TA 1777 AAC b, jj t- "kN " . .. ... .... aa',a.., ~ e t~i 7 Fifty-Fourth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Contro) of Student Publications. Published every morning except Monday during the regular University year, and 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 eor 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. Subscriptions during the regular school year by car- rier $4.50, by mail $5.25. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1942-43 Editorial Staff Marion Ford Jane Farrant . . Claire Sherman Marjorie Borradaill Eric Zalenski Bud Low . MIary Anne Olson Marjorie Rosmarin . Hilda Slautterback Doris Kuentz . . Managing Editor . . . Editorial Director * .. City Editor . . Associate Editor . Sports Editor Associate Sports Editor * . . Women's Editor . . Ass't Women's Editor S. . . Columnist . . . . Columnist . Business Staff Molly Ann Winokur . Eii2abeth Carpenter . Martha Opsion Telephone . Business Manager . Ass't Bus. Manager . Ass't Bus. Manager 23-24.1 NIGHT EDITOR: DORIS PETERSON Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. AID TO PEACE: Central Europe Needs Demwcra tic Federation A TIMELY diagnosis of the political situation resulting from the Moscow Conference would be the formulation of a plan for estab- lishing a federation move in the Balkan and Central European countries. Since one of the Allied post-war aims will be the reestablishment of democratic institu- tions in Europe, such a federation could be instrumental in promoting representative gov- ernment based upon universal suffrage. A federation 'like this could also be an unwaver- ing pivot of democracy in a region of the world where the maintenance and progress of/ our common civilization is certain to be in the general interest of mankind. It could also counteract the strong tendency toward nationalism by allowing these nations to keep 'their national boundaries, and, at the same time, prompting the spirit of internation- alism so vital to peace and reconstruction. Besides being a pivot of democracy, such a federation could be an assurance against aggression and economic oppression. Isola- tion made the small nations in 1938-41 easy victims of aggression which eliminated them as valuable instruments of collective security. If Germany had been presented with a demo- cratic federation instead of merely eight weak countries she might have been compelled to take a different course. At present, it would be a blunder to suppose that Germany's dynamic nationalism will be over after the war. It is certain that whatever the solution of German problems will be in the post-war period, the host of weak nations in her neighborhood will never cease to be a tempta- tion to her nationalism. AFTER the war, these small nations will prob- ably have to regulate many of their eco- nomic relations with Germany. It is obvious that bilateral treaties concluded by compara- tively weak nations could easily result into an instrument of economic oppression. This viewpoint of political security against Germany by a federation of Central Europe has been given friendly attention by many quarters of public opinion both in this coun- try and in Great Britain. Such a move was propagated for a century and recently prior to the, war in view of German rearmament. On the other hand, criticism has been aroused pointing out that such a plan could become an instrument of intrigues against Russia. HOWEVER, instead of being detrimental to Russia, such a federation could offer far more guaranties for a stabilized "good-neigh- bor's policy" than any group of small countries, Jealously competing with each other. The background of Central Europe is well suited for the establishment of a federation based upon democracy. Must of these coun- tries were fighting for individual freedom and ownership more than a century ago, and the movement grew during the twenty years be- tween the two World Wars. Conceivably none of these nations is going to renounce democracy for which they have been striving so long. £ter to the t&2cjbo Subsidies Unnecessary .. . R ECENTLY The Daily has devoted considerable space to the praise of sbsidies and the cen- sure of the Republican party because it opposed them. Calling the anti-subsidy bill a dirty political trick, despite the fact that a. two to one victory in the House indicates that there must be at least a few strayed Democratic sheep for it, is merely, playing one irrelevant political issue against another. The real question is whether the government should take upon itself to pay out huge sums of money for the support of an industry-or any other faction, for that matter-which is capable of supporting itself by methods within the grounds of reason. At present the nation has $50,00 OOiOOO, worth more buying power because of increased wages. True, these increases have gone only to certain groups which have utilized their indispensibility in the waging of this war as a means to their own special end. Their leaders have seized upon this bonanza and the Administration, partly partial, partly fearful, has given in to them. THIS SPECIAL BONUS for labor, besides being unjust, has started the inflationary spiral. Excess buying power itself has caused prices to rise and an attempt to stave off this rise by sti- sidizing whole industries such as that of the food producers would not only deprive the taxpayers for the benefit of the few, but would result in more of the Government's paralying control d would deprive the country of a natural drainage for its excess earnings. That some faetions will suffer, is, as always, inevitable, but labor at least will have no COnt- plaint. Prices will rise, yes, but only In pro- portion to the buying power which has been made greater by labor itself. For the real loser, the white collar worker, a wage increase was made necessary when labor first broke through the Little Steel formula. The problem will now be to hold the line-this time in earnest. Wage ceilings, commodity ceil- ings, and food ceilingsmust be proportioned and the Government must hold to them at all costs. Everything will go up a step on the price scl1e but the country "must surely realize by now that increased profits for one only means increased for all and that a sound economic policy will be realized only in firm stabilization. -Harriet ierce ** * Letters to the Editor must be typewritten on one side of the paper only and signed with the name a address of the writer. Requests for .anonymous pib- lication will be met. FANDSAWDUST AND OYSTER SHELLS T HBRE was this guy we used to know-let's see, what was that fellow's nane-anyway, he was the one that liked oysters so well. Gee, wish we could remember that name. Well, he'd hardly ever eat anything else, see, he'd hardly ever eat anything except oysters because he liked them so well. He had this mad craving-well that's what most people called it, they called it mad, we neved did, we always sort of liked hitn, what was his name? Whenever he was hungry naturally, that's what he'd be think- ing about, he'd just think how he could get hol of an oyster. If we could only remember his name. Sometimes when John-that wasn't his name, we can't remember his name, call him John- well, this John would just sit down and cry be- cause he couldn't find an oyster. What was his name, this is driving us bats. Now there were people who would say--of course we didn't really believe this ourselves but there were people who would say-that John-well, call him John--would kill some- body for an oyster. Personally, of course, we thought this was pretty far fetched. We always sort of liked John or what ever his name was. Oh, that lame. But there was this once. Seems like it was in the summer time, as a matter of fact, yes it was, it was in August and August, as you know, doesn't have an "r" in it. It was then that this John-Gee, what was his name ?-got this ter- rible craving for an oyster. HE WENT all over town, he went down town and everything and he couldn't find anyone who had any oysters. Well, you can just imagine I'd Rather 1Be Right_ By SAMUEL GRAFTON NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-It almost makes a pic- ture. In one eerie week, Badoglio forms a new government in Italy without the democrats; the fascist Marshal Petain "goes democratic" and thus makes a bid to keep power in France; Britain releases Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the tattered Union of British Fascists; and Senator Nye says the Germans will have a right to be fascist after the war if they want to. So the first British fascist is released from jail, on medical grounds, even before the British have punished their first fascist war criminal on the Continent. There is something indescrib- ably soft and pudgy about this move. What shall the British say to the Continent from now on? Will they murmur: "Death to every fascist except those with phlebitis"? CALL THE DOCTOR FIRST Or, perhaps: "Arise against your enslavers, after proper medical examination!" The British have placed themselves in a fine position to ask the people of Europe to be rough on their fellow-citizens who have accepted fas- cism. Shall softness summon sternness to its side? Does an infirm leg cancel out the moral illness which put Mosley in prison in the first place? The por fellow is sick. But a good part of the word is still sick. One of the great symptoms of that illness has been exactly this kind of softness. If the plain people of the world were to state their 10-year-old case against democracy's leaders in one sentence, they might say: "You didn't hate the fascists enough." INCLUIE HIM OUT Undoubtedly Marshal Petain, who is now de- scribed as having broken with Laval, and as having made up his mind to "treat himself as a prisoner," to emphasize that he is different from Laval, hopes for an outbreak of just this kind of softness on the part of his old friends among us. He has included himself out, to make it easier for us to include him out. What! You say that the Mosley case and the Petain case are not connected? I defy you to find any two incidents in this war that are not i some way connected. Picture to yourself the French underground reading about Sir Oswald Mtosley's "release, and ask yourself whether the French underground will be encouraged thereby to continue the fight against Vichy, or whether it will be discouraged by it, dazed and made per- haps even more ill than Mosley. Remember that the underground does not re- reive full dispatches from outside, and has had to learn to read single words, and whispers, and merest indications. QUIET, PLEASE The underground knows of our almost patho- logical fea' of what we consider "disorder"; our frenzy lest the brave new world make a bit of a racket in being reborn. The case of Mosley seems to fit into that panic fear; the matter has been terminated and Mosley has been sent home in most orderly fashion. But now a shock has gone through England; a bit of that higher disorder which is the price we have always paid for our orderly handling of fascism. No wonder the underground sometimes seems strange to us, remote, unfamiliar and almost unknowable. It consists of men who have de- clared themselves for life, not for mere order; of men who know that only death is orderly. Birth never is. (Copyright, 1943, N.Y. Post Syndicate) how John-Well, call him that-felt at not being able to get any oysters. We're here to tell you that he was just about crazy. He was just sitting there and he was crying, you never saw a man cry like that and all because, don't you know, he couldn't find an oyster anyplace. Well, he came across this butcher, see, and this butcher had a little paper carton full of oysters that he'd been holding over in his ice box. So John-or what ever in the world his name was-says to this butcher that he'd just, have to have those oysters. Gee, he says, he'd just do anything, anything at all to get them. The butcher says, of course, that he's terribly sorry but he'd been saving those oysters for a sick woman and there just wasn't anything he could do for John. He says he's awfully sorry and all that. Well, you can just imagine how John felt. His face et all red and he was standing there ...- Of course, gee whiz, we know that name. His name was John. E RRY GO ROUND B Y D RE W P E AR SON WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. - Plans are under way for America's once most unpopular but most respected price-fixer to enter the U. S. Senate. He is turbulent, two-fisted, uncompromising Leon Henderson, former chief of OPA, who was fired when he refused to increase the price of oil and when Speaker -Sam Rayburn plus Texas oil men made things too hot for the White House. Today, Leon, though out of the Government, is probably New Jersey's No. 1 Citizen as far as the American public is concerned. A vacancy has just occurred in the Senate as a re- sult of the death.of New Jersey's Sen- ator Barbour, and friends are urging Governor Charles Edison to appoint Henderson to the interim vacancy. Born and reared in Millville, N.J., Henderson has always maintained his residence in New Jersey, and re- turned there on frequent visits even during his hectic years, as one of Roosevelt's close advisers and trou- ble-shooters. Henderson first became prominent in Washington as aide to General "Iron Pants" Johnson when Johnson headed the NRA. Later, he was ap- pointed to the Securities and Ex- change Commission, then to the Na- tional Defense Council, then became OPA Administrator. CIO-Rubber Fight... Members of United Rubber Work- ers (CIO) are worried over construc- tion of a new tire manufacturing plant in Waco, Tex. This is an inno- vation which may end tight labor control of wages and working condi- tions in Akron, O. Practically every big tire com- pany asked WPB approval for new plant construction to meet the de- mand for production of synthetic tires. But Rubber Workers accused the industry of trying to break the wage levels by moving to cheap- labor areas. Ex-Uubber Director Bill Jeffers supported them, told the companies to go home and re- vise their "fantastic" plans for ex- pansion. Today, Bill Jeffers is gone, and the tide is turning. General Tire and "Ask her to promise that in me of the terrible manpower s !Rubber has been granted permission to build a new $3,000,000 plant at Waco, Tex. And the industry gener- ally is spending bale money in an ad- vertising campaign to sell the idea of expansion. Most of them want to move south, partly for cheaper labor, partly to be near raw materials. Svnthetic rub- ber is being lhroduced almost entirely below the Mason-Dixon line, in plants at Institute. W.Va. Baton Rouge, La, Port Neches, Tex., and Los Angles. 'the conipan si are under terrific presslre L t icreae roaction of tires, and in turn they are putting pressure on the inion and on the Rubber Director's Office to speed up production of the individual worker and let more workers come into the industry. Though this fight has not broken into headlines, it is one of the bitter- est struggles in the labor-manage- ment field today. ftlq)-m erw Sitor, ? . . Now that Japanese-Americans are being released from relocation cen- ters, War Shipping Adiniistration PI Kt n ipI I GRIN AN has discovered that a sizable number of these men are experienced seamen and could be put to good service aboard U.S. merchant ships. The total number of experienced men is about 400. This is a difficult question, but seamen are desperately scarce, and all these men have been cleared by FBI and Army Intelli- genjee. War Shipping is ready to as- sign them to ships, but the Navy Department stands in the way. The Navy official in this case is Lt.-Comm. lfarold A. Burch of Naval Intelligence, .le is the same man who got up a file of com- plaints on U.S. merchant seamen and turned it over to Chairman Carl Vinson of the house Naval Affairs Committee without giving War Shipping a chance to answer or investigate the criticism first. Burch also took "Communists" off the crews of merchant ships going to Murmansk, Russia. In the Japanese case, WSA is will-. .ing to stand by Navy's decision, and if Navy says the Nisei cannot sail, that's the end of it, Bu ,at least WSA wants a decision, So far, the Navy is stalling. (Copyright, 1943, Unit( c~ Veatures synd.) )% t -- the future she's not to remind hortage when she married me." BD BEA i IT . Viehuy Sr \ - r 1 AN- T , - DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN SATURDAY, NOV. 27, 1943 VOL. LIV No. 22 All notices for the Daily Official Bul- letin are to be sent 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 Communications to the Regents: Those who wish to present communi- cations for consideration by the Re- gents are requested to present them at least eight days before the next ensuing meeting at the Office of Miss Edith J. Smith, Budget Assistant to the President, 1006 Angell Hall. Fif- teen copies of each communication should be prepared and left with Miss Smith. A uniform type of paper is used for communications to the Board of Regents, a supply of which may be procured at the Office of the Vice-President and Secretary. Shirley W. Smith Faculty Directory: To date com- paratively few members of the Uni- versity staff have called at the Infor- mation Desk in the Business Office for Faculty Directories. These are for general distribution to all qualified persons for use at home and should have general circu- lation. Heretofore the University has delivered them by mail, but to save postage anyone on the staff who has not yet had a Directory is asked to call at the Business Office for his copy. ferbzrt G. Watkins, Assistant Secretary 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. I1. 0. Crisler, Director This is positively the last tion to be given. examina- Lectures BARNABY By Crockett Johnson a 'wr Rawe a foiq Codtathoi Lot in* be tb* Ott to olor cong dtvi toxe . " Goh! :o 0 .a , .r. . r , al'boy, wt frait"pr jai'. i th E , , ' i . "/ ,f .. s 0 '! nwt be Y ' off wow # tl h ovar the fore s <.. . Gosh! .1 .1 1 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, Dee. 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kellogg Auditoriium. The pub- lie is invited. 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 to- night at 8:00 in Hill Auditorium. A cacdeic Notices All Students are invited to audition for menbership in the University of Michigan Concert Band. Auditions will be held at Morris Hall today as follows: String Bass--10:30 -to 11 a.m.; Percussion-11 a.m. Rehearsali schedule will be deter- mined after tile membership has been selected and the available time deter- mined. Concerts and radio broad- casts will be presented at appropriate To those students who have al- ready signed for the Speeded Reading Course: The class will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5 to 6 o'clock, 4009 University High School. First meeting, Tuesday, Nov. 30. Those not finding the hours con- venient are advised to join the second section which will organize at the conclusion of the present course. Exhibitions - Exhibition, College of Architecture and Design: An exhibition of paint- ings by Eugene Dana, and color prints by Louis Schanker, is presented by the College of Architecture and De- sign in the ground floor corridor of the Architectural Building through Dec. 28. Open daily, except Sunday, 8:00 to 5:00. The public is cordially invited. E.ents Today Wesley Foundation: Party tonight at 8:30 o'clock in the Lounge in the First Methodist Church. Presbyterian Student Guild: Social evening in the social hall of the church tonight at 9:00. Professor and Mrs. F. Firestone will be chaperones. An interesting evening of fun, games and dancing is planned. The Roger Williams Guild is hav- ing a Hay-Ride Party tonight at 8:30. The Lutheran Student Association will have a party in Lane Hall tonight from 8:00 to 11:30. The regular Sun- day evening meeting in Zion Parish Hall will begin at 5:30 p.m. Supper and program following. Miss Susan Thorsch will develop the Ashram theme on Prayer. 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