THE MICT AN DAILY SUNDAY, DEC. 12, 1943 THE MItHI(1AN DAILY SUNDAY, DEC. 12, 1943 Fifty-Fourth Year -~ - - - ..--- Edited and managed by students of the University. of Michigan under the authority of the Board InCon trer 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 ror 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. RZPREEC-NHt, FOR:NATON1.L ADVERnT11G1 BY National dv ;rtis gvService, Inc. College Publishers 3Rep !resentalive 420 MAnisoN AVE. NEW YORK. N.Y. cIICAGo . BosTon Los A ELes . 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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 BARNABY Gosh, Mr. O'Malley. I don't Look, m'boy! ... This grasping institution know where Mom and Jane even does a business in Lost Children! are ... They must be LOST. 2 Cushlainochree! They don't miss a trick- 11_old I By Crockett Johnson /L Lost Children Jane! -1 I I I I II Put a small deposit on her, Barnaby, and wait here for me ... I'll look around for the Lost Parents Department...