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By SAMUEL GRAFTON

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NEW YORK, April 22.-There is one war which
ought to be ended, and that is the cold, dry war
which has been fought during these last five
years between the refugees of this world and the
consular officials thereof.
Someone (is it Mr. Varian Fry?) tells the story
of the refugee who waited patiently in line, for
days, at an American consulate in Europe some-
where, seeking a quota number. When he fin-
ally reached the consul's desk (the story goes)
he was brusquely told: "Oh, come back in ten
years!" According to the tale, the refugee smiled
the weary; patient smile of his kind, and said:
"'Thank you, si Morning or afternoon?"
So, you see, the epic war between the consuls
and the refugees already has its legends.
But it is time to call that war off. The utter
loneliness which the world has inflicted upon
the refugee, the compulsion that he, poor
stateless he, shall fulfill all legal requirements,
has been a refinement of cruelty. Some of us
know how much trouble it is to fill out long
and complicated legal forms. We have raged
about that in home debate. Try to imagine
what it is like to have your life, and the lives
of your wife and children, depend on your
ability to fill out a form, to satisfy all require-
ments, to have all necessary papers as re-
quired by ancient and obscure laws; all under
the eye of some uninterested and uncom-
prehending Turkish consular official, or Span-
ish or American ditto.
THE WAR is roaring to its climax, and it is
time for the law to stop being so damned
stately, to recognize that this is an emergency,
and to get up out of its chair and get busy.
The way to do it is to set up a system of "free
ports" for refugees. If Turkey, or Spain, or Eire,
wish to acquire some beautiful merit in our eyes
for peace conference purposes, we ought to sug-

gest that they join us in establishing free ports
for refugees.
These (as has been explained previously in
this space) would be reservations, carefully
fenced and guarded, which refugees could enter
at will, without formality of any kind. No
rights of any kind would be acquired by any-
one who entered such a reserved area. By an
easy legal fiction, entrance into a free port
would not constitute legal entrance into the
country, and stay in a free port would not con-
stitute legal residence in the country. It would
just be a place where refugees could be stored
for later reshipment; they would not be con-
sidered ever to have been in the United States
at all.
We do it for goods; we have long had a "free
port" in the New York City area, an actual phy-
sical space of land and buildings on Staten Is-
land, into which foreign commodities can be
brought without payment of customs duties, and
stored for later reshipment abroad. We do it
for Nazis, too; for we bring prisoners of war into
the country. without bothering about their quota
numbers.
So the question before the house is whether
the law, which recognizes that sometimes you
need a place in which to park a case of corsets
or a prisoner of war, will concede that refugees,
similarly, are not equipped for floating in the
air, but need to touch the earth, sometime,
somewhere.
Once we had set up a "free port" for refugees,
in any old Army camp, we could ask the neutrals
to do the same, and thereby accumulate some
beautiful merit, which they badly need. We have
thrown an awful lot of law at the refugees;
can't we help them, now, with an easy legal
fiction? They don't want any rights, they just
want a place to sit down; and surely the law
can be ingenious enough to give them the one
without the other.
(Copyright, 1944, New York Post Syndicate)

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Editorial

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Staff

Jane Farrant*
Claire Sherman
Stan Wallace .
Evelyn Phillips . .
Harvey Frank
Bud Low . . .
Jo Ann Peterson
Mary Anne Olson .
Marjorie Rosmarin
Busine.
Elizabeth A. Carpenter
Margery Batt. .

. . Managing Editor
. Editorial Director
City Editor
* . .Associate Editor
Sports Editor
Associate Sports Editor
Associate Sports Editor
. . . Women's Editor
Associate Women's Editor
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. Business Manager
Associate Business Manager

" HE GERMANS never succeeded
in living up- to their own
thought, while the English never
succeeded in thinking up to their own
life," says Richard Kromer of Union
Seminary in the forthcoming volume
"Science, Philosophy and Religion,
1943." "Man is good neither by sub-
mitting to social interests nor by
virtue of any other empirical motives
but only by acting in accordance with
the consciousness of what he ought
to do." The obligation of the moral
will is being discussed. He argues
that we are good or bad not accord-
ing to the goodness of God nor the
nature of abstract man, but accord-
ing to the character of this particular
man in various situations. "As long
as the Germans cannot be persuaded
to accept an ethic of universal obliga-
tion such as is taught in Christianity,
no enduring peace can be expected
in Europe."
It is at this point we are being
tested across the United States
today. In our earlier experience as
a fusion of cultures brought about
in the vast open spaces, when there
was a frontier always ready to
receive the dissenter and few city
populations, we attained the ability
to live up to our thinking. Today
we seem unable to so behave. We
break into fractions at the mention
of responsibility.
By what means can the universal
obligation such as taught in the
Christian faith be made binding in
all? When the situation relates to
income for the needy or fairness for
all or rights of the minority, we
moderns in America forget the spirit
of our forefathers. Either we drop to
the plane which Professor Kromer
credits to the English, of living be-
neath the level of our thinking, or
we do as the Germans seem to have
done in Europe, repudiate the univer-
sal obligation.
In the taxation of incomes in high-
er brackets, in behavior toward the
Negroes, supposedly liberated in the
Fourteenth Amendment, in adjust-
ment of farm prices to an industrial
purchasing power, in the need of
common cause of Catholics and Prot-
estants, in steady effort to make
medical skill serve those who need
but rest on all who earn, in the will
to finance the education of children
and youth, in the determination to
be democratic regardless of the co-
operation it takes, and a score of
other situations now current, we
trim; and in so doing betray a wide-
spread national weakness just when
by high integrity among ourselves,
America should once more become
the conscience of the world.
-Edward W. Blakeman
Counselor in Religious Education

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.
McCOSMIC'S MAN:
MacArthur Supported
By U.S. Reactionaries
OUGLAS MacArthur, the hero of Bataan,
is the long awaited Messiah of every pro-
fascist group in the United States.
For the last 12 years it has been said repeat-
edly that the only thing that the American
worshipers of the totalitarian, intolerant state
need is a popular, effective leader. An assassin's
bullet in 1935 killed their "white hope," Huey
Long, the man who was going, according to
his campaign statements, to "Share the Wealth"
of his secret backers.
Now in MacArthur, whose "Dakota corres-
pondence" makes clear that he is still a reac-
tionary militarist, they have found, after a
series of Gerald K. Smith's, Father Coughlin's,
Dr. Townsend's and numerous other political
"crackpots," a new leader to rally about-
General Douglass MacArthur, "the man on
horseback," Second World War variety.
The most dangerous thing intelligent Ameri-
cans can do is to undersell MacArthur's chances
of :success. His popularity has been carefully
fostered by a concerted effort of a number of
American newspaper publishers. Orders have
been given out to play all news from the South
Pacific sky high, regardless of its real import-
ance. Hardly a newsreel of action in the Pacific
is shown without MacArthur's making an ap-
pearance somewhere.
MUCH of the support given to Tom Dewey in a
concerted effort to get Wendell Willkie out
of the picture, is rapidly drifting into the Mac-
Arthur camp now that that task has been ac-
complished. The recent victory of the General
in the Illinois primary, with the support of Mc-
Cormick's Chicago Tribune, is an excellent ex-
ample of these forces at work.
The administrative records of military men
in public office is far from brilliant. Grant's
eight years in office are probably about the
most corrupt in American political history.
However, this is the least we have to fear.
Douglas MacArthur, whose tactics for handling
national problems are described in today's Merry-
Go-Round, who has given new life and hope to
every character and group in Carlson's "Under-
cover," stands now willingly or otherwise, as
the candidate of American reactionaries and fas-
cists for President of the United States.
-Monroe Fink
APATHY RULES:
Women Draft Should
Precede Labor Draft
The request to Congress by the heads of the
armed services for the passage of a Labor-
Draft Bill has again met with a cold reception
by our Representatives.
This coldness is gratifying, provided that
Congress has something else in mind. The
best alternative to a labor-draft would be a bill
to draft women into the armed services.
There are too many apathetic women in this
country today complaining about rationing, or

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The WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND

By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON, April 22.-Among most GOP
master minds, the Republican race has now
settled down to a question of who should be the
Vice-Presidential candidate on a Dewey ticket.
Except for the Pennsylvania Pew faction still
working for Justice Roberts, and the Chicago
Tribune enthusiasts for MacArthur, most GOP
leaders regard Dewey as good as nominated. Re-
cently things have been pointing in the direction
of forthright Representative Everett Dirksen of
Illinois as Dewey's running mate.
Herbert Hoover, who has had most to do
with master-minding Dewey's backstage cam-
paign, at first was strong for Governor War-
ren, but he has been approached regarding
Dirksen and has no objection. The only man
Hoover is vigorously opposed to (besides Will-
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Did you know that the 30 per cent cabaret
tax is "causing unemployment, driving concerns
out of business, and by the law of diminishing
returns, is causing a reduction in revenue?" Rep.
Knutson of Minnesota does, and he has taken
great care to introduce legislation to reduce the
tax to ten per cent. Forcing night clubs to
close, declares Knutson, is an unpardonable sit-
uation-from which one concludes that those
men who are being so mercilessly forced off the
revolving diadem by the greedy tax bill into a
war plant are traitors to the cause of American
leisure.
Or the platinum blond Charmaines and ra-
ven haired Zoritas might be lured into a WAC
recruiting office. No! cries Knutson. The
chorus must be preserved at any cost!
Just what the law of diminishing returns and
decreasing revenues of the entertainment busi-
ness on the great White Way have to do with
shooting a Jap in Ponape, Rep. Knutson does not
make quite clear. The most plausible explana-
tion is that the honorable Representative is
among the experienced rounders who must fre-
quent at least five hot-spots per evening and
scrutinize every possible variety of limbs before
he can decide to enjoy himself. We trust our
other estimable Congressmen are a little less
susceptible to a shapely calf, and will junk Rep.
Knutson's suggestion in the ash can.
-Claire Sherman

kie) is General MacArthur. This dates back
to the Bonus Army and MacArthur's expulsion
of the veterans from Washington.
Hoover recently explained that, when he ord-
ered MacArthur to handle the Bonus Army, he
had no idea the Chief of Staff would use tanks,
tear gas and cavalry.
Much to Hoover's chagrin, MacArthur massed
a formidable array of troops, even sent to Fort
Myer for his own uniform and campaign ribbons,
ordered tanks clanking down Pennsylvania Av-
enue, burned the veterans' miserable huts, and
chased the veterans several miles into Maryland.
What has especially rankled in Hoover's
breast is that MacArthur since has blamed the
Bonus Army fiasco on him. Hoover, therefore,
would be thumbs down on MacArthur for any
high post in a Republican Administration.
Jesse Jones Radio Stations .,..
Jesse Jones, 70-year-old Secretary of Com-
merce and boss of Houston, Tex., is being chal-.
lenged by 32-year-old Judge Roy Hofheinz re-
garding Jesse's influence in Houston.
Houston has three radio stations, one owned
by Jesse, one by his stepson, M. Tilford Jones,
the third by former Governor William P. Hobby,
husband of Col. Oveta Culp Hobby, whom Jesse
helped to appoint head of the WACS.
Seeking a license for a new station, Judge
Hofheinz asked the three stations dominated by
Jones to permit him to study their program logs
in order that he might show the Federal Com-
munications Commission that public interest
would be served by licensing a fourth station in
Houston. But all three Jones stations refused.
Boiling mad, Hofheinz then hired a crew of
"monitors," who spent a full week listening to
every program broadcast by the three Houston
stations-18 hours a day. Later, with his license
application, Hofheinze submitted to the FCC
a detailed analysis of the programs broadcast in
Houston.
According to this analysis, during the best
radio listening hours, Jones' own station did
not devote a single full program to the war
effort or to community service. There were,
from 6 to 11 p.m., for a full week, only four
non-commercial announcements (all for the
Red Cross). On the other hand, Jesse's sta-
tion had 109 commercial announcements and
80 commercially sponsored programs during
the same hours. These all paid good money.
Figures for the other two stations were com-
parable.
For the full week, only 43 local advertisers had
time on any of the three radio stations, while
programs of 238 national advertisers were car-
ried.
On the basis of this, it looks as if the FCC
would grant Hofheinz's application and as if
Jesse will soon have some competition on the
air.
(Copyright, 1944, United Features Syndicate)

SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 1944
VOL. LIV No. 117
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-
tices should be submitted by 11:30 a.m.
Notices
Senior Night will take place in
Lydia Mendelssohn in the Women's
League, Thursday evening, April 27,
at 7:30. Seniors graduating this June
must wear caps and gowns; seniors
graduating in October and February
must bring their identification card.
Lectures
Food Handler's Lectures: Two se-
ries of lectures for food handlers will
be given by Melbourne Murphy,
Health Service Sanitarian, in the
Lecture Room of the Health Service
on the following days. The lectures
will include slides and films.
Series I
Lecture I-Tues., April 25-2 p.m.
Lecture II-Tues., May 2, 2 p.m.
Series II
Lecture I-Thurs., April 27, 2 p.m.
Lecture II-Thurs., May 4, 2 p.m.
All persons concerned with food
service to University students who
have not previously attended are
asked to attend one of the present
series. Other interested persons are
cordially invited to attend.
Academic Notices -
Freshmen, College of Literature,
Science and the Arts: Freshmen may
not drop courses without "E" grade
after Saturday, April 29. Only stu-
dents with less than 24 hours' credit
are affected by this regulation. They
must be recommended by their Aca-
demic Counselor for this extraordi-
nary privilege.
College of Architecture and De-
sign, School of Education, School of
Forestry and Conservation, School of
Music, School of Public Health: Mid-
semester reports indicating students
enrolled in these units doing unsatis-
factory work in any unit of the Uni-
versity are due in the office of the
school or college by April 29th at
noon. Report blanks for this pur-
posehmay be secured from the office
of the school or college or from Room
4, University Hall.
Doctoral Students: The thesis dead-
line for students expecting to receive
degrees in June has been changed to
May 1. We cannot guarantee that
students can complete the require-
ments for their degrees by the end of
the Spring Term.
Sophomore Engineers: An impor-
tant meeting of the Sophomore Class
will be held in Rm. 348, West Engi-
neering Building, on Tuesday eve-
ning, April 25, at 7 p.m. All members
of the class should arrange to attend.
Speeded Reading Course: The short
course in speeded reading will start
April 25, Tuesday. The class meets
at 5:00, Tuesday and Thursday, Rm.
4009, University High School Build-
ing. There is no charge for this
course.

Concerts
Percival Price, University Carillon-
neur, will be heard in a recital at
3 o'clock this afternoon. His program
will include Haydn't Andante from
the "Surprise" Symphony, a group of
old French airs, Fantaisie for caril-
lon by Professor Price, four hymns
and Mendelssohn's War March of
the Priests.
Frieda Op't Holt Vogan, a member
of the faculty of the School of Music,
will be heard in a program of organ
music at 4:15 p.m. today in Hill Aud-
itorium. She will play compositions
by Couperin and Bach, as well as
Sowerby's modern symphony in G
major for organ.
The public is cordially invited.
Student Recital: Betty Sue Lamb,
a student of Joseph Brinkman, will
present a piano recital at 8:30 to-
night in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.
Given in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree of Bach-
elor of Music, the program will be
open to the public without charge.
Exhibitions
Exhibit: Original plans and per-
spectives for the proposed civic cen-
ter of Madison, Wisconsin, designed
by the architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.
Ground floor corridor, Architecture
Building. On exhibit until May 1.
The Twenty-First Annual Exhibi-
tion by artists of Ann Arbor and
vicinity, presented by the Ann Arbor
Art Association, in the galleries of
the Rackham Building, April 22
through May 12, daily except Sunday,
afternoons 2 to 5 and evenings 7 to
10. The public is cordially invited.
Events Today
The Graduate Outing Club will
meet at 230 p.m. for a hike at the
club quarters, Rackham Hall, north-
west corner. All graduate students
and professional students and alum-
ni are cordially invited.
The Congregational-Disciples Guild
will meet at the Congregational
Church at 5:00 p.m. Prof. Peter A.
Ostafin, who was unable to appear
last Sunday, will speak on "Fear and
the Personality." Discussion will fol-
low. Cost supper.
Gamma Delta, Lutheran Student
Club, will meet at the Lutheran Stu-
dent Center, 1511 Washtenaw, at 3
o'lock today for a bowling party, to
be followed by the regular Sunday
supper meeting at 5:30 at the Cen-
ter.
Lecture on Hindu Thought: The
Rev. William P. Lemon will speak on
"Hindu Thought" at the Interna-
tional Center tonight at 7:30. Re-
freshments follow at 9 p.m. Anyone
interested may attend.
Roger Williams Guild: This eve-
ning at 5 Reverend H. J. DeVries will
speak on the "Fundamentalist As-
pects of Religion." The meeting will
be followed by a light supper and a
fellowship hour.
The Michigan Christian Fellowship
will meet this afternoon at 4:30 in
the Fireplace Room, Lane Hall.

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Wrong Symphonies
To the Editor:
We used to think of the May Festi-
val as a musical event of considerable
importance. What are we to think
now?
The program this year contains
several attractive offerings. Particu-
larly we shall be glad to hear "Das
Lied von der Erde" and a new piano
concerto.
But the purpose of this letter is to
protest against the inclusion of three
full-length symphonies, constituting
one-fourth of the entire festival,
which are not in any sense a treat
for the Ann Arbor musical public.
They have been heard here time and
again, and recently.
The Brahms First (substituted
for the announced Fourth) was
played last year, and the Beethoven
Seventh three years ago; the
Tscehaikowsky Sixth is one of the
most hackneyed of all symphonic
works. Furthermore, these sym-
phonies are among the most fre-
quently heard on the radio, and
probably half the record libraries
in the city contain them.
For our part, we should like to
hear more music of contemporary
composers. But there is also a vast
store of infrequently played but
worthwhile music from the past. The
inclusion of the three symphonies we
have mentioned seems to indicate an
insensibility not only to modern
music but to the wealth of our musi-
cal inheritance.
-K. B. Leisenring
R. L. Taylor

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BARNABY
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By Crockett Johnson
A burning feeling in my ear, Barnaby.
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Michigan Wolverine Students' Co-
operative Restaurant, Inc.: The an-
nual membership meeting will be
held on Monday, May 1, 1944, at
7:30 p.m., at the Michigan League
Building. .

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