PAGE TWO T HE M IC HIG AN D AILY T'uE snA, MY 30, 194 t Fifytyourth Yea r 4 f '. t . i; . Associate sports Editor . . . eWomen's Editor . . Associate Women's Editor n .Associate Wom.en's Editor Business Staff nter . . . . Business Manager . . Associate Business Manager ,. /,~ , :. .x' .t .d v'2 / '.: d :' . . A1. 1 }q_ a t /7 a =; ([y44 Telephone 23-2441 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 re- publication of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Fast Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as aecond-class mail matter. Subscriptions during the regular school year by car- rier, $4.25, by mal, $5.25. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1943-44 NIGHT EDITOR: AGGIE MILLER Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. y s.. , '' , v f s " £ .r - s J ; aft, f , t . . P1 f { ', :4 c< Ply k t Y s f . ET f - " a .... ! ! Y b . ,. .. ,, ,, ;. . ; .: .. _ :> i:. , r , A ffff J' J . ! ,i..' d. ,°' L: tv N . . - S 1.; , NEW YORK, May 29.-It is hard to remember now, and almost impos- sible to believe, but if you think back, you will recall how reluctant Mr. Roosevelt once seemed to meet Mar- shal Stalin. He was remarkably kittenish on this issue, over a long period. Most of America's intellectuals were in a snit over our alleged anti-Soviet poli- cy, before Mr. Roosevelt would con- sent to pack his grip and go to Teh- eran. The New York Times, which has no great love for Russia, thundered for weeks that it was time for the heads of the three great powers to sit down together, and Mr. Roosevelt sat alone and listened to the thunder. He sent Mr. Hull on first to the, ex- ploratory sessions in Moscow. While this pleased everybody, it led to furth- er uproar, to the tune that while it was all very well for the foreign ministers to meet, it was still neces- sary to have a meeting of the minds among the heads of the three great states. Finally, with exquisite grace, Mr. Roosevelt consented to do what he wanted to do. ie bowed to major- ity opinion, which also happened to be his own opinion, and flew to' Iran. By the time he went to Teh- eran, the country was hungry for Teheran; and the final Teheran announcements led to something like a national celebration. This is the Roosevelt method; it{ might be called slick, but it might also be called democratic. He is us- ing the same method on the question of forming a world organization. It is being said that he is against a world organization. (It used to be said that he, and his State Depart- ment, were anti-Russian.) Mr. Roose- velt is not against a world organi- zation, but he refuses to be all alone in standing for it. IF THE COUNTRY wants a world organization, why, then, the coun- try had better holler for it. The noise will not disturb Mr. Roosevelt; he will rejoice in it. I think he would be disappointed if the shouts and pro- tests did not arise. I think he loves having newspapers tell him how important a world or- ganization is, while he sits there, pretending to be a rather backward scholar, having difficulty with his lessons. The more advanced sections of WASHINGTON, May 29.-A sur- prising case in which the State De-f partment threw its official weight in favor of one of the biggest liquor companies in the country-Schenley -in contrast to smaller companies, has been under investigation by bloodhound Congressman Eddie He- bert of Louisiana. Schenley was fa- vored by the State Department, and yet, on May 2, it was indicted by the Justice Department on a charge of black-marketing. Congressman Hebert, who track- ed down some of the Brewster air- plane scandals, has discovered that Schenley unloaded a cargo of Mar- tinique rmn in New Orleans on April 24, despite the fact that the War Production Board had barred all further importations of rum until quotas were fixed. The WPB order was issued March 10, effective March 15, thus giving the rum trade plenty of warning. Mo- tive behind the banning of rum ship- ments was the fact that rum was pouring into the U.S.A. from the West Indies instead of molasses and press and public tell him that the world needs a new League of Nations, and he is curiously dense; he just doesn't seem to be able to get it. Even his Republican opponents are beginning to take up the cry for a world organization; they are pictur- ing him bitterly as just a rough, tough old power politician. When a liberal of Mr. Roosevelt's calibre sets the opposition to denouncing him for not being liberal enough, then, duckies, you may know that you are witnessing an extraordinary show of political skill. Mr. Roosevelt wants a world or- ganization, but the country is going to have to want it, too, before he will lift a finger for it. Meanwhile, he has a four-aliance to fall back uipon, to keep the peace. He refuses to step out as a new Wilson, and to invite the half-bricks, in an abstract argument over an idealistic formulation. He likes it better when he has a Mr. Woodrow Dewey attacking him, as a kind of Warren Gamaliel Roosevelt, for be- ing against a League. This isn't 1920. A far abler man is running the show. (Copyright, 1944, N.Y. Post Syndicate) industrial alcohol,, both vitally need- ed for the war. Hebert charges that Schenley on April 4 loaded, up the vessel Duc d'Aumale at Martinique with 104,289 gallons of rum. The ship sailed for New Orleans on April 6. When it arrived in New Orleans on April 24, the WPB embargo against rum im- portations was still in effect. No quo- tas had yet been announced by WPB for further importations. Therefore, WPB started to enforce its order and ban Schenley's 104,289 gallons of rum. The WPB order also provides for a fine and imprisonment for violations. State Iepcrttment Steps In However, the State Department in- tervened and overruled the War Pro- duction Board. Schenley was per- mitted to deliver its highly profitable and intoxicating windfall. Meanwhile, smaller companies were not able to import from Martinique or other Caribbean areas, One small company in Chicago had a carload of Mexican rum arrive at Laredo, Tex., in late March, and still has not been able to move the car', meanwhile pay- ing a small fortune in daily demur- rage charges. Congressman Hebert also charges that several small Louisiana firms had rum purchased and ready for import in mid-March in contrast to Schenley's illegal April delivery. While the State Department is entrusted with ruling on foreign policy, U.S. policy is definitely against the State Department's fa- voring one American company as against another abroad. Congress- man Hebert, therefore, has asked the State Departmenat why it dis- criminated in favor of the giant Schenley firm, which has been in- dicted by the U.S: Government, yet kept smaller companies on the wait- ing list. Park and Tilford, learning about the windfall given Schenley, pro- tested vigorously, and on May 3 was able to import 219,000 gallons of rum. By this time, however, quotas had been fixed, so the importation was not illegal. On May 11, Schenley brought in another 360,000 gallons despite the fact that the WPB order states that a violator may be pro- hibited from making further deliv- eries. (Copyright, 1944, United Features Synd.) . i {7. .C '5. . . The Wringer Takes Hl Civilians Needed for Blood Baik A HUGE FORCE, numbering perhaps 3,000,000 men, is training in England waiting for D- Day's H-Hour for the jump across the channel ard the plunge into France against perhaps an equally large force of Nazi soldiers who are de- termined that our landing be made with such overwhelming human sacrifice that we will be willing to settle for a compromise peace. We have been warned time after time by our war leaders that the cost of final victory will be heavy, that our greatest casualties are yet to come. We on the home front must do more than ring bells, blow whistles and pray when D-Day comes. We must give our blood so that those who lose theirs across the ocean will be able to get back into the fight. Civilians specifically requested that they have a blood bank of their own. Consequently, a quota of 300 was set this month-the largest to date--for the civilians to fill. Yet, of the 220 registrants to date more than two-thirds are from the Army and RONAG. Michigan men can register and make their appointments at Union student offices Wednes- day. A pint given. won't hurt you a bit and can help some soldier or sailor a lot. -Arthur Kraft GOP Dilemma MERICAN conservatives are confused today and know it. That is one of the most heart- ening bits of news for liberals since the passing of Wendell Wilikie from the national scene. Conservatives and even those with fairly re- actionary tendencies among the upper middle class and employer groups find that when their blasts against the Administration, the New deal and FDR are spent, they have nothing constructive to offer to a war-time nation, Six months ago they shouted louder than they are today because they had two targets, the second, being Wilikie. And they were success- ful in eliminating him. But conservatives who think-and there are a number who realize that isolation is dead, that the war must be decisively won, and that the house must be set in order at home-can find no personality in the current field on whom to hang their hopes. It is here that they are lost, because they will never be reconciled with the present government in Washington. There is little hope of any reconciliation with the party in power, and they will continue to support the traditional candidates of the Republican party for Congress as they have all their lives. But the presidency is another story. Here their train of thought follows curious logic that is interesting to examine. Before going on, it is necessary to define the group whom we are discussing. This body of American voters are not the readers of the Paterson-McCormick press. nor are they the middle of the road Democrats who wish to purge their party of New Dealers. They are the traditional businessmen's group which has been the bulwark of the Republican party in recent decades. This is the group that is split between supporting Dewey ardently and those who are nioso sure where they stand. FIRST of all, these middle of the roaders hate President Roosevelt with passion. In our foreign policy they do not trust England or Russia because, thinking constantly in business terms, they believe-as, strangely enough, do many liberals-that the world is out to put it over on Uncle Sam. Here comes the interesting turn in logic. They believe that Roosevelt is a char- latan of the same class as Churchill and Stalin, and that only FDR is capable of putting over anything on the leaders of our allies. They be- lieve that if they elected Tom Dewey that they would be throwing him to the wolves and that he Labor's Fate NE OF the most extraordinary appeals in labor's history was made by R. J. Thomas, international president of the UAW-CIO, when he called upon the Chrysler plant local to obey their constitution and the no-strike pledge by returning to work immediately. Earlier he had threatened some members of the local with expulsion unless the international and the War Labor Board orders were obeyed. Although the 500 members voted to return to work, there has not yet been any settlement of the schism between the rank and file members and the international leaders. Thomas warns that "public opinion has be- come inflammed against our union and fiord of these strikes is going to millions of men in uniform . . . we must cease all wildcat strikes or we will face an attack such as no union can withstand." Yet in the face of the increasing sentiment in the country, the local president, William Jenkins, is opposing renewal of the no-strike pledge and demands that it be re- voked at the UAW convention next fall,: This pledge was made at the beginning of the war and the records show that no strike has been authorized by the officials of the unions which signed the pledge. The men who defied that and set up picket lines to prevent thou- sands of workers from producing military trucks, guns and airplane parts are aptly termed by Thomas, "as acting like anarchists, not like dis- ciplined union men ." The survival of this union and others is indeed problematical if the general civilian and military opinion of them at the present time is permitted to continue because of violations by the rank and file union members. -Dorothy Potts they do not admire limx foir his pre-convention tactics. WilI the conservative forces in America vote for Roosevelt? It is hard to say. Regional pri- manes do not indicate their vote. The chain of recent New Deal victories represents the vote of Labor which is being marshalled against its foes. But the conservative is a straight Repub- lican party man who exercises his prerogative to vote impartially as a citizen only in the presidential election. If this has not been true in the past, indications are very strong that it will be so this year. -Aggie Miller GOP's Bricker GOV. JOHN BRICKER, the only active and vociferous Republican presidential candidate, spoke entirely in character at the governor's parley when he stated his opposition to any permanent alliances of the United States with foreign nations. Ohio's governor can at least claim the virtue of consistency. Described by a friendly Luce publication as a "nationalist" but not an "iso- lationist," one of his first statements was: "Our foreign policy should be based on the absolute necessity for the preservation of our identity as a nation and on our traditional freedom of ac- tion at all times." Three months later in December, Bricker mod- ified his position very slightly in recognition of growing public awareness of the need for a post- war structure of nations. His policy was, he de- clared, "live and let live, live and help live"-a typical catchy phrase indicative of his underlying horror of any binding commitments. Going a step farther, Bricker three months later expressed his favor of "cooperation" along economic and military lines, but took care to reiterate his opposition to a post-war military alliance with Great Britain or any other nation. His persistent concern has been with the pres- ervation of American sovereignty and with an implied fear that Great Britain and Russia stand ready to snatch from our hands this precious but nebulous attribute of our nationality. A typical expression of this concern is the statement that "We are a proud people. We need apologize to no nation on earth for our determination to preserve American liberty and individual op- portunity against any odds . ." Again he states that "we will defy any power that attempts to take from us any part of our heritage or weaken our position of leadership." House leader McCormack's description of Bricker as a "consistent isolationist" is probably more accurate than the flattering light radiated on the Republican candidate by the Luce publi- cation. When a politician speaks of an unde- fined "cooperation" in one breath and "national sovereignty" in another, we immedately become suspicious. OVEREIGNTY is moreover a difficult term to define. To Bricker and others of his ilk it un- doubtedly means United States control and lead- ership and, pursuit of selfish national interests in the post-war period.. Bricker's reiterated terror of foreign interference in American. affairs is groundless, of course, but serves as a convenient blind for something almost approaching jingoism. In his statements on domestic affairs Bricker reveals his position even more clearly. His issues, based on traditional opposition party lines, are readymade: state's rights, economy in govern- ment, war on bureaucracy. The supposed threat of bureaucracy is real and terrifying to Bricker. According to his biased interpretation, our economic system has been "in chains" for a decade. His self-imposed mission DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1944 VOL. LIV No. 148 All notices for The Daily Official Bul- letin are to be sent to the Office of the P'resident in typewritten form by 3:30 p.mn. of the dlay preceding its publica- tion, except on Saturday when the no- tices should be submitted by 11:30 a.m. Notices Notice to Men Students: All men students living in approved rooming houses who expect to move from their present quarters at the end of this term must give notice of intention to move in writing to the Office of the Dean of Students on or before noon, June 3. Students terminating con- tracts must vacatetheir rooms be- is to rescue the nation from the tentacles oi a "New Deal strangle- hold". In February, Bricker avowed that he would fight the Roosevelt poli- cies down the line on domestic is- sues-subsidies, taxes, financing, la- bor, national service and the serv- ice vote. The whole falls into a by- now familiar old pattern of petty criticism and obstructionism. If Bricker's views are to be construed as those of the Republican party, and he is the only candidate yet to have courage to express his posi- tion, we must conclude that the opposition party is still stuck in the ruit of anti-everything-Roosevelt. There is slight hope that Tom Dew- ey will have either the inclination or the ability to climb over the walls of the GOP rut, and as convention time approaches there is even less hope for a revival among the rank and file of party members. Earlier election year predictions that "the old elephant is on the march" are proving to be premature and baseless. At any rate the march seems to have slowed down to a leisurely crawl.. -Jennie Fitch fore 6 p.m., June 24 and rent shall be computed to include this date. Students may obtain forms for term- inating contracts at Rm. 2, Univer- sity Hall. Assistant Dean of Students C. T. Olmsted All students - Registration for summer term and summer session: Each student should plan to register for himself according to the alpha- betical schedules for June 29 and 30. Registrations by proxy will not be accepted. Registration Material: School of Forestry and Conservation. Registra- tion material should be called for beginning June 1 at Room 2048 Na- tural Science Building. Registration Material: Colleges of L. S. & A., Education, Music, Public Health. Students should call for Summer Term and Summer Session registration material at Room 4 Uni- versity Hall beginning June 1. Please see your adviser and secure all neces- sary signatures before exaninations begin. 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Aacademic Notices Doctoral Examination for Gerald Harvey Kissin, Chemistry; thesis: "A Study of the Photovoltaic Effect for Metallic Electrodes in Aqueous and Liquid Ammonia Solutions of Their Ions," Wednesday, May 31, 410 Chemistry, at 10 a.m. Chairman, A. L. Ferguson. By action of the Executive Board the Chairman may invite members of the faculties and advanced doc- toral candidates to attend this ex- amination, and he may grant per- mission to those who for sufficient reason might wish to be present. Doctoral .Examination for Wade Ellis, Mathematics; thesis: "On Re- lations Satisfied by Linear Operators on a Three Dimensional Linear Vec- tor Space," Thursday, June 1, East Council Room, Rackham, at 4 p.m. Chairman, G. H. Rainich. 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. Exhibitions College of Architecture and De- sign: The exhibition of sketches and water color paintings made in Eng- land by Sgt. Grover D. Cole, instruc- tor on leave in the College of Archi- tecture and Design, will be continued until June 1. Ground floor cases, Architecture Building. Open daily except Sunday 9 to 5. The public is cordially invited. Events Today Christian Science Organization: There will be a meeting at 8:15 in the chapel of the League. Students and faculty are cordially invited. Sing Swing: Tuesday night is an- other big time for the USO. Come down and join in the singing and dancing. As an added enticement there is, refreshment--- sandwiches, raire nd nt cff c BARNABY By Crockett Johnson aer ; If TL~.. ° I C yryl1944 fi,4t P..Ltio,,.