V E TWO rf -il II r1lid 1 -11 it II v i '4'G'a Tt'R ;' , EP i. c r ^e r rf, a+t ":we n w " t ii iit G !'.!C 7. T -T r 1'.4. il Ax IT 1 J R'[yI2.Ntll~iA, :'4.Y[I- U, 1944 a , . I F-Fu r a tar Fif ty-Fourth Year. I t Pd Rather Be Right By SAMUEL GRAFTON - - -- - GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty Ldllc r 9~ She Ci oro Edited and managed by students of the University of Wehiigan under the authority of the Board in Control or Student Publications. Published every morning except Monday during the regular University year, and every morning except Mon- day~d Tuesday during the summer session. Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of repub- lication of*all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second-class mail matter. Subscriptions during the regular school year by car- rer $4.25, by mail $5.25 Member, Associated Colegiate Press, 1943-44 NEW YORK, April 25.-Let us continue with the analysis of the "nationalists," as they call themselves, who have taken over the old isola- tionist movement. Point one is that the "nationalist" movement has become quite self-conscious. Its Chicago Journalists use the word "nationalist" without quotation marks. They will complain that the "nationalists are being smeared," etc. They ex- pect readers to know what the word means. Actually, it means a muddle of many things. The new Chicago nationalism is the strangest nationalism the world has ever seen. To begin with, it is a nationalism which does not believe in a strong central government. It hates central government, which is a curi- ous sort of feeling for "nationalists" to enter- tain. It seems to believe that state government is better than federal government, that county the Pendlulum Jane Farrant : Claire Sherman tan Wallace - Evelyn Phil10pt Rkrvey Frank tud Low . Jo Ann Peterson Mary Anne Olson ra Ma -j on c Rosmari n iviajroe Hll Editoria . . fit Staff . Managing Editor « Editorial Director . . City Editor . . . Associate Editor * . . . Sports Editor Associate Sports Editor . Associate Sports Editor so. Women's Editor Associate Women's Editor Associate Women's Editor S Staff . Business Manager Busines, Vllzalsetth A. Carpenter . Margry Batt Telephon j Associate Business Manager e 23-24-1 NIGHT EDITOR: RAY DIXON Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and re/present the views of the writers only. BORDER DISPUTE: Treasury Policy Closing Jlridges Is Inexcusable A LITTLE-PUBLICIZED borderland contro- versy is brewing between Canada and Mexico on one hand and the United States Treasury De- partment on the other that threatens to hold ip shipment of vital war materials by way of connecting bridges. it seems the Supreme Court has ruled (My- ers Vs. the United States) that the Treasury must pay customs officials overtime rates for Sunday and holiday work at international bridges and tunnels. Because the Treasury neglected to ask Congress for an appropriation sufficient to cover this added cost, the depart- ment wants to pay the men directly out of toll charges. This is definitely contrary to the wishes of the bondholders, however, who have a sizeable investment to protect. If the Treas- ury plan goes through, current income from the investment will be eliminated and the value of the bonds will take a trip to the cellar. But the Treasury is adamant, saying they can- not afford a deficit and, either they have their Way, or else all traffic will be halted on Sundays and holidays. If this happens: (1) more than 800 tons of war material, moved on Sundays by about 80 motor transports, will either be delayed 24 hours or be forced to travel at least 100 miles out of their way; (2) Mexican shippers of fish and perishable goods will carry out their threat to dump their loads on the bridges; and (3) the Mexicans will close the bridges at other border points on Saturday in retaliation for Treasury- ordered Sunday closings. THE SITUATION is complicated still further because both the Canadian and Mexican gov- ernments own one-half of the bridges which con- nect their country with the United States. This does not seem to make a great deal of difference with the Treasury, however. The Department has already closed the Rainbow Bridge over Ni- agara Falls and armed border patrolmen now enforce the edict against Sunday traffic. One result of this has been to force war workers who live in Canada and work in this country, to make a long detour to another bridge when re- porting for the Sunday shift. The Treasury has sent bills to bridge op- erators covering retroactive salaries ranging from $50,000 for the Rainbow Bridge to more than $214,000 for the Detroit-Windsor tunnel. These are large sums, but there is little doubt that Congress would approve an appropriation to cover it if given a chance. But, since there is no appropriation, it is up to Mr. Morgen- thau's men to bow their heads and make up the deficit for the good of the war effort. Otherwise, the movement of war materials will be seriously impeded, border economy will be disrupted, perishable foods will spoil, thous- ands of workers will be kept from their jobs and good-will we have so carefully built up with Canada and Mexico will be disturbed. -Ray Dixon URGENT PLEA: ' Guilty Students Should Return Parking Signs In spite of the City Engineer's urgent plea for AR IS the least rational of man's undertak- ings. It blunts his senses and blackens his soul. Every fiber of human intelligence recoils against the new Mars upon whose stream-lined altars are daily strewn the sacrificial offerings of military destruction. We fight now-with all the power we can muster-to end the fight. We slaughter now to eliminate future slaughter, governmentally li- censed. America is in the battle, not out of enthusiasm for combat but out of the greatest aversion for it. But, it is here, this inferno, and we dare not compromise with the tremendous forces ar- rayed against thinking man and freedom lov- ing peoples. Every effort must be bent to the task of effacing Nazi-Fascism. It is absolutely right that we dedicate ourselves to fighting the perpetrators of unreason and the butchers- that-be, mustachioed or otherwise. These are platitudes. They needed to be said in all the years before Pearl-Harbor when isola- tionism versus interventionism was a live issue. I repeat them here (and it is extraordinary that they should have to be repeated). because such factions as the "Non-Obliterators" and "Peace Now" have, in the past few months, gained new, sincere, intellectual adherents. Men like the Reverend John Haynes Holmes whose devotion to civil liberty deserves our praise, and Evan Thomas whose work in prison reform is so commendable, lead these organiza- tions. The fact that no evil intent can he imputed to such men makes them all the more dangerous. It is true, for all their honesty, that they have lost sight of the philosophic bases for our participation in ;the war. So, also, have many of our governmental of- ficials. HOWEVER, I want to deal not with the at- titude of "intellectuals" or the officials, but rather with that of the man on the street. It is clear that he does not favor any cessation of hostilities, though he will be more susceptible to plans for a negotiated peace very soon. Quite naturally, he does not wish to see his kin dying in foreign lands and he may be satisfied with an international breathing spell, preparatory to government flinging itself again at government. The man on the street has never liked World War II. No man on the street anywhere has liked World War II. We may be more positive of that in this war than in any previous war. This is partly to the good; it is more to the bad. It is to the good in that it indicates an escape from romanticism. No longer do we glorify war. Flag waving and band playing, like cheap patriotic oratory. have all but disappeared. We recognize war to be a grim business, so grim, indeed, that it has caused many of us to lose our hearts. Small groups soft-heartedly object to the bombing of Berlin; large groups hard-heartedly object to nothing, however brutal, so long as they remain untouched. Nobody numbs me more than these individuals who have "the depth of a tea-cup and the sensitivity of a rhinocerous hide." In the last war, Americans fought venture- somely, if fruitlessly, to right the wrongs of the world. They were duped by loaded propaganda, by atrocity stories about Belgian women being raped and their infant offspring being bayoneted. Now, so worldly wise and callous have we become that real horrors inconceivably more cannibal- istic leave us undeterred from our serene paths of non-recognition. We scarcely give a second thought to the fact of three million Europeans killed for pure- ly religious reasons, without provocation. We will not even consider means of saving others from the same fate. This, it strikes me, is grist for the mill being ground by those who would complete the de- humanization of our species. The America of 1917, tricked by clever play on its good will into supporting a war, must have been populated with people several hundred times more human than the present crop of robots. In those days ideals could attarct us. These days they repel us. Find me the man who does not laugh at the Atlantic Charter. I will take odds he is a lonely fellow. -Bernard Rosenberg government is better than state government, and that townships are better than counties. Thus, although the Chicago "nationalists" use "nationalism" as a rallying-cry, they are actually opposed to many of the most ordinary of national conceptions. Their nationalism is a nationalism which holds that any state ought to be able to defy the nation. That is an arguable theory. Many estimable Americans have argued for it. It becomes ab- surd only when self-styled "nationalists" argue for it. But this is not the only absurdity in the new nationalism. The new Chicago "nationalism" is filled way up to here with regional and other divisive prejudices. These are "nationalists" who detest and mistrust the East. They have grave doubts about the South. They are not too sure about California. These are the most exquisitely local nationalists the world has ever seen. And this is the movement which has replaced American isolation, which did, at least, have a fine, optimistic faith that Americans of all kinds could live together in peace and harmony. Just as it is sure that wars are inevitable on the international level (it makes an exception only in the case of the present war, which, it feels, was not inevitable, but was invented by Mr. Roosevelt) so is it sure that strife is inevit- able on the domestic level. The only solution it can offer is for a central government which shall be stong only in the military sense, so that we can impose our will on the world externally; but it wants this same gov- ernment, when it turns inward upon its domestic affairs, to be feeble, and in fact, virtually non- existent, so that it will not stand in the way when the economically strong among us wish to impose their will upon the economically weak among us. This movement is a new thing on the Am- erican scene, a product of social struggle rather than of debate over foreign policy, and it is something from which the old isolation move- ment of Borah and Norris and the Wheeler of 15eyears ago would have recoiled. (Copyright. 1944, New York Post Syndicate) W-N- DREW~ Ch MERRY-CO-ROUND WASHINGTON, April 25.-Politicos are still arguing as to whether Willkie's Wisconsin defeat was a real indication of growing U.S. isolation. Whether it was or not, another test is just around the corner which may be much more'significant. It will occur in the Florida primaries in May, and will involve the renomination of the fore- most champion of intervention in the entire U.S. Senate-Claude Pepper. Pepper is running in a State normally not iso- lationist. And for that reason, politicos consider the test more significant than that in Wisconsin. Most people outside Florida do not remember the way in which Pepper stood out alone in the entire Senate to demand aid for the Allies- even before France had fallen. However, it is indelibly stamped on the minds of those who run the Foreign Offices in London and Moscow. At that time, May, 1940, before the world even dreamed France would fall, Pepper introduced a resolution authorizing the Pesident to aid the Allies by supplying them with air equipment. When the resolution came up in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the vote was 12 opposed, one in favor. The one lone vote was Pepper's. Yet, only a few months later, the entire Congress approved the destroyer deal and, early the following year, put its OK on lend-lease. Pepper at first, however, had got nowhere. After his first defeat on air equipment, he in- troduced a second resolution authorizing all aid to the Allies short of war. Although getting no support from the Administration, he pro- ceeded to make five speeches for this earliest of all lend-lease proposals. Each day he delivered a new speech. Finally, Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, an Ad- ministration friend and no isolationist, took Pepper aside. "Claude," he said, "you've got to stop all that. This country's not going to get into this fight. We're not going to help England. You're just wasting the Senate's time, and breaking your own heart." "Pat, I'd do anything in the world for you," Pepper answered. "But this issue is too big. Can't you see that the world is falling around our ears? It's more important than any other domestic issue, and we've got to face it." So the European chanceries, where U.S. politics are studied just as carefully as in the GOP or Democratic committees, will be watching the Florida primaries to see whether the electorate will repudiate the man who was out in front for intervention. If so, it will be interpreted as much more significant than the Wisconsin primaries, and Allied policy regarding U.S. cooperation future world peace will change accordingly. (Copyright, 1944. United Features Syndicate) "Never mind what I'm selling. lady!-take it or leave it!" DA ILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Pro ate elCorr ----------- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1944 VOL. IAV No. 119 All notices forthe 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-1 tiers should be submitted by 11:30 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 behfurnisheddby all departments who have not donel so since April 16. Shirley W. Smith 3 Vice-President and Secretary April 27, for your May Festival usher, cards: Gultekin Aga-Oglu, MarjorieI Beckwith, Eva Boenheim, Eugene Brody, Dawn Carlson, Patricia Fearnley, Betty Finlayson, Frances Glennon, Phyllis Gorbott, Mary Alice Hahn, Fred Kalmus, Mary Kirch- gessner, Charlotte LaRue, Charlotte MacMullan, Viola Maile, Jerome Met- tetal, Marion Mondshein, George W. Morley, Roy Plotkin, Frances Pop- kins, Dorothy Potts, Jeanette Ray- mond, Jane Richardson, BernardI Rosenberg, Adele Sherman, Pat Ty- ler, Margaret Walker, Frances Weber, Phyllis Wilman, Dorothy Wo ose, Anne Yung-Kwai. 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.. na NI 4 * -4 ~ (4)1944, ('I1kag.. 1mrit *, Ir IC To the Editor: This morning I read, as usual, the editorial page of The "Michigan Dai- ly." Through some vagary I read the letter to the editor first, the one written by Mr. Donald Vance. I cannot express my feeling of relief that The Daily had published a letter from the other side of the fence. The fact that Michigan has a Republican Governor is proof that there are Republicans in Michigan, aind I had often wondered where they are on campus and why they don't take up the cudgels against a policy that seemed to be always and forever anti-Republican. I have done the editors of The Daily wrong, I said to myself this morning. They are fair and impartial. The troubl't is with the Republican students who haven't taken the trou- ble to find out that The Daily is a free press and that it is not packed against them.; Alas, my dream of a free and impartial Daily was in for a rude awakening. I turned to the next column which contained an editorial signed by the Senior Editors. It started out, "In the next column ap- pears one of the most laughable charges etc. etc. It was in answer to the letter from the other side of the fence. Some way it would have seemed so much more decent if the letter had come first and the answer next. But the editors had to answer the letter before the public even had a chance to read it, or to judge for itself. It is sad that a paper which so proudly champions human rights and so hates. a bigotry in some forms won't let the party in their state to which they do not belong, write even one little letter and allow it to be judged on its merits. I understand now why those who don't agree with The Daily keep aloof. I do want tor say, "Don't be discouraged, Mr. Vance." There are other students I'm sure who think three terms are enough' for even President Roosevelt. Why don't you go out for a job on The Daily and see to it that there is a chance for honest disagreement and that the final verdict belongs to the students, for it is to them that we had always supposed The Daily really belongs? -Mary Anderson dent members will also take part. The public is urged to attend and to take part in the discussion. Botanical Journal Club: This after- noon at 4, Rm. N.S. 1139, Hazen Price, Criteria for the indication of center of origin in plant geographi- cal studies, by Stanley Cain. Betty R. Clarke, Book Reviews, Shrubs of Michigan, by Billington; Edible Wild Plants of Eastern N.A., by Fernald; Emergency Food Plants and Poison- ous Plants of the South Pacific, by Merrill. ComingEvents Forestry Assembly: There will be-- an assembly of students and faculty lLectures of the School of Forestry and Con- servation at 9 a.m. today in the Food Handler's Lectures: Two se- Amphitheatre of the Rackham Build- ries of lectures for food handlers will ing. Professor Harley W. Bartlett, of be given by Melbourne Murphy, the D~nfmn t ofB Rtn will hb ime ii epar muen1±, o r .Lany, win Je 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. Faculty, College of Literature, Sci- ence and the Arts: Mid-semester re- ports are due not later than Satur- day, April 29. Report cards are being distributed to all departmental offices. Green cards are being provided for fresh-I man reports; they should be returned to the Office of the Academic Coun- selors, 108 Mason Hall. White cards, for reporting sophomores, juniors and seniors should be returned to 1220 Angell Hall. Mid-semester reports should name those students, freshmen and upper- classmen, whose standing at mid- semester is D or E, not merely those who receive D or E in so-called mid- semester examinations.I Students electing our courses, but registered in other schools or colleges of the University should be reported to the school or college in which they are registered. Additional cards may be had at 108 Mason Hall or at 1220 Angell Hall. There will be a meeting of the stu- dents of the College of Pharmacy at 7:30 tonight in the East Conference Room in the Rackham Building. The faculty is invited. Choral Union Ushers: The follow- ing ushers please report at Hill Audi- torium 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday. Health Service Sanitarian, in th Lecture Room of the Health Servic 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 whc have not previously attended are asked to attend one of the present series. Other interested persons are cordially invited to attend. Academic Notices All students looking forward to directed teaching and those who have taken or are taking directed teaching in preparation for the Teacher's Cer- 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 this afternoon at 4:15 o'clock. 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. Exhibitions 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. TIhe public is cordially invited. Events Today Inter-Guild will have its weekly luncheon at noon today at Lane Hall. Rev. C. H. Loucks will speak on Religions Remedy. Chemistry Colloquium will meet to- day at 4:15 p.m. in Rm. 303, Chemis- try Building. Professor L. 0. Case will speak on "Some Considerations Concerning Phase Equilibria in Gas- Hydrate Systems." All interested are invited. e e 'S Tea at International Center is served each week on Thursday from 4 to 5:30 p.m. for foreign students, faculty, townspeople, and American student friends of foreign students. The Regular Thursday Evening Concert will be held in the Men's Lounge of the Rackham Building at 7:45 p.m. and will include Sibelius' Symphony No. 2, "Daphnis and Chloe" by Ravel, and an album of Chopin Waltzes. Servicemen and graduate students are cordially in- vited. The annual Spring Tea for the Newcomers Section of the Faculty Women's Club will be on Friday, May 5, from 3:30 to 5:30 o'clock, at the home of Mrs. Hugh-Keeler, 660 Bar- ton Shore Drive. For . information concerning transportation, call Mrs. Leonard Meretta, 5489. Dancing Lessons: Beginners Dan- cing Class will start this Friday, April 28 and continue for six lessons. These lessons will be held every Friday night at 7 p.m. under the direction of Lt. Flegal. Friday Night Dance: Tle USO Fri- day Night Dance will be held as usual at the Club beginning at 8 p.m. Saturday Night Dance: The theme of the Saturday Night dance to be held at the USO Club this Saturday night will be "Circus Night." The dance is under the direction of Com- pany X. All girls of Company X must attend or send a substitute Junior Hostess. All Junior Hostesses are in- vited: Sunday Morning Breakfast: The USO Sunday Morning Breakfast will I BARNABY By Crockett Johnson .)OHNSOV I1 And now, one last point... Look, son. When you come to But when you tell me about a cigar-smoking pixie with Now run along | v. l son... I ! guess he doesn't know I I y,