THE MICHIGAN DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Japs Nearly Took Chungking By DREW PEARSON W ASHINGTON-It is now possible to reveal just how close the Japanese came to captur- ing the Chinese capital of Chungking last Nov-. ember. While Lieut. Gen. Alvin Wedemeyer was en route to Chungking to replace Gen. Stilwell, the Japanese were driving on Kunming, gateway to Chungking. It looked very much as if they would capture it. December 22, the Japanese radio was boast- ing that Wedemeyer would eat his Christmas dinner in New Delhi if he ate it at all. Wed- emeyer knew the situation was grave, arranged a conference with Chiang Kai-Shek soon after he arrived. "I need 90,000 men in a hurry," Wedemeyer told Chiang. "And they have got to be good men. Can you give them to me?" Chiang wanted to know how Wedemeyer would get the men to the front if he could find them. "I've got 87 big army transports lying around here, and I can move 100,000 men in a few days if I can find them." Chiang asked what men Wedemeyer wanted. The American general told him he wanted 50,000 crack Chinese troops which had been trained and equipped by his predecessor, General Stilwell, and were fighting in Burma. Chiang agreed. Then Wedemeyer asked the $64 question. "I also want about 60,00 of your best men who have been fighting the Chinese Communists in' the north, your Excellency," said Wedemeyer nervously. "I think it is more important that these Chinese troops be fighting the Japanese than that they oppose each other." Chiang never batted an eye, swiftly gave his approval, and Wedemeyer ordered his air transports into action. In four days he had enough men at the Kunming fighting line to slow up the Japs. In four weeks he had the Nipponese drive stopped cold south of Kun- ming. Note--Wedemeyer is doing as complete a reor- ganization job on the Chinese army as he can, seems to be getting results. Prichard Loses Weight Newly-appointed Federal Loan Administrator Judge Fred Vinson was a bit surprised during a cabinet meeting last week when his colleague, Attorney General Francis Biddle, hurled a sud- den charge at him. "I understand you are the meanest man in Washington," Biddle told Judge Vinson. "Why so?" asked the startled Vinson. "I understand," continued the Attorney Gen- eral, "that you caused Ed Prichard to lose 90 pounds. You are the only man in Washington who could make him do that. When he worked for me, he gained 50 pounds." The Attorney General was referring to 300- pound Edward F. Prichard, Vinson's brilliant counsel and right-hand man, who has now shifted from the Office of Economic Stabiliza- tion to the Federal Loan Administration. Re- placing him as counsel of the Economic Sta-- bilizer's Office is efficient Tom Emerson, for- merly of OPA. Priorities to Veterans A new racket has developed as a result of the WPB ruling whereby discharged war veterans Nazi Troubles SUGGESTIVE of what may help to shorten the war and the casualty lists are the recent bulletins from inside Germany. Last Wednesday the Associated Press carried news of a workers' riot in Berlin March 10. Nearly 1,200 strikers demanded that Berlin be declared an open city. Swiss sources reported that SS (Elite Guards) in armored cars had re- placed regular police patrols and that the Nazis are talking of martial law for the Berlin area. The boatsmen's strike at Frankfort-on-the- Main is more indicative of the weakening of civilian morale and of the inadequacy of the police forces in coping with mass riots. At Frankfort the demonstration began when the Gestapo arrested a boatman and the entire crew refused to unload the ship until he was released. Dockworkers and crews of nearby ships became belligerent toward intervening police, a Swedish eye-witness reported. The harbor demonstration joined with hunger rioters, and 2,000 people marched down the main street and demanded the release of politi- cal prisoners. Three trucks filled with SS men and machine guns could not quell the minor revolt, and one of the Elite Guards was trampled to death. The police and the SS had to admit that they were helpless in the face of this situation, the witness stated. The Allies may hope for increasing aid from within as they close in on Berlin and as the food and supply shortage in central Germany becomes even more acute. It is to our advantage that the rioting crowds may make it more and more diffictilt for the Nazis to take their shouted advice, "Better fight against the Russians and not against us, you black cowards." -Patricia Cameron can get certain priorities on strategic materials in order to get back into private business. Some unscrupulous businessmen (also some unscrupulous veterans) are arranging deals whereby the veterans become minor partners in their firms, then go to the WPB and se- cure priorities for raw materials. Some veterans don't even sign papers giving them legal partnerships in the firm, and as a result find themselves used as mere priority bait, to be fired shortly thereafter. In one case, however, when a veteran secured leather for a firm, WPB forced that firm to give the veteran a life contract. He cannot be fired in the future, come what may. The WPB was preparing to go even further and give much broader priorities to the vet- erans to establish themselves in small business. However, this plan has been altered, due partly to abuses of the present concessions to vet- erans; due also to the fear that further con- cessions would seriously threaten production of war and civilian goods already scheduled, Capitol Chaff .. T HE WPB will crack down soon on the use of tubes for civilian toothpaste consumption because of a new lead shortage. . . The Army has developed a poison gas so powerful it can even destroy a gas mask. . . Congressman Vito Marcantonio plans to introduce a resolution soon for another all-out investigation of the New York stock exchange. . . Ambassador to China Pat Hurley raised "Holy Ned" with the State Department after he was ordered not to wear his Army uniform in China. (Copyright, 1945, Bell Syndicate) .w Iloiinie Says WHEN THE YOUNG scientist goes to worship he often misses the point. To him, God is the unseen force coursing through the universe, evident but difficult to describe. He might be able to believe God to be the goal toward which every experiment is aiming. He might accept Him as the impersonal tendency to good. The minister, however, seems to assume that this is only a description of "nature" and not a description of Deity. He assumes that God is cause, that God stands beyond nature, apart from man, outside of history. On God all else depends, but God is. Such is the preacher's concept. The hearer is apt to dis- miss the sermon as irrelevant unless he can become very much aware of these two different basic concepts, Immanence and Transcendence. On ethics and the whole range of virtue, there are two concepts which tend to delay communication between a scientist and a. preacher. The scientist believes that when he deals with the laws of physics or biology or astronomy and can teach those laws so they are grasped by his students and made the basis for further knowledge, he is per- forming an ethical service or at least he is dealing with vital elements in an ethical fashion. The scientist is inclined to think of such a work as having a religious or spirit- ual value. The preacher, however, in most cases, will in- sist that no amount of effort in either thought or behavior can carry any man one whit nearer to God. He will insist that God is unique and adequate. God is reached not by knowledge but only through grace. Man cannot earn grace nor discover it by effort. Man must ask in faith. Having eventually asked in the proper manner, grace may be bestowed. To understand the sermon the scientist must credit the two views or recognize them both as valid. The university man at worship, therefore, needs to be on the alert or he will fail to understand the minister. The customary reac- tion is to absent oneself, in which case he throws out the baby with the bath. Failing to grasp transcendence and being beyond ready communication of the religious com- munity, he may never enter into religion's central value nor attain to its serenity. Here is a great loss; for that community for one reason needs scientists as our technical men for another reason need religion. -Edward W. Blakeman Counselor in Religious Education ON SECOND THOUGHT.*. By Ray Dixon UMMERLIKE WEATHER is making us hot under the collar. The Nazis are getting hot under the collar, too, but for a different reason. The general gave the boys a Patton the back and they Ruhred across the Rhine. There is no report that the general swam across the Rhine as he did the Saar River. But that's just as well. Maybe now we can see a picture of him wading ashore like MacArthur. 18-Year-Old Vote THE EDITOR: The Daily has recently published two editorials which set forth oppo- site viewpoints on the question of ex- tending the franchise downward to include citizens 18 years of age. Carol Zacl employs the argu- ment that universal suffrage ". . . is based on the idea that voting is not a privilege but a right. This is explicitly stated in amendments to the constitution. If voting is a right, then those who are capable of voting intelligently, regardless of their race, color or age, should be allowed to exercise this right." Sounds fine, doesn't it? But be- fore we run up the colors and get out the fife, let's look it over a bit (and this is the part that becomes a bit tedious to young 'uns, old ones too, oftentimes.) In the first place, the Supreme Court in Minor v. Happersett, 21 Wallace 162 (1875) held that the right to vote is not one of the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States which the states are forbidden by the Fourteenth Amend- ment to abridge. Further, in Ex parte Yarbrough 110 U. S. 651 (1884) while the court did say that the right of a United States citizen to vote for Federal officers is protected by the Con- stitution, it further stated that this was true only if the individual ful- fills the qualifications required by his state of those who vote for the most numerous branch of that state legislature. More than that, the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amend- ments do not state that voting is a right of citizenship, but merely seek jto prevent the denial of voting rights by states or by the Federal Government on certain grounds. EDITOR'S NOTE: Whenever possi- ble, Letters to the Editor should be limited to 300 words so that all let- ters may be printed as soon as they are received. Letters in excess of that length are cut at the discre- tion of the Editorial Director. At this point someone will doubt- lesstwant to take us back to the Dec- laration of Independence (Lots of excellent speeches have been made using that fine material-I'm about to make one myself.) - I ran across this definition some- where: "In common usage a demo- cratic government is one based on universal suffrage." Athens has always beeh considered a democracy, but in that state citi- zenship was rigidly defined, for the governing class was but a small part of the total population. Montesquieu said, " . . . it is important to regulate in a republic, in what manner, by whom, to whom, and concerning what suf- frages are to be given." E. M. Salt in his book "American Parties and Elections" says that many of the framers of the Constitution were violently opposed to extension of the suffrage. In addition he states that Thomas Jefferson in 1776 supported a property quali- fication for Virginia suffrage and later upon endorsing manhood suf- frage did not consider it an an es- sential element of Republicanism. To quote Mr. Sait, "Natural right, since it must be present from birth, would enfranchise children, since it has no geographical limits, it would enfranchise the alien, and since it is not dependent upon mental character it would enfranchise criminals and lunatics." But Miss Zack, old Elihu Root really fixed it, for he said, "If there is one thing settled it is that voting is not a natural right, but simply a means of government." The Declaration of Independence was written in an electric moment of impending crisis and its purpose was mainly to justify the course about to be pursued. Let us not forget for one moment that to our materialistic forefathers the word "democracy" had a most unmusical sound. Thus endeth my tale. It seems to me, that generally speaking, young people find themselves with one hand full of cake and the other full of unromantic bread. The question then appears to be "Do we, or do we not want fact as a basis for constructive thought which in turn gives rise to constructive action (always of course allotting to idealisms their important and rightful place in this scheme of things) dr shall we operate far less practically using only our emotions and wishful thinking? -John Jadwin FOLLOWING a week of discussion in The Daily editorial columns of the 18-year-old vote, The Daily, in conjunction with MYDA, took a poll to determine the general campus at- titude towards the extension of the franchise to include the 18 to 21 year age group. A random sampling of 740 stu- dents was taken Thursday on the question: Do you favor passage of a bill to lower the voting age to 18? Of those polled 326 were in favor of such a bill while 374 were opposed to its passage. The Daily inaugurated a new fea- POLL ON 18-YEAR-OLD VOTE: Campus Split on Question ture which is to be continued throughout the year. The issue chosen for the week is first considered by a member of the faculty, either an objective view or pro or con; this is followed by pro and con discussions by students not on The Daily staff. Letters to the editor on the same subject are invited. All students and faculty members interested in the issue under fire are asked to submit their opinions. The topic for consideration next week will be post-war compulsory military training. The question was discussed this past week in the Student Town Hall forum. I DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 1945 VOL. LV, No. 104 Publication in the Daily Official Bul- letin is constructive notice to all mem- bers of the University. Notices for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the Assistant to the President, 1021 Angell Hall, by 3:30 p. in. of the day preceding publication (11:30 a. m. Sat- urdays). Notices To the Members of the University Council: It is planned to hold the April meeting of the University Coun- cil on Monday, April 16, at 4:15 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. Social Chairmen and House Direc- tors are reminded that requests for social events mnust be filed in the Office of the Dean of Students not later than the Monday before the event for which approval is request- ed. It should be accompanied by written acceptance from two sets of APPROVED chaperons and, in the case of fraternities and sororities, by approval from the financial adviser. APPROVED CHAPERONS may be 1) parents of active members or pledges, 2) professors, associate pro- fessors or assistant professors, or 3) couples already approved by the Committee on Student Affairs. A list of the third group is available at the OFFICE OF THE DEAN OF STUDENTS. Eligibility Certificates for the Spring Term should be secured before April 1 in Rm. 2, University Hall. For women students returning from out-of-town on the night of April first, Easter Sunday, the clos- ing hour will be 12:30 a.m. American Red Cross War Fund: If you have not been solicited in regard to your contribution toward the American Red Cross and wish to make your pledge, please call at the Cashier's Office, 104 South Wing, and receive your membership card and pin. City of Detroit Civil Service An- nouncements for Junior City Plan- ner, $2,415 to $2,760, Intermediate City Planner, $3,036 to $3,450, Junior Publicist, $2,760, Identification Tech- nician, $2,415 to $2,898, Intermediate Social Ecgonomist, $3,164 to $3,450, Junior Social 'Economist, $2,484 to $2,760, Intermediate Publicist, $3,- 450, and Field Survey Aid, $2,184 to $2,288, have been received in our office. For further information stop in at 201 Mason Hall, Bureau of Appointments. The U.S. Civil Service Commission has announced examinations for Fed- eral positions in the fields of admin- istration and personnel management. For further information stop in at 201 Mason Hall, Bureau of Appoint- ments, State of Michigan Civil Service announcements for the following have been receivedein our office: Typist Clerk CI, Stenographer Clerk CI, $115 to $130 a month, Bridge Engineer II, $230 to $270 per month, Water Resources Control Engineer V, $440 to $550 per month, General Clerk C, $110 to $125 per month, and Housemother B, $125 to $145 per month. For further information re- garding these examinations, stop in at 201 Mason Hall, Bureau of Ap- pointments. All Veterans interested in a re- fresher course in the mechanics and grammar of English Composition are asked to call or contact Mr. C. M. Davis, Veteran's Advisor, Rm. 19, Angell Hall.rTelephone 4121, Exten- sion 2115. All women students who are em- ployed part-time are required to register this fact immediately at the Office of the Dean of Women. Lectures Professor Antoine Jobin, of the Department of Romance Languages, will give the sixth of the French Lec- tures sponsored by Le Cercle Fran- cais on Tuesday, March 27, at 4:10 p.m. in Rm. D, Alumni Memorial ---. Lakes Problems" on Wednesday, March 28, at 4:15 p.m. in the Amphi- theater of the Rackham Building. The lecture is under the sponsorship of the Departments of Geology and Zoology. It will be illustrated with both motion pictures and lantern slides. The public is cordially invited. Academic Notices Registration for Graduate Record Examination: The Graduate Record Examination will be given on the eve- nings of April 16 and April 17 in the Rackham Bldg. This examination, required of all degree candidates in the Graduate School, is open to Seniors in the undergraduate units and to students in the professional schools. The University will pay the fee for this April examination. Any- one wishing to take the examination must register at the Information Desk of the Graduate School Office in the Rackham Bldg. before March 30. Make-Up Examination for Psychol- ogy 31: Tuesday, March 27 at 4:30, Rm. 2121 N.S. Any students who took X or Incomplete please come at this time prepared to take an exam- ination. The special short course in speeded reading will be given for students who wish to improve their reading ability. Those interested will meet Tuesday, March 27 at 5, Rm. 4009, University High School Building, School of Education. At that time the course will be explained and time of meeting set. If you are interested and cannot attend the organization meeting, call Mr. Morse, Ext. 682, for further information. There is no charge for this non-credit course. Biological Chemistry 111 Refund Slips may be called for in Rm. 230 West Medical Building on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 27 and 28, from 2 to 4 p.m. Any student unable to call in person may send written authorization for some other person to receive his refund slip. German I Make-Up Final Exami- nation will be given from 10 to 12 a.m. Wednesday, March 28, in Rm. 201 University Hall. Students who missed the final examination should see their instructors immediately to get permission to take the make-up. Concerts All-Beethoven Program: The third program in the current series of Sun- day evening piano recitals by mem- bers of the School of Music faculty will be played by Kathleen Rinck at 8:30 tonight in Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. It will include Beethoven's Sonata, Op. 2, No. 3, Sonata, Op. 31, No. 2, and Sonata, Op. 10. The general public is invited. "The Way of the Cross": an ora- torio by Alexandre Georges, will be presented at the First Methodist Church Wednesday evening, March 28, at 8 o'clock. The Senior Choir will sing and will be assisted by Bon- nie Ruth Van Deursen, soprano; Harriet Porter, contralto; Avery Crew, tenor; Hardin Van Deursen, baritone; Bernard Mason, violinist; Mary Oyer, cellist; Ruby Joan Kuhl- man, pianist; Frieda O. Vogan, or- ganist. The entire ensemble will be under the guest direction of Solon Aloerti of New York City, who ar- ranged and edited the work. The public is cordially invited. Events Today The International Center Sunday program will be presented by the girls from Martha Cook Dormitory at 7:30 p.m. in Rm. 320 of the Union. Coming Events The group stuftying relations be- tween Mathematics and its alplica- tion will meet Monday, March 26, at 7 p.m. in Rm. 3001 Angell' Hall. Mr. M. Dresden will speak on the Ergodic Hypothesis. Workshop on Anti-Semitism: Its causes and cures-The first meeting of the Workshop will take place at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 26 at the Hillel Foundation, Hill at Haven. a t, I I F', :, I r I BARNABY By Crockett Johnson - I I Mr. O'Malley, my Fairy Godfather, owns a lot of big factories. They're his private property. And he can do anything he wants with them- 1 Nothing an imaginary Pixey does can effect how we live' Barnaby, or what we eat- I thought there was more cold lamb left than this! We'll have to have salmon croquettes tonight instead. r_ OMaI a I I OF I "-~ i j/ ' ' i 1 O:.Y:.... w..n frre 1 I I I ; .