I'AGL '.IIVO ',F I I L M I (", I 1"'I fff' AN 11 Al I.Y' SATVRDAY, FEn. V!. 1944 PAGE TWO xru Ifl:AN I1AIIV rS A .I - .. _.Y .R I - '- 1 iii Fifty-Fourth Yedr Edited and mana.ged by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control ofStudent Publications. Published every morning except Monday during the regular University year. and every morning except Mon- day and, Tuesday during the summer session. Meniber of The Associated Press The Associated Press is 5lxclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of repub- lication cif 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 425, by mail $5.25. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1943-44 __ Editorial Staf Mar ion Ford Jane Farrant Claire Sherman Mai1rjorie Borradaile Eric Zalenski Bud Low. Harvey Frank. Mary Anne Olson Marjorie Rosmarin Hilda, Slautterback Doris Kuentz. Molly Anan Wiiiokuj Eliz , of quitting work five minutes earlier tan their -male c-o-workers. It was not stated why women had been al- lowed to ring out five minutes earlier than men, both at lunch-time and quitting time, but the reason is pretty obvious. PEA RSO N'S ______ M R YGo- OUAN D WASINGTON, Jan. 8.- -Though not ready to make a public announcement. WP's Steel Di- vision is worried about surplus production of steel, is actually urging relaxation of restrictions so that more steel may be consumed for civilian purposes. This is probably the most impotant produc- tion development of the war. It has not been so many months since every school child in America was collecting scrap iron, while the best collectors won trips to ship launchings to see where the steel was going. Those were days of desperate shortages. Be- fore the scrap drives got going, many furnaces closed down for lack of materials. Today, fur- naces are threatened with closing for exactly the opposite reason--they are producing more steel than is "required for war needs. In the big Social Security Building in Wash- ington, where WPB is housed, a meeting was held the other day in which a representative of the Steel Division frankly told other offi- cials that control should be relaxed on practi- (ally all steel products. "We are producing steel. faster than we are making up our minds what to do with it," said the official, "and it would be unfortunate if any of our steel-making capacity should stand idle until the necessary changes can be made. He pointed out that it will take sixty to ninety days for all the officials and agencies involved to make the decision for diversion of steel to civilian use. Meantime, the mills keep rolling and the steel piles up. The alternative is for the mills to shut dlown and throw men out of work. As a result, WPH has definitely taken up possible relaxation of restrictions on civilian construction. Note: This surplus steel production is one reason for the recent steel strike. Most people are unaware of what steel workers see all too clearly-that the beginning of the end of war- boom production has arrived, and lay-offs may be just around the corner. Copyright, 1944 United Peatures Syndicate) WETHINK that, letters are the best seasoning for -a duill dlay and here we quote yoi pieces of one such. Mfarch, 1933i United States of America "Dear Sir: I do not know your name or how you came into possession of my house. I only know that two years ago the police of the Third Reich sei7zed all my property, personal and real, and handed it over to the stock company formed by the Reich for the confiscation of properties of political adversaries (chairman of the board: Minister Goerin. I learned this through a letter from the mortgagees. They explained to me that under the laws of the Third Reich confiscation of property belonging to political opponents concern themselves only with credit balances. . .. One thing is certain -you, Herr X, are occupying my house and I, in the opinion of German judges, must pay the costs. How do you like my house, Herr ? Do you find it pleasant to live in? id tthe sil- ver-grey carpets in the upper rooms come to grief while the S.A. men were looting? My housemian sought safety in these upper r'ooms, as 1, being in America at the time, the gentlemen seemed to determine to take it out on him. Those carpets are very deli- cate, and red is a strong color, hard to eradi- cate. I wonder to what use you have put the two rooms which formerly contained my library? I have been told, Herr X, that books are not very popular in the Reich in which you live. and whoever shows interest in thema is likely to get into difficulties. I. for instance, read, your Fuehrer's book and guilelessly remarked that his 140,000 words were 140,000 offenses against the spirit of the German language. The result of this remark is that you are now living in my house. Sometimes I wonder to what use bookcases can be put in the Third Reich. In case you should decide to have them out, be careful not to damage the wall... ~ OESN"T it soinetinies seemii odd to you that you should be living in my house? Your Furhrer is not generally considered a friend of Jwshliterature. Isn't it. therefore. a stouindi- ing thati he shotuld have such a strong predelic - tion for tile Old Testament? I myself have heard hin quote with much fervor. 'An eye for an ere, a tooth for a tooth' t'by which hie may have meant. 'A confiscation of property for !it- erat v criticism'). And now, through you, he has fulfilled a pr'ophecy of the Old Testament--the I'dRather1 ~BeRight__ BY SAJMUvL _GRAI Iole_ NEW YORK, Jan. 8. -ln Re Marshall: Gen- eral Mar shall had every right to be bitter at the very thought and suggrestion of a railroad strike. You cannot makv a mani his countrys chief of Staff for the hardest military 01praion in his- tory, and thent expect hirn t t take the threat of a railroad strike calmly. If he took it calmly, hie would not be fit to be in charge of that opera- tioni. It is precisely tGeneral Marshall's sense of complete personal invovemnt in the coming campaign, a quality which the Russians would call "seriousness," which demonstrates his ft fi-ness for the job. The coing offensive is the most important ting in the world to himt; everything else does not come to the value of ja pair of pin,'. Thiat is the viewit he must lake of his ,lob. if hie is to do it well: if he is to brush aside the thousand-and-onie obstacles of which we an know nothing, as well as the mtoreC obvious ones which we can see. jREMEMBER LEWIS? To attack him. theref ore, fot'pipm ting the of- fensive fir'st in heis thoughts, is ntot to be liberal. but merely liberalistic. It is to spout Monday's slogans on Wednesday. If a liberal :has anything ito contribute to his fellows, it is a deeper and more rofotud sense of the moment than they may have. When a liberal loses his sense of the moment. and retteatis into his mechanical and familial' mottoes, lie becomes merely a piece of machinery, a kind of political gramophone. and ceases to be an actor on the great stage. He ceases. in fact. to be "serious." The nanves which general Mlarshall applied to rail and steel labor, while harsh, are no worse than the names which many liberal and labor leaders have a nplicd to John L. Lewis for the same reasona, strikes during war-time. These liberal and labor leader's have, of course. a feeling that John L Lewis las little sympathy jfor the war, wxhle they know that our rail and steel leaders have great sympathy for the war. Bt; is this. difi'erence. whlich is concealed in the backs of men's a- a "srious" difference. at a moment wiwen the o iost ion is whether wve can invade Etrope or riot? A PIT TOOt14 APPY ABOUT IT There is no doubt that those who are anti- labor-movement, anyway. aid who would draw an anti-labor moral even from the flu epidemic, if they could, have gone on a rooting tooting spree becatuse of the Marshall incident. C'aptain Rickenbacker has already nomin- ated Mliarshall for President, which seems ex- treme. A number of' other commentators are trying' to translate this threatened break in our unity, which was averted, into itnmajor schism Ibetween "labtor" on the one hand, and "sol- diers" on the other. A certain comnplicated game is going on. The adminisrat ion's efforts to keep wages down are, in gener'al.strongly supported: at kind of re- ligion is macic in Congr'ess, of the "Little Steel" formula. But whien the question is that of keep- ing prices down, of limiting incomes, of inceas- ing taxes. of renegotiation and recapture of excess war pmofits, a moral atmosphere of soft- ness and accommodation replaces the Spartan trends shown on wages. 11011 TO 1.08E WILE' WINNING This is, intentionally oar not. a game of provo- cations. Congress does not seem to mind this game of pr'ovocations; when it saw these trends provoking a rail .strike, it did not stay in em- * ergency session; it went home, cheerfully enough. for thre holidays. labor' should have been astute Eenough to see, what some of its opponents saw, that fot' labor to yvield to pt'ovocationis is the :road, not to victory. but. to defat. The strike simply has to be laid aside this yeai; it does not exi,st, as a reality, iin 1944. Wherever economic injus- tice has to be rectified, it must be done in the political field. I And in the political field it is impossible for a just claimtant to win a few cents, but lose the battle, which by a miracle labor' has Just accom- plished for it self by -failing to note the time of day. Copyright, (1944. Newx York Post Syndicate) saying. 'Thiou shalt dwell in horses thou halt not builded.' With many good wishes for our house. Lion Feuehtwanger P.S. O11 the other hand. perhaps you think my statement that your Fuhrer writes bad German is justified by the fact that you are now living in my house?" The RAFL and AAF may have bombed out of existence the house Herr X has been living in 1hese ten years. But, whether or no. we hope that Mr. Feuchtwanger will return to live ther'e again aftlet' the Russians have reached Berlin from the east. and the Americans and English jfm'om the west. We're quite sure he is more cap- able of rebuilding his house than are the mem- bers of the Alied Military Government, who con- sistently seem to feam' democracy as much as they fear fascis m. At any rate. he can help them out. Iand so- can the mote than 200.000 refugees to the UnitedStates from Hitler's 140.000 words and acts of bad German. If they return to their homeland, and, unimpeded by "friendly advice" from outsiders. r'ebuildithteitr country. GI.in- -. I.I_.P I Ii G I ~' ~ f - 1k> J DAILY OFCIABLLTI SATURDAY, JAN. 8, 1944l VOL. LIVf No. 48 Al notices for the Daily ffcal 13111- 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 e submitted by 11:30 a.m. Faculty 'lea: President and Mrs-~ Rtuthvcn xxili be at home to Mmeber of the faculty and othe' towspeope on Sunday, Jan. 9. from 4 to6 o'clock. Cars may park in the re str'icted zone on South Univ ersit between 4:00 and 6:30 p.m. Withholding Tax Statement ; T'Pc Business Ofice is making every effort to have mailed by Feb. 1 state ments for staif memibers indicatinig the amount of- tax withheld from their salatries or wages (duringttth past calendar yeai. The pepaatio of these statements will be expedit1?d greatly if staT lem'bers ',vill kindl t'efra in. except under vey specia individual (11iiiaCe4. ti'uulask ing for such informatiol in advane iof Feb. 1. Obviously every inteup tion dlelays in some degree tt;= work involved in preparing more than si thotusand such stternemis. S. W. Smith To the 'Members of then 'nversity Council: There will be a meeting o the University Council on Monday Jan. 10 at 4:15 pa. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. The agenda will in elude: Report of the Counselor to Foreign Students; Report of the Committee on Cooperat ion with Ed ucational Institutions; Election ofa Senate member to the Board of Di- ectors of the Michigan Union. Mem bers of the University Senate at' invited. Louis A. Hlopkins, Seretary Applications in support of resear'dh projects: To give Research Commit tees and the Executive Boadl ade quate time to study all proposalit is requested that faclty member; having projects needing swport dr-' lng 1943-1944 file thteir' proposals i the Office of thke Graduate School b Friday. Feb. 18. Those wishing t renew previous requests whether no receiving support or not should s indicate. Application forms will b mailed or can be obtained'at Secre- tar'y's Office, Rm. 1006 Rackham Building.'Telephone 372 C . S. Xoakunm February Graduates in Egieer- ing and Chemistry: Mm. J. . Hall Supervisor of Employment, of AlLsor Division. General Mo tos Corpora tion, Indianapolis. Ind, xii itr- view February graduates. Tuesday Jan. 11, in Rm. 214 West Engineeing Bldg. Interview schedule may be signed on the bulletin board a, Rt. 221 West Engineering Bldg. February graduates in Engineering~ and Chemistry: General Motors Co- poration representatives will inter- i ,lew Feb r uarty Engineering an. Chemistry graduates for positions in various divisions of that organiza- tion, Tuesday. Jan. 11, in rn. 24i West Engineering Bld. Inweri w schedule is posted on the bulletin P'ij 1 XX In itt... 1yL 'a taI"(' i'_ tig~inue m" i ' stdent ap a~ulit'n- i Felrt try : Mr. W. B. T I. e+ lvlanufaxt ii mg lE'no a er o1 ,51 r IElec t'c 'otpany. Haw- r~t ''(yw ui '; Alelaical Enie=r- tiiA 1tt .. t " ,L i V.m. 21t8 We t E )n i- sic r in l Rn , ' bi cday Jan. 1, 94 Tt edv' : ' 'hedthle is posted ott the Il 'y Iin board act Rn. 221 W'est En.~ y l~p ',od ni o('ein ers. The RaUi- "'.: 1 Iulmnic al Society tivill present wo i()'h ( l5 5il l iAuitoritim in e autai'y is fllows,: Artur Rubin- I it>n, o 'ishiplat'istu.will be heard 17 tl sdc>io% Jan.18. t 8:30 in a pto- }Arai1: tif certpoiioiis -by Beet hoven. n 17'r ;.zt8 cllunifn-nui, Chopin, Shosta- .eEidii' i1lnP2 i}. i<,rI> L i V r( ir'c., IWettIopolitalt .t! -' 1 erera, ;o>moxiil be heatd inire- V cii:-a1Snuil aftn-.i'0oon at 3 o 'lock, Jan &e.5C. - n n :'o~ iont he f-i ads Stringy; ua r- e . an' eii d1± 1, )1 in: Muhael Kutt- 'l:n %. xO hi': Jnlius Shaier. viola: and li 'itr J Eci. x iolon('el 10' ii give x Prec t o oga is : n the Fourth An- ntnal Chui'obea 'V Muic :Fstival in the 11t [.rc ure I-all (A the Rackham Build- ton°; s' follows: y '-Fiday,'Jan. 21. 8:30 p.m.: Quartet rf ill EP-fKa mjot', Haydnt: Quartet in f"l Ra ve ~ l; catlet in D minor, Schu- I Pa turdla x,,Jan. >2 :30 p.m. : Seven o iCthor,' Pto ilade-sBach: Quartet in e "' n ltr" 1 I3-w evn; First Stting -tt<,e Le. n 1'd';(llta a Satrda'. *Jan, 22, 8:311 p~m: Quar- - * illi F ninsJot'. 'Shttrann; Quartet -No. , Darmod Morris: Choral and e 7,tl(u '. ahias: Italian Serenade. Wolff. ('harles A. Slink, President - s The, C aduafe Outing u b wilt t e are PPcd' gat 2 :%0 pan. at the Club S curers in thle Rackham Building - entramtwo Huron St. west cornet' for ti a hike o01'indoor' games. Y All graduate and proessiontal stu- n encm (] nd ltmni are cordially in- vVited. c he 1,'t'tmmn hit,r Student uild - 'xill held a skating paty tis eve- Sninr . UMe~t }.thtie church at 8:30 p.m. There will be an infrmnal gathering "ae' rs it the chti"cli. S t'he Rogi' r fithaun Guild will hIto "i ' workJPart>'' tonighit at 8:30 in the t Tuild HFouse on Flast Huron St. Pla, * ,:e Ot ia tmadc to hrn a basement 0 119 nI LO " iiu'reatioll 10013. Wa suili4t' an- n ant Ile GCuild xii haea il- s poMial gu test Dr,'.Newt or: ! c' Y 'c'sse-n: of the Baptist Natitonal Bo,,rn:h of Education, at the 1,e eksly m"ectiant at 510 p.m.: :nesk'i < 'oi daT on: The group 1v11 i41EWC ey Longetonight 1 '.741 o :o'a# Ho.tll'rSkaing Party at. ~ti,i~t s of thie'uriveisily. as uell a- ,irx f' ' e;in' rei ed. are invited to i vion recj'utl. to be pla yed in thed fnt ero.t ion ! C rs' ci' lounge on Su- Letter's to the E'ditor "cast be tyye- writ ten, double-spaced, on one side of tie paper only and signed with the "nme and .tddre>s, of t he writer. Ret- (nests for (anonymous, pobliationts will be miet. M aturiv .eeded .$, L.IVE int a lert tl loo. I ueatI (1011 LOOd 0 to eln-esasa they. Some- timeis food ts .served iwhichi I don1't like. This is oaturt,sincsae there are s0 trity gS iI'l"s. n;.il pers;onal likes and di slikes cannot be cosidred. How- evern. I find that asa general rule. tile 1(10(1is 11011iing, it is well- C'ooked as ally1f(1oottoke'd in lare dltaltities. uaid the meals ate petty wxell b alainced, Na tnt aally. xxecdoniti;et as much rro It a , xwe used to get, Point a- doIling fmakesItlis, impossible. Iot is buittrcm p'enifl o. But''Disruntled Coed'' obviouslv caninot blame such dlilficult ies on theliehticians. I believe that '"Disgi'untled Coed" has allowed emotion to "run away Swith her." She has not tooked a' the situation fairly amnd has in- excusably distorted it. Shte refers to fthe dietician~s in such a manner, Ithat site seems almost to be group- ing there with Nazi saboteurs! Besides this, she acts as if inde- pendttltw xomen itl dorms (I wonder thlat she( didn't capitlze the ternm) arte a group with a special problem whtich nio onet. else has to face. Wam' planning of meals is no doubt diffi- cult tot' sororit ies league houses, .nd almost eery rther' oganizat ion. Wve cnoeds 11eed to adopt a spirit of topla'ra ttownxarl'(necessa'y warl incu.onveniences, We should act like muatutre women rather than adoles- retnts. -Coed SLIGHTl'ex,,.Tet tinouWld lbe o, utting tmidly xwhat the '"dis- tarunt led" Miss Asterbilt had to say ;about the domlot~ otd. 1 say it's a lie! Il the first place, wxhetreai'e the spe- cifti' examples that literally any cl- lege ''pro f' teachting; at cotrse ilcon- posit lin votuld insst on? Would it Lie that the xvitet cannot remember vhat she learned itt freshman comp? Smnce there wer'e no examples, .I'll sipply one. One of ou' luineeons consisted of: dessert;, lettuce salad, lima beans, po- tatoes.,nmilk, and broad. How many cif the complainers at that meal knew that beans rc, a proten, not t starch? I d'are say that "I isgrtittl- "ci" didn't. Onec of the dor'm' nurses decided to prove to herself that what onme- of t he girls sald x ;ill in the lining room xas not true, so for a week she kept tract of what we were being fed. Site found that each day the food ii~id a requred amount of' vrotcin, starcht carbohydrate, min- eral, and vitaminssI1 she ate the entitre meal. Tihe only reason for out' having an unbalanced diet would be out' reftusingtog( eat vegetables or drink milk. Another thing: how many of us who have hadt flu or atre flunking out ':an truthfully say that we have eaten the foods offetred us to keep us healthy? How manty of us caught colds, flutar sore throats because we didt not dress wxarmnly 01'keel) ot' feet Jry? _-Ehlzabeth Rychener 'Term in a wxomen's 00o-operative house, muest be present ot' Inter- views Monday, Jian. 10. at 7.00 p.m. at the Muriel L.ester Co-op, 1102 Oakland. Call 21~28 fot' further iformation. nting, Jats_. 1.ha ee an''ld viee10 ated''.egla.Sn isere tt h flosi hourfat suet'histhe chol f ousitill, BANNAY By Crockett Joltii3 , I ~ I I ( II C 111-7h I,, 1944 Fi~d citoc- - -a 41