f: V!AX FOUt TI H V M I C1-1 CA NI h A t l PIM*rTIlftcs* A'wp 4,w-** -W ml- a as .a -I V l a_, JUL a W 1A l l t lJ A 11:. I .a. .. _._ _.... __ .... _. .. "5 ;-! { ' . f . _.. f11YlY ( T f 'Y'1'1 T ' 1 Yl Z T 1 _.. .. .: _ _ ____....__ TII RtSAY, NOV. 25, 1943 I " Fift -Fourh Year "A4*A'ita: rhon4euvside the castle window and the Prince's Fairy Godmother appeared..." Fairy Godmt her, eh? / By Crockett Johnson /1 "Sl--e waved herinagic wand and said,'Your wish is granted.'" Very neat!... I don't suppose I've gjot a fairy Godmother? 1 By any chance? . j Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan Under the authority of the Board i Contro Of 5tudent Publications. Published every morning except Monday during the reikular University year, and every morning except Mon- day and Tuesday during the summer session. 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Ass't Bus. Manager Telephone 23-24-1 NIGHT EDITOR: JENNIE FITCIT Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. SUBSIDIES: House Votes Against Vital Economic Plan DESPITE the threat of inflation if the 'govern- ment does not grant subsidies, the House Tuesday passed the bill which banned subsidies and provided for the continuation of the life of the Commodity Credit Corporation. The real issue was submerged by a coalition of Demdteratic lawmakers from the farm states -; and the Republican party. These Democratic representatives from farm states voted as the farmer would see the subsidy issue. The farmer opposes subsidies mainly be-' cause he thinks that in the long run he will get higher prices for his goods if there are no price limitations, thereby allowing prices to rise indis- criminately, Under the plan, subsidies are not to be paid directly to the farmer, but to the middleman. This enables the middleman to pay higher prices to the farmer for his goods without causing a proportionate rise in prices of consumer goods. Pride 6eilings keep the middleman from selling farm goods on the market at a; higher price and enables him to maintain his price margin. The wages of factory workers and all laborers ,f a wage pay system rise proportionately with ireased prices. It is the salaried worker who V s hurt when prices are allowed to rise unchecked. It is obvious that if prices rise unchecked, in- fiation must follow. Laborers will then demand liiher wages to meet increased cost of living. Under the subsidy plan no one will lose. The f rmer will receive higher prices. The fabri- ar w ill be able to maintain his price margin. Consumer goods will be within the reach of wage earners and salaried workers alike. Most important of all, the cost of living will be kept within the reach of all purses. As a result of Tuesday's voting, 278 Repre- sentatives, in making the 'so-called "New Deal social measure" a partisan and pressure group issue, completely failed the constituents back home. They failed because they erased the assurance of economic security from the minds of all Americans. - Doris Peterson PEACE PLANS: British Reconstruction Ministry Sets Example HE RECENT creation in Britain' of a new. Ministry of Reconstruction exhibits the ease with which the British form of government can 'andle. new problems 'and also raises a moot question concerning the facility with which our system of government can deal with such' a situation. The PTresident has, on numerous occasions, brought before the public proposals for readjust- ing our millions of soldiers to a, productive civil- ian life, and, for returning American life to an active role in an international world; but not "A brligistar shone autsde the {castle window and the Peince's Fairy Godmother appeared...' f aokobeautful airy Godmotherl '" L[ t i +I !ly , h yi, ,. c ,' . . " . No, !'m sure there aren't any Fairy Godparents taking care of you, Barnaby ... Sometimes Cushlamochree!Broke my magic wand! You wished for a Godpareht who could grant wishes? C r I Hoyt Lucky boyl Yotr wjsh is grantdl I'm your Fairy Godfather, f C r; ' What this house toeds is a couple of good Fairy Godmothers.. i WASHINGTON ERRY -GR - ROUND By DREW PEARSON I'd Rather Be Right By SAMUEL GRAFTON NEW YORK, Nov. 25-The news came out of France last Week that Marshal Petain had gone democratic. But we were given no details as to when this miracle had taken place. Had the Marshal gone democratic while shaving himself one morning? Did he go democratic while seated in his bathtub? Or perhaps while buttering a slice of toast? We were not told. Last week, the British Broadcasting Company had announced officially to its listeners on the Continent that there were about forty military objectives in France, mostly factories, which were soon to be bombed. It may have been that Marshal Petain went democratic while listening to that announcement. WHEN DID IT HAPPFN? But we have no exact knowledge of when the happy event took place, or even of whether it did actually take place. It may never have hap- pened. ,Marshal Petain may be ill at this mo- ment, or a prisoner of the Germans. The most persistent story out of France is that Marshal Petain did try to write a new constitution, with a somewhat more democratic aroma to it than adheres to the present Vichy structure of gov- ernment by decree. Petain's purpose is de- scribed as a desire to avert a civil war in France between the de Gaullists and the Vichyites. This story may not be true, but there is a certain ring of authenticity to it. A Petain who went Fascist in order to end a war with Fascists is quite as likely to give democracy a great big kiss in order to avert a war with democrats. His purpose, in both cases, would be the same, to keep the hard core of reactionary France alive, the France of the right-wing military leaders and the hooded men. This section of France was quite willing to give up-democracy to stay alive when Hitler came, and it will be quite willing to give Hitler up to stay alive when democracy comes. SAME WAR, NEW TACTIC I believe that Petain's France is sincere in both cases; that is, it is sincerely devoted to itself. French reaction is in favor of whatever system will permit it to be the boss, in pursuit of which endeavor it has, for several years, dis- played all the moral grandeur and spiritual ele- vation of the hookworm. Whether Petain has acted or not, we do know that the word has spread through France -that he has made some sort of pro- demorati attempt. This rumor, of course, tends to confuse the French people, to make them think that perhaps Petain is a pro- democrat. This confusion is created in France at just the moment when the real democrats are preparing to come home. What we see here is the use of a new tactic in the old war against the de Gaullists. Until now Vichy has tried to keep the de Gaullists down by hitting them on the head. Now it tries to keep the de Gaullists down by pretending to go democratic. When one is about to lose a civil war, the only remaining way to win it is not to fight it, to call it' off, to announce that it' has been postponed because of wet grounds, or a sudden cloudburst of democracy over Vichy, or something similar. HE IS HIS OWN FASCIST A strange and complex struggle is going on. It does not clarify it to assume that Petain is merely Hitler's puppet. He is not Hitler's fascist; he is his own fascist, following aims of his own, for. his own small group. Sometimes Petain's aims coincide with the aims of the Hitler; some- times they do not. When they do not, it does experience, are afraid of government and try to check 'it at every turn. There can be no doubt that his analysis is correct as witnessed by continual outbursts of Congiessmen against government bureaus. On- ly Monday, Rep. flondero of Michigan let loose a verbal blast against the OPA and govern- ment bureaus in general declaring, "that they have gone about far enough in regulating the not follow that they have thereby become the aims of the French people, It will come with especially bad grace if those Americans who have never been able to agree that de Gaulle is a democrat, for "lack of evi- dence," should suddenly decide that Petain has been a secret democrat all along, perhaps be- tween the hours of five and seven each morning. Copyright, 1943, N.Y. Post Syndicate) NOW THAT they have gotten so respectable, written ip in this week's Saturday Evening Post and such, we think it proper to talk about co-ops. The factual, dollar-and-sense side of the co-ops has been quite thoroughly expounded in the magazine article, but some of the spirit was missed. House meetings were mentioned, and all-night -bull-sessions, but not the sub- jects constantly under discussion. For in- stance, there have always been arguments about what to do when people don't do their share of the work. Should they be fined, as they would be in the A'my or in any organiza- tion where discipline comes from above, and not from within? Or should they become vic- tims of "social pressure," (which 'may sound like a nebulous concept, but which actually means that no one gives a hang what becomes of you for the next little while)? Should of- fenders be merely "understood" and tolerated, or should they also be shown how to get over their mistakes? Then there's the perpetual question of who should live in a co-op: should the membership be only the elite who are ready for co-operative living, or should people be accepted who are beginning to learn what it means to live and work and play together, and to fight for a com- mon aim? Always, on campus and in co-ops elsewhere, the principle of open membership has prevailed: there is no discrimination as to the race, religious creed, or political beliefs of appli- cants. And, on this campus, co-ops have added, "Let people come into our houses who are at first interested only in the financial advantages of living there." "They'll come around soon enough on other points," members say ., . . and they are usually correct. THIS "coming around" means undergoing an education in democracy, an anti-fascist up- bringing for college students which they don't get elsewhere on this campus. Although mem- bers are at first passively conscious of racial dis- criminations, for instance, an active interest is soon aroused . ., not by what other co-opers do or say, but what non-co-op students put into their eyes as they see Negro and white girls walking toward campus together, or a Jewish boy teaching a Gentile girl how they dance in the Bronx. The same is true of political dis- cussions, for historically co-ops are conscious of social problems and by their nature attract peo- ple interested in "changing the world." Co-op history is the story of utopian dreams, organizations of intellectuals or workingmen, fabian socialists and communists agreeing on the one point: that co-operation is a good way of living. Co-op people, now conscious of realities, are beginning to see the advantages of political action added to economic prin- ciples, as in the Canadian co-operatives and their affiliation with a labor union party there. One other reality of co-operative organization is that there is no solution in them to the funda- mental contradiction between the interests of labor and the interests of management. Co-op workers, in grocery stores, oil wells, canning factories, need unions to protect them, just as other workers do. And management has the same problem of making ends meet and keeping both members (stockholders) and workers sat- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN THURSDAY, NOV. 25, 1943 VOL. LIV No. 21 All notices for the Daily Official Bul- letin are to beset 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- tices should be submitted by 11:30 a.m. Notices Library Hours, Thanksgiving Day: The Main Reading Room and the Pe- riodical Rm. of the Gen. Library will be open from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. today. The departmental and collegiate li- braries and study halls will be closed, with the' exception of the study hall on the first floor of the General Li- brary, which will be open from 8:00 A.M. until noon for the use of men in the armed forces. W. G. Rice, Director Civilian students who purchased student tickets for the Michigan- Minnesota football game and have not yet presented their Deposit Re- ceipts for refund are asked to do. so immediately. Refunds will be made at the Ticket Office in the Adminis- tration Building on Ferry Field from 8:30 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. daily until Dec. 1. All deposit receipts become void after that date and no' further refunds will be made. H. O. Crisler, Director Job Registration: Students who took registration blanks from the University Bureau of Appointments last week are reminded that all blanks are due a week from the day they were taken out. After that peri- od a late registration fee of $1.00 must be charged. This means that the last of the blanks must be back by Friday. Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, blanks taken out last Thurs- day may be returned Friday. University Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information Lectures University Lecture: Dr. Albert H. Burrows, Professor of Economics and Sociology at Northern Michigan Col- lege of Education, will lecture on the subject, "Social Problems of the Nor- thern Peninsula" under the auspices of the Department of Sociology on Friday, Nov. 26, at 4:15 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. The public is invited. University Lecture: The Rev..Stan- ton Lautenschlager, M.A., of Cheng- tu, China, will lecture on the subject, "The Students in Free China," under the auspices of the Department of History and the International Cen- ter, on Thursday, Dec. 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kellogg Auditorium. The pub- lic is invited. j Lecture: Mrs. Mark Clark will lec- ture on the subject "When the Boys Come Home and. Off the Record Stories of the Fifth Army" (illustrat- ed), under the auspices of the U. of M. Alumnae Club of Ann Arbor, on Saturday, Nov. 27, at 8:00 p.m. in Hill Auditorium. Academic Notices All Students are invited to audition for membership in the University of Michigan Concert Band. Auditions will be held at Morris Hall as per the following schedule: Trombones - Friday, Nov. 26, 4:30to6 p.m.; Tuba -Friday, Nov. 26, 5:15 to 6 p.m.; String Bass--Saturday, Nov. 27. 10:30 WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-Thanks- giving for the President this year might be compared to the Thanks- giving George Washington celebrated with General Lafayette in 1777. They were at Valley Forge together and it was not a happf occasion. Similarly, the President's family this year is spread out all over the far-Rlung war fronts, and he himself is reported to be conferring far from the United States with Churchill and Stalin. Usually the Roosevelts have gone in for a real family Thanksgiving -turkey, church, a big reunion of all the children and grandchildren. But not this year. Moreover, the merchants of Wash- ington this year will celebrate Thanksgiving very much as they did in the early days. Thanksgiving was a purely New England holiday during the early days ,of the Republic and when George Washington asked Con- gress in 1789 to set aside a holiday to be observed by the entire country, there was vigorous objection. The objection came chiefly from the Democrats, who accused Wash- ington (as Roosevelt is accused to- day) of exercising undue Federal power and trampling on States' rights. So, thanks to Democratic opposition, Thanksgiving did not become a national holiday until three-quarters of a century later. Then it was the merchants along the sleepy Potomac who really saw the advantage of Thanksgiving. It was in 1845 that the Washington grocers and wine merchants woke up to the possibilities of a national holi- day and began to advertise "Sixty barrels of white wine, forty barrels of champagne, and New York cider all by recent packet from New York via Alexandria." No Place To Go . . . The German government, with characteristic thoroughness, prepared for the Allied blitz by assigning to each which might be bombed another city to which its population would be removed in case bombing made evac- uation necessary. For example, the people of Hamburg were assigned to go to Bavaria; and' citizens of Ruhr cities were assigned to Silesia. But the plan now breaks down in terrible confusion, because the areasJ of protection have themselves become vulnerable. Bavaria at one time was GRIN AND BEAR Ir safety. But now Allied bombers are striking from Italy, and have at- tacked Vienna, so that Bavarians themselves are looking for a place to go. In fact, there is no place which either has not been bombed or which is not threatened. There's no hiding place over there. Past Thanksgivings ...,, Just as this Thanksgiving is a day of work for President Roosevelt, so most Thanksgivings in the past have been days of arduous labor in the White House. This was largely be- cause of the lame-duck session of Congress which met shortly after the holiday. In fact, future Presidents can give silent thanks to Senator George Norris of Nebraska for having abolished the lame-duck session. The history of previous Thanks- givings in the White House as far as they are recorded in the news- papers of other days, reads some- what like this: President Monroe, 1823, spent the day writing message to Congress. Unable to attend church ... Presi- dent Buchanan, 1857, long conference with Governor Walker of 'Kansas over influx of slave-traders as a result of Kansas-Nebraska Act. . . Pr'esident Grant, 1876, unable to receive visi- tors; spent day writing message to Congress . . . President McKinley, 1900, spent day working on. message to Congress and considering whether to recommend pensions for ex-slaves. The next day, Mrs. McKinley, bored, left for a shopping expedition in New York President Harding, 1921, signed bills at the Capitol all morning, dined at noon with the family and informally away from the White Houseat night... President Coo- lidge, 1927, rose at his usual, hour, took setting-up exercises, shaved himself, breakfasted with Mrs. Coo- lidge, then retired to his study to work on his message to Congress. ... President Hoover, 1930, rose at 6 a.m., played handball, break- fasted at eight, attended 'Friends' meeting, spent remainder of day writing his annual message. So, until the Norris lame-duck amendment, Thanksgiving Day for the President of the United States was nothing to be thankful-for. (Copyright, 1943, United Features Syrid.) B Lichty r vy1J 4 {0 ¢i i t . i r 4 i t "Gee whiz! This sure is swell! Here's a ration labeled 'Thanksgiving Dinner'-dehydrated turkey, cranberry sauce, gravy, dressing, dried potatoes and pumpkin pie-it says just add water!" in Room 319 West Medical Building. section which will organize at the "Methylation as a Biological Reac- conclusion of the present course. tion-in N-Methyl Compounds" will be discussed. All interested are in- Evt vitedT da Chemistry Colloquium on Friday,a Nov. 26, at 4:15 p.m. in Room 303 Chemistry Building. Dr. Albert L.I Henne will discuss "Some Observa- tions on the Chemical Effect of Poly- fluorinated Groups." Bacteriology Seminar on Saturday morning, Nov. 27, at 8:30 in Room 1564 East Medical Building. Topic: "Treatment with Penicillin of Osteo- myelitis. in Rats." All interested are Wesley Foundation: Open House today in the Wesley Lounge for all Methodist students and their friends, 4:00-7:00 p.m. Coming Events International Center will have a social get-together on Sunday, Nov. 28, at 7:30 p.m. This will include community singing and recorded mu- sic. Snack hour at 9:00 p.m.