PAGE TWO THE;.3 i-li: C A "FA LIv inrTtr c+ .d:wcr di:rivrvi nr 4 dndA - - 1 17, rw Al 1 1.11 1 h A LAM' 11 A. . .. - TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 194J Fiftyiglt at Fifty-Fourth Year i : Pd Rather BeAight BY SAMUEL GRAFTON " "T4""'""""" " - --. -... 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 rightdof 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, April 24.--The isolationists don't like the word "isolationist" any more. They now call themselves "nationalists." They have switch- ed over from the belief that America ought mere- ly to keep itself to itself, to the belief that the rest of the world ought to go take a flying leap. They no longer think America should stand alone. Their present thought is that the rest of the world should drop dead. This is, no doubt, a larger conception than the original isolationist idea of a few years back. We might say that the isolationists have progressed from mere indifference to the rest of the world to active hostility toward it. There once was something almost sweet about isola- tion; there was a moral note in its opposition to the munitions business; there was a kind of garden touch in its concept of America as a withdrawn and secluded paradise of reason in an unreasoning world. But now, in its new "nationalist" mood, isola- tion has suddenly sprouted long, sharp teeth. It slavers about the big peace-time navy and army we are going to have. It wants universal compulsory military service. It demands bases and territory around the world. It is expan- sionist and annexationist. Its own mother wouldn't recognize it in its new mood. The men who once voted against fortifying Guam because "we had no business there" now want to detach and keep farflung bits of the British Empire. Those who once hated now want to elect a general as president. ISOLATION was rather negative; nationalism is virulently positive. Isolation used to make its alliances with pacifists, anti-munitioneers, and other moral folk. Nationalism makes its alliances with an entirely different class of peo- ple, with England-haters, Russia-haters, Jew- haters, and other curious specimens, all dis- tinguished by a certain gleam in their eye. Isolation used to be progressive. Its ad- herents really believed in the garden-of-dem- ocracy idea. The hard core of Republican liberalism, with the great Senator Norris and the late Senator Borah as conspicuous ex- amples. But nationalism has an equal contempt for collective security abroad and social security at home. It is filled with almost as much bitterness and rage in discussing home affairs as when it is discussing world affairs. It has something like the same skeptical approach to the American community as it has to the world community. It sees visions of unrest and turmoil in the one, just as it does in the other. Isolation used to believe that Americans, at least, could get along with each other; there was a note of something like love of. one's own in it. This is absent in its nationalist succes- sors. These see as many bogeys at home as they do abroad, and are just as jumpy about the "menace" of labor, of Hollywood, of radio, of what-you-will, as they are about the menace of foreign chancelleries. Isolation was toler- ant, and optimistic; nationalism is profoundly pessimistic, it is afflicted with a vast demonol- olgy, in all of which it enthusiastically believes, down to the last little hobgoblin. Yes, maybe we ought to stop calling them "isolationists." They don't really deserve the name. 'Something new has been added. (Copyright, 1944. New York Post Syndicate) Jane Farrant Claire Sherman Stan Wallace. EIelyn Phillips Harvey Frank Bud Low . Jo Ann Peterson Mary Anne Olson, Marjorie Rosmarin Editori al Stafff . . . Managing Editor . Editbrial Director City Editor Associate Editor - . .. . Sports Editor Associate Sports Editor Associate Sports Editor Women's Editor . Associate Women's Editor Business Staff Eizabeth A. Carpenter . . . . Business Manager Margery Batt . . . Associate Business Manager Telephone 23-24-1 NIGHT EDITOR: BETTY KOFFMAN Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. INVASION EVE- Defeat on Home Front Is Imminent Dangerr AMERICA at the present time is faced with the possibility of defeat on the home front. A war cannot be won without personal privations and many Americans, even after two years of war, are not willing to make any sacrifices to hasten victory. When our government needed money, it had to use propaganda to encourage people to pur- chase war bonds. 'The black markets continue to do a florishing business because Americans are not willing to do without any of the lui- uries to which they have been accustomed. These are only two of the many examples that can be found to demonstrate the apathy of our civilian population. Now that the second front is imminent, our civilian population is giving up. Working on-the assumption that the war is almost, over, many people are cashing in their war bonds and paying enormous prices for articles they have done with- out for a short while. They feel that they have sacrificed enough already. If our men who are in England preparing for the second front were to lay down their arms now, the war would be lost. Can we blame them for being discouraged when they read about the people at home giving up? The winning of the wear has been postponed because we got in too late. Let us hope that hope that we do not lose because we got out too soon. Only through bitter experience have the men in our armed forces learned the necessity of fighting for what they believe. Let us hope that t will not take the rule of a foreign power to teach the rest of our population. -Doris Peterson UN-CHRISTIAN: Democracy Neglected by New York Chain-Stores A spokesman for the Credit Bureau of Greater New York, in an address to top executives of a chain-store organization, suggested that Negroes be discouraged from coming into the stores by cancelation of their charge accounts. His suggestion was rejected on the grounds that it was un-Christian. Not to mention the fact that the suggestion is also un-democratic. -Aggie Miller SStrike J s-tfted , F EVER a breach of the non-strike agreement appears justified, it is in the case of the em- ployes of Montgomery Ward's Chicago branch. Shortly before the expiration of a contract withf Local 20 of the United Mail Order, Warehouse and Retail Employes Union, CIO, the company notified the union that they would not negotiate a new contract. The matter came before the War Labor Board, whichs ordered the company to extend the contract. Ward's then refused the WLB order, contend- ing that the union no longer represented a 50 ilte 6ditop Pro and Con Senior Editors: Your answers to the charges made by Donald Vance interested me not because of the issue involved but rather because of the methods used in substantiating your statements. To begin with, I have been a student on the campus for the whole of my college career and I have watched with a somewhat negative interest your bouncing ed- itorial policies. To say that our editorial page has been unsuccess- ful merely because I feel that your editorials are steeped in immaturity serves to prove nothing. To say that the impetuousness and mis- directed curiosity of your budding journalists has been a liability rath- er than an asset again proves ab- solutely nothing. To throw a little more spice into this article I could offer as proof some of the serious blunders made by your staffs in the past. The "psy- chological ineptness" charge hurled at President Ruthven is, undoubted- ly, the best of such examples. The row raised over the faculty board in charge of student publications could also be submitted. - However, I choose to support my statements by evidence that would be more applicable to the present staff. Also, I propose a plan that could be followed by The Daily in giving a much fairer presentation of current events to the campus. One that would supply the needs of the developing minds of the student body. Also, in- cidentally, one that would serve to give experience that will prove more beneficial to you aspiring journalists. Let's for the moment analyze your column that "answered" the charges made by Mr. Vance. You began your article by calling his statements "laughable" and in the same breath attempted to miscontrue his state- ments by making them appear ridic- ulous. My antagonism to this type of proof, I will admit, is personal. For this reason let's continue to the three important "facts" set up by you. Your first statement reads as fol- lows: "Editorials, duly printed on this editorial page constitute honest, straight forward opinion, and as such, no matter how one-sided, have every right to appear," In this statement you have made some gross assumptions which need to be clarified. First, it can be said that no one is entitled to an opin- ion until he or she has applied the scientific method of proof to the statement in question. old state- ments cannot be put forth without due consideration to concreteness and application to the proof sub- mitted. The sincerity and honesty of the opinionator is irrelevant be- cause the scientific approach leaves no room for exaggeration. Your next assumption is that the editorial page of The Daily belongs DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN f 2 n - l' -s 9 -°- -K - c. a. NOVT fr GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty f A r..® ". . and don't . .remember promise your office force the first vegetables of the season that last May you had to go out and buy $10 worth of radishes, lettuce and carrots!" k v . 1 I The WASHINGTON MERRY-GO.-ROUND, By DREW PEARSON ,i i1 .I I WASHINGTON, April 24.-For 32 long years in Congress, blustery mountaineer Kenneth Mc- Kellar, the Senatorial gentleman from Tennes- see, has been famous for two things-his temper and his patronage. When it comes to temper, the Senator from Tennessee surpasses any other man on Capitol Hill. Most of his colleagues remain in awe of McKellar's lashing tongue, some even in fear. They remember the occasion when McKellar pulled a ksnife, and charged a colleague on the Senate floor, until he was disarmed. They also know the vengeance McKellar can wreck on any colleague who opposes him. For the gentleman from Tennessee is acting chairman of the pow- erful Appropriations Committee, where he can kill the pet projects of Senators who oppose him. Probably it is' partly the fear of McKellar's hill-billy vengeance that has caused the Ten- nesseean to win the first important round of his battle to turn the Tennessee Valley Author- ity into a McKellar empire. The 75-year-old Tennesseean, during the past several years,'has seen to it that members of his own family got lush rewards from the pa- tronage gravy. Highest paid of them is brother Hugh C. McKellar, who draws down $7,000 a year as postmaster at Memphis. Another brother, Don McKellar, is the Sena- tor's secretary in Washington and draws from the taxpayers the not insignificant salary of $4,500 a year. Finally, Mrs. Don McKellar is also on the public payroll, drawing $2,800 as an assistant clerk of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, of which McKellar is chairman. (Mc- Kellar is stronger in regard to patronage than any other Senator, since he's not only chairman of the Post Offices Committee, but also acting chairman of the Appropriations Committee as the result of Senator Glass's illness.) More McKellar Gravy --- Not content with this gravy grab, however, McKellar now has one of the biggest patronage schemes in the U.S.A. awaiting approval by the House of Representatives. He has bull-dozed through the Senate a proviso in the Tennessee Valey appropriations bill whereby all TVA em- ployes paid more than $4,500 a year would be subject to Senate confirmation. This is just another way of saying that Mc- Kellar himself henceforth would pick all TVA officials drawing more than $4,500 a year-if the bill finally receives House blessing. The power of Senate confirmation is tre- mendous and gives a. Senator from the State affected the virtual veto of any appointee to whom he may have personal objections. Other Senators don't especially inquire what those objections are, but gang together to preserve their long-cherished system of keeping a throt- tle-hold on patronage. McKellar makes no bones about admitting his political motives. Ile tells friends that it is necessary to bring TVA personnel under his thumb in order to con lrol David Lilienthal, TVA chairman, who long has knuckle under to McKellar. refused to The gentleman from Tennessee is more evasive when it comes to his cut-throat provision which would require all TVA income to go back to the Treasury and be voted out again by Congress. This is the equivalent;of forcing the Pennsyl- vania Railroad or Standard Oil to pay all their rail receipts or gasoline sales into the Treasury, then awaiting an Act of Congress to decide what railroad equipment could be bought or what pipeline could be repaired with their own money. Actually, the General Accounting Office, which is an arm of Congress, gives TVA funds a strict scrutiny every year and could far better detect any irregularity. But this makes no difference to McKellar, who wants the frozen-funds pro- vision in the bill in order to augment his plans for the McKellar empire in Tennessee. Grilling General Hershey ... Draft director Lewis B. Hershey and man- power boss Paul McNutt came in for some rough handling regarding the bungled draft situation at a closed-door meeting of the House Military Affairs Committee the other day. Members took their hair down and said a lot of things that have been rankling in their bosoms about con- flicting draft orders. After the meeting adjourned, the committee announced that it had refused to approve a labor draft bill. Inside fact, however, is that formal action against the labor draft was taken only after the committee had heard a furious gren- ading against the Hershey-McNutt team, includ- ing a demand that both be fired and replaced by a single draft czar. Chairman Andrew J. May of Kentucky, Rep- resentative Walter G. Andrews of New York, ranking committee Republican, and Repre- sentatives Ewing Thomason of Texas, John M. Costello of California, Leslie Arends of Illinois and Forest Harness of Indiana all got in some forthright licks against the fumbling of the manpower and draft program. Thomason supplied the knockout punch with a motion, adopted unanimously, that the com- mittee felt that national service legislation wasn't needed at this time, even if it could be pushed through Congress. There was also general agreement that such a bill wouldn't get to first base. "I'm getting tired of this constant bickering between McNutt and Hershey," asserted Thom- ason. "It's time we centered authority in one responsible head. I don't care who he is as long as he can do the .ob. McNutt and Hershey have demonstrated clearly that they can't." Costello of. California interposed that this would be the sense of a report his manpower subcommittee would submit. The meeting was called to consider labor draft legislation urged by Hershey, but no supporting arguments were offered-not even by glamorous Representative Clare Luce of Connecticut, who had a bill on the table to draft 4-F's into "work battalions." (Copyright. 1944, United Features Syndicate) to your staff. I will agree with you that the editorial page of any news-; paper is the only place where its owners can express well-founded; opinions. However, I challenge your your sole pwnership of The Daily. In the event that you, as have other staffs in the past forgotten, I would; like to remind you that The Daily+ belongs to the student body as a; whole. It is only your duty to present to us in a concise, readable, and un- biased form the trend of all events. This point will be referred to again+ in my proposal for a better Michigan+ Daily. Then you go on to say that second- ly: "If there are any shortcomings in supporting the elected President of this nation when the need for unity is great, they are still far more de- sirable and commendable than at- tacking and shouting, "Politics!" at every executive move made, be it only a loosening of a collar button." Much cold water can be thrown on this statement by asking whether we are supposed to do as you say or+ as you, do. In more explicit words why don't you practice what you preach? The answer is simple when we appreciate that unity is one thing and blind following another. We; don't expect youto follow blindly every policy set forth by the govern- ment. Likewise, we too can sow food for mental thought and digestion.' The point here is proven by your challenge of the discarding of plans+ for an International Police Force by+ our State Department, which appears on the same page. In your third statement, you say1 that: "The charge that pro-Roose- velt editorials dominate the editorial page almost makes us out to be crim- inal." Here' again, you make the very, bad assumption that the editorial page of The Daily can be used by a staff as an instrument for furthering its opinions. Not forgetting that you are being criminal in using our paper for furthering your ideas, let's be farsighted for a minute. According to your plan the editorial page is susceptible to approximately eight changes in four years. Rank confu- sion will be the only fruits of all your labors. Add the antipathy which re- sults in the developing mind of the average student and the possibility of stimulating any thought whatso- ever is dead. Now, my proposal is simply the application of an old and tested idea. Abolish one-sided editorial stands and substitute the "pro" and "con" method used by The Reader's Digest. We are not' interested in your opinions because this is our paper. We represent a fairly in- telligent group of people, so give us all the facts on both sides and let us formulate our own opinions. Have two reporters write on the opposite sides of one policy. We are interested not in quantity but in quality. In doing so your reporters will develop "the search for truth" attitude that will be more beneficial than all of the verbosity in the world. In closing I would like to thank you for bearing with me throughout this article. I do want you, the staff, to know that we do appreciate the effort and responsibility involved in editing our newspaper. However, those that do accept a task also ac- cept the responsibility of seeing that the job is done right. -Jerry E. Cardillo Editor's Note: To Mr. Cardillo, and those who feel as he does, we repeat: any student who so desires may work on The Daily staff and present his views on the editorial page. 5' TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1944 VOL. LIV No. 118 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 bye11:30 a.m. Notices To All Departments: The Army Intelligence has requested a com- plete list of all University employes of Japanese origin, giving their names, positions held and their local home addresses. This information in three copies should be forwarded at once to F. C. Shiel, 201 South Wing, and should be furnished by all departments who have not done so since April 16. Shirley W. Smith Vice-President and Secretary Forestry Assembly: There will be an assembly of students and faculty of the School of Forestry and Con- servation at 9 a.m., Wednesday, April 26, 1944, in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Building. Professor Harley W. Blartlett, of the Department of Botany, will be the speaker All forestry and pre-forestry stu- dents are expected to be present; others who are interested are wel- come to attend. 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- pose may be secured from the office of the school or college or from Room 4, University Hall. There will be a meeting of the stu- dents of the College of Pharmacy at 7:30 on Wednesday, April 26, in the East Conference Room in the Rack- ham Building. The faculty is invited. 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. If you wish to finance the pur- chase of a home, or if you have pur- chased improved property on a land contract and owe a balance of ap- proximately 60 per cent of the value of the property, the investment Of- fice, 100 South Wing of University Hall, would be glad to discuss finan- cing through the medium of a first mortgage. Such financing may effect a substantial saving in interest. 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. TeturI TT-Thurs..May 4. 2 n rm tificate are cordially invited to meet the critic teachers of the University Laboratory Schools at a tea to be given in the University Elementary School Library on Wednesday, April 26, at 4:15 o'clock. Attention Former Students of Ge- ology 12: If you have copies of Hussey's Syllabus, "Geological His- tory of North America," we shall appreciate your turning them in, either for sale or rent, to Rm. 2851, Natural Science Bldg., as soon as possible. These outlines are out of print, our enrollment this term is large, and the need for them is acute. E. Delabar, Secy., Ext. '617. Sophomore Engineers: An impor- tant meeting of the Sophomore Class will be held in Rm. 348, West Engi- neering Building this evening at 7 o'clock. 'All members of the class should arrange to attend. 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. Speeded Reading Course: The short course in speeded reading will start today. The class meets at 5, Tuesday and Thursday, Rm. 4009, University High Sch'ool Building. There is no charge for this course. 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-,.eAr nnaxl mih BARNABY .. And you see why this little By Crockett Johnson rTake other children. 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