsin campaign got off-center, we have only to realize that both Mr. Willkie and the isolationists, from quite different motives, made a big thing during the primary of enforcing the Atlantic Charter against Russia. Actually, if you add the Stassen vote to the Willkie vote, internationalism didn't do so badly in Wisconsin; the total is on the heels of the Dewey vote. That shows our hunger for an in- ternationalist solution. But, oh, how we need to be tougher with ourselves! How we need to throw away some of our blueprints, and begin to express a clean, honest fear that we're going to have a hell of a future if we don't make some friends abroad. That, duckies, is the base for a foreign policy: everything else has to be built on that. (Copyright, 1944. New York Post Syndicate) DREW e PEARSON'SV MERRY-GO-ROUND WASHINGTON, April 7.-Last week, this col- umnist made a million dollars. Furthermore, I didn't have to pay an income tax on it. But it was not easy money, for I had to sit for two weeks on the hard benches of a court room, hearing myself called all sorts of names by at- torneys for the man who lives in the famous "Big Red House on R Street." In other words, I was being sued for a mil- lion dollars by John P. Monroe, the war-con- tract lobbyist who sprang into fame just a year ago with his dinner parties for Secretary of the Navy Knox, Senators and Army and Navy of- ficers at his red house on R Street. At the end of two endless weeks, the jury, after only 30 minutes, brought in a verdict for the de- fendants. So I was in one million dollars. The victory was won by the fact that the articles complained of were true. John Monroe, the man who thought I owed him a million dollars, is a likeable cuss and I bear him no malice. But when a man is as busy as a bird dog drumming up war contracts, then the public has a right to know about his activities. I am glad to say that the Washington Post, co-defendant for an additional $350,000, felt likewise, and agreed to take the ordeal of two weeks in court rather than publish a retraction. Of course, this columnist, being subject to the frailties of human nature, has made mis- takes. Sometimes I have written things about DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1944 VOL. LIV No. 114 All notices for the Day Official Bul- letin are to be sent to the Office of the President in typewritten frm by 3:303 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 Seniors and Graduate Students, who have been invited to be guests( of honor at the Twenty-first Annual Honors Convocation, are requested to order caps and gowns at the Moe Sport Shop immediately. They must be ordered no later than April 11 to be delivered in time for the Convoca- tion. May Festival Tickets: A limited number of season tickets (6 con- certs), and also for individual con- certs, are now on sale and will con- tinue on sale so long as the supply lasts, daily from 9 to 12, and 1 to 5 (Saturdays 9 to 12 only) at the offices of the University Musical So- ciety in Burton Memorial Tower. A local manufacturing firm, having discontinued the manufacture of a liquid type duplicating machine, has offered to give to the University a limited number of these machines. Any department having a real need for a small cylinder type duplicating machine should see or write the Uni- versity Purchasing Department at once outlining the need for this equipment. Required Hygiene Lectures for Wo- men-1944: Notice is hereby given that the required Hygiene Lectures for Women which have been given in the Rackham Auditorium at 4:15- 5:15 on Mondays and Tuesdays, for the balance of the period will be held in the Natural Science Auditorium. The hour and days remain the same. Biological Station: Applications for admission to the 1944 summer ses- sion are now being received. An An- nouncement describing the courses offered can be obtained at the Office of the Summer Session, or at Rm. 1073, Natural Science Building. Duplicate Bridge: The Duplicate Bridge Tournaments held at the USO Club will be discontinued until fur- ther notice. These tournaments were formerly held at the Club on Sunday afternoons. Lectures "The Shape of Wings To Come": Mr. Geoffrey F. Morgan, Manager, Speakers Bureau, Douglas Aircraft Company will discuss the role avia- tion is to play in the post-war world. His talk will be given Tuesday, April [1, at 8:15 p.m. in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Building. The pub- lic is invited. Sponsored by the Jun- ior Chamber of Commerce, the lec- ture is under the auspices of the De- partment of Aeronautical Engineer- ing. Food Handler's Lectures: The sec- ond of the April series of food hand- ler's lectures will be given on Tuesday evening, April 11, in the Auditorium of the Kellogg Building at 8:00 p.m. All food handlers employed in com- mercial establishments are required by City Ordinance to attend one series of lectures in order to obtain a permanent food handler's card. All persons concerned with food service to University students who have not previously attended are asked to attend this lecture. Concerts Percival Price, University Carillon- neur, will present a program of Eas- ter music on Sunday afternoon, April 9, at 3 o'clock. It will consist of three Easter hymns, the Norwegian Na- tional Anthem, Sinding's Rustleof Spring, Sonata for 35 bells by Profes- sor Price, Peasants' Easter Chorus by 'HIS is the first day the Biblical Festival GRIN AND BEAR IT By L ihty Historically, the holiday commem- orates the Jewish Declaration. of In- dependence. For on this day, more than 3,000 years ago, the Israelites, living as slaves in Egypt. hearkened to the call of freedom and escaped from their oppressors. Passover is the oldest of Jewish festivals. Jews observed it in the most ancient times when they were still nomadic shepherds in the wil- derness. The principal feature of Passover is the home and community celebra- tion called the "Seder." This is the religious and ceremonial meal in which participated last evening and which they will repeat again tonight. The "Seder" is a dramatic presen- tation of the escape of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery. The story typifies the struggle for freedom of k I "I ~~itT; :~$ ~ ~ 7KIJ~ During Passover, Matzoh (un- leavened cakes known as the Bread of Affliction) is eaten instead of bread. Bitter herbs appear on the dinner table to symbolize the thralldom of slavery. Also a con- coction of apples, cinnamon and wine serves to symbolize the mor- tar which was used by the Israelites when they built the pyramids for the Egyptian Pharaohs. The founders of the American Re- public, greatly inspired in their strug- gle for freedom by the drama of the Exodus, regarded the Old Testament as their favorite textbook. The picture of Moses leading the Israelites through the Red Sea was recommended by Franklin, Jefferson and . John Adams for. the national seal of the United States. The seal they designed bore the legend, "Re- bellion to tyrants is obedience to God." -Rabbi Jehudah M. Cohen Holy Week Message of Passover. the Common Man throughout of Freedom., centuries. the "But, dear, why can't I! . . . All my friends' husbands are letting them run for Congress this year!" Berlioz, and Gounod's Sanctus from the Mass to St. Cecelia. Events Today Roger Williams Guild: Meet at the Guild House this evening at 8:30 for a scavenger hunt. Wesley Foundation: Open House tonight at 8:30, o'clock for Methodist servicemen and students and their friends. Saturday Night -Dance: An Easter Formal Dance will be- held at the USO Club from 8200 to midnight. Coming Events Music Hour: A Classical Music Hour will be held at the USO Club Sunday, April 9, starting at 2:00 p.m. All service personnel interested in classical music are urged to attend. Tie English Journal Club will meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 12, in the West ConferenceRoom, Rackham. Miss Anna V. LaRue and Mr. Henry Popkin will present papers on the critical theories of Edmund Wilson and Kenneth Burke. Discussion and refreshments will follow the reading of the papers. Faculty, graduate stu- dents and interested undergraduates are cordially invited to attend. The Women's Research Club will meet in the. West Lecture Room of Rackham Building Monday, April 10, at 7:30 p.m. Speakers and their sub- jects will be: Miss Ruth Lofgren, ",elapsing Fever" and Mrs. Wilma Donahue, "Tests and Testing." The Westminster Student Guild will hold a Sunrise Service on Easter Sunday Morning. Breakfast will fol- low at 8:15 a.m. and those who desire may attend the 9 o'clock Morning Worship Service. Churches First Methodist Church and Wesley Foundation: Sunrise Service at 6:30 a.m. Meet at the church at 6:15 and we will go together. Identical church services at 8:00 and 10:40 a.m. Dr. Charles W. Brashares will preach on "It Began at Dawn." Wesleyan Guild meeting at 5 p.m., followed by supper and fellowship hour. Grace Bible Fellowship: Masonic Temple, 327 South Fourth Avenue. Harold J. DeVries, Pastor.. 7 a.m.; Sunrise Praise Service, under the direction of the young people. The pastor will speak. Breakfast will be served at 8 o'clock for those who attend. 10 a.m., University Bible Class. Ted Groesbeck, leader. 11 a.m., Morning worship. Sermon subject: "Something Happened."' 7:30 p.m., "The Hope of Glory." First Presbyterian Church: 7:30 a.m., Westminster Student Guild Sunrise Service and Breakfast in the Lewis Parlor. 9:00 a.m., First morn- ing worship service. Dr. Lemon's ser- mon will be "The Everlasting Man." people which were wrong, or which created an erroneous impression,I but I have tried to correct this aft- erwards. However, in regard to the man in the red house on R Street, I am sure I made no mistake. His charm, his energy, his mental adroitness, espe- cially his contacts with officers, are legitimate matters for public com- ment. Dinner Partties (Oflinue He is still carrying on and, in re- cent months, has ensconced himself in the home of Admiral Ernest King, Commander of the U.S. Fleet and highest ranking officer in the Navy. I am sure that Admiral King does not know it, because the Admiral spends his nights aboard his yacht on the Potomac, but Mr. Monroe has 10:45 a.m., Second morning worship been known to call up prospective service. clients and have them meet him at Admiral King's home, where they Memorial Christian Church (Disci- are received by Mrs. Eleanor Hemp- ples): 11:00 a.m., Morning worship. stead, the Admiral's daughter. The Rev. Frederick Cowin, Pastor Also, Monroe's dinner parties ap- Emeritus, will bring the Easter mes- pear to be as successful as ever. A sage. 5:00 p.m., Guild Sunday Eve- recent guest list included Miss Flor ning Hour. Students, servicemen and Trujillo, daughter of the dictator their friends will meet atrthe Guild of the Dominican Republic, Senator House, 438 Maynard Street, for a and Mrs. Dennis Chavez of New Mex- service of worship led by Seaman ico, broad-gauged Congressman and Walter Scott, an open house with Mrs. John Coffee of Washington, who recorded music and refreshments. came because they were curious, Congressman Compton White of Unity: Easter services at the Mich- Idaho, a member of the Brazilian igan League, Sunday morning at 11 Embassy, the society editor of the o'clock. Subject: "Life and Immor- tality." Young People's Meeting at Washington Times Herald, a meat Unity Reading Rooms, 310 S. State, packer from New York, a member of Sunday morning at 7 o'clock. the War Petroleum Administration and several others. University ]utheran Chapel will Monroe opened up a conversation have its Easter service Sunday at the by calling attention to the speecn regular time, 11 o'clock, with the ser- delivered that day by Senator George, mon by the Rev. Alfred Scheips, calling this columnist a "liar." "What Is Easter?" "Good speech," commented the man on R Street, "I wrote it." First Church of Christ, Scientist: "Well, if you did write it," shot 409 5. Division St, Sunday morning BARNABY ipmm } , .-- Well, however Congressman O'Malley managed M to do it, getting that power dam approved has G, mie, imn or i hi fw.he e r lrv , .. ur. O'Malley, my Fairy 3odfather? Gosh! How ""r h-c _-^-9 By Crockett Johnson Mr. O'Malley! .. .You haven't grown at all! Do you think Mr. O'Ma~ley has grown too big to get fhrn#r _.m -;- -uiA,.