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DEMAND INVESTfGATION NOW:
UA W Charges Ford E mploy evi ii.
Provoking Strikes in RougePiaat

Ed iRater
Be.Righ

I GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Liclry

It is a serious charge at any time to say-"You
provoked a strike"-whether referring to man-
agement or labor, because strikes stop the pro-
duction of goods on which consumers depend.
But in vartime, the charge of "provocation"
is equivalent to treason if a strike will hurt our'
fight against fascism more than it will increase
production by settling grievances,
The UAW, largest labor union in the United
States. and comxnitted to the no-strike pledge
along with all other C00 unions, Sunday made
public this charge:
That a Ford Mortor Company labor rela-
tions man followed a poicy of provoking
strikes by refusing union demands in depart-
ments which are up to ther production sched-
ules. The employe: W. G. Austin, of the labor
relations deepartment. The proof: a, torn note
written during a union-management confer-
ence on problems in the River Rouge alum-
imum fouandry, which stated:.
"Prod in shape to Pull
"a Strike
"Force the Issue
"if not Mlold till"
Austin admitted writing such a note before
the umpire in Ford disputes, Harry Shulman,

but when the union asked him to explain the
note, Ford attorneys told him not to.
We cannot afford, at this time especially, to
get o#T on tangents. We are fighting the kind
of war which requires the complete coopera-
tioni of all who take. part in production; and
we cannot, therefore, spend time uncovering
abuses which do not directly relate to the big
fight to defeat Hitler and HIirohito.
But this charge by the UAW-and this atti-
tude in a man hired to handle labor relations-
is the type of thing which leads to action de-
finitely hindering war production and it cannot
be kept in the background in the interest of
"unity." Its very nature is disunifying.
The UAW sent this material to the Depart-
ment of Justice, alorig with other examples
of the same type of attitude in the Ford Motor
Company, and requested that the Attorney
General investigate the matter. The news-
paper PMa Sunday repeated this request. It
is proper that all people interested in speedy
victory urge Attorney General Biddle to take
action immediately.
A deliberate attempt such as this on the part
of management to provoke a strike in wartime
is treason. If upon investigation the charge is
proved true, punishment should be meted out
as for any other fifth column activity.
-Kathie Sharfman

NEW YORK, March 14.-I am not
opposed to states' rights. I adore
states' rights. But the only justifica-
tion for states' rights is that they
add to the sum total of American
freedom and happiness. When they
turn out to have the contrary effect,
they will be doomed.
A great huge hole was punched
through states' rights in 1933. But
it was not Mr. Roosevelt who did
it. It was the failure of states'
rights to stop foreclosures and to
feed the unemployed that did it.
States' rights promptly went into
an eclipse, from which they have
not yet recovered.
Some of our conservative politi-
cians are much too gleeful over their
discovery that states' rights may be
used to prevent widespread balloting
by soldiers in the next presidential
election. They are shouting: "Look
what we found!" It is obvious, from
their admiration for their discovery,
that they regard states' rights as at
least as high as the Rocky Moun-1
tains, and quite as solid.
But states' rights exist to serve
men, men do not exist to serve
states' rights. States' rights may,
in this year, be used to kill off a
soznd federal soldier vote bill;
states' rights may defeat the de-
sires of ten million servicemen for
the vote. But it is doubtful whe-
.ther states' rights can afford such
a victory, or long survive it.
There is nothing in the law
that says states' rights have to be
either liberal or conservative. But it
is the ultra-conservative side which
has taken states' rights over, adopted

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always seem

wliy you lhave so much trouble with it, Otis! You
to know all about our finances when I want a new
hat or something!"

The WASHINGTON
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states' rights, put states' rights on its
payroll, made states' rights a member
of its family.
.'TATES' rights, lately, seem to hob-
"" nob exclusively with Ham Fish
and Bertie McCormick; they never
seem to be found in the company of
a laboring man, or in a foxhole with
a soldier.
It is only recently that states'
rights became a member of the
Republican Party. Only a few dec-
ages have passed since the same
Republican Party, which now de-

NIGHT EDITOR: STAN WALLACE
Editorials published in Th Michigan. Daily
are written by members of The Daily staff
and represent the views of the writers only.
REEVES PLAN:
Federal Aid Is Needed
In Pocst xW r Eduction
R. FLOYD W. REEVES, luniversity of Chicago
professor now conducting curricula studies
at Michigan State College, recently called for
Federal and State financial support fpr greatly
expanded post-war educational programs.
Reeves, former chairman of President Roose-
velt's commnittee on Pst-War Readustment
of Civilian and Military Personnel, pointed out
tdat 30,000,000 persons will be demubihized
from the armed services and nmunitions pro-
duction after the war.
He listed vocational rehabilitation for dis-
abled men and women as of primary import-
ance. All youths must 'have access to good
schools and colleges, he asserted. He added
that rural school districts should be combined
into larger districts with government financial
assistance, to assure the opportunity of educa-
tion for everyone.'
Dr. Reeves' request is not a new one. When
Justice Black was a United States senator, he
attempted to get federal aid to states in financ-
ing education, but to no avail.
This year Senator Thomas of Utah took up
Black's fight and introduced a bill calling for
an appropriation of $300,000,000 to assist states
in financing their systems of public education.
EFORE the war, education was an important
problem in America. At present we are ap-
proaching a crisis in the American schooiroom.
Not only do we have to think of the future of
tho.4e in the classrooms today, but also we must
consider the return of thousands of serviemen
who will want to continue their educations
where they were forced to leave it.
During the war, the need for federal and
state financial aid has become even more
acute than it was before. At present there is
a shortage of appoimtely 75,000 teachers
thronghout the country.
The average annual salary of rural teachers
is $900, compared to $1,900 for government em-
ployees and $2,000 for industrial emply.ees.
Many of the states, because of their financial
embarrassments, cannot do anything to remedy
this condition without federal aid.
Sen. Thomas' bill was killed by an amend-
ment introduced by senators against federal
aid, hiding behind the cloak of protecting the
Negro. The amendment provided that the funds
be equally divided among the races. This killed
the vote of the Southern Democrats.
Those "states' rights" boys in Congress,
afraid that the federal government will obtain
too much power, have continually blocked
bills that would be the only remedy for the
present crisis in nationwide education.
Only with federal aid to education can wpe
guarantee a general and vocational education
for well arnd disabled veterans and war workers
who wish to continue their education. Federal,
aid will also guarantee improved high schools,
college programs and consequently greater op-
poi'tunity for educational counselling.
-Aggie Miller
It is related in Prague that a great scientific

Glares that states' rights forbid
federal assistance ij soldier vot-
ing, was passing notorious "force
acts," to station troops at polling
places throughout man y American
states, in effective federal control
of national elections.
States' rights cannot endure as an
exclusively ultra-conservative prop-
erty. They must occasionally give
somebody a drink of water or a crust
of bread, or a vote, if only for the
look of things.. Or someday a bright
child may say: "States' rights are
naked !" and a nation may laugh.

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WASHINGTON, March 14.-Among the un-
happiest, most disillusioned men in the country
today are the thousands of civilian pilot in-
structors who have built up the great army of
U, S. pilots, have seen thousands of their students
commissioned, and who are now discharged with-
out any military standing whatever. Having
passed up the opportunity for commissions for
themselves, these nen are now eligible to be
drafted as privates in the walking Army.
They are responsible for the success of the
training program of CAA-WTS (Civil Aeronau-
tics Administration War Training Service). Or-
iginally they numbered 14,900 instructors. At
first, they worked without pay, in a forty-weeks
training program, until CAA fought to get them
Army pay of $0 a month.
At the turn of the year, when they had been
scaled down to about 5,000 instructors, the
whole program was abandoned by order of the
War Department. This meant that the men
were thrown back to draft status.
Later, the Army said they could apply for com-
missions in the Air Transport Command-if they
could qualify. This was like saying, "You can
join the Four Hundred, but you live on the
wrong side of the street."
Actially, the Transport Command already has
pilots sitting around for as long as five weeks
STHE Republicans could only make Governor
Thomas E. Dewey keep his mouth shut, he
might marage to get elected President.
Mrs. Dewey's boy Tom has now come forth
with another one of those cryptic pronounce-
ments which so well distinguish him as a
Repblican presidential candidate.
Let us have simplicity, says Dewey. The good
governor forwards a plan, which, by the way is
not made public, in which he attacks the ad-
ministration's plan as being "a blank piece of
paper called a 'soldier's ballot.'"
Thomas then goes on to tell what his own
plan is NOT. "This plan," he explains, "seeks
NO political advantage by any of the tricks or
inventions inyqlved in other proposed blank
ballots, limited ballots, write-in ballots, party
designation ballots an other well so-called
bobtail' ballots." Dewey shouldn't talk about
other people's blank ballots. That's about the
blaekst little old ballot we ever heard of.
The governor blandly ignores the vital fact
that the administration's ballot plan offers one
tling that nobody else has apparently offered
yet. IT OFFERS THEM A CHANCE TO VOTE.
Dewey is also concerned with the constitu-
. tionality of the administration's plan and is
greatly worried about "states' rights" as all
good Republicans should be. Senator Robert

at a time without getting into the air. There's
not a chance that the discharged instructors will
be taken on by ATC.
The feminine angle makes it worse. These in-
structors see the women pilots (Wasps) getting
more flying opportunity than men. Explanation
is that Wasp Chief Jacqueline Cochran uses her
inside track in favor of her feminine flyers.
Meanwhile, the Army has so many pilots
that it is making instructors out of men train-
ed as combat pilots-in the face of a surplus of
instructors. Apparently the Air Forces have
more combat pilots than they can use, even in
this global air war.
The civilian instructors-with far more flying
time than their students-feel that they should
have been allowed to apply for commissions. As
it is, however, they are thrown out of work, to
start their military service all over again--on
the ground.
Don ghton ( -om ilulie .,e{:..
Staunch war horse "Muley Bob" Doughton,
chairman of the House Ways and Means Com-
mittee, likes to consider his committee the most
leak-proof on Capitol Hill. When a newsman
invades the sanctity of one of Doughton's closed-
door meetings on tax legislation by daring to
report anything that happens, the reporter is
usually flayed at the next closed-door session
and an inquisition is undertaken to determine
what member leaked.
There was great consternation, therefore,
when the Washington Merry-Go-Round col-
umn recently gave an account of two closed
Ways and Means sessions in which Doughton
and conservative colleagues lambasted the
President for vetoing the tax bill. What furth-
er aroused Muley Bob's ire was that he was
unable to find out who leaked the story.
"The story had to come from a member who
was present," declared one perplexed committee-
man. "Some of the statements made were so
accurate that Drew Pearson might have been
present taking notes."
"Maybe there's a dictaphone buried around
here some place," ventured another facetiously.
"No," argued a third. "There were one or
two statements in the Pearson story which were
not made in exactly the way he put them. He
could not very well have got his dope from a
dictaphone."
Note: This column will award to the first
member of the Ways and Means Committee who
finds the hidden dictaphone, or otherwise solves
the mystery, the Brass Ring entitling him to
one free ride on the Washington Merry-Go-
Round.
(Copyright, 1944, United Features Syndicate)
F. Wagner, also of New York, has pointed out
that any Congress which has the right to take
a man out of his home, put him in the Army,
and send him overseas certainly has the right
to give him a vote.
But no, says the governor, let the states do
it efficiently and simply. Dewey claims "voting
of every New York member of the armed forces
who wishes to vote" be assured and "made sim-
pler" for a soldier in Kwajalein or Italy. If the
fact that New York State servicemen had to
have an application in for a ballot by September
of the last election is an example of Governor
Dewey's efficiency and simplicity, we'll take
vanilla.

DAILY OFFICIAL

BULLETIN



* WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1944
VOL. LIV No. 93
All notices for the Daity Official Bul -
letiii are to be sent to the Office of the
l'residctii; ini typewritten form by 3:30
ph.7i. rif ti~f (hcly pirececinig its ptulilca-
tiiti, iz~c tton tti ia crciy when the 110-
( Life4 shoiud he smlilfnit led hy 11 ::0 a.m.
No ties
May Festival Concerts: The Fifty-
first Annual May Festival, consisting
of six .oncerts, will be held Thurs-
day,Friday, Saturday apd Sunday,
May 4, 5, 6 and 7. The participants
will include the Philadelphia Orches-
tra at all concerts and the following
soloists:
Salvatore Baccaloni -. Thursday
night; Kerstin Thorborg and Charles
Kullman-Friday night; Pierre Lu-
boshutz and Genia Nemenoff-Satur-
day afternoon; Bidu Sayao-Satur-
day night; Nathan Milstein and Gre-
gor Piatigorsky--Sunday afternoon;
Rose Bampton, Kerstin Thorborg,
Thelma von Eisenhauser, Charles
Kullman and Lansing Hatfield--
Saturday night.
Conductors: Eugene Ormandy,
Saul Caston, Hardin Van Deursen,
Harl McDonald and Marguerite
Hood,
Principal works will include Mah-
ler's song symphony, "Das Lied von
der Erde;" Brahms' No. 4; Beetho-
ven's No. 7; Mozart's No. 35; Tschai-
kowsky's No. 6; Brahms' Concerto
for Violin and Violoncello; McDon-
ald's Concerto for Two Pianos; Songs
of the Two Americas, arranged by
Eric DeLamarter for Youth Chorus,
and Mendelssohn's "Elijah."
The counter sale of season tickets
will begin Friday morning, March
17. Orders received prior to that time
will be filed and filled in sequence in
advance of the counter sale.
Detroit Armenian Club Scholar-
ship: Undergraduate students of
Armenian parentage residing in the
Detroit area who have earned 30
hours of college credit are eligible to
apply for the $100 scholarship offered
for 1944-45 by the Detroit Armenian
Women's Club. Applications must be
made by May 15. For further details,
inquireof Dr. F. E. Robbins, 1021
Angell Hall.
To all male students in the College
of Literature, Science, and the Arts:
By action of the Board of Regents, all
'male students in residence in this
College must elect Physical Educa-
tion for Men. This action has been
effective since June, 1943, and will
continue for the duration of the war.

Students may be excused from tak-
ing the course by (1) The University
Health Sepvice, (2) The Dean of the
College or by his representative, (3)
The Director of Physical Education
and Athletics.
Petitions for exemption by stu-
dents in this College should be ad-
dressed by freshmen to Professor
Arthur Van Duren, Chairman of the
Academic Counselors (108 Mason
Hall); by all other students to Assis-
tant Dean E. A. Walter (1220 Angell
Hall).
Except under very extraordinary
circumstances no petitions will be
consiQ.red after the end of the third
week of the Spring Term.
"Victory Gardens": Employes of
the University who desire garden
plots this year at the Botanical Gar-
den should notify Mr. Roszel before
the end of March.
Each plot will be assigned with the
understanding that an endeavor will
be made by the assignee to use it to
full capacity for the raising of vege-
tables, that it will be kept neat and
clean and free from weeks, and that
no refuse will be allowed to accumu-
late.
The plots will be twenty-five by
fifty feet. As there may be a few
'extra plots, two may be requested if
it is thought that one will not suffice
and that two would be fully utilized.
No tools will be furnished by the
University., Water may be used if
carried in containers or run thro.ugh
a garden hose held in the hand;
under no circumstances shall a hose
be left running unattended. Particu-
lar care must be taken that no prop-
erty of the Botanical Garden be
molested. Dogs are not allowed in
the Gardens.
A contribution of one dollar per
person (or group using a single plot)
is requested, to provide for plough-
ing.
As a measure of seed economy, it is
suggested that each gardener pur-
chase just enoutgh seed for his own
use and that, if he has any left, he
share or trade with his neighbor.
Dr. Felix Gustfason of the Botany
Department will be available for con-
sultation regarding problems en-
countered in the development of
these gardens.
When the plots are ready for use
the fact will be announced in this
bulletin.
In order to plan better the gardens
for next year, it is desirable that
some information concerning the
success. of last year's gardens be
obtained. Westherefore ask those
who had gardens here to supply us
with the following information:
What plants did you grow?
How many feet of row did you use
for each kind?
Did you buy any plants or did you
grow them all from seeds?
What was the approximate date
when for practical purposes your
garden ceased to yield?
What suggestions do you have for
imfTrAvjf the g arden nroiect fAr the

paper posted in the Undergraduate
Office in the League Tuesday and
Wednesday.
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University Lecture: Dr. Edwin J.
Cohn, Professor of Biological Chem-
istry, Harvard University, will lec-
ture on the subject, "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.
Oratorical Association Lecture
Course: Pierre Clemenceau, grandson
of France's premier in World War I,
will speak in Hill Auditorium tomor-
row night at 8:30. His subject wilt
be "France-Today and Tomorrow."
The box office will be open from
10 to 1 and from 2 to 5.
Dr. George Shepard, adviserto the
New Life Movement of China, will
speak 'upon "Chiang Kai - Shek,
Statesman," at the Rackham Lec-
ture Hall, Wednesday, March 22 at
4:15 p.m. under auspices of the Com-
mittee on Religious Education and
Companies A and D of the armed
forces. Open to the public.
French Lecture: Dr. Jan F. Hostie,
lecturer, the Regional Study Pro-
gram, will give the fifth of the
French lectures sponsored by the
Cercle Francais, Thursday, March 16,
at 4:10 p.m. in Rm. D, Alumni Mem-
origl Hall. The title of the lecture is:
"La Belgique et l'Europe Nouvelle."
Due to conflicts with newly an-
nounced Oratorical Association lec-
tures, Mr. Hostie's lecture as well as
the last two French lectures in 'the
series will take place at 4:10 p.m. in
Rm. D, Alumni Memorial Hall, but at
the same dates' as previously an-
nounced. Admission by ticket.. Ser-
vicemen free.
The Michigan Alumnae Club is in-
vited to attend the lecture to be
given by Madame Betty Barzin, who
will speak under the auspices of the
Business and Professional Women's
Club. Her subject is "America
through Belgian Eyes." There will
be one appearance only-in the Kel-
logg Auditorium this evening at 8:15.
Open to the public.
A cadeinic Notices
Seniors and Graduate Students:
The graduate record examination
will be given the evenings of ftprl 3
and 4 beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the
lecture hall of the Racklhan Grad-
utate School. Seniors and graduate
students who will take these exami-
nations should report for reaistration


BARNABY

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the silver-tongued obstructionist,
isn't the irrational creature he
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I ran into the little fellow in
the Congressional washroon.
Wishing to be friendly, I asked

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