PAGE TWO IHE MICHIGAN DAILYW EDNESPAYk, FEB. 2, 1944 I! 1ity.Frtgan ea Fifty.Fourth Year - 4 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 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.X Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1943.44 Editorial Staff Marion Ford . Jane Farrant Claire Sherman Marjorie Borradalle Erie Zalenski . Bud Low . Harvey Frank . Mary Aune Olson . Marjori Iosiarln Hlda Slautterback Doris Kuentz . . . . . Managing Editor . . . . Editorial Director . . . . City Editor . . . . Associate Editor . . . . . Sports Editor * . Associate Sports Editor * . AssFociate Sports Editor . . . . Women's Editor . . . Ass't Women's Editor . . . . . Columnist . . . . . Columnist Business Staff Molly Ann Winokur . Elizabeth Carpenter Martha Opsion . Business Manager Ass't Bus. Manager Ass't Bus. Manager Telephone 23-24-1 NIGHT EDITOR: LOUISE COMINS Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. SH(R SiGH'ED: State Ballot Would Deny Vote to Some Soldiers rf1\H FLAGRANT statement made by Senator John I. Overton (Dem., La.) during the de- bate on the Green-Lucas bill for a federal serv- ieRmin's ballot exposes the real reason behind the southern representative's opposition to the bill. "Let us be frank here," he said, "down in the Solid South we've got to retain our voting qua'ieations to preserve white supremacy.," - The Senator has unwittingly pointed out the most serious defect in an overseas ballot op- erated by state machinery. If the overseas vot- ing were handled by the states, it would mean that some men would be permitted to vote, while others even in the same company would be denied that privilege, because of such "qualifi- cations" as the poll tax. The greater cosequenee of the Senator's statement, however, is in his allusion to racial problems. It is indeed discouraging that the maintenance of "white supremacy" in the South is the primary aim of some of our rep- resentatives, while our nation is at war to pre- serve democratic institutions and ideals. Fur' thermore, the attitude expressed by Senator Overton is an example of dangerous political short -sightedness. One great advantage of a federal ballot is that it provides a natural opportunity to raise the political status of the southern Negro and other minority groups. This would result in another step in the gradual process of emancipation. With the country at war, these minority groups are making the same sacrifices required of other citens who enjoy all the freedoms wtiten in the Bill of Rights. The internal chaos that the southern Senator probably fears would not come from the removal of "yoting qualifications"; rather would it conic by making an issue of "white supremacy" and refusing to grant to the Negro and others the rights to which they have always been entitled. -Marcia Wellman PRO-ALL D?, Spain Seeks To Switch !AFTER READING countless contradictory ar ticles in regard to Spain in the last few weeks, it is little wonder that the American public is a little confused at this point. The Soviet and British embassies are pro- testing the aid Franco is giving Germany and warning the people of the United Nations. Meanwhile, Harold Denny, in an issue of the New York ''imes. lands the triumphs recently attained by the Allies in Madrid, nanmely, that Franco has hinted (hat he will aid Tito; that there has been a sudden immigration of Nazi agents to Madrid; and that the progress of Allied propaganda in Madrid is greater than that of Nazi propaganda. All this amounts- to just a jumble of nothing. DREW Cj PEARSON' MERRY-GO-ROUND WASHINGTON. Feb2. U.S. Military Intel- ligence, the step-child of the Army, is getting a new chief. He is Maj. Gen. Clayton L. Bissell, who has been shunted a'ound to various posts and now is to head one of the most important but least efficient branches of the service, Intel- ligence. Bissell chiefly distinguished himself recently by tangling with General Chennauli,. spectacular former head of the Flying Tigers in China, now head of American air forces in China. Bissell was in command of the 10th Air Force in the India-Burma-China area last year but, after a none-too-brilliant tour of duty, was trans- ferred. Now he is replacing Maj. Gen. George Strong, who retires for age. This means that, in the two years since Pearl Harbor, Military Intel- ligence will have had four different chiefs- none of them in long enough to get acquainted and some of them totally unsuited for the job. (General Strong had got into the groove and was batting hard when he retired.) In the Army, G2 or Military Intelligence has never lived down three major bonehead plays, Boner No. 1-The prediction, in 1940, that France would hold. She folded in a few weeks, Boner No. 2-The prediction, in the summer of 1940, that England would be taken. She hasn't been taken yet. Boner No. 3-The prediction, in June, 1941, that Moscow would fall in a few weeks. The Nazis are now retreating from Moscow. Another boner credited to G2 is that of not knowing that three German divisions were lying in wait for Allied forces when we landed at Salerno.' Reason for G2's bush-league batting record is attributed by many to the closed-shop policy of Military Intelligence before Pearl Harbor, the commissioning of blueblood stock-brokers and bankers since Pearl Harbor, and the fact that the best Intelligence men have left Wash- ington desk duty for active service elsewhere. Note-Colonel Philip Faymonville, the an who knew Russia best and didn't go wrong on the question of taking Moscow, was transferred out of Russia chiefly because of jealousy from the blueblood G2 clique. (Copyright, 1944, United Features Syndicate) IN NMANY WAYS this University is just like others: it has a football team, bluebooks, lec- ture sessions. But in some ways it's dilerent: It has a large group of foreign students, some departments and professors who are particularly good. But it also has a unique feature of which no one seems to be very conscious. In the whole nation there are but two collections of books, newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets on labor his- tory, cases, laws. One is the John R. Commons, Collection at the University of Wisconsin, fam- ous for writing the many-volumed labor history. And the other is the Labadie Collection on the eighth floor of the U. of M. Library, which al- most no one has heard of, and which no profes- sor of this University has ever used for research work. Whether or iet you are syilpathetic to the struggles of workingmen, if you are any kind of scholar the idea of not using untouched and val- uable material is sacrilegious. The Collection is unexplored, and even a small amount of search- ing uncovers names, dates, organizations, theo- ries, facts which few people know about- It isn't just a question, though, of whether individual people are interested; what is the official attitude of the Administration? here is a very rare and valuable collection which is more important than other vairs of the library which are oieplaccebhe. Here. too, is material which can not onti help citizells and union men shape the future by learning from the past, but here is a source of fame for the University . . . an opportunity to draw scholars from all over America. So far, the interest in the Labadie Collection is so slight that allost no professors have ex- plored it, and even fewer students. No scholars searching for new subjec " for doctoral theses in economics, American history, sociology, politic1 science, business administr'ation . . . hav1 been directed o it . The University at first paid oo financial a tten ion at all to he Collec- tion, either to supplemet it. or to have it cata- loged. Now a smal amount is being spent but so small a sm in comparison to research on purely academic subjects! VJtAT'S UP THERlE Coiies of labor pubi- cations from the 1820s on . . of many re- ports of state and national investiations on the causes of strikes. w es and hours research, etc. Material on al h shades of labor teory back of olfyres h Wesrn Federaion of Miners, he Knig Js ol 1abor, the McNamra bthercs . on hI oijdreds or (.; which didn't make too big a st ii in the I)l!ilds of men as did I'd Rather e Right By SAMUEL GRAI TON NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-I hope I will be pardon- ed for writing in what may perhaps seem a spirit of coldness about the frightful atrocities against the prisoners of Bataan. For there are import- ant lessons to be learned from this story if we can brace ourselves to look at it objectively. I have already heard the feeble peep uttered that this horrifying account will be "good for our morale." I find the remark insufferably smug; I quiver like a leaf whenever I hear it, and I have been hearing it often. DOES IT TAKE ALL THIS? It is no proof of our morale for us to become genuinely angry when we hear that our friends and brothers have been wantonly beaten, starved, decapitated and buried alive. That is merely proof that we are alive, and have normal human reactions. If I take little pleasure in the na- tional demonstration that has been touched off by these dreadful revelations, it is precisely be- cause the revelations are so dreadful. Does it take as much as this to make us draw closer together and speak, for the moment, as one? Are we to be proud because we are moved by what would move a stone? The point I am creeping toward is that we will be on the road to morale when we break into demonstrations that are greater than this, for causes that are far less. There is a kind of implied criticism of us in the present incident, taken as a whole, for it says that we were not deeply stirred until some of our own people were subjected to torture and mutilation. But it is not morale merely to resent a kick in the belly or a smack in the face; any living thing will do that. OUR SECOND PEARL HARBOR This is a kind of second Pearl Harbor. But the national feeling that truly goes under the noble name of "morale" does not need successive Pearl Harbors to touch it off, or national shock and sadness to keep it going. Yet for some reason our officials have always clung to the glum approach to morale. They have considered that we need to be frightened into morale, as when they recently warned us of 400,000 coming casualties. They have also considered that we need to be shocked, into morale, and some of the rather eerie smugness displayed over the appalling prisoners-of- Bataan story seems to rest on the hope that this horrid account will do the morale job By a coincidence, at this very moment, when we are engaged in a great national demonstra- tion of feeling because several thousands of our men have been brutally mishandled, our ally, Russia, has also just put on a great national demonstration of feeling. But the Russians based their demonstration on the liberation of the Leningrad area. They have rung bells and fired guns; Russian na- tional sentiment has been inflamed to as high a level as ours, but in an organically different manner. We have never yet done anything like that in the entire course of this war, though great and good victories have been ours. THE ALKALINE SIDE We seem to have a fear of coming over to the alkaline side on morale, or of climnbing to the level of morale which is expressed, in affirma- tions and jubilations. Why? Why do we remain in the emotional basement? The theory seems to be that it is only our fears which hold us together; that if we were to crack a smile, we would instantly fall apart into peacetime attitudes and wrang- ling; production would drop; we must be scared good to be good. If so, this is a kind of judgment upon us for our own disunity, and the best of arguments for making another try at internal reconciliation, and the rebirth of cQmmunity. We should not need the whipped and broken bodies of our best beloved to hold us together. It is our love and courage which should go out to sustain them, in the field. It is wrong to have to ask them not only to die to keep us safe, but to starve and be beaten to keep us united. (Copyright, 1944. New York Post Syndicate) '1_" "But I did go to see our fuel ration board! The only eneourage- ment they could give me was that they saw the first robin!"' DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Z, A ji GRIN AND BIAR IT WEDNESDAY, FEB. 2, 1944 VOL. LIV No. 69 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. Fourth War Loan Drive: To buy War Bonds, call 2-3251, Ext. 7. A "Bond Belle" will pick up your order and deliver the bond the next day. Use this service and help the Uni- versity meet its quota. University War Bond Committee Fall Term Graduation Exercises will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Satur- day, Feb. 19, in Hill Auditorium. The address to the members of the grad- uating classes will be given by Presi- dent John A. Hannah of Michigan State College. Admission will be by ticket only, which students and mem- bers of the general public may secure at the office of the Vice -President and Secretary, 1 University Hall. Detroit Armenian Club Scholar- ship: Undergraduate students of Armenian parentage residing in the Detroit area who have earned 30 hours of college credit are eligible to apply for the $100 scholarship offered for 1944-45 by the Detroit Armenian Women's Club. Applications must be made by May 15. For further details, inquire of Dr. F. E. Robbins, 1021 Angell Hall. ,Application Forms for Fellowships and Scholarships in the Graduate School of the University for the year 1944-1945 may now be obtained from the Office of the Graduate School. All blanks must be returned to that Office by Feb. 15 in order to receive conlsiderationl. C. S. Yoakunm Lectures French Lecture: Mr. Maurice Bar- ret will give the fourth of the French lectures sponsored by the Cercle Francais on Thursday, Feb. 3, at 8:00 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. The title of the lecture is: "Art et Culture en Afrique du Nord" (illus- trated). All servicemen are admitted free of charge to all lectures. Lt. Tom Harmon will speak on "The War Front Reports to the Home" tonight at 7:30 in Hill Audi- torium under the auspices of the Post-War Council. There will be no admission charge, but everyone at- tending is urged to buy a war bond or stamp at the door. A cademic Notices Directed Teaching Qualifying Ex- amination: Students expecting to elect D100 (Directed Teaching) next term are required to pass a qualify-; ing examination in the subject which they expect to teach. This examina- tion will be held on Saturday, Feb. 5, at 1:00 p.m. This is a change from' y Crockett Johnson the date as originally announced. Students will meet in the auditorium of the University High School. The examination will consume about four hours' time. Promptness is therefore essential. Qualifying examinations in short- hand and typewriting will be given at ten o'clock Saturday morning, Feb. 5, in 2022 UHS. Students who think they are qualified to register for the second semester courses in shorthand and typewriting, as taught under the Division for Emergency Training, without taking the first semester courses here, are urged to take these examinations. All students who expect to become candidates for a Teacher's Certificate in June or November, 1944, or Febru- ary, 1945, should call at the office of the School of Education for an appli- cation blank for admission to candi- dacy for the teacher's certificate, which is to be returned by Monday, Feb. 7. Review Course in Calculus: Anyone interested in taxing a review course in calculus during the spring term, please leave his name in the Mathe- matics office, 3012 Angell Hall. Such a course would be for students who have had one year of calculus. Directed Teaching for Spring Term: All students expecting to elect Education D100 (Directed Teaching) next term must arrange for a prac- tice teaching assignment before mak- ing other elections. This can be done, beginning Feb. 2 and continuing for the remainder of the week, with Miss Bell, Rm. 1437 University Elementary School, daily from 8 to 12 and 1:30 to 4:30. Registration Materials for Spring Term: Colleges of L.S.&A. and Arch- itecture; Schools of Education and Music: Registration materials for the spring term should be called for now. Architect counselors will post a notice when they are ready to confer. Robert L. Wiliams, Asst. Registrar University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Schedule of Examina- tions: Feb. 21 to Feb. 26, 1944. Note: For courses having both lec- tures and quizzes, the time of exer- cise is the time of the first lecture period of the week; for courses hav- ing quizzes only, the time of exercise is the time of the first quiz period. Drawing and laboratory work may be continued through the examina- tion period in amount equal to that normally devoted to such work dur- ing one week. Certain courses will be examined at special periods as noted below the regular schedule. All cases of con- flicts between assigned examination periods must be reported for adjust- ment. See bulletin board outside of Rm. 3209 East Engineering Building between Feb. 9 and Feb. 14, for in-t struction. To avoid misunderstand- nigs and errors, each student shouldc receive notification from his instruc-t tor of the time and place of his ap- pearance in each course during the period Feb. 21 to Feb. 26.; NcP date of examination may be changed without the consent of the Classification Committee. .l By Lichty i Letters to the Editor mnust be type- written, double-spaced, on one sde of the paper only and signed with the name and address of the writer. Re- Quests for anonymous publications will be met. Elections Clarified .. . THE MEN'S Judiciary Council re- grets that The Daily overplayed the statement released by this body in connection with the disqualifica- tion of two candidates for the Vic- tory Ball election. The offense was of a technical nature and certainly does not attach a stigma to the name of either. Our statement was released as quoted. No other remarks were made, nor were any other quotations au- thorized. It was necessary to take this measure inasmuch as two of our members, Allan Mactier and Bunny - Crawford, were quoted in Sunday's Daily. Neither of them has made a statement. One of the candidates, Allan H. Anderson, has made a statement to be found in this paper. We have read it and believe it to be true. Mr. Anderson does not attempt to deny his technical infraction of the rule. The council is particularly disap- pointed in the attitude of the student body regarding our action. The typi- cal statement is, "Why try to keep elections honest? They have been illegal for years. I don't see any rea- son for all this trouble." Student government, to be effec- tive, must be honest. If a student body desires to conduct its affairs without University regulation, it must prove and prove again, every day, that it is capable of so doing. The Men's Judiciary Council be- lieves that its action will tend to promote honest student govern- ment in the future. We hope this statement will serve to clarify a bad situation. --Men's Judiciary Council It's Fuller's Mp . .. T UT, TUT, on the last page of Fri- day's Daily, you published a pic- ture of some Prof. Fisher from Yale holding "his" new-type map. He may have it. He may own it. He may even have made it. But I believe that Mr. Buckminster Fuller first thought it up. Life published an article on it a few months ago. I naturally will stick up for Mr. Fuller because he and I have one thing in common: we are both engi- neers. Then again, Yale is just an- other "Lit school." There is a fine way to find out all about Yale: read what Harvard says about Yale, then read what M.I.T. (Mass. Institute of Technology to you westerners) says about Harvard. You'll enjoy that. -Frank D. Amon M.P.2 3, 4; French ... . *Tuesday, Feb. 22 10:30-12:30. Economics 53, 54 ..*Wednesday, Feb. 23 2:00- 4:00 ME.3; Drawing 2 . ...Thursday, Feb. 24 8:00-10:00 E.E.2a; Draw.3, Spanish, Ger. ....Friday, Feb. 25 2:00- 4:00 Surv.4 . Tuesday, Feb. 22 8:00-10:00 * This may be used as an ireglar period, provided there is no conflict with the regular printed schedule above. Schedule of Final Examinations, College of Literature, Science aid the Arts and School of Music: Feb. 21 to Feb. 2, 1944. Time of Time of Exercise Examination Monday at 8 .......Fri., Feb. 25, 10:30-12:30 9.....Mon., Feb. 21, 10:30-12:30 10 .......Fri., Feb. 25, 8:00-10:00 11...... Tues., Feb. 22, 2:00- 4:00 1 ...... Thur., Feb. 24, 2:00- 4:00 2.......Tues., Feb. 22, 8:00-10:00 3........ Sat., Feb. 26, 8:00-10:00 Tuesday at 8.......Sat., Feb. 26, 10:30-12:30 9 .....Thur., Feb, 24, 10:30-12:30 10.....Wed., Feb. 23, 8:00-10:00 11...... Wed., Feb. 23, 10:30-12:30 1.......Mon., Feb. 21, 2:00- 4:00 2 ....... Sat., Feb. 26, 2:00- 4:00 3.......Wed., Feb. 23, 2:00- 4:00 Special Periods School of Music: Individual In- struction in Applied Music. Individ- ual examinations by appointment will be given for all applied music courses (individual instruction) elec- ted for credit in any unit of the Uni- versity. For time and place of exam- inations, see Bulletin Board at the School of Music. * College of Literature, Science, and tim Arts: Political Science 1, 2, 51, 161 Mon., Feb. 21, 8:00-10:00 Speech 31, 32; French 1, 2, 11, 31, 32, 53, 61, 91, 92, 153 ......... Tue., Feb. 22, 10:30-12:30 English 1, 2; Economics 51, 52, 53, Sa1A W l ~7.ar?~l 'Pth '2 ) - nn - Ad-nn the Mooney case, and Sacco and Vanzetti) but al of them are cases in which the civil liberties an economic rights of little men were violated, an no one did enough to help them. A history o labor's part in the movement for woman suf frage, for child labor laws, abolition of slavery the eight-hour day. Material from other -coun tries, an Upton Sinclair expose published in Jap anese not too many years ago, literature from the Spanish Civil War (workers were interna- tionalists before the much-mouthed "interna- tional cooperation" we hear of today). And no just material from the past, but current things as well. The Collection doesn't need to be opened to sight-seers who "want to look the stuff over." But the University should provide sufficient money and staff to really put the Collection in order, and. then should publicize the fact that the Labadie Collection exists: for the use of professors, seminar students, labor research staffs. 1 there a fable a-bout diamonds in the back yard? 11 d d f -' S t s Time of Exercise Monday at 8 ..... .Friday, Feb. ARNARY LThadve f Sp wi , l9WI be 1 Tiime dft Exainiations 25 10:30-12:30 21 10:30-12:30 25 8:00-10:00 3 I doubt i nel ors i. y~ : r , _ _ _ 1 1,; 1 t, 9 . . . . Monday, Fe 10 . .. .Friday, Fe 1 I r aZ~k * 1~1. eb. eb. ph-