PAGE W THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, THAI 13, 1944 ~AG~ IWO SATU1tDAY, MAY 113, 1944 Fifty-Fourth Year AS C4A3E 7. 5' 10~ r et ! .2t. fFF / / Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Jane Farrant . . . Managing Editor Claire Sherman . . Editorial Director Stan Wallace . . . City Editor Evelyn Phillips . . . . Associate Editor Harvey Frank . . . . Sports Editor Bud Low . . . . Associate Sports Editor Jo Ann Peterson . . . . Associate Sports Editor Mary Anne Olson . . . Women's Editor Marjorie Hall . . . . Associate Women's Editor Marjdrie Rosmarin . . Associate Women's Editor Business Staff Elizabeth A. Carpenter . Business Manager t i 1) < Matgery Batt . Associate Business Manager Telephone 23-24-1 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. 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Admission to the School of Bus- ness Administration: Application for admission to this School beginning with the Summer Term must be filed not later than June 1. Information and application blanks available in Rm. 108, Tappan Hall. Senior Engineers: Mr. W. G. Hillen of Carrier Corporation, Syracuse, N.Y. will hold a group meeting in Rm. 229 West Engineering Bldg. from 9:30 to 10 a.m., Tuesday, May 16, 1944, to explain the opportunities for employment with that organiza- tion. He is interested in students of 4F Classification, post-war prospects and nationals of other countries. Interview schedule is posted on the bulletin board at Rm. 221 West Engi- neering Building for 20-minute ap- pointments for the balance of the day. A new president of the Interfra- ternity Council must be elected. Men wishing to be considered for this posi- tion must bring their petitions to the I.F.C. office before Friday, May 26. Interviewing for positions on, the central committee of Child Care will be in the undergraduate offices of the League at the following times: Tuesday, May 16, from 5 to 6; Wed- nesday, May 17, from 2:30 to 6; Thursday from 5 to 6. Positions open are, Girl Reserve Chairmen, Girl Scout Chairmen, Proxy Parent Chair- men, Personnel Chairmen, Publicity Chairmen. If anyone has any ques- tions please call Naomi Miller at 24516. Lectures Dr. Gabriel Atristain will give the last lecture of theSociedad Hispanica series Tuesday evening, May 16, at 8 p.m. in the small Rackham Amphi- theatre. Dr. Atristain will lecture on "The Evolution of -Mexican Litera- ture." Please note that the lecture will take place on Tuesday instead of Wednesday evening. Admission by ticket or uniform. Everyone cordially invited. Academic Notices The ten-weeks' grades for Marine and Navy trainees (other than Engi- neers and Supply Corps) are due to- day. Only D and E grades need be reported. The Office of the Academic Coun- selors, 108 Mason Hall, will receive these reports and transmit them to the proper officers. Directed Teaching, Qualifying Ex- amination: Students expecting to elect D100 (directed teaching) next term are required to pass a qualify- ing examination in the subject which they expect to teach. This examina- tion will be held today at 1 p.m. E WASHINGTO N By RRUNDREW PEARSON" WASHINGTON, May 12.-It hasi been said that oratory is on the wanec in America, that great figures who1 dare to speak out on the Senate floor have disappeared, that the real power of the Senate is now exercised ini committee by strong, silent men with no grace for speech.I Those who heard Tennessee's Sen-i ator Kenneth McKellar harangue his colleagues on the subject of this col-] umnist the other day are wondering if this is true. Opinion is divided. But both sides agree that the gentle- man from Tennessee hit the high watermark for gorgeous invective. Ordinarily, this columnist doesn't consider himself worth forty-five minutes of the Senate's time and twelve columns in the Congressional Record but, since Senator McKellar is anxious to get circulation, this column is delighted to oblige. So we give you Senator McKellar of Ten- nessee speaking on the Senate floor in rebuttal of a Merry-Go-Round report of his feud against the Ten- nessee Valley Authority: No Mountaineer McKellar "Mr. President, I have been shown an article by one Drew Pearson, a so-called columnist. I wish to read from that article and comment upon it. "Pearson says: 'For 32 long years in Congress, blustery mountaineer Kenneth McKellar-' "I digress long enough to say that I do not know Mr. Pearson, but really he is an ignorant ass, is he not? (Laughter.) I was not born in the mountains. Yet this ignorant, blundering, lying ass seems to think there is something discreditable about mountains. The truth is that it is not a dishonor to be a mountaineer. Only a blatant jackanapeswould have made a point of that. "He is just an ignorant liar, a pusillanimous liar, a peewee liar. I understand he and Lilienthal (David Lilienthal, chairman of the Tennes- see Valley Authority) are great friends. They are two of a kind. What is fitter than two liars standing up for each other?" 'A Colossal Lie' .. . "Listen to this. Of all the remark- able statements that have been made about me this article, this one is the most false, most damnable, most out- rageous, the most colossal lie I have ever read about myself or anyone else: 'They remember the occasion when McKellar pulled a knife, and charged a colleague on the Senate floor, until he was disarmed.' "I say that that statement is a will- ful, deliberate, malicious, dishonest, intensely cowardly, low, degrading, filthy lie, out of the whole cloth. I never pulled a knife on any person in my life. Not only have I never pulled a knife on any Senator, but I have never pulled a knife on anyone in my entire history." Note-The Associated Press, Ap- ril 5, 1938, reported: "When the Senate quit for the day, Senator McKellar made a lunge at Senator Copeland, but Senator Clark of Missouri stepped in. Struggling in Mr. Clark's arms, Senator MeKel- lar announced distinctly that Sen- ator Copeland was a blankety- blank, asinine old son of a so-and- so. Furthermore, Senator McKel- lar went on, he was a blankety- blank, lying what-you-may-call- it." Senator Clark later told this col- umnist that McKellar had a clasp knife which he was taking out of his side coat pocket when Clark grabbed his arm. Clark has since denied this. 'A Low-Life Skunk' ... "I am now speaking for all my col- leagues, as well as myself. This man is just an egregious liar, and this is an egregious lie, out of the whole cloth. There is nothing but lying from beginning to end. His lying friend Lilienthal has gotten him, no doubt, to publish this lie about me, and that is why it is here in this paper. "I try to be honest with my con- stituents. I try to be straightforward. I do not undertake to lie to them. "Gentlemen, I am not angry. I am just sorry that this great nation of ours, this nation of honest men, this nation of Americans, has with- in its borders any person so low and despicable, so corrupt, so grov- eling, so desirous of injuring the character and the accomplishments of his fellow men, as this low-born, low-lived, corrupt and dishonest Drew Pearson. "Mr. President, do Senators all know what a skunk is? He is some- times known as a polecat. The ani- mal called a skunk cannot change his smell. This human skunk cannot change his smell. He will always be just a low-life skunk. "Mr. President, if I have been guilty of exhibition of temper, I hope the Senators will forgive me." (Copyright, 1944, United Features Synd.) ( 41 Military Merit of WAC Saluted TWO YEARS AGO America had made only a start on the long, hard road of war. In perspective, events of Spring, 1942, are a part of the war's beginning. And one of those events was the creation of the Women's Army Corps, then an "Auxiliary," on May 15, 1942. The Corps, observing its second anniversary this week, was in this war at the beginning. The WACs first demonstrated their merit in this country, and now are on non-combat duty in England, Italy, North Africa, Australia, India and Hawaii. Overseas contingents, small at first, are growing. WACs are working with the Army Air, Ground and Service Forces, the AAF in particular using large numbers of Air WACs here and abroad. Of all the recognition they have earned, one fact stands foremost to the credit of the WACs. They have established their ability to succeed in jobs of military skill-not just in the obvi- ous feminine tasks carried over from civilian life, important though the latter are to Army operations. The list of skills is long-radio operators, airplane mechanics, instrument re- pairmen, weather observers, map plotters, elec- tricians, photo interpreters, crytographers, con- trol tower operators-there are 239 Army jobs for women, and scores of them involve techni- cal skills. WACs are not merely "filling" those jobs. They have learned them well and they are making good in them. That is why, on its second anniversary, we salute the Women's Army Corps, not only for patriotic service but for military merit as well. And that is why we recommend to other American women an immediate visit to the Army Recruit- ing Station at the League. They will become members of a military corps which is accomplish- ing much toward the day of victory and the final return of our combat soldiers. -Marion Sipes I'd Rather Be Right By Samuel Grafton KEEP MOVING i 1HERE'S something about organized charity that gets our goat. Perhaps that's putting it a little too violently for a warm spring day, but, slightly modified, that's our feeling. It isn't that we oppose the causes for which charity is collected. We too agree that little children should-go to camp in the summer, that the widows and orphans should be cared for, and tramps and disabled citizens. And as long as such campaigns continue, we will probably con- tinue putting nickels in the slot. But basically we object. It would be all right if we had never received any charity ourselves. If we didn't know ex- actly how the little girl feels when she puts on cast-off clothing . . . the knowledge that she should feel grateful, but that somehow she never would have picked out a dress for herself with purple trimming. And the same with the other objects of man's conscience. We think something has to be done about the poor and homeless. Probably the proper thing is to find jobs for them, or, better still, to see to it that enough jobs exist so that they can find them for themselves. And if we are careful in the future we won't have any more disabled veterans of industrial or international accidents. Right now the same kind of energy that went into the Podunk Brighten the Corner Where You Are Committee is now going into plans of young social service workers for adding sweetness and light to the reconstruction of Germany and the rest of occupied Europe. You know, the white man's burden, the good influence we will have on the post-war world, and so forth. As far as we can see, the group- which will be most efficient and understanding in the rebuild- ing of the Nazified territories is the group most affected by the destruotion. The people, the ones who were put in concentration camps, in the un- derground movement, those slowly learning that they couldn't live under Hitler, no matter how they compromised. Many of them have been killed . . . as many as Hitler could find. Many more escaped-a whole group of German refugees are now in Mexico City, for example, working .,, it'r fr har P~?ord-Ohr Lyms re e exposed to democratic ideas, to the Atlantic Charter, Four Freedoms, Teheran agreement. And to the Declaration of Independence, the Bill. of Rights, and especially to the Emancipation Proclamation. To some of the documents in England's history, the Magna Charta, the Bill of Rights, the various Reform Bills. To the new Soviet Constitution of 1936, to the principles of Sun Yat-sen on which the New China will be built. People always like to know that they aren't the only ones who have been in the dark at some time in their lives, and that others have had to fight constructively for freedom, as these Germans and Italians will have to do when they go home after the war. (It occurs to us that, it might be wise for a few of us who think we know what the war is about to read the suggestions above, as well. The library copies aren't very well blackened.) . People who themselves have been the victims of a situation are the ones most capable of finding a solution to it. And when we someday ask the present recipients of charity what they think should be done to better conditions, they will probably agree with us that they don't like organized charity, and that the answer will come when causes.are removed. It's like putting sugar in with your vitamin pills. You know the pills are good for you, but you wish, that somehow you had got your vitamins by eating the right foods over the years. r----Ann Fagan On March 2, 1944 . . . (Sewell) Avery attacked the philosophy that the chief responsibility of business after the war is to provide jobs for everyone. "A corporation's efficiency is indicated by the number of men it can release from a job, not by the number of men hired," Avery said. -The Chicago Sun We have a tendency to treat our soldiers like moral infants, and to keep them on an intellec- tual diet of baby-talk. We shelter them from columnists and commentators. Our service news- papers give only a sanitized and sterilized view of the home front. A serviceman in Italy who depended on Stars and Stripes, says Mr. Russell Hill in a fine article in the New York Herald Tribune, would never know there was any con- troversy back home. This is not the fault of the soldier-editors of Stars and Stripes; it is the fault of high policy, which favors articles written in pure gook, describing a world of ducky-wucks. The soldier's feet may be in mud, but his mind must be kept in cotton-wool. His father may read the ravings or cooings, of American publi- cists; his mother may read them, his brother and sister, or, bless us, even his seven-year-old daughter may read them; but he himself may not read them, for fear his moral bridgework would crack under the strain. The Army lives in ecstatic fear of controversy, and while a rather competent daily budget of news is cabled by it to service publications over- seas, much of it has the look of having been sent to the didie service and laundered before going on to the cop? desk. The Army has made some fine films on the historic background of the war, but even these become a little tremulous as they approach mod- ern times; and they bound like jackrabbits over whole areas of controversy. A kind of head-hiding goes on; there is an official will toward infantilism; and the world as it is presented to 12,000,000 adult American citizens in the services is a world of gaps and holes; it is a world without a Spain, without a Tito, without a de Gaulle, without enemies of in- ternational progress on the home front. A LL THIS STUFF is considered to be dirty business, best left to private enterprise to dis- cuss, in the comparatively few copies of news- magazines and newspapers which reach the fighting fronts. The Herald Tribune's Mr. Hill shows us, by contrast, how the British and Canadian front-line newspapers (The Union Jack, the Eighth Army News, and The Maple Leaf) have been presenting roaring controversies ever since African days, in which privates often write pert answers to captians in letter columns impudently devoted to the shape of the postwar world. You could positively not get Marshal Rommel to agree that this has been bad for British morale. But our own Army has institutionalized a kind of moral timidity; it takes a reserved and even genteel view of the world; it peeps in horror from behind intellectual lace curtains at the home-front wreckers, at the popular movements of Europe, at contro- versies between adherents of pure- and-simple private industry and the adherents of state planning. To be divorced from controversy is to be divorced from life; it is a hell of a note to put growth vitamins care- fully into every K-ration, and leave them out of the GI issue of food for the mind. Our men are likely to come home a little stunted, compar- ed with their British brothers, much less able to understand what has been happening here and much less well1 equipped to understand the new Eur- ope. The ripely Republican Herald Tri-, bune very properly takes the line that the editorial policy of our service publications reflects that timidity and "childish fear of chaos and the Reds" which mark our national ap- proach to the world, so that we are beginning to look like the last "great reactionary power," fluttery and ner- vous about the great currents of pop-I ular feeling which are shaping Europe and the world. We are forever backing away from those movements, denying them, try-! ing to hex them by refusing to talk about them; and that leaves is for- ever peeping out from behind those silly lace curtains at the astonishing realities of the sidewalk. (Copyright, 1944, N.Y. Post Syndicate) I Students will meet in the auditorium of University High School. The ex- amination will consume about four hours' time; promptness is therefore essential. Doctoral Examination for Norman Lord Wendler, Chemistry; thesis: "The Synthesis of Hydroaromatic Derivatives of Naphthalene and Phe- nanthrene," Monday, May 15, 309 Chemistry, at 1:30 p.m. Chairman, W. E. Bachmann. By action of the Executive Board the Chairman may invite members of the faculties and advanced doc- toral candidates to attend this exam- ination, and he may grant permission to those who for sufficient reason might wish to be present. Doctoral Examination for Harliet Elizabeth Smith, Botany; thesis: "Sedum Pulchellum: A Physiological and Morphological Comparison of Diploid, Tetraploid, and Hexaploid Races," Monday, May 15, 1139 Natur- al Science, at 2:30 p.m. Chairman, E. B. Mains. By action of the Executive Board the Chairman may invite members of the faculties and advanced doctoral candidates to attend this examina- tion, and he may grant permission to those who for sufficient reason might wish to be present. Doctoral Examination for Law- rence Bruce Scott, Chemistry; thesis: "Studies of Some Aspects of the Diels-Alder Reaction," Monday, May 15, 309 Chemistry, at 3:30 p.m. Chair- man, W. E. Bachmann. By action of the Executive Board the Chairman may invite members of the faculties and advanced doc- toral candidates to attend this exam- ination, and he may grant permission to those who for sufficient reason might wish to be present. Zoology Club Meeting: 'T'here will be a meeting of the Zoology Club on Thursday, May 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the- Rackham Amphitheatre. Miss Grace Orton will speak on "Systematic and phylogenetic significance of certain larval characters in the Amphibia Salientia." Exhibitions College of Architecture and Design: Sketches and water color paintings made in England by Sgt. Grover D. Cole, instructor on leave in the Col- lege of Architecture and Design. fI_^I. o c A,.rh- (.,,+ii. tre box office, which is open from 10-1 and 2-5. Michigan Sailing Club: There will be a meeting at 1 p.m. in the Union. 'Coming Events The Graduate Outing Club will meet Sunday at 2:30, p.m. for a hike at the club quarters, northwest cor- ner of the Rackham Building. All graduate and professional students and alumni are cordially invited to attend. The English Journal Club will meet Tuesday evening, May 16, at 8 o'clock, in the West Conference Room of the Rackham Building. Mr. David Stev- enson will read a paper on "The Aes- thetic and the Ethical Approach .in the Evaluation of the Novel." Re- freshments and discussion will fol- low the reading of the paper. Mem- bers of the faculty, graduate stu- dents, and interested undergraduates are invited to attend. Chiuches First Congregational Church, State and William Sts., Minister, Rev. Leonard A. Parr. Director of Student work, Rev. H. L. Pickerill. Church School departments meet at 9:15 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Service of public wor- ship at 10:45 a.m. Dr. Parr will preach on the subject "Makers of Atmosphere and Environment." At 5 the Congregational-Disciples Guild will meet in the assembly room for supper and program of worship fol- lowed by the election of officers. First Church of Christ, Scientist, 409 S. Division Street. Wednesday evening service at 8 p.m. Sunday morning service at 10:30 a.m. Sub- ject: "Mortals and Immortals." Sun- day School at 11:45 a.m. A conven- ient Reading Room is maintained by this church at 106 E. Washington Street where the Bible, also the Christian Science Textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scrip- tures" and other writings by Mary Baker Eddy may be read, borrowed or purchased. Open daily except Sundays and -holidays from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays. until 9 p.m. Memorial Christian Church (Dis- ciples): 11 Morning Worship. The Rev. Parker Rossman, Chicago, guest minister. Sermon topic: "God's Con- voys." 5 p.m., Guild Sunday Eve- BARNABY By Crockett Johnson Ii's taking that Salamander a Ilana time to co to the kitchen 1 What were you doing up there? Tho Wran-- nnf-nn fhn lnr T-1 I I '* ' N- r f, - I Doctor, can you come right away? John's delirious! He I I 1 1