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THE MICT AN DAILY

SUNDAY, DEC. 12, 1943

THE MItHI(1AN DAILY SUNDAY, DEC. 12, 1943

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DENIED VOTE:
Polls May Bring Action
Against Biased 11ouses
OME queer actions and statements have come
out of Congress since the war emergency, but
the Senate's death blow to the soldier vote bill
and Rep. John Rankin's (R. Miss.) recent tirades
against Negroes and Jews tops them all.
A group of Southern Democrats and run of
*he mill anti-everything Republicans alligned
themselves and defeated the Green-Lucas Bill,
intended to set up a federal elections commission,
to supervise servicemen's voting.
The Senate substituted the Eastland mea-
sure, dumping the proposal in the laps of the
individual states. This was tanamount 'to
denying the serviceman his dem cratic right
to vote .
In discussing the matter, Sen. Arthur Vanden-
berg of Michigan was quoted as saying that the
Senate has given the states a problem which they
can't solve because most state legislatures aren't
scheduled to meet next year.
In the House Rep. Rankin added flame to
the undemocratic issue by flaying Jews and
Negroes for supporting the measure.
The Congress has voted funds and issued
directives giving American fighting men weapons
With which to fight and have sanctioned their
dying on the battlefields.
The Senate has decidly refused these men
the right to vote,'one of those fundamental
,principles for which they, are fighting.
If ever there was a liiticJl issue before Con-
gress in an election yer th3s)s it.
These are things the country will remember
when it goes to the polls. Maybe it will be a
good thing if such men as Iankin, lDondero,
and Fish in the House and ;Guffey, Bailey,
F1and Wheeler in the Senate ae not :returned
'to office for the sake of the peace discussions.
The Aiherican people are just about fed up
with this kind of negative democracy. If Con-
gress doesn't act, the people will remember.
Stan Wallace
HEARST POISON:
U. S. Fascists Propose
Peace ith Germany
(AMERICAN fascists are banding together with
Germans in asking America to disregard Ger-
many's imperial aims and wartime atrocities.
There is a ravine near Kiev where there are
about 75,000 dead Russians buried. Most of
them are plain people, porters, cap makers,
and laborers. More than 190,000 of Kiev's Jews
have been thrown into the ravine.
German leaders have warped the soldier's
minds to the point Ivhere they can derive en-
joyment out of murder and destruction merely
for the sake of murder and destruction. Ideas
about economic determinism must now be far
from the mind of a German soldier.
Nevertheless there are forces in this country,
while disregarding German crimes, propose a
negotiated peace with the Germans who have

DREWT
PEARSON'S Cihe
MERRY-GO-ROUND
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12-In private confer-
ences with friends, Donald Nelson has now joined
the list of those who have come back from Rus-
sia apparently hypnotized by Joe Stalin.
Nelson had two conferences with Stalin, during
which the WPBoss says, the Marshall showed an
amazing knowledge of the United States. The
main question they discussed was how the United
States and Russia could cooperate economically
after the war, and Stalin volunteered the blunt
proposal that Russia would take five billion dol-
lars worth of U. S. goods.
"Of course," he stated, "we can't pay in gold,
but I understand you have enough gold."
Stalin proposed that Russia pay in kind.
Nelson is now discussing with associates what
commodities the United States and Russia
could swap. One thing will be urgently needed
after the war-in fact, is needed now-is news-
print and wood pulp. Of this Russia has un-
told resources. And because some American
paper'mills have eaten up the forests around
them, it is proposed to transport these mills
to Russia, just as one rubber factory was
shipped to Russia earlier in the war.
Some of Nelson's associates nave also sug-.
gested that magnesium, of which Russia has a
vast supply, be imported in larger quantities
than we need and stored underground for use
in case of another war. They suggest that a good
stockpile of magnesium might be more valuable
than the gold buried at Fort Knox, Ky.
-Other business experts have suggested to
,Nelson that, in view of our dwindling oil re-
serves, Russian oil might be brought here in
quantity and pumped into some of the aband-
: ined wells of Pennsylvania-those wells being
less porous than any other in the United
States.
A1l these ideas so far are merely in the sug-
gestion stage, but they indicate some of the trade
possibilities which might be worked out with
Russia.
'Muley Bob' Doughton
The other day, Congressman Bob Doughton
of North Carolina asked me to come up to see
him. He was pretty irked over a story I had
written that his tax vote was influenced by
Johnny Hanes, former Under-Secretary of the
Treasury, whose family has been influential in
North Carolina and helped to establish one of
the big tobacco companies.
Congressman Doughton, who is eighty years
old and simultaneously one of the most patri-
archal and forthright men in Congress, had a
lot of things to say about me-some of them
none too pleasant. He agreed thoroughly with
the President of the United States regarding
some expletives hurled in my direction and
indicated that FDR didn't go half far enough.
He also said that so many people had called
me names that no one ever believed what they
read in the Merry-Go-Round. I replied that, if
that were true, no one would believe what I said
about Johnny Hanes influencing his vote.
After the fireworks had subsided, we sat down
and had a really good talk, during which Mr.
Doughton thoroughly convinced me that Mr.
Hanes had not influenced his vote, and further-
more that not even the President of the United
States could influence his vote unless "Muley
Bob" found that the President's views coincided
with his own carefully considered conviction.
Also I became convinced-as I sat in Con-
gressman Doughton's office looking over his
pictures of the past-that the newspapers had
missed a great story about a great figure who
has written more tax bills than any other man
in history.
On his walls and in his mind, as we talked,
appeared the names of other great Congressional
authors of revenue bills-Claude Kitchin, who
wrote the tax bills for Woodrow Wilson; Joseph
Fordney of Indiana, co-author of the famous
Fordney-McComber tariff act; Sereno Payne of

New York, co-author of the Payne-Aldrich tariff
act; Willis Hawley of Oregon, co-author of the
Smoot-Hawley tariff act-and so on down the
line.
All had been chairmen of the Ways and Means
Committee, which frames the tax bills and raises
.revenue to meet the mounting costs of the gov-
ernment of the United States. This committee
is so important that no member is allowed to sit
on any other committee of the House. Most of
the chairmen have worked themselves to death,
have become ill after a few gruelling years. Even
today, two of the veteran members, Representa-
tives Treadway of Massachusetts and Cullen of
New York, are ill.
But Bob Doughton, despite the grind which
has worn .down most men, seems as fresh at
eighty as he was ten years ago-and he has been
chairman of the Ways and Means Committee for
ten long years, the longest of any man in history.
He even gets up at 6:00 in the morning and is in
his office by 7:00.
No Secret Second Front
The invasion of western Europe is just around
the corner, but it cannot come so fast as to sur-
prise anybody-least of all the Germans.
In fact, the first news of the coming invasion
will probably come from Germany. They will
spot the gathering of the world's greatest ar-

I'd Rather
Be Right_
BySAMUEL GRAFTON
FOR YEARS v e ha e told ec h other that when
the great hour for' internatonal unity comes
at last, we much cherish it. We must watch like
hawks, lest the nations of the world begin to
bicker again, and to fall out among themselves.
Well, the hour for international unity has struck.
We all heard the bell at. Teheran. And the bicker-
ing has already broken out
Only it isn't the nations of the world that
are bickering. It is Mis Dorothy Thompson.
If Great B:itain had suddenly attacked the
Teheran results in the terms which Miss Thomp-
son has used, Miss Thompson would have been
aghast. If Ecuador had issued a statement calling
Teheran an anti-climax, a bungle and a bore,
Miss Thompson would have been deeply alarmed.
Here we go again, she might have said, biting
each other in the ankle, as in 1920.
WE KNOW WE'RE NICE
I do not see how it excuses Miss Thompson
for making funny with Teheran, just because
Miss Thompson isn't a nation.
Some of us internalionlists assume vast and
special prerogatives for ourselves. If an isola-
tionist, a Reynolds or aMcCormick, attacks the
results of a major international meeting, we
point our fingers and hiss: "See! See!" shaking
like leaves. But we allow ourselves (sometimes)
to do the same thing, without let or stint. We
know that our spirit, it is pure, and our mind,
it is just, so we don't worry. Why, hell's bells, we
know we wouldn't hurt a fly, we just know it,
so it is perfectly all right for us to sound like
a tommy gun.
IT'S WHAT YOU ASKED FOR
What is the burden of Miss Thompson's com-
plaint? She glooms to the effect that our leaders
are unnecessarily keeping secrets from us; that
they are not stating their war aims; that the
news handling of the Teheran conference was
bungled; that the communiaue itself was an
anti-climax; that our government is boring its
people instead of inspiring them.
(Before I go any further, and to avoid any
possible misunderstanding, I want to put it on
record that I love Miss Thompson. She is to
understand that my strictures against her are
written in the same fond spirit as her strictures
against Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, etc. Agreed?)
Now. Look, Dorothy, this meeting at Teheran
is what you have been praying for for 10 years.
Specifically, this meeting of the heads of the
three great Powers is the answer to your own
pleading of only a few months ago. This is the
first full-dress meeting of Russia and the West.
This is the final cancelation of that other meet-
ing which took place at Munich. This ends the
second front quarrel. This is history. This is it.
I think that some day, Dorothy, you may be
inclined to feel that you ggeeted it, when it final-
ly came, just a little too drsually'; almost, in fact,
as if it were not histy at all, but only a
crumpled-up Monday md ing laundry list.
SERIOUS IS AS SERIOUS DOES
Oh, but your objections were serious? Look,
Dorothy, the objections that wreck attempts
at international unity are always serious. A
border quarrel is serious. A desire to have more
territory is serious. The desire to have one's
own way is always serious, always sincere. I
don't say that several of your points aren't
serious. I do say that the road to unity is a
hard road, and that on that march the most
serious and sincere of people must sometimes
give up serious and sincere ideas. That, you
were not willing to do, not even in order to
enter into the rejoicing of the day, Dorothy,
darling, you pampered yourself. You did what
you would excuse no nation for doing.
You let fly with a script which an opponent
could have used, to cast scorn and discredit on
the great moment of the century. You hurt
Teheran, and Teheran is only an egg, so far, not
strong enough to stand trampling 'upon. Yes,
Dorothy, the bickering of nations may upset
unity. We all know that. But our own? Is it not

1eard? Is it not recorded? Do we have the right,
just because.: we are serious and sincere, to do
exactly what we have warned each other and
the world against doing, when the great moment
came?
(Copyright, 1943. N.Y. Post Syndicate)
mada of fighting ships, presumably along the
Channel coast of England, and they will an-
nounce by radio that the invasion is coming
and that they are ready for it.
Even before that, they will be forewarned by
a switch in tactics of the British and American
air forces based on England. Those forces will
turn from long-range bombinug to an all-out
trip-hammer assault on Nazi coastal installa-
tions. The Channel is so narrow that British-1
based planes will be able to make as many as
three daily round trips each to the German-held
shore, dumping bombs on coast artillery, rail
lines, ammunition dumps, troop concentrations
and, in general tearing up everything in sight.
This strategy--the pattern of which was
made clear in assaults on Tunisia, Pantelleria,
Sicily and Naples-takes most of the surprise
out of surprise landings. The air forces will
trumpet the invasion of Europe to the waiting
world.
(Copyright. 1943, United Features Syndicate)

Dominie

Says

1ill

WHETHER viewed on the wide
range of world affairs or within
the narrow confines of a local neigh-
borhood, the pageant of religious ex-
pression is colorful. In the news is
Iran, successor to ancient Persia. This
was the home of Zoroasterism, a wor-
ship of the Sun which predates Ju-
daism. But the prevailing faith to-
day is Islam, founded by Moham-
med five hundred years after Jesus
of Nazareth. Turkey, apparently
about to turn away from negotiations
with the clever Von Papen and to
negotiate seriously with the Allies,
historically is also Mohammedan.
The millions of this religious con-
stituency, scattered throughout Sy-
ria, Egypt, North Africa, India, Japan
and her newly-won Empire, spread
their rugs daily and pray facing Mec-
ca. Though the influence of Russia,
France, Greece and England impinge
periodically upon Turkey and her
neighbors, there is here a solidarity,
expressed in their religion, which
holds against Europe.
Russia, where Christianity in the
fourth century after Christ took
deep root and issued in the Ortho-
dox, once more has given freedom
to the clergy. The Moscow Patri-
archate not only has the authority
to reconvene the pastors of more
than one hundred million worship-
pers, but also has invited repre-
sentatives of the Anglican Church
into conference at the seat of thej
Soviet Government.
If one should add the Hindus of
India, the Sikhs, the Animists, and
the Buddhists of the Far East, we
western Christians, even when we
total all the Roman Catholics and
Protestants on all the continents
with our brothers, the Jews, would
have to admit to being outnumbered
many times. It may be well, there-
fore, for us to consider how confused
the forces and how deadly the pos-
sibilities. It may be well also for
us to celebrate on Christmas in hu-
mility, remembering the words of
Jesus to Peter: "Those who take the
sword shall perish by the sword."
Beneath the scientific and useful
planes of the modern western war-
rior, who girdles the globe in a few
hours, are the silent forces of a
just universe and the ruling at-
titudes of a God who is One. Un-
less we Caucasian masters of mach-
inery and our governments, how-
ever honorable and however certain
of victory in this decade, can speed-
ily discover that God-take His
attitudes to our souls, and bind up
the wounds of broken humanity
around the globe, that just unite
verse can eventually do no other
than send us to defeat. Our obli-
gations, as now initiated, are world-
wide and our morality is inexor-
able. "Whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap."
Edward W. Blakeman
Counselor in Religious Education

(T
"I don't put much stock in waiting to have a postwar baby-
frankly, I think they'll have the same features they always had."

Letters to the Editor

GRIN AND BEAR IT

Letters to the Editor must be type-
written on one side of the paper only
and signed with the name and address of
the writer. Requests for anonymous
publication will be met.
WE ADMIRED the Bluepoint Spe-
cial column while it was exclu-
sively concerned with trivia; although
points were often overworked and
were distinctly not Christopher Mor-
ley, they were of merit and sometimes
added those fine touches which make
the connoisseur's life more enjoyable.
But bluepoints are a collector's item,
and not instruments for stabbing pro-
gressive-minded groups.
Friday's Bluepoint column cer-
tainly did not have finesse, and it
was not trivial. It cynically de-
nounces all new developments and
preaches kindness to young heath-
ens who have not yet been convert-
ed to the true religion of conserva-
tism: Be almost tolerant to them,
for someday they may discover the
true light, reaction, the essence of
life.
Bluepoint seems to think that ideas
(this is just a hypothetical case, you
understand) are spread and judged
by themselves, and we should not
take them up. He says "that anything
that has to be fought for is not ready
to come, and once achieved is not
going to last very long." Would he
annul the results of the American

Revolution? How about the young
radicals then, or during the Brook
Farm experiment? Young radicals
may not originate ideas perhaps, but
is it not just as important for prog-
ress to transmit them, to fight if
necessary? Bluepoint's cynicism is
dangerous. If old people are tired,
young people should have the spirit
and determination. College does not
teach us to rest. If our vision is de-
fective, how is Bluepoint's, if he can
see only one side at a time. Now it is
the other one. He is not properly
conservative yet. He betrays himself
too easily. He even calls Hitler a
Socialist, though a crooked one. Why
is Hitler a Socialist? Why, he himself
said so.
Bluepoint always finds something
not ready. How can anything ever
get ready unless we propose to do
something? Look at the South. It
still has problems. This shows that
the Negroes should not have been
freed (if they were) because they
were not ready. Presumably they
are not ready yet, and never will be,
and freedom should not be spread
because it is not a new idea.
I hope some of us at least believe
that a better time will not come by
itself. And a better time might come
when Bluepoints go back to Oyster
Shells and let the other young people
be active.
John Neufeld

By Lichty

DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN

SUNDAY, DEC. 12, 1943
VOL. LIV No. 35
All notices forthe 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
Dormitory Directors, Sorority
Chaperons, and League House
Heads: Women's residences will close
on Tuesday, Dec. 28,1 at 10:30.p.m.
but, if necessary, special arrange-
ments may be made with house
heads to arrive on later trains.
Alice C. Lloyd, Dean of Women
Academic Notices
Classes in English 107 will not meet
until after the Christmas vacation.
After the holidays, classes will resume
on their usual schedule.
Doctoral Examination for Dominic
Donald Dziewiatkowski, Biological
Chemistry; thesis: "Studies in De-
toxication," Tuesday, Dec. 14, 313
West Medical Bldg., at 1:30 p.m.
Chairman H. B. Lewis.
By action of the Executive Board,
the Chairman may invite members of
the faculties and advanced doctoral
candidates to attend this examina-
tion, and he may grant permission to
those who for sufficient reason might
wish to be present. C. S. Yoakum

Concerts
Choral Union Concert: The Uni-
versity Musical Society announces
that the Don Cossack Russian Chor-
us, Serge Jaroff, Conductor, will give
the seventh program in the Sixty-
fifth Annual Choral Union Series,
Tuesday, Dec. 14, at 8:30 p.m. in Hill
Auditorium. The program will con-
sist of religious numbers, folk songs
and soldier songs.
Charles A. Sink, President
Carillon Recital: Christmas carol
and classical music associated with
Christmastime will be played by Per-
cival Price, University Carillonneur,
at 3:15 p.m. today, when he will pre-
sent another recital on the Baird
Carillon in Burton Memorial Tower.
Student Recital: Dorothy Ornest
Feldman, soprano, will present a re-
cital at 8:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 13,
in the Assembly Hall of the Rack-
ham Building. She will be accom-
panied at the piano by Ruby Kuhl-
man in a program including compo-
sitions by Schumann, Schubert, De-
bussy, and Mozart. Mrs. Feldman is
a pupil of Arthur Hackett. The pub-
lic is cordially invited.
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.
Event Ttndav

Zion Lutheran Parish Hall. Sister
Margaret Fry, deaconess in the Wil-
low Run Area, will tell of her experi-
ences working in this defense area.
Gamma Delta, Lutheran Student
Club, will have an Ice Skating Party
this afternoon. Meet at the Univer-
sity Ice Skating Rink at 3:00 o'clock.
The regular supper meeting will be
held at 5:30 p.m. at the Lutheran
Student Center, 1511 Washtenaw
Avenue.
Coming Events
Research Club will meet in the
Rackham Amphitheatre on Wednes-
day, Dec. 15 at 8:00 p.m. The fol-
lowing papers will be read: "The Dis-
covery in Eastern Washington of a
Hitherto Unsuspected Glacial Lobe"
by W. H. Hobbs, and "The Termin-
ology of Arabic Goniometrical Man-
uscripts," by W. H. Worrell.
Mathematics Club will meet Mon-
day -evening, Dec. 13, at 8 o'clock, in
the West Conference Room, Rack-
ham Building. Professor Ambrose
will speak on "Ergodic Theory."
The University of Michigan Sec.
tion of the American Chemical So.
ciety will meet on Monday, Dec. 13,
at 4:15 p.m. in Room 303 Chemistry
Building. Dr. G. G. Brown will speak
on "Properties of Light Paraffin
Hydrocarbons." The annual business
meeting will be held after the talk.
JGP Skits and Songs Committee:
Meeting at 5:00 p.m. Monday in the
League. All members are urged to
attend.
All University Women: Contrary
to previous announcement, Junior
Grlsi' Prniere rill sell war bonds

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