F F T~ iiAi ~iL .4 rb l i kJ 1 .111.- ,i.\ 1,111 " v' K J..{. L'~1T Fifty-Fourth Year. _ -. Edited and managed by students of the University or Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of student Publications. Pufblished levery t rning except Monday during the regular University year, sand 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 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. Subcriptians during the regular school year by car- rier $4.25, by mail $5.25. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1943-44 Editorial Staff Jane Farrant C2laire Sherman stan Wallace Marjorie Borrada Evelyn Phillips HaT rvey Fralnk Bud Low. Jo Ann Peterson Mary Anne Olso Mnrjorle Rosmar Elizabeth Carpe Mrge Batt . . . . . Managing Editor . . Editorial Director . .City Editor se . . AssociateEditor .. .Associate Editor * . . .. Sports Editor * . . Associate Sports Editor . Associate Sports Editor n . . . Women's Editor in . . Associate Women's Editor BusineSs Staff ater . Business.1anager . . Ass't Business Manager Telephone 23-24-1 Be Right By SAMUEL GRAFTON NEW YORK, March 10.--The new scheme to give veterans of this wair bonuses ranging from $3,500 to $4,500 seems to me the worst kind of bad economic housekeeping. And the proposal, favored by the President, to give ex-servicemen special ratings in competitive civil service ex- aminations also seems to me a curiously shbby approach to the problem of demobilization. We have only one gift in our power worth giving the returning soldier, That is the gift of a secure country. By that, I mean a coun- try in which not only the ex-serviceman is economically secure, but one in which there is also security for his uncles and his cousins and his aunts. Yes, and his sons. Is Great Britain to have a Beveridge Plan, while we have a soldiers' bonus? The homesteads are all given out, the "forty acres and a mule" are gone. But these earlier national gifts to our veterans had a higher than money value. They were gifts of a way of life, gifts of social security, in the form which social security took in simpler days. The sum of $3,500 is no substitute for the gift of security. It is a mere shot in the arm, temporary and inappropriate. Some of the cur- rent schemes for bonuses and other extraordin- ary outlays for veterans call for expenditures of as high as 20 billions of dollars. When the social-security report of the National Resources Planning Board was handed in, more than a year ago, it was pooh-poohed as extravagant on the ground that it might call for outlays of as much as two billions a year. Some of the proposed schemes for veterans' bonuses call for spending enough money to finance social security, includ- ing health care, universal retirement pensions and unemployment insurance, on a broad basis, for the entire nation, for as long as ten years. T HE question is whether the veteran wants $4,500, or whether he wants a country mi which it is safe to live, safe not only for himself, but for his relatives, his children and his friends; a country in which men don't need bonuses to temper their fears for the future. To give the veteran ten additional credit points on every civil service examination is, at best, a shabby substitute for real security. We are looking for the "forty acres and a mule" or their equivalent somewhere on the public payrolls. But what we really need is a sound economy, one in which we hire the best ap- plicant for every public job, but in which no one can starve, or go without work. I am not debating the morality of soldiers' bonuses, for the soldiers are entitled to more than we are ever likely to give them. I call at- tention to their shabbiness and inappropriate- ness. Bonuses beg the questidn. The ex-serv- iceman is not in trouble because he needs $4,500. He is in trouble because he needs security. The answer would seem to be, not the creation of special rights for ex-servicemen, but the cre- ation of decent minimums for everybody. This would seem an especially appropriate answer to follow a total war. It seems to me the veteran will make a bkd bargain if he settles for a hatful of dollars in an insecure country, rather than for a jo in a secure country. Ie fought to make America safe. A safe America would be a precise and appropriate reward for his efforts, far more meaningful than an irrelevant lump-sum pay- ment for time spent in battle. (Copyright, 1944, New York Post Syndlicate) NIGHT EDITOR: VIRGINIA ROCK Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. WE CAN HELP: Clothes Given Now Will Aid Norwegian People W HEN we consider that the best Norwegian clothing stores now only advertise that they "turn" and repair clothes, when we consider that most Norwegian boots now have wooden soles, we cannot help but give generously to the cam- pus drive to collect old clothes and shoes for the Norwegian people. University students in Norway have refused e rtain professors, have gone. on strike, have been arrested, have been deported to Germany . Norwegian sailors played a primary role in the relief of England in the earlier days of the war, Norwegian pilots have shot down 150 German planes. The Norwegian people have continued to fight and defy the Germans- and have suffered accordingly. By giving all we can to this drhve we can help assure these valiant people that one lay their suffering will come to an end. The objection has been raised that the Nazis will take whatever clothing we send to Norway pt the present time. It will be stored in this country or in England until the war is over when it can be rushed to the relief of the Nor- wegian people. -Barbara lHerrinton PEA RSON'S_ MERRY-GO-ROUND WASHINGTON, March 10.-A situation has existed inside the North American Avation plan at Dallas, Texas, which has caused the Army to make a careful inspection. The North American company, in its anxiety to push out planes in a hurry, is reported to have relaxed its standards at the Dallas plant. As a result, there has been a battle between the company and plane inspec- tors, with the latter determined to keep defective planes from reaching the Army. S So far, according to the Army investigators, no defective planes have reached the men flying at the front. However, one chief inspector employed by the North American company resigned in disgust after registering vigorous protests. The inspector is Verne T. Irons of Irving, Texas, who, after ten years' flying experience with TWA and the four-engine pilot-training school at Albequerque,joined the North American plant at Dallas in August, 1942. In December, 1942, he was given the title of superintendent of B flight tests and chief test pilot. Wrong Rivets Used. "On airplane No. 4," Irons stated, "several thousand rivets of the wrong type were used in the main center section of the airplane, through lack of competent inspection. This was not dis- covered until the center section was practically complete. Every time this condition was men- tioned to the top supervisory and management officials, they would immediately inform me to shut l and say nothing. "The company's policy, as fostered by the management, has been 'push them out of the door and deliver regardless of their condition.' For several weeks, I would return to the as- seinbly line a list of the most common defects in an effort to correct this situation. 'Tlhe management always gave me the answer that they were building the planes and it was up to me to fly them." Irons stated that, finally, last December, he was called into a meeting of the factory man- agement. "At this meeting," le continued, "I was abruptly informed that I had failed miserably and that, effective the same date, my position was being filled by a far more capable man but, since I was one of the finest pilots in the coun- try, they requested that I continue on with no cut in salary, which makes me the highest-paid pilot actively flying a B-24 in the Dallas division of North American Aviation." In making his affidavit, Iroiis stated: "his statement is not made for the purpose of satis- fying any grudge or dislike of its management." PLANT LOAFING: BigI3,siness Is Mora A t Iauilt Than Umiois TYPICAL of those people of this country who always attack unions rather than big business is a reader of the Detroit News, who writes in a letter to the Editor: "Why not lookc into the matter of men loafing in the factories? The newspapers are strong enough to do sornething about it. There is much talk about needing 1,000,000 women workers, BUT IF THE MEN NOW IN THE FACTORIES ALb REALLY WORKED, there would be enough workers, and the women could say at home. They have a big job right there, and we need them there, SEE THE UNIONS ABO0UT THIS." Perhaps this reader has never heard about Big Business' pet game called "Hoarding Work- ers." Does the reader know that many men in plants are not permitted to work as long as they want, because if they do the companies' qgota will be filled too soon? And when the quota is filled, the money stops rolling in from the government, and so Big Business loses. Furthermore, many men in war plants, es- pecially in the shipyards on the East Coast are being laid off. Why? Because the plant is filling its quota too quickly. The unions can do nothing. Their job is to protect workers, not to stop them from work- ing. And so, dear reader, stop being prejudiced tot- ward Big Business, and open your eyes. Big Business doesn't want to lose any money you know, it is out to gain more. -Aggie Miller DAILYOFFICIAL 1 BULLETINI (ontinued from Pa ge 2) long tickets arc available. The prices for season tickets, including the Present 10% tax, $880, $7.70 ad $6,.60 will cotinue thrugh the month of Marc. Prices for single concerts are $2.75, $2.20, $1 .i5 and $1.10. On April 1, tile new Federal tax law which increases the tax fr om 10% to 20% will become effective. Thereafter the prices for season tick- ets will be $9.60, $8.40 and $7.20 and for single concerts $3.00, $2.40, $l.80 and $1.20. All orders received prior to March 17 will be riled and filled in sequence in advance and will be mailed ut about April 1, emittances should be made payable to the University Musical Society and mailed to Charles A. sink, President, Burton Memorial Tower. Oratorical Association Lect u rp Course: The revised, schedule for the remaining lectures on the 1943-44 series is as follows: March 16-Pierre Clemenceau, grandson of France's World War I Premier and member of the French National Committee, speaks on "France--Today and To- morrow;" March 23-Burton Holmes, dean of travel lecturers, presents his motion picture lecture, "The Beauti- ful Italy We Knew;" March 27-Max Werner, noted military analyst and author, speaks on "The Reconstruc- tion of Europe." Season ticket coupons originally issued for the Madame Koo lecture will admit to the Clemenceau lecture, and coupons issued for the Lochner lecture will admit to the Werner lec- ture. The Hill Auditorium box office will be open March 15 and 16 for the sale of single admission tickets. University Lecture: Dr. Edwin J. Cohn, Professor of Biological Chem- istry, Harvard University, will lec- ture on theisubject, "The Functions and Properties of the Plasma Pro- teins," under the auspices of the Medical School and the Section on Sanitary and Medical Sciences of the Michigan Academy, on Friday, March 17, at 3:50 p.m. in the Kellogg Audi- torium. The public is cordially in- vited. SDr. John ,1, Mott will speak on "Journeys Among the.Clees of Friend and Foe" at Rackam Hall at 3:00 p.m., Sunday, March 19. This lecture is open to the public. Dr. George Shepherd, adviser of the New Life Movement in China, will speak before Companies A and D and the public on Wednesday, March 22, 1944, at 4:00 p.m. upon "Chiang Kai-Shek: Statesman." Academic Notices Stndeuts, College of Literature, Sciencr ad the A :Elrta ection ards filed aftr tile end of the first week of the semester may be accepted by the Registrar's Office only if they are approved by Assistant Dean Wal- ter. Candidates for the Teacher's Cer- tificate for June, August and October 1944: A list of candidates has been posted 'on the bulletin board of the School of Education, Rm. 1431 U.E.S. Any prospective candidate whose name does not appear on this list should call at the office of the Re- corder of the School of Education, 1437 U.E.S. ScholarshipsColliege of Litera- ture, Science and, the Arts: Students who wish to apply for scholarships in the College of Literature, Science, and the Artfs, should obtain applica- tion blanks in the office of Asst, Dean L. S. Woodburne, 1208 Angell Hall, and return to this office no later than March 21. Bronson-Thornas Annual German Language Award offered juniors and seniors in German. The 'ontest vill be held from 2 to 5 o'clock Fridayr, March 24. The award, in the amount of $38, will be presented to the stu- dent writing the best essay dealing with some phase in the development 1 T ~ ti f y r _ - + r 7 -7 ,,? F ,at , _ bii5 c° YNUL --- a - S, -- ,x/yam -. ,_ ' ""_ Ij Y , re , ,_ " . ::. - " a , ' ' ; ,. ° K ::tea - r " "s f Pu' . . ' 4 t N GR IN AND B E AR IT "I just can't live with a man who's always saying that in twenty years he's made 4 i0,i00 decisions and always been right-my husband is a baseball umpire, you know! ' of German literature from 1750-1900.v Students who wish to compete andv who have not yet handed in their applications should do so inmediate- ly in Rm. 204 University 1-all. I othe - Iilduer Annual German f Language Award offered students in p Courses 31, 32, 35 and 36. The con- p test, a translation test (German- E English and English-German), car- a ries two stipends of $20 and $30 and o will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, March 24. Students who wish to compete and who have not yet hand- edi in their~ applications shouild do so immediately in 204 University Hall. i Applied Mathematics Seminar will meet Monday, March 13, at 4 p.m. in Professor Churchill's office, 319 WestF Engineering.- An hour fors f~tur"et meetings will be chosen then. Mathematics 121, Theory of Prob- ability, will meet Monday at 2 o'clock in 3011 Angell Hall. A. I. Cupeland - ----- } lMs1 Exhibit: Museum of Art and Ar - chaeology, Newberry Hall. The At- thur G. Cummer Memorial Cllectint of Arms. March 5-19. Week days, I 9-5; 7:30-9:30. Sundays,. 3-5. Wesley Foundation: St. Patrick'st Day party tonight at 8:30 o'clock forI all Methodist students arnd service- men and their friends. Roger Williams Guild: Truth or Consequences party tonight at. 8:30 p.m. in the Guild House.s ichigan Youth fo'r eocatc Action: There will be aeM.Y.TDA. execut ive board meeting 2:00 p.., today at the Union (roi numbe will be posted on the union bulletin board). All members of Michigan Youth Af Dencratic Action are in- vited. University of Michigan Section of1 the American Chemical Society: The next meeting will be held March 17, 1944 at 4:00 p.m. in Rm. 151 of the] Chemistry Building. Dr. G. Frederick< Smith of the University of Illinoist will speak on "Solution of roblemss in Small Scale Manufacture of Rea- gent and Process Chemicals." The public is cordially invited. Phi Eta Sigma: Initiation will be held this coming Sunday, March 12,' at the League. The program willp start at 12:30 p.m. with the initiation followed by the tiraditional banquet. During the banquet, election of offi-w cers for the coming year will be held.' The present officers would like to interview all candidates for the posi-' tions. Men interested in holding of- fices are asked to report'at 11:45 a.m.; in the League. T he Women's Research Club will meet Monday, March 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Rackham Building. Speakers' and their subjects will be: Dr. Ollie U. Backus, "Experiments in the Syn- thesis of Clinical Methods into a Pro- gram of Rehabilitation:" Mrs. Lila Pargment, "Th ic Russian Theatre." Faculty Members: A showing of the motion picture film, "Military Training," prepared by the Signal Corps, U.S.A. to illutstratte teaching methods approved in Army mflitary training, has been arranged for mem- bers of the various faculties at 4:15 p.m Wednesday, March 15, in the Rackham amphitheatre, The show- ing is Cinder the auspices of the Deans' Conference, with thxe oper- will be open to the general public without charge. Sgt. Richard lewell, Co,. C, ASTP, will be heard in a recital at 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 14, in the Assembly Hall of the Rackham Building. His program of compositions for the piano will include works of Mozart, Bach, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin and Brahms, in addition to a group of modern pieces. The public is cor- dially invited. Committees for Spanish Play: All members of the committees for bus- ness, publicity and production are equxes ted to meet Monday, March 13, at 7:00 p.m. in Rm. 408 of te Romance Languages Building. Any- one interested in working on the technical aspects of the production s invited to attend this meeting. First Methodist Church and Wesley F'oundation: Student Class at 9:30 a.mn, With Professor K Ienneth HIace, eader. The sbject frdiscussion will be "The Search for a World Com- nunity." This is the third chapter in the book "From Victory to Peace" by Paul Hutchinson. Morning worship service at 10:40 o'clock. Dr. Charles W. Brashares will preach on "On the March." Wesleyan Guild meeting at 5:00 p.m. Members of the Activities Committee of the United Ministry to k esettlers will present a program on ' agawa." Supper° and fellowship -r° :fllowing the meeti-g. F"ilrst CogriIegattiotnl Chu~ch: Mn- ister, Rev. Leonard A. Parr. Diectr, student work, Rev. H. L. Pickerill. Director of music, Wilson Sawyer. Services of public worship at 10:45 a.m. Dr. Parr will speak on the third of the "Parables of Life," the subject being, "The Parable of the Lost Things." At 5:15 the Congregational- Disciples Guild will meet for cost supper. Discussion by students, "My Philosophy of Life." First Presbyterian Church: Morn- ing worship at 10:45 o'clock. Dr. Lemon will preach on "A Man of Vfoods." Westminster Student Guild: Mr. Herbert Twining will speak on "Buil- ding a Christian Home-Bringing Up the Children," at 5 o'clock. There Will be supper and a fellowhip hor following at 6 pm. Al interested students are cordially invited. Memorial Christian Church (Disci- ples): 11:00 a.m., Morning worship. The Rev. J. Leslie French will be guest speaker. 5:00 p.m. Guild Sun- day evening hour. Disciple students will join with Congregational stu- dents at the Congregational Church. The program committee will lead a discussion on "My Philosphiy of Life." A cost supper will be served at 5:15 p.m. The discussion will follow at 5:45 p.m. The program will con- clude in time for servicemen to reach quarters before seven o'clock, University Lutheran Chapel, 1511 Washtenaw: Service Sunday at 11:00, with sermon by the Rev. R. W. Hahn, Director of Student Welfare Work of the Evangelical Lttheran Church '(Mo. Synod). Roger Williams Guild: Sunday night meeting at 5:00. Rev. C. H. Loucks will lead a discussion based on the book "Prayer" by Buttrick. A lunch will be served after the meet- ing. First Church of Christ, Scientist, 409 S. Division St., Wednesday eve- ning service at 8:00. Sunday morn- ing service at 10:30. Subject: "Sub- By Lichlty U.S. FORCES OF REACTION: Propaganda in American Newspapers Today Makes Goebbels Look Like Tinhorn Amateur THIRE are times when Joe Goebbels and his whole organization look like tinhorn amateurs in the propaganda racket as compared to the polished "news trends" dealt out by the majority of large American newspapers. Take the Barkley resignation story, for ex- ample. It should now be evident, as it was point-{ ed out recently on this page, that the Kentucky senator's main purpose in resigning was design- ed to pick up support from the more conservative quarters, both Republican and Democratic alike, who are on the up grade in Kentucky. Yet no sooner does Barkley announce his resignation, than this powerful segment of the *rness, which has been waiting for the oppor- tunity, leaps in, booms Barkley for President, best dressed man on campus and all around good fellow, In the very same edition with the story of his resignation appear Barkley presidential boom predictions, all from the same old "informed quarters" which in Wash- ington these days have about as much authen- ticity as stories by a $wedish traveller just returnmed from Germany have on the inter- national scene. Listen to the urbane, dignified, "fair-play" New York Times' account of the Barkley resig- nation: (This is in the third paragraph of the lead news story.) "The break, coming as it did with Congress in an ugly mood over the message( the President's) set off a general uprising in the Senate and the House which had been smoldering for months, and brought into sharp focus a state of open warfare between the executive and legislative branches." FR O M this tasty bit, the reader rcan only sur- raisethat there is complete lack of accord the generous coverage on Eddie Rickenbacker's latest speech in Thursday's Detroit Times, another of those Hcarst papers. In this speech Rickenbacker charged that there is a "definite trend to belittle and discredit Congress" in order to "build up executive power." Then in his accustomed fashion Captain Eddie called for the election of a President "who be- lieves in states' rights and who will think in terms of America first in order that America will last." Read that again. Does that "America first" have a familiar ring to you? It certainly does. It gives you absolutely free of charge, an indi- cation of where the forces of reaction stand, and how well they are mobilized for this next election.t-Jennie Fitch BARNABY By Crockett Johnson T H E E you are' T h train is abvuf to g o' J;P - I this tab isn't going our way either. SMy Fairy Godifafher Okay, okay. Sit down frst and then telt me about it. I,. 8+ut, Pop- - '. That one is-But it's fyl. . How I a thatmaginary pir.e know .. where we're going,-arnaby? .. . r New . .What- Say! Hw did we ever get rid of, I meanr where is what's-his-name? The Man Who Knew O'Malley?. . He said he was going to Washington- j Mr. Bender? i When we met Mr. O'Malley, my. Fairy Godfather, Mr. Bender ran and jumped over a fence and- Barnaby! - - ~ , Naxt station, JQKNSt/ Mmm.tI bet he will, toos. / r/F- You didn't give himeAunt lI Emma's address. You-don't know it. So-