~A"" T WO lt:itA ii; AVEPI NtWiU JAN. 12Y IqJ4 cR $Fift-Fi t Ya Fifty-Fourth Year f _f Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of 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 oilher mia iers herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second-class mail matter. Subseriptic s during the regular school year by car- 4ier $4.25, by mail $5.25. Mewber, Associated Collegiate Press, 1943-44 Editorial Staff hi b OCCASIONALLY roommates are good for something. Not often, but once in a while, the night before your bluebook when she's sweet enough to make coffee. Or cleans the room when it's your turn. The other night our roommate did us a service a little out of the ordinary. She's a go-to-meeting girl, and looks at the bulletin board in the Union every day to see if there are any interesting discussions going on that night. So yesterday morning she bounced in to say, "Ijey, remember that meeting I went to Thursday night at the Union? The one I came homn' so enthused about, the Michigan Youth for Democratic Action?" I didn't remember, but I nodded my head to save explanation. "Well. the Student Affairs Committee recog- nized them, and right away now they're begin- ning to do something. "Well, what? Really I don't have too much faith in organizations which start up in spurts. Too often they fall down right away. But, what 1s this long-named group going to do?" "They're going to conduct a poll about the soldier vote on Thursday, and . . That was enough. If she'd said almost any- thing else I would have turned back to my books and gone tp sleep. But the soldier vote at this moment is the light of my life. and may be the death of a few Congressmen if they don't mind their manners. And any group which has enough sense to settle on the topic of the day is indeed doing something to further Democratic Action. and we'll join right away. ND NOW that we've made up our mind to support MYDA, we have a few suggestions to keep them from the ugly death mentioned above. Intellectuals that students are supposed to be, we noticed a line half a block long in front of both movie theatres last Saturday night to see shows distinctly not first-rate. So why don't you give us education and "intellectual stimula- tion" with some good movies, like "Native Land," which is the report of the LaFollette Civil Lib- erties Committee investigation in movie-form (with Paul Robeson). And some OWI films about our allies. And perhaps "The Battle of Russia," filmed by USSR cameramen, and as- sembled and shown by the U.S. Army to all troops stationed within this country. Also, how about sponsoring some of the classes we thought of a few months ago: on "Under Cover," and our allies: Britain, China, Russia, Latin America? We still think the ideas are good, and a sailor we met at home UNDEMOCRATIC: Congressimen Should Be Allowed Active Duty PRESIDENT Roosevelt ruled Monday that le islators can't serve both in Congress and in uniform. It seems that the order was aimed at pre- venting members of Congress who hold reserve commissions from going on tours of active duty. If this is so, then it is taking away one of the best means these men have of finding out about the' war. These servicemen representatives are really representing more than the people back home. They are representing their buddies in service! With these facts in mind it does not seem right to prevent them from seeing what is happening on the front. This is the only possible way that they can find out how the servicemen want them to vote. Attorney General Biddle advised the Presi- dent that the Constitution forbids service in Congress and the armed forces at the same time, so Mr. Roosevelt asked Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Knox to see to it that legislators confine themselves to legislating. The constitutionality of the issue should have been discovered long ago. Instead the matter was allowed to slide until it was to the adminis- tration's advantage to enforce it. If Congress- men are not allowed to go to the front, then at least some criticism of the war effort will be prevented. When Reif. Will Rogers Jr. spoke here re- cently he said that he felt that he was repre- senting the soldiers more than any other group of persons. He believed that he could repre- sent them better because of the contact he had had with them. Should we deprive our servicemen of this right, for that's what it amounts to in the long run? -Doris Peterson Christmas-time further convinced us. He was explaining that he'd been in the Aleutians for several months, flying some kind of a plane, which he named and looked at us for recog- nition. "Why, don't you have to take plane spotting classes at the University?" We could only nod an ashamed "no." "Surely you have other classes, though, in why the war is being fought, and study of all the Charters and Con- ferences and Declarations which the Big Four have figurel out?" We said yes to as much as we could, and planned to do something about it as soon as we got back to Ann Arbor. Perhaps MYDA can do it for us. "With us, rather" my roommate amends. Samnel Graf ton's ___ G u N ANI) BE XI IT Pd Rather I Be Right NEW YORK. Jan. 12.--I think I showed yesterday that mere Hears- tian truculence toward Russia will not solve the Polish-Russian border question. It may feel good, inside: it may put Mr. Hearst in a fine glow: it may give a lift to the spirits of certain representatives of Poland. But it will not solve the prob- lem, for the more truculence in the west, the more insecure Russia must consider herself to be, and the sharper must be her sense of need for great military establish- ments on her western border. This is a self-limiting process. The sno'e luck Mr. Hearst has in rousing antagonism toward Russia. the poor- er are Poland's chances. If he suc- ceeds. Poland is lost. Never the Twain? What are the other alternatives? The Polish government-in-exile has made a stab at a policy by ordering Polish guerrillas not to co-operate with Russian troops now over the border. The government - in - exile seems to be in a kind of blizzard on the question, for it has ordered its3 guerrillas to go on fighting the Nazis. while not co-operating with the Rus- sians. But it is doubtful whether Nazi troops in Poland will conveni- H Y -- s le 4' e - / F , j r " Y~-. w r B y Lichty Marion Ford Jane Farrant Claire Sherman Marjorie Borradaile Erio Zalenski Bud Low . . Harvey Frank . Mary Anne Olson Marjorie Rosmarin Hlda Slautterback Doris Kuentz Molly Ann Winoku Elizabeth Carpenter Martha Opsion Managing Editor Editorial Director City Editor Associate Editor Sports Editor Associate Sports Editor Associate Sports Editor Women's Editor Ass't Women's Editor Columnist Columnist Business Staff I 2ff: "Tec iin, iuo'sisa eel highc_'price.han ourregula Thees ~ ~ ~ -v~i wi4 e os el ighcr prif'o [fan wir regular 5t0('k-it is rare imorted wine trom California'" if et4er~s h the Edktr~I' r . Business Manager Ass't Bus. Manager Ass't Bus. Manager 23-24-1 Telephone NIGHT EDITOR: RAY DIXON Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are writ/en by menbers of The Daily staff and represent the vie'vs of the writers only. ANNUA L SPEECH: President's Act Would Oro'anize Production DESIGNED to make every able bodied adult in the nation available for war production or any other essential services, the national service act which President Roosevelt proposed in his annual address to Congress yesterday answers a crying need for a more efficient and total mobil- ization of the labor resources of the United States toward a quick victory. National service in the President's own words is, "the most democratic way to wage a war. Like selective service for the armed forces, it rests on the obligation of each citizen to serve his nation to his utmost where he is best quali- fied." Fully understanding the fears of many that a national service act might become a vehicle for the surpression of the rights of labor, he added, "It does not mean any reduc- tion in wages. It does not mean loss of retire- ment and seniority rights." Far from being an inovation, national service acts have already been made law in Great Brit- ain, Canada. Australia and New Zea'land. In these countries, such an act has served to pre- vent strikes. which have so threatened the Am- erican war effort during the past year. It has served to keep labor resources from being em- ployed in those non-military fields whose only value is the high rate of profit which they have brought to their owners. Recommended jointly by the War Depart- ment, the Navy and the maritime commission, passage of the act will, as President Roosevelt said, "give our people at home the assurance that they are standing four-squared behind our soldiers and sailors. And it will give our en- emies demoralizing assura ne that we mean business-that we, 1.'0 million Americans, are on the march to Rome. Berlin and Tokyo." -Monroe Fink Q1ESTI)N ABLE: ,G-ettngLiquor Ca rs rfHERE IS A WAVE of juvenile delinquency sweeping through the country. But here in Michigan we are primarily concerned with De- troits delinquency problem. There are many teen-age youngsters obtain- ing liquor and getting drunk in Detroit. Deplorable. So the state legislature passes a statute which says that it is mandatory that persois. b.etween 21 and 26 years of age carry identification cards in order to purchase alcoholic beverages. Immediately, Detroiters above 21 years old, scoffed at the statute, and teen-aged drinkers flocked to the registration office and obtained cards without even having to falsify their ages. - - ,k,, ti, iiUtrni4 FrL',,'r e C. the t.hl r i i 3 3 I i a i r r i . tfi fI }i 4 4 ently divide themselves into two por- - tions, so that their two non-co-oper- ating enemies may be able to fight 1,tters to the Editor must be type- different dorms so my view is not them without embarrassing social written, double-spaced, on one sid' o limited. As a naitter of fact, I contacts. the pate only and signed with the know several girls who have gotten By adopting this hasty invention, name and address ' he wrier. E- themselves outside jobs at meal the Polish government-in-exile runs (uests for anonymous publicatwns too tersofosncntooftswn be mvt. time in order not to have to eat at the i'isk of losing control of its own bethe do~frmz. Until I read the letters guerrilla movement. qh om ni ra h etr The Polish guerrilla is trying to mentn, 8:tfl .i..In The "Daily" I thought the girls T o g r ir twere pretty unanimous in their work out a foreign policy while a REING just a male I'm probably a opinion of the dorm food and that Nazi stands over him with a knife. darn fool for sticking my nose in- the opinion was , "it is LOUSY." andc thistinkinganderhaps, to to what is strictly a fe mle affair. In my letter I should like to reply put him out of patience with games but when those partictlarly nauseat- to "Disgruntled's" stoners. The way and hunches. ing brickbats started flying about, I I understand the food situation, five It Falls Apart just had to get in. When a complaint days a week cabbage is served as a WhFats Aposltiagainst food is answered by the state- side dish, and, for a change, on the What possibilities remain? Mr- ment that the complainer's grammar sixth and seventh days, cabbage is geasts wiNesY rk Daly Miror s ex-is no good. even tihe meek a'i e served as the main dish. Miss Fiske amine even this absurd proposition, At the outset 1 hasten to admit cks for xamples. Doesn't she real- at its face; as if it were a solution and quite frankly-that my infor- ie that when examples are so ram- carefuly considered, and thoughtful- mation is all second hand-gleaned Pant it doesn't occur to one that a ly advancedfromc e'f instance even is necessary? But it cannot be examined, for it I've talked tols th sal I think it's quite obvious that even aI r h eif meals do contain all the necessary falls apart at a touch. Such a pol- vitamins and minerals, if they are cy would make it mandatory for hunch oc'urred to DerI Ftl u 1rei 1 made up of the same constituents Russia to absorb, not only a part of years ago. with results that are on day after day and are poorly prepar- easnsPoland which was Russian the 'ecord. Hodid wvcmeotJcdbfo long they will become quite until the last war, but all of Poland, here? I : voftin . She en ids by saying the and as much more of Europe, and My purpose. so far, has been, not world and its inhabitants do not also of China, as it could take. to try to solve the Polish-Russian ftmnt ion exclusively for "Disgruntl- If the Mirror's monstrous pipe- quarrel, but to show that the more ed." Maybe the world, in general, dream ever became a reality, I should. dream eer e a rety, I u frantic of current solutions merely doesn't, but the University of Michi- like to see Mr. Hearst himself be put take us into ine'ieciible labyrinths, gan makes it imperative for coeds to in charge of trying to mobilize the and leave us in the strangest places, live in some University controlled enslaved peoples of Europe against with our hats knocked dov over otir house. For these living accomoda- SRussia, after they have watched Rus- Rusaatr hyhv wthdRs ears,. This is a real wo rl, andi a t.ions the University gets a fancy re- szan armies working out on their Nazi n1 1uei ve ygsa ny sianarmes wrkig ot onther N zlai~d one; and only those whoa know m-luneration. Inasmuch as the girls enemies for two years. just how real and how hard it is, are forced to live in the dorms, Up the Dark Alley and who do not gaily pretend other- shouldn't the University be bound to But what are we talking about, any- wise, will help us to solve the Russian- lprovide them with food at least as how? The policy of war against Rus- Polish difference. good as they can get outside? sia is Hitler's policy: the very same (Copyright. IJ.44. N.Y. Pot Syndicate -Hal Miller i '1 The WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By DREW PEARSON i .I WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-Not since the days when Justice Hugo Black, then a Senator, ex- posed the wolf packs of Washington, have Capitol corridors and cocktail lounges been so packed with the brazen, charming gentlemen out to lobby for their special interests. Most brazen instance is the recent back- stage by-play to force Senator Claude Pepper of Florida to vote for the insurance bill or else face a fight for re-election. The insurance lobby's play is the run Ambassador Joe (Mis- sion to Moscow) Davies against him. What happened was that Payne Midyette. an ex-president of the National Association of In- surance Agents, called Pepper from Tallahassee and asked how he was going to vote on the bill exempting insurance companies from the Sher- man Anti-Trust Act. Pepper said he was against the insurance companies and against the bill. Midyette then became threatening. Ile is an old friend of Pepper's and is especially close to Pepper's law partner, now a Circuit Court judge. But he indicated, in none too veiled language, that the insurance lobby was ready to raise $10,000 each from several different groups and put a strong candidate in the field against Pepper. Since then. it has developed that the proposed candidate is Joe Davies. who would also have the support of the Florida Du Pont interests. Meanwhile, Pepper is standing pat on his vote. Florida insurance men thought for a time they had him converted and expectantly awaited his appearance before the Senate Judi- ciary Committee. This was a closed-door ses- sion, with nothing supposed to leak out. Next morning, however, Florida insurance men phoned Pepper wanting to know why he hadn't supported their position. They had a virtual transcript of his testimony against them. All of which illustrates who is dominating, at times actually running, Capitol Hill today. Note: Joe Davies is reported not anxious to run against Pepper, and he probably won't. Exit Bombsight,. . There is every indication that the U.S. bomb- ing to which the Japs will be subjected in 1944 will be without benefit of bombsight. The Norden bombsight hls been publicized as the great secret appliance which will help us win the war. It has been highly successful in the Eurogean theatre, but in the Pacific it has actually become excess baggage. Supply officers in Washington are still assign- ing bombsights to planes for Pacific action, but fliers are urging that the device be left at home. They have found that the most successful air attack in the Pacific is the low-level tree-top bombing, in which medium bombers sweep in on the target and let the bombs drop when they are so close they can't miss. This is better than any precision instrument ever invented. The tree-top flying requires greater pilot skill, also the use of delayed-action bombs so that the planes can get away from the target before it blows up under the plane. This is the kind of work that was done in the famous battle of the Bismark Sea. in which ev- ery Jap ship was destroyed. It was also how the Nazis sneaked up on Bori and wreaked havoc with Allied shipping. orrisons Mad .,. Probably never before in history has a member of Congress so flagrantly used the free Congres- sional frank as Representative Jimmy Morrison in his current campaign for Governor of Louisi- ana. The marathon-lunged, midget "Huey Long" believes in sparing no expense in his campaign -as long as the Federal taxpayers are footing the bill. At the last count, approximately a million pieces of campaign literAture - folded, ad- dressed and mailed entirely at the taxpayers' expense-had been sent out by Morrison, urg- ing Louisianans to vote for him in the January primary. The mailing charge alone would amount to about $30,000 if Morrison had to pay it out of his own pocket. However, Morrison hasn't contented himself with this gratuity. He has also introduced some brand new wrinkles that should open the eyes of his older. though less ingenious colleagues. A great believer in the "ersonal touch," Jimmy has four girl employees of the House majority room addressing by hand the envel- ores for his campaign ballyhoo. It would be quicker and far less exuensive to use an ad- dressograph, but Morrison wants the Louisi- ana voters to believe that they are getting something special. He can well afford to do this-it's nothing out of his pocket. (Copyright. 1944. United Features Syndicate) DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN WEDNESDAY, JAN. 12, 1944 VOL. LIV No. 51 All notices for the 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 . Student Tea: President and Mrs. Ruthven will be at home to students this afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock, Lectures University Lecture: Dr. Ragnar Nicolaysen. Director of the Depart- ment of Nutrition of the University of Oslo, Noiway, will speak on. "Some Aspects of Calcium Metabolism; an Endogenous Factor in the Absorption of Calcium from the Intestine." on Thursday. Jan. 13, at 4:15 p.m. in Rm. 151. Chemistry Building. This lecture is given under the auspices of the Medical School and the Depart- ment of Biological Chemistry. All interested are invited. tory and the European Se'tion Area fessor Trow, Mr. Baba, and Mr. .Eb- and Language Program, on Thurs- elke participating. Everyone invited. day, Jan. 13, at 7:30 pm. in thee~-~ Rackam Aphiteatr Thepublc 'he Association Music Hour will Rackhad Amphitheatre. The public1continue Bach's "St. Matthew Pas- is invited. "ion' at 7:30 tonight at Lane Hall. Lochner Lecture Cancelled: The Louis P. Lochner lecture scheduled by the Oratorical Association for Thurs- day evening has been ecacelled, Tick- ets for this lecture may be used for the appearance here of the Honor- able Sumner Welles. former Under- secretary of State, who has been en- gaged by the Association to speak in Hill Auditorium on March 30 on the subject. "Our Foreiia Policy." Indi- vidual tickets will be on sale March 29 and 30 at the box office of Hill Auditorium. The University of Michigan Strim Orchestra, Gilbert Ross. Conductor, will present a program of composi- tions by Handel. Frescobaldi. Stam- itz, Bach and Boccherini. at 8:30 p.m., Sunday. Jan. 16. in the Lydi Mendelssohn Theatre. Ruby KuhI man, pianist. vii appa as soloist. The public is cordially m-ii ed A.I.E.E. will meet Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Michigan Union. Mr. Carl Wesser, radio engineer at the F-M station, WENA, will speak on "The Operation of Station WENA." At 8:00 sharp, the picture of the members will be taken for the Ensian. so please be on time. Refreshments. The University of Michigan _Sec- tion of the American Chemical Soci- ety will meet on Monday, Jan. 17, at 4:00 p.m. in Rm. 151 of the Chemis- try Bldg. Professor Herbert E. Carter of the University of Illinois will speak on "Nutritional Significance of the Amino Acids." The public is invited. jThe Anericani Society- of Mechani- cal Engineers will meet on Thursday, Jan 13. at 7:30 p.m. at the Union. Professor A. F. Sherzer will show sev- Vral reels of film on the Arctic region ond Eskimo life in the Hudson Bay district. All engineers are invited. Ii' ~ 14? 1 JUj'I~f"A~~ University Lecture: Dr. Ragnar Post- mr Concilmeetng o Nicolaysen. Director of the Depart- i ursday. Jan. 13, at 4:30 p.m. at the ment of Nutrition of the University today at 4:y0 p.m. itRmh1139.eNI IUnion, Iof Oslo. Norway, will speak on the Bldg. Reports by Barbara Bingiam subject. "University Life at Oslo un- jder "n iOccs t ion." under the on "Penicillin. and Eleanor G arth . T ea at International Center is German Occupation. under the waite on "The Value of Legume In- erved each week on Thursdays from auspices of the Department of His- oculatoin." 14:00 to 5:30 p.m. for foreign students, -aculty. townspeople, and American 7n t4.lId.t 11' e A.Chl. netin wtill be .-rld ii sttudent friends of foreign students. R A ?i7 V A R V 5"