PAGE I'OtVX 4 ""HE MICHIG~AN D)AILY WIVtThTN'iSfAV flDEC. 1.1 a a+ a a a + s a a a v c a a l l !' I L L l. - .. . . ... r ..._. . . ___ __ _. ___f.___-_ n__ __ _ _ .... .. t . _. "7 :14i7 -.9 !iir a, aSrl~ WYe ~ir ieakn Pal11 Fifty-Fourth Year -771 I'd Rather Be Right. By SAMUEL GRAFTON GRIN ANDBEAR IT I i By Lichty I1 Bdited 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 .gular 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 ior 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. 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UNION FORMAL: Sale of Tickets Was Not Intentional Fraud M EN IN THE ARMY and Navy units and vari- Uus other people on campus are accusing the Union officers, especially the dance committee, of poor planning, bad management and of playing favorites in the sale of Union Formal tickets. All together, there are about 250 reasons for the con- troversy. Here are the facts: It was announced that " no more than 350 tickets" would be sold for the annual Union For- ial. A number of students, both civilian and members of the armed forces, went to purchase tickets last Friday at 5 p. m. at the Union Ticket Resale Desk. At 5:23 p. M., the students waiting in line were informed that there were no more tickets available and consequently were turned away. After investigating, it was learned that .only I00 tickets were sold at the Union Friday after- noon, nd that the remaining 250 were divided among the members of the Dance Committee to sell to Union members only. Immediately, accusations started flying, and members of the committee were pictured scalping tickets and reaping huge profits. The President of the Union, Bunny Crawford, has assured us that this has not been the case, and Crawford's answer to the many derogatory statements expressed concerning the affair is this: IN THE PAST the Union Formal has been open only to Union members. Of the 4,000 soldiers on campus this excludes more than 3,950, as only 47 men in the Army are paid Union members. It has been difficult, for the last few years, to sell Union dance tickets.because of the various other activities on campus. With this inl mim, the dance committee has always been given a number of tickets and have had to work day and night to find people willing to buy them. Nevertheless, this year, all the new factors con- sidered, the members of the committee were allotted an entirely disproportionate number of tickets to sell, each of ten members receiving 25. Crawford and Rupert Straub have admitted that it was a mistake to distribute the tickets in that manner and they feel assured that such a situation will never again be duplicated; They have little doubt that many of the tickets have been sold to non-Union members. They cannot deny that friends of the committee men did not have to wait in line at the Union ticket office last Friday. Chances for the average student to obtain a ticket were about 500 to 1. With accusations, admissions, and apologies being exchanged, we doubt if anyone who did not know "one of the boys" will be dancing in the Union Ballroom Saturday night. -Bob Goldman Rieti Wf,, IRigxa - NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-Is the release of Sir Oswald Mosley from prison a test case? If so, precisely what is being tested? The British government's first explanation for. releasing the leader of the British Union of Fascists was entirely humanitarian and medical. Sir Oswald had a bad leg. Sir Oswald had phlebitis. Sir Oswald might die in jail. Although many of us can think of no better plate for a fascist to die in, the thing might have been argued out on these comparatively narrow grounds, as an instance of misplaced human sentiment, and so on. WHAT IS THE MAN SAYING? But Herbert Morrison, Britain's Home Secre- tary, has chosen to shift his ground. His latest explanation is that Sir Oswald could safely be released because Britain's "fortunes" have im- proved so greatly since he was first confined, almost four years ago. That is a political expla- nation, and with it the case ceases to be entirely medical. Does the British cabinet consider that fascism, as an idea, as a trend, as a world movement, has been defeated? That is what Herbert Morrison seems to be saying. A fig for fascism, in other words; a big rousing pooh-pooh to it. The British Cabinet could hardly have said more plainly that it considers the fascist idea to have become relatively unim- portant; it must be so if the man's poor sick leg is now of greater consequence than his poor sick mind. A STRANGE HOMECOMING It is on this issue that British labor has joined battle with the British government. It is to test this attitude toward home fascists that crowds have gathered in London's streets for demon- strations. British labor feels that an issue is being decided. It accepts the Mosley case as a test case. That is why trains to London today carry crowds of union delegates, come to the capital to join in the battle. The issue that is being fought out on bloody battlefields around the world has come home again, to be fought out on the streets of London. It is a strange homecoming. There are dem- onstrations against Mosley today, in 1943, on the same London plazas on which there were demonstrations against Mosleyfive years ago. There are street meetings against fascism on the same corners on which there were once street meetings against Munich. It is almost as if there had been no war., London buildings, all around the demonstra- t4rs,. are wrecked; wrecked in a war over this very issue; but the issue has survived the build- ings, and still stands. HE IS HERE AGAIN To British labor, milling in the streets, it seems not only as if jail gates had opened, releasing a prisoner, but as if a tomb had opened, and some- thing dead had risen and walked. British .labor is afraid that it has perhaps spent four years marching with furious energy around a great circle; for look who is here again. We have released our first fascist before we have punished our first fascist. We have let a man out of jail; and we have thrown an idea I, , SAWDUST AND OYSTER SH ELLS y12" a0 ton away. We seem to be murmuring that it was not a crusade; it was, only a police operation. It is a test. For ghosts throughout Europe will try to rise and walk. Life demonstrates in Lon- don against the return of death. (Copyright, 1943, N.Y. Post Syndicate) i I THERE'S A WOMAN visiting Ann Arbor this week who's been away for fifteen years. She graduated in '28 and she's never been back. She left this town *hen Hoover was just beginning his campaign against Al Smith, and Clara Bow's latest picture "Naughty, Naughty" was being shown at the Arcade Theatre. All she can talk about is how different it is. Not that Ann Arbor itself has changed much. She says it looks just about the same. "It's the students who are so different" she keeps telling us. When she was in school, no woman ever cane on campus unless her hat and gloves matched perfectly. She says that those were the days when college men actually wore "tweeds" and women came to class in velvet dresses, and high heels, and hats with veils. You dressed like that then because you never knew what wouldhappen before you could get back to your room to change your clothes. Everyone had a car. You might start for Chi- cago, to stay the evening, right after Shakespeare class on Tuesday morning You might meet someone who was starting to New York for the week end and would invite you to come along. Your roommate might get a check from his stockbroker in the morning mail and you'd both "cut" a week in the winter time to go to Florida for a sun tan. AT ANY RATE you'd be sure to end up at a party before the day was out. There were always parties then, and they were different than - they arenow. They started in the afternoon right after lunch and they lasted through that night and into the next day. There were some- times parties in fraternity houses that lasted for weeks with the personnel changing all the time but the party going right ahead. You were judged then by the amount of liquor you could drink. A Professor of ours told us about a party that he could remember from when he was in school." It.seems that one fraternity brother bet another that he couldn't drink a quart of gin straight down without breahing. The other boy drank the gin and fell down, dead on the floor. It .didn't stop the party but it makes good history. The Daily, which in those days, if you'll believe it,. was almost a hundred percent Republican, looked a lot like the New York Times. There was simply nothing to banner. No one was much interested in the tariff disputes which were keep- ing congressmen and national executives out of any serious trouble. They blackened the front page considerably, however, for the Hoover victory over Al Smith but all that enterprising editorial writers had been able to say for their candidate, up until the election, was that he had fed Belgian babies dur- ing the world war and the one lonely Democrat on the staff satisfied himself by characterizing Al Smith not- as. the working man's friend, or the potential savior of Democracy but merely as "The Happy Warrior." The editorial page was filled with little notes to the strudent body on "college spirit" and small tirades entitled "Beat Minnesota." This woman, the one who's visiting town this week~ Called these the "good old days" and maybe they were. EVERYBODY WAS RICH, the fraternity cook in the SAE house had a hundred shares of Continental that he was buying and selling on the half point system; everybody understood ev- erything that mattered, and anything that was too big to be understood was profitable as it was and best left alone. An editorial entitled "Beat Minnesota" is a lot easier to take in the morning with your orange juice than a night editor's lecture on the subsidies bill. There are people, you know, who want to bring them back. They think they can do it by cheering at a football game for a team whose stars through the intervention of God and the Army, have been brought over here from the University of Wisconsin. They think they can do it by sipping bootleg rum in a fraternity house kitchen or by telling campus women to dress more carefully. They don't know how far gone we are. They keep thinking, of course, that those were the good old days because sorority women wore hats with veils and fraternity men were drunk all the time. It was something else though, it was enthusiasm. then and it's -our indifference now. Sister, look closer, it's way down, deep in our soul. - "Hmm-late again, Buskirk, eh? Well, we're always glad to see our employees exhibit a little independence and rugged individualism'" ... ,_~ DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from.Page 2) constitute himself or herself a com- mittee of one to contribute in every reasonable way to the end that there shall be no waste of electricity, wa- ter, gas, oil, coal, or of communica- tions or transportation service. This notice is in behalf not only of the University administration but of var- ious United States Government au- thorities. Notice: Attention of all concerned, and particularly of those having offi- ces in Haven Hall, or the western portion of the Natural Science Build- ing is directed to the fact that park- ing or standing ofcars in the drive- way between these. two buildings is prohibited because it is at all times inconvenient to other drivers and to pedestrians on the Diagonal and other walks. If members of your fam- ily call for you, especially at noon when traffic both on wheels and on foot is heavy, it is especially urged that the car wait for you in the park- ing space adjacent to the north door >f University Hall. Waiting in the driveway blocks traffic and involves confusion, inconvenience and danger just as much when a person is sitting in a car as when the car. is parked empty. University Senate Committee on Parking School of Music students will have an. assembly. today . at 4:00 p.m. in the School of Music Auditorium. Faculty of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: The five-week fr Sh mh a o' s'n1lI',c 'f tI ill1hau a at 7:30 p.m. in the Rackham Lecture Hall. The public is invited. Change of Date-Fulton Lewis Lec- ture: The date for the second Ora- torical Association Lecture has been changed to Dec. 15. This change in schedule has been made at the re- quest of Mr. Lewis. Tickets originally issued for Dec. 1 will be honored on the new date, Dec. 15. The Hill Audi- torium box office will be open on Saturday, Dec. 11, for the sale of tickets for the Burton Holmes pro- gram, "Our Russian Allies," which will be presented on Dec. 13. Academic Notices Economies 121, 125 and 197: I shall be unable to meet my classes today. Z. C. Dickinson Concerts Choral Union Concert: Claudio Ar-< rau, distinguished Chilean pianist, will give the fourth program in the Sixty-fifth Choral Union Concert Series, Friday evening, Dec. 3, at 8:30 in Hill Auditorium. His program will consist of numbers by Mozart, Bee- thoven, Chopin, Liszt. Debussy, Al- beniz and Granados. Charles A. Sink, President Faculty Recital: The final program in the current series of School of Music Faculty Recitals will be pre- sented at 4:15 p.m. on Sunday, Dec; 5, in Lydia Mendelssohn Theater by Arthur Hackett, tenor, and Joseph Brinkman, pianist. The public is cordially invited. 4ERRY-GO- ROUND P ARSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. - If you make a "heck of Washington's lead- ing hotels, you will find that an amazing percentage of their guests practice that age-old profession - lobbying. Lobbying has flourished since the days when Southern planta- tion owners and real-estate men first high-pressured the Found- ing Fathers into making the mud- flats of the Potomac the Capital of the United States. But today it has reached perhaps its highest peak in history. Every one of these lobbies is intent on getting something for itself, re- gardless of the greatest good for the greatest number. They are not in- terested in what is good for the na- tion. They are interested in what is good for their own small minority. Especially significant today is that a large preponderance of the lobbies are promoting something which, If successful, would come near bankrupting the nation - namely, inflation. They are bent on getting higher prices or higher wages or lower taxes or more bs- ness for themselves-rekardless of the effect on the rest of the coun- try. Here is the lineup of some of the most potent lobbies which have ever thrown champagne dinners or camped on Congressmen's doorsteps in the Capital of the U.S.A. The Cattlemen's Lobby has about 200 men, off and on, in Washington, all of them hard-hitting, likeable, beef cattlemen putting up a terrific fight for a higher price for meat. Joe Montague is official head of this lobby, but inside operators are Con- gressman Dick Kleberg of Texas, big- gest ranch owner in the world, and Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Grover Hill, from Amarillo. Secretly, the cattlemen are allied with the big meat-packers, and though not all of them realize it, the meat-packers very wisely use them as a down-to- earth front for a lot of their opera- tions in Washington. Tax Lobby Powerful .. . The Tax Lobby--This is probably the most powerful and painless in Washington. As its head are several unobtrusive but famous figures. One is Ellsworth Alvord, former at- torney for Andrew Mellon, now with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. A former employee of the Senate Fi- nance Committee of which Senator George of Georgia is chairman, Al- vord boasts that he has Senator George's vote on taxes in his pocket. He is one of the few men not con- nected with the Senate who regu- larly attends George's birthday par- ties given in Ed Halsey's office. Another leader of the tax lobby is J. Cheever Cowdin, chairman of Universal Pictures, and head of the tax committee of the National As- sociation of Manufacturers. One of the wealthiest men in the country, Cowdin has helped finance Douglas Aircraft, Curtiss-Wright, Sperry Gyroscope, TWA. He is also an ar- dent believer in the sales tax. Working with him is John Hanes, former Undersecretary of the Treas- ury, inside adviser to Willkie, and the real promoter of the Rum plan. Hanes is also an investment banker and helped finance Glenn Martin, Republic Aviation and- the M-K-T Railroad. He is owner of the biggest orchid farm in the world. Hanes, who comes from North Carolina, pretty well influences the tax vote of Chair- man Doughton of the, Ways and Means Committee, also from North Carolina. Hanes is also associated with the Johns-Manville Co., and this brings in another leader, of the tax lobby, Lewis Brown of Johns- Manville. Last year, tax lobby leaders got together with Randolph Paul, counsel of the Treasury, and noti- fied him that he would have to ac- cept the Ruml Plan. Paul refused. Thereupon ensued the famous Ruml tax fight which ended with a victory for no one. Last fall, they also notified Paul that he would have to accept the sales tax. Again Paul refused. That fight is still on. (Copyright, 1943, United Features Synd.) theater box office. Box office hours are from 10-1, 2-5, 7:30-8:30 daily. The Association Music Hour will continue Bac's "St Matthew Pas- sion" tonight at 7:30 af Lane Hall. Surgical Dressing Unit will be open today at the League, 1:00-5:00 p.m. Coming Events The 143 U. of M. Marching Band smoker will be held in Morris Hall on Friday, Dec. 3, at 7:15 p.m. All mem- bers of the Marching Band are wel- -.4A CC Tde Poth ted Pat iresnman prugress rejj ,viiu u Saturday, Dec. 4, in the Academic Exhibitions Counselors' Office, 108 Mason Hall. Exhibition, College of Architecture The University Bureau of Appoint- and Design: An exhibition of paint- ments has received notice of the fol- ings by Eugene Dana, and color prints lowing Civil Service Examinations in by Louis Schanker, is presented by the State of Michigan: the College of Architecture and De- Institution Psychologist (Student), sign in the ground floor corridor of $150 to $170 per month; Institution the Architectural Building through Psychologist I, $180 to $220 per Dec. 28. Open daily, except Sunday, month; Institution Psychologist II, 8:00 to 5:00. The public is cordially $230 to $270 per month; Institution invited. Psychologist III, $280 to $340 per month; (Closing date is December 15, 1943) Sanatorium Attendant, $110 to Events Toda '$125 per month. Further information may be had A.S.M.E. meeting tonight at 7:30 in from the notices which are on file in the Union. Professor J. H. Cissel will the office of the Bureau of Appoint- speak on "The Collapse of the Taco- ments, 201 Mason Hall, office hours ma Bridge." (illustrated by a movie). 9-12 and 2-4. UNIVERSITY students will be called on to aid needy students and Ann Arbor families Monday when the Daily Goodfellow Edition is sold. Last year, contributions and pledges of so- rorities, fraternities and other campus groups amounted to one-third of the $1,600 total. This year, a goal of $2,000 has been set. The Goodfellow Drive, the only all-campus charity campaign, gives the University, as a whole, the oppotrunity to show that it can an- swer the needs of the community. The success of the drive will depend upon each and every group and individual on cam- pus. The Committee has asked that University organizations make pledges for the drive to augment the street sales.T Democratic student organizations are not worthy of the name if they do not respond to this request. No definite sum is demanded of any .group; they are merely asked to give all that. they can for those who are less fortunate than themselves. Soldiers are fighting all over the world for freedom and security for mankind, The Goodfellow Drive represents our fight for the freedom and security of our neighbors. -The City Editor 4 Lectures University Lecture: The Rev. Stan- tor 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 8:15 p.m. in the Kellogg Auditorium. The pub- lic is invited. University Lecture: Dr. Hans Si- mons, Dean of the School of Politics, New School for Social Research, will lecture on the subject. "Problems of Reconstruction in Germany," under the auspices of the Department of Political Science, on Monday, Dec. 6, Institute of the Aeronautical Sci- ences will have a meeting tonight at 7:30 at the Michigan League. Mr. Charles R. Beltz, of Chrysler Motors Corporation, will talk about Cyclo- Weld Possibilities for Aircraft. There will be a short business meeting after the talk, at which time an Engineer- ing Council Representative will be elected. La 'Sociedad Hispanica will meet at the Michigan League tonight at 8:00. All interested are invited. All men in uniform are welcome to all the func- tions of the club. I1 Circolo Italiano will meet tonight at 8:00 in the Michigan League. All interested in Italian are cordially invited. . PostTWar Council will meet today at 4:30 p.m. in the Union. Everyone interested should be present.. BARNABY By Crockett Johnson - , - r If The O'MaiJey Committee seeks [Then my unbiased committee will toi my first.pretiminary j _ .... ,_ I 1 11 i