Y si 4 s if Y r. . r r +. - " 1_A ± r. l.5 1 .. uM 7p"c 7 intal .. ._. .a x. x . xi-x'...Y 'e ' 1 -i1Y IS>' . __ . _ _._ i_1 .. , v . _ . , . i ( t4: R th Yel Edited and managed by stuients of the University of Michigan under the authority ci the Board in Control 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 for 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 $4.25, by mail $5.25. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1943-44 Editori Marion Ford Jane Farrant Claire Sherman Marjorie Borradaile Eric Zalenski Bud Low . Harvey Frank . Mary Anne Olson Marjorie Rosmarin Hilda Slautterback Doris Kuentz . Molly Ann Winokur hlizabeth Carpenter' Martha Opsion Tel al Staff . . . Managing Editor . . . Editorial Director City Editor . . . Associate Editor Sports Editor . Associate Sports Editor * Associate Sports Editor . Women's Editor Asst Women's Editor Columnist . . . Columnist . Business Stafff . . . . Business Manager . . Ass't Bus. Manager . Ass't Bus. Manager iephone 23-24-1 NIGHT EDITOR: STAN WALLACE Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only.' REGISTER NOW: Blood Donors Needed For University's Quota rrE JANUARY Washtenaw county quota for the Blood Bankwill be entirely filled by stu- dents and servicemen at the University and it is up to us to be sure that 544 appointments are made and that 544 persons show up at the Wo- men's Athletic Building at the scheduled time next week. With reports of larger casualties from battle- fronts and more men being ordered t the fronts, America must continue to supply the lifeline of blood plasma. Much of the credit for saving the lives of 97 out of a 100 wounded soldiers is given to plasma. Men have a quota of 322 which will be filled by members of the Navy group and others at the Union, while 97 women have already signed up out of a 222 total needed at the League. The deadline for registration is Monday, Tan. 10. -Dorothy Potts 'UNDER COVER': Fight A gainst Fascism Cannot Ble Stopped Now THE FEDERAL GRAND JURY indictment of 30 American fascists charged with conspiracy to form a Nazi government in America shows that the government is finally waking up to the menace of native fascism. John Roy Carlson in his dynamic expose, "Under Cover" last year named the very peo- ple whom the Department of Justice indicted and charged them with the same crimes. Joseph McWilliams, George Sylvester Viereck, Mrs. Elizabeth Dilling and E. J. Parker Sage are names familiar to readers of Carlson's book as anti-American traitors. The charges which the indictment made have been avail- able to the public since last year in Carlson's book. Carlson is to be congratulated for his research into American fascism and for the revealing truths which he exposed. But more than 30 people were mentioned in "Under Cover" as hav- ing pro-fascist ideas. . We are fighting a war against fascism abroad; we must not tolerate it at home. -Kathie Sharfman NO HIGH PRICES Congressmnen Chanige Attitude On Subsidies PROSPECTS for a compromise on the subsidy bill that will prevent a shattering of the sta- bilization program are improving. The passage of a resolution which extends the life of the Commodity Credit Corporation for sixty days, gave consumers and the public addi- tional time to convince their congressmen that an anti-subsidy legislation would not only be bad economically, but would also be evil politics. At least $2,000,000,000 for subsidies, will be rouied in 144 to 2aheive e a nffiient redu- DREW PEARSOW'S MERRY-GO-ROUND WASHINGTON, Jan. 5--Don't be surprised if the railroads remain in the hands of the Govern- ment for Ine duration. Tlere Is one factor pointing strongly in this dietion.. Dave Robertson, chief of the railroad firnen and enginemen, together with Tom Cashen of the switchmen and H. W. Fraser of the condue- tors, held a secret meeting in which they decided to demand better terms than the compromise proposal offered by the President as Federal arbiter. Also, there was talk of calling another strike when the railroads were returned to pri- vate operation-- if the wae terms weren't met. That is why the railroads may be Itept tin the hands of the Government - at least until the three rebel unibns definitely agree on a wage settlement. It didn't leak out at the time, but two brother- hood leaders staged a terrific row during one phase of the negotiations, and J. J. Pelley, repre- senting the railroad operators, had to pacify them. It happened after A. F. Whitney, head of the trainmen, accepted Roosevelt's offer to act as arbiter. In the presence of the other broth- erhood chiefs and the railroad executives, Dave Robertson launched a stream of abuse at Whitney, accusing him of trying to curry favor with the President. Whitney shot back that it would not only hurt the nation, but be suicide for the brotherhoods to carry their strike threat too far in wartime. Labor Colonels .. . The War Department didn't announce it, but Lt. Gen. B. B. Somervell offered colonel's com- missions to both Whitney and Alvanley John- ston, of the locomotive engineers, who accepted the President's arbitration and were appointed labor advisers to the Army. Somervell suggested that they become colonels-. They promptly vetoed the idea, however. "I've got a son who has been a colonel in the Army for a good many years," replied Whit- ney. "He got his eagles the hard way and I wouldn't insult him by accepting a colonelcy on a silver platter." Locomotive engineer Johnston echoed .the same sentiments. They didn't tell General Som- ervell, however, that if they accepted commis- sions in the Army, they knew they would be taking orders from him, not from their unions. Inside fact is that the President had not planned to take over the railroads on Dec. 27. Ile was going to wait until Dec. 28 or 29, just before the strike deadline. There was also very definite information that all the unions would call off the strike threat at the last-minute. However, the President decided to act drasti- cally and one day earlier for this reason: its effect on the striking steel workers, on other labor, on Congress and on the country generally. He himself was getting tired of strike threats and lie had information that the country was tired too. The country was getting the im- pression that he was being run by labor, and he decided that this was a good chance to prove the contrary. General Somervell had been ordered a few days before to draw up plans for taking over the railroads. He and his staff spend 96 hours on it, produced a thick book of plans a little earlier than expected. So the President moved in. The 'Hopkins Letter'. . . The Justice Department has unearthed all sorts of ways to punish the forger of the "Harry Hopkins Letter" to Umphrey Lee, president of Southern Methodist University, predicting Will- kie would get the Republican Presidential nom- ination - if it was a forgery. There is a five-year imprisonment for theft of Government property, including the theft of White House stationery. There is also a penalty for using a facsimile of Government seals and stationery; also a penalty for engraving a per- sonal supply of White House stationery with the intention of using it fraudulently. There seems no doubt from Hopkins' -talks with the FBI that he never saw the letter be- fore. Only trouble now is that book author Nelson Sparks, who first referred to the letter in his book "One Man - Wendell Willkie," now is getting cold feet and says he won't produce it without a legal summons. Note: Several months .ago, this column was offered the "Hopkins letter," but refused to publish it in the belief that not even Hopkins, naive as he may be politically, would write such CONGRESSION AL OFFICIIBUTILDING Washington, D.C Dear Cnreswman, iFrio iiin voimi iinenei me, i've ieen Wi;ting you for years now About stopping the sale of sirap iron and aisoine 'i japan in the '31w Aioiut lifthi the embargo on goods during the Spanish Civil War so that the fas- cist General Franco couldn't enslave the people of Spain. About following the policy of Collec- tive Security proposed by Ambassador Litvinov of the U.S.S.R. at the League of Nations meet- ing in 1937 in order to avert war. About passing the long-standing, long-committeefied Anti- lynch bill, one of the clearest issues ever be- for our legislative bodies. And I've done more than just write letters. One of my hobbies is carrying petitions around and getting my friends, and my enemies (when possible) to sign their names in this democratic process of "letting your Congressman know." Sometimes I've even invested several pockets- ful of pennies for postcards, just to keep you posted on public opinion. All this is very well and keeps me nicely oc- cupied. But every now and then I run across a skeptic, a heretic who won't follow the true faith of writing letters to Washington, because in this country we have "government with the consent of the governed." These unbelievers say that at worst, the letters to Congressmen are merely thrown in wastebaskets by secretaries provided for that purpose. And at best the results are tallied, pro and con on each issue, and then for- gotten by the Congressman when the time to vote comes around. Some of them even go as far as to assume, with Fulton Lewis Jr., that this Congress is so intelligent and socially conscious and ultra- representative, that is unnecessary for us to keep Congress up on public opinion. BEING MERELY A modest politician, and as honest as they come, I'm sure you'll agree with me that such is searcely the case. Why, if my memory serves me, you were one of the men we visited this past summer during your Congressional recess. I mean the CIO Political Action Committee,, the League of Women Voters, and delegations from democratic or- ganizations who saw the National Association of Manufacturers exerting influence, out-and-. out lobbying, and getting legislation passed or held up as they wished. I think you were the one who had scarcely a word in defense of your vote for the Smith- Connaly Bill, against the $25,000 salary limit bill, and for the appropriation to the anti-democratic Dies Committee. But I had hopes that you had learned your lesson and would buckle down to your job. Instead I find myself having to jack you up again. On what? Why on the Soldier Vote. And the Subsidy Bill. And the Anti-Poll Tax Bill. All I can say is this. Maybe I've been too easily fooled all these years by the theory of democracy. My skeptical friends may be right after all. But if they are, let me tell you that if the men now in Congress aren't interested in getting letters of friendly advice on the issues of the day, there's a very simple solution to the problem. TEACH 'EM TO READ THEIR MAIL AND VOTE THE WAY THEIR CONSTITUENTS WANT THEM TO OR THROW 'EM OUT AND ELECT SOME- BODY WHO WILL USE A LETTER OPENER. Hopefully yours, A Nobody a a letter on White House stationery. The sug- gestion that Hopkins was also trying to promote a candidate against Senator Tom Connally three years before an election seemed absurd. Priorities Save Criminul . Private Joseph McAvoy of Brooklyn, sentenced to die for killing a Nebraska school girl, thought he would never see the New Year, but he is still alive. Reason is that the War Production Board refused materials to repair Nebraska's electric chair. Later, Nebraska found some repair mate- rials which could be borrowed locally, but had to be returned. This meant taking apart the electric chair, repairing it, and then taking it apart again to return the borrowed materials. This was too much. So Nebraska, which hasn't had a capital punishment case for years, postponed the execution. It now looks as if Private McAvoy might be granted a new trial. The sentence may be revised to "life" instead of death. (Copyright, 1944, United Features Syndicate) NEW YORK Jan Wei fellow , we have reached he poini were the American isola Ionst press hav gone all-oiu tIo ideaihismu. 'the Ni.w York Daily News has cone out agaiinst I it famine in India. It has also declared itself in favor of feeding the starving peoples of occupied Europe. t . . , I'd Rather Be Righit The same isolationist editors who used to throw themselves on the ground and kick and scream because we were sending food to our allies, under lend-lease, have now decided that it is very uncouth of us to deny food to land under Hitler's control. It's Spreading Like a Fever They used to employ the word "globaloney" to describe Vice Presi- dent Wallace's proposals to feed our friends, but they have decided it is the height of practical common sense to ship food into lands controlled by our enemies. They like that. That appeals to them. Funny. When Mr. Wallace once suggested that we ought to help raise living standards among the Chinese, etc., these men used to laugh fit to bust. Between sput- ters and gurgles, they would de- scribe his proposals as "a world- wide WPA" or else as a scheme "to deliver a quart of milk a day to every Hottentot." These same hard- headed wights see nothing vision- ary about a plan for organizing a milk delivery service to cities com- pletely under the control of the enemy. We had better face the fact that idealism is spreading among our iso- lationist friends like a raging fever. The food thing is only part of it. Take Mr. Hearst, for instance, who is hugging the Atlantic Charter to his hard breast these days, and making little crooning noises to it, holding buttercups under its chin, and Offer- ing to hit anybody who touches a hair of its head. But, Oh, My Mr. Hearst's belated passion for the Atlantic Charter stems from the fact that he hopes it can be used to keep Russia from taking away from Poland the part of Russia that P- land took away from Russia 20-odd years ago. In other words, he is for idealism, but, oh, my. On another section of the idealism front, we hear the argument, now cropping up repeatedly, that Russia had better not retake any of this territory, because that might hurt her prestige with Americans. This tender concern for Russia's prestige on the part of those whose arms are tired with heaving dead cats at her for 20 years, is perhaps the most un- convincing bleat in recorded history. Dust, or Something One also hears, all of a sudden, a great deal about the rights of small cations. This comes especially from those who thought England was quite silly, four years ago, for going to war for the sake of Poland. They certain- ly never thought we ought to go to any special bother for the sake of Poland. It is odd, but they are will- ng to take more trouble to save a )art of Poland, and a part that isn't very Polish, than they were ever will- ing to take to save the whole coun- try. So, therefore, in all this atmos- phere of brand-new concern for small nations, Atlantic Charter, etc., I seem to see a lot of winking going on. What's the matter with those fellows, dust in their eye, or something? I will match my idealism against my man's, but I also prefer to take ny idealism straight. On the score >f saving small nations, I will kick along with Messrs. Churchill and R.oosevelt, who heard Poland's cry or help the first time. These other forms of idealism depress me; for somesobscure reason they remind me :f the current idealistic campaign to save the Constitution by denying sol- diers the right to vote. (Copyright, 1944, N.Y. Post Syndicate) GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty ) d,, K * T .:_ ina . / j "I'll be glad wlhei we can go back to our old-fahioned windo displays, Snodgrass!" - DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN . .., . - . WEDNESDAY, JAN. 5, 1944 VOL. LIV No. 45 All notices for the Day Official Bul- letin are to be sent to A 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 Student Tea: President and Mrs. Ruthven will be at home to students this afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock. Applications in support of research projects: To give Research Commit- tees and the Executive Board ade- quate time to study al proposals, it is requested that faculty members having projects needing support dur- ing 1943-1944 file tlheir proposals in the Office of the Graduate School by Friday, Feb. 18. Those wishing to renew previous requests whether now receiving support or not should so indicate. Application forms will be mailed or can be obtained at Secre- tary's Office, Rm. 1006 - Rackham Building, Telephone 372. C. S. Yoakum All 17 and 18-year-old civilian col- lege students not in the Armed Ser- vice Reserve desiring to make appli- cation for V-5 Aviation Flight Train- ing should immediately contact Lt.- Com. E. F. Scott, Executive Officer, Naval V-12 Unit, at 27 North Hall. Petitioning for Orientation Advis- ers for the Spring, Summer and Fall Terms will be reopened. Petitions may be picked up in the Undergrad- uate Office at the League and must be returned by Thursday noon. Sign up for time of interview. Interview- ing will be held Thursday, Jan. 6, and Friday, Jan. 7, from 3 to 5 and Saturday, Jan. 8, from 9 to 12 in the Undergraduate Office. Lectit res University Lecture: Captain C. R. Cook, D.F.C., of the Air Corps, Engi- neering Division, Equipment Labora- tory, Wright Field, will lecture on the subject, "Navigating a Bomber over Europe and Africa," under the auspi- ces of the Department of Mathemat- ics, on Thursday, Jan. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. The public is invited Academic Notices Faculty, College of Literature, Sci- ence, and the Arts: Mid-semester re- ports are due not later than Satur- day, Jan. 8. Report cards are being distributed to all departmental offices. Green cards are being provided for fresh- man reports; they should be returned to the Office of the Academic Coun- selors, 108 Mason Hall. White cards, for reporting sophomores, juniors, and seniors should be returned to 1220 Angell Hall. Mid-semester reports should name those students, freshmen and upper- classmen, whose standing at mid- semester is D or E, not merely those who receive D or E in so-called mid- semester examinations. Students electing our courses, but registered in other schools or colleges of the University should be reported to the school or college in which they are registered. .._,. ---- partial fulfillment of the require- ments for the degree of Bachelor of Music, at+8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 6, in Lydia Mendelssohn Thea- tre, with a program of compositions by Chopin, Brahms, Tansman, Cop- land and Schubert. Miss Gooding is a pupil of Joseph Brinkman. The public is cordially invited, Events Today Sigma Xi: Lt.-Com. Louis A. Baier, Professor c f Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, will speak on "Shipbuilding in Wartime" tonight at 8:00 in the Rackham Amphithea- tre. Guests of members are welcome. The Association Music Hour will continue Bach's "St. Matthew Pas- sion" at Lane Hall this evening at 7:30. Public meeting of Post-War Coun- cil toni;ht a : 7: t ,5 iN. 6 Michi- gan Union, on topic "Are Wars In- evitable?" Talk by Prferor L. A. White of the Anthropology Dcpart- ment followed by question period. Everyone invited. House Presidents' attention: All House Presidents and War Activities Chairmen will meet in the Rackham Amphitheatre this afternoon at 5:00 for the regular House Presidents' meeting. A group picture for the Ensian will be taken during the meeting. -- The Book Group of the Michigan Dames will meet tonight at 8:15 at the home of Mrs. Roy W. Cowden, 1016 Olivia Avenue. Faculty Women's Club: Instru- mental group of the Music Section will meet tonight at 8:00 at the home of Mrs. O. T. Mallery, Jr., 1928 Lor- raine Place. Coming Events All dormitory and auxiliary dormi- tory stamp chairmen: Important meeting at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in the League. If you cannot attend, call Rosalie Bruno, 2-2591, or Betty Wil- lemin, 2-1528, before Thursday. All Varsity Glee Club Men: Regu- lar rehearsal at 7:30 on Thursday evening. As picture for Michiganen- sian will be taken, wear white shirts and dark suits. Attendance is com- pulsory for all members. Where To Hide Britons have been upset because models and sketches of two of their new "secret, planes" were on view for nine days at Edingurgh in an exhibi- tion staged by an association of ser- vice men's families. Concern over an administrative blunder of that sort is justified, but there is probably little to worry about otherwise. The "secrets" are probably safe. At the Paris exposition before the war, the Germans exhibited the Stuka plane which was such a terrible "surprise" in 1940. Nobody appears to have paid any attention to it. It has often been said that the best place to hide anything in Chicago is at the corner of State and Madison, "busiest corner in the world." In New York the Grand Central Station has «SM JT v 'O'N N 11 !f r f BARNABY By Crockett Johnson Joe Snodgrass goes into The Army Friday . .. I may be cailed any day now- Army routine will be hard, won't it? Onmen your age- rt t1 My age! Why I'm in fine shape- All that marching- And you wrenched a thigh running after Barnoby's football- Nonsense. .-, All I need is a bit of limnbering up .. . Mightn't be ofhn ei g u . i h nta bad idea to get hold of a set of Indian clubs. I'll call the sporting goods store i . Copyright 1944 FildPu. I i.. . And chest weights.. And a punching bag. What? A rowing nmachine?' Yes, send one over And parallel bars- 4 . Ct i z I This seem s like an awful f I'll be using it all, getting in shcpe . . - - -- Ii i I Copyriglt 19444 Fi Feld Pu6l wrion -- v I