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Discharge Plan
THE ARMY releases official plans based on a
point system for the discharge of men on the
European and Pacific battlefronts, and immedi-
ately the cry is heard, "It's not fair."
The point system devised by the Army makes
it necessary for a man to acquire at least 85
points to be eligible for a discharge for other
than medical reasons. Point totals are com-
puted on the basis of one point for every month
of Army service since September 16, 1940, with
an extra point for each month of overseas duty.
Five points will be given for each Army combat
award such as the Distinguished Service Cross,
Purple Heart, and battle participation stars, and
for each similar award made by the Navy and
for each award or decoration granted by a for-
eign country and recognition by the War De-
partment. Twelve points will be allowed for
each child under 18 years up to a maximum
of three children.
The Army maintains the right to retain
some men, regardless of the number of points,
because their special skills are needed and no
replacements are immediately available. Ac-
cordirg to official statements, however, every
possible step wold be taken to obtain re-
placements for such men.
Those who say "It's not fair" have, for the
most part, considered the plan in the light of
individuals and not of the masses of men affect-
ed. There will be men who have been overseas
for two or three years, but who have no family
or dependent and not enough "battle points"
who will be unable to reach the necessary 65
points. There will also be the men who had
been in the German push but who haven't been
overseas or in the Army for a long period of
time. This is especially true of the 18-19 year
old replacements which were used to reinforce
fighting divisions. They cannot get the 85 points
required for an honorable discharge.
If everything concerned with war and war-
fare is to be thought of in terms of Right or
Wrong or Fair and Unfair, no answers will be
reached. What must be considered is: Will
this point system be most fair to the masses
of troops? Will this system guarantee men
who have sufficient reasons and points a dis-
charge?
The point system of discharge, in terms of
answers to these questions, is fair to the majority
and will enable the men with dependents and
battle service who most deserve a discharge to
serve one.
-Lois Iverson
Surrender Story
MUCH ANGER has been kindled by Ed Ken-
nedy's broken pledge concerning the release
date on the surrender story.
In fact, 59 SHAEF newsmen are so angry that
they have sent a letter to General Eisenhower
requesting that the ban be placed once more
on Associated Press filing privileges in the Euro-
pean theatre.
Kennedy's action may have been underhanded
and unethical. But the 59 correspondents are
blinded by this point. Their anger precludes
their viewing the situation rationally and ob-
jectively. They can only see that they have
been wronged.
The point these newsmen have f ailed to con-
zMpa is that thandnk a Americans would
By DREW PEARSON
SAN FRANCISCO-Now that the European war
is over, most important problem facing Pres-
ident Truman and the Big Three is Russian co-
operation in the war against Japan. Regard-
ing this there is a strange about-face.
Two years ago, members of the new President's
own "Truman committee," together with mem-
bers of the Senate Military Affairs Committee,
visited Australia and came back with a state-
ment from General MacArthur that thousands
of American lives were being lost because Russia
did not give us Siberian bases against Japan.
Ex-senator Cabot Lodge aired this statement to
senatorial colleagues and it created a bad reac-
tion against Russia--even though General Mar-
shall told senators that we would not be able
to hold Siberian bases if Russia gave them to
us.
Today, however, some of the people who two
years ago were yelling loudest for Russia to
come into the war against Japan are now argu-
ing exactly the reverse.
This is not true of Chief of Staff Marshall who
believes that any move which will shorten the
war and save lives should be taken. But it is
true of many high-ranking Army-Navy leaders
who frankly admit in private that they don't
want Russia in the war against Japan
This is especially true of the Navy. It will
be recalled that Commander-of-the-Fleet Ad-
miral Ernest King opposed Britain's sending a
fleet to help us in the Pacific because he felt
we could do the job ourselves and that Britain
battleships weren't geared to our speed.
But Roosevelt overruled him. Admiral King
likewise belongs to the school that believes
Russia should not come into the Japanese war.
Chief argument against 'Russia's entrance is
that she will want Korea and Manchuria, and
will stir up the Northern Chinese armies to fight
against Chiang Kai-Shek in the south. This is
probably true. Unquestionably political com-
plications will result from Russia's coming into
the Pacific; unquestionably Russia will want
a hand in the Far East peace.
However, against this is the question of wast-
ing a lot more American lives in a longer war.
And there is no doubt how the boys who have
to do the fighting and the dying feel about
it. Also there is probably no doubt what
President Truman, whose final decision it is,
will decide about it.
Note-The Russians can back the Chinese
northern armies against Chiang Kai-Shek any-
way if they want to whether they come into the
Jap war or not.
Linguist Vandenberg ...
NIiICHIGAN'S energetic Senator Vandenberg,
who at the start of this conference slipped
anti-Russia stories out to certain newsmen, is
now getting along much better with Molotov.
In fact they seem to be excellent friends.
When the question of recognizing Russia
came up in the Senate ten years ago, Vanden-
berg votcd against it, never has been invited
to the Russian embassy, and always carried
an anti-Russian chip on his shoulder. How-
ever, he has now learned two words in Rus-
sian, while Molotov has learned two words of
English.
Mototov's two words are "O.K." and "all-
KTHEATREI
PLAY PRODUCTION made their annual ges-
1 ture to the kiddies yesterday afternoon with
a presentation of "The Elves and the Shoe-
maker," written by Charlotte Chorpenning and
Nora Tully, at a matinee in the Lydia Men-
delssohn Theatre.
A packed house of palpitating small-fry
accompanied by dutiful mothers found much
to admire in the occasion. In fact, I got
kind of interested myself in whether or not
the elves were going to lift the mortgage
on the old homestead. The kids, who are
always devils at telling the good guys from
the bad guys, loved it.
Director Valentine Windt should be credited
with an understanding of his audience. Children
are, of course, the most enthusiastic audience
in the world, but they can also be the most
barbaric. "The Elves and the Shoemaker" was
an altogether smooth performance, nicely gaug-
ed to its audience.
The performances were all in the broad mood
of the occasion and applause goes to Ethel
Isenberg and Serene Sheppard, among others.
A special bow must be made to Pat Picard, as
the witch-like Heckla. Miss Picard has the best
cackle this side of a Rhode Island hen and it
will be weeks before I forget it.
The single set by Herbert Philippi was an
attractive job which fitted into the scheme
nicely. The costumes were also colorful and
attractive, although I had grave doubts as to
Babette Blum's navigational prospects of suc-
cess with her formidable hoop-skirt.
All in all, Play Production should be credited
with what its dart-throwing audience obviously
considered a first-rate occasion.
--Barrie Waters
righty," which he pronounces with an "e-e" on
the end. Vandenberg always enjoys a chuckle
and sometimes slaps Molotov on the back when
the Russian vice-commissar comes out with these
words.
The Michigan senator, in turn, has learned to
say "Amerikansky delegatsia," which means
"American delegation," and he also knows the
Russian word for "good," which is "Khoroshaw."
Molotov always chuckles when Van drops these
hard-won nuggets from his Russian vocabulary.
But when they get into deeper waters, the
two men need an interpreter. Once, when
talking privately, Vandenberg is reported by
friends to have told Molotov: "If friendly rela-
tions could be established between the United
States and Russia, I would be one of the hap-
piest men in the world."
To which Molotov, perhaps remembering Van-
denberg's vote against recognizing Russia, is re-
ported to have replied: "And if I could believe
that, I would be one of the happiest men in the
world."
(Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
I'D RATHER BE RIGHT:
Surrender Terms
By SAMUEL GRAFTON
HE REICH'S proud Eighty-Second Corps has
surrendered at Berchtesgaden in what is
described as a "haughty" fashion. Its members
brought stocks of cognac and champagne along
with them; they parked their cars, but kept the
keys; they insisted, for a time that accomoda-
tions be found for their women. They mounted
their own guards over their own supplies. Our
G. I.'s, according to first reports, did not know
quite how to handle the situation; they were
irritated with the high and mighty Nazis, but
did little.
That is what gives point to the story; for a
delicate fencing match begins at once with
the surrender of Germany, and it is in the
course of that fencing match that the condi-
tions for unconditional surrender are laid
down. Customs and usage are set up in the
field, though they are not written down in any
document.
GRAND ADMIRAL Doenitz took up the fenc-
ing match in his own way after the sur-
render, when he went on the air to tell the
German people of his willingness to continue to
remain head of the German state, unless the
"will of the German people" was otherwise, or
unless the Allied powers forced him to step
down. Thus, delicately, did Doenitz insinuate
the idea that unconditional surrender did not
include dissolution of the German state, and
he raised it as a question whether that state
would continue, with a government of its own;
he even revived the mummified "will of the
German people" as a factor.
The immediate answer should have been ar-
rest of Grand Admiral Doenitz as a prisoner of
war and a war criminal; even short delay was
dangerous, for it is by the prompt style in
which we conduct ourselves that we lay down
the conditions of unconditional surrender.
The Germans, naturally, have a much easier
part to play in the post-surrender fencing match,
than do we. All they need do is resist us.
Our own program is not nearly so clear; our
choices are much wider, more subtle and more
difficult.
Both Doenitz, the so-called head of the so-
called German state, and Von Krosigk, the so-
called foreign minister, went instantly to the
radio upon the surrender, to plead with the
German people to remain "united" and to
walk with "discipline." These were, actually,
pleas to the German people to forgive the Nazi
party, to remain one with it, not to break
away from it; for when Doenitz talks of disci-
pline, he is speaking against that kind of dis-
order which is occasioned when the head of a
criminal is stuck on a pole.
DOENITZ is fencing expertly; his plan is for
the German people, Nazi and non-Nazi (if
there be any non-Nazis) to stand together, vis-a-
vis their enemies, in a compact mass; and he is
sugaring this conception by reminding the Ger-
mans of their war-time "spirit of comradeship."
He even seemed to be hinting at a program of
action, when he called off the "werewolves" in
the west, saying nothing at all about werewolves
in the east, where the Russians are.
Our ends in Germany will not be served by
Doenitz's kind of "unity" and "discipline"; we
need a period in which leading Nazis are cut
away from the body of the German Reich as
by a knife, cut clean and quick, to permit the
later reintegration o fthe German people.
We must learn to fence, too, but quickly,
quickly; each hour, each sneeze, sets a prece-
dent. If we pause even long enough for a
question to be formulated, the question takes
on life of its own, and blocks our way. Doen-
itz led the most brutal submarine warfare in
history against us, on Hitler's orders. The
answer to his speech is to put him on trial
for his life. If those, words seem too harsh to
any reader, that means that Doenitz may al-
ready have fenced himself past that brief
day or two in which the debts of a decade
are collectible.
(Copyright, 1945, N. Y. Post Syndicate)
SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1945
VOL. LV, No. 145
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Lectures
University Lecture: Mr. Flavel
Shurtleff, Professor of City Planning,I
Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
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Planning", on Tuesday, May 15, at
3:15 p.m., in the Rackham Amphi-
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The Henry Russei Lecture: Dr.
Edward H. Kraus, Professor of Crys-
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me' Dean of the College of Litera-
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subject will be "The Unfolding Crys-
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liminary Examinations for the Doc-
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Education
Concerts
Faculty Recital: Dorothy Ornest
Feldman, guest soprano, will present
a Lieder recital, accompanied by
Kathleen Rinck of the piano faculty,
at 7:30 p.m. CWT, Sunday, May 13 in
Lydia Mendelssohn. Mrs. Feldman's
program will consist of compositions
by Brahms, Hugo Wolf, Richard
Strauss, and Schubert. TI'he public
is cordially invited.
Student Recital: Doris Jean Gil-
man, Soprano, will present a 'recital
in partial fulfillment of the reauire-
ments for the degree of Bachelor of
Music in Music Education, at 7:30
p.m. CWT, Tuesday, May 15, in Lydia
Mendelssohn Theater. Miss Gilman
is a student of Hardin Van Deursen.
Her program will include a group
of French, German and English
songs, and will be open to the general
public.
Sixteenth Annual Exhibition of
Sculpture of the Institute of Fine
Arts: In the Concourse of the Michi-
gan League Building. Display will be
on view daily until Commencement.
Twenty-Second Annual Exhibition
by the Artists of Ann Arbor and
vicinity: In the Mezzanine Exhibition
Rooms of the Rackham Building
daily, except Sunday, 2 to 5 and 7
to 10 p.m. The public is cordially
invited.
"Krishna Dancing with the Milk-
maids" an original Rajput brush
drawing with studies of the hands in
crayon. Also examples of Indian fab-
rics. Auspices, the Institute of Fine
Arts. May 14 through May 26; Mon-
day-Friday, 1-4; Saturday, 9-11,
CWT. Alumni Memorial Hall, Rm. B.
Preliminaries in Education:
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Letters to the Editor
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Events Today
The Children's Theater of the de-
partment of speech will present "The
Elves and the Shoemaker" for two
performances this afternoon at 12:30
and 2:30 p.m. in the Lydia Mendels-
sohn Theater. Tickets may be pur-
chased at the theater box office,
phone 6300.
Luncheon Discussion: Mr. Willard
Uphaus, executive secretary of the
National Religion and Labor Founda-
tion will speak and lead a discussion
on cooperation between religion and
labor. Anyone interested is invited to
be at Lane Hall at 11:15 (CWT) to-
day.
Pi Lambda Theta spring initiation
will be held this afternoon, May 12,
at 12:45 (CWT) in the Assembly Hall
of Rackham Building, followed by a
reception at 2 p.m., concluding with
a lecture, "Radio in Education" by
Kathleen Lardie, Assistant Super-
visor, Department of Radio Educa-
tion, in charge of Radio for Detroit
Public Schools. The lecture will be
at 2:30 in the Rackham Amphithea-
ter and is open to the public. All Pi
Lambda Thetans in this area are
cordially invited.
Open House: This evening at 6:30
(CWT) the doors of Lane Hall will
again be open to all those looking for
a good time.
There will be an evening of movies
on the living and fighting conditions
of the armed forces of the United
Nations this evening at 6:30 in the
Rackham Amphitheater. No admis-
sion will be charged and everyone is
invited to attend. The movies are
sponsored by the Post-War Council,
Michigan Youth for Democratic Ac-
tion, and the University of Micnigan
Bureau of Visual Education.
Wesley Foundation: A group will
leave the church at 4 p.m. (CWT)
for a picnic and baseball at the Is-
land. Call 6881 before noon today for
reservations. In case of rain, supper
at the Foundation.
Coming Events
Lutheran Student Association: The
picnic originally scheduled to be held
Saturday, May 12, has been post-
poned. Watch DOB for further an-
nouncement.
The regular meeting of the Asso-
ciation will be held Sunday at 4 p.m.
(CWT) in Zion Parish all. The
speaker will be Dr. Frankena of the
Philosophy Department. Election of
officers for the coming year will also
take place.
Sunday morning worship services
in both Zion and Trinity Lutheran
Churches at 9:30 a.m. (CWT).
Post-War Council Meeting will be
held Monday, May 14, in the Union,
Rm. 302, at 3:30.
There will be a forum on post-war
education Monday, May 14. Profes-
sors G. G. Brown, C. D. Thorpe, H. Y.
McClusky, and J. L. Brumm, will
speak. Men's Lounge, Rackham, 6:30
CWT.
There will be a meeting of Russky
Kruzhok (Russian Circle) on Mon-
day, May 14, at 7:30 (CWT) in the
International Center. Those inter-
ested in Russia and Russian are
invited to come.
Churches
First Church of Christ, Scientist:
409 S. Division St. Wednesday eve-
ning service at 8 p.m. Sunday morn-
ing service at 10:30 a.m. Subject
"Adam and Fallen Man". Sunday
school at 11:45 a.m. A special read-
ing room is maintained by this
church at 706 Wolverine Bldg., Wash-
ington at Fourth, where the Bible,
also the Christian Science Textbook,
"Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures*' and other writings by
Mary Baker Eddy may be read, bor-
rowed or purchased. Open daily ex-
cept Sundays and holidays from
11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
First Baptist- Church: Saturday at
1 o'clock, the Roger Williams Guild
members will meet at the Guild
House, 502 E. Huron, to go to Pine-
brook Farm for their Annual Plan-
ning Retreat. All Baptist Students
are invited. They will stay overnight
and continue their planning until
after the noon meal on Sunday. For
further information, phone 7332.
Sunday morning worship service-
Rev. Loucks will speak on "There's
No Place Like Home".
First Congregational Church: State
and William Sts. 9:45 a.m., Public
Worship. This service will be a com-
bination of Mother's Day and a con-
tinuation of V-E Day, in line with
President Truman's request to make
Sunday a day of dedication. For
this service Dr. Parr will preach on
"The Conquering Small Things". 4
p.m., Congregational-Disciples Stu-
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A recent letter to The Daily by
Kurt Benjamin outlines three pos-
sible plans for the treatment of post-
war Germany. Briefly, (I quote in
part) the three plans are:
(1) "The German people in toto to
be held responsible for their govern-
ment's cruelty and . . . slaughter .. .
Complete permanent prostration of
the nation without any means of
economic or industrial recovery . .."
(2) Employment of tactics to-
wards Germany more or less along
the lines that were followed after the
Armistice of 1918. In Mr. Benjamin's
words ". . . essentially what . . . took
place after the last war."
(3) "Consider the past 12 years as
an unfortunate 'incident', and im-
mediately treat Germany as an inno-
cent equal who would be provided
with all possible means to health and
prosperity."
If we have any hopes for perma-
nent peace in the world, we must cast
out Plan Two. Surely, only fools
could see any progressive security in
that, for only fools do not profit by
past experience.
I will concede that Plan One
might work for a while, but I am
certain that it is neither sound, nor
enduring. It is contrary to all
democratic principles based as they
are on justice and humaneness.
People may occasionally conduct
themselves as beasts, but I do not
beli.ve they are beasts at birth, nor
that they should be so condemned.
I think it is the duty of so-called
enlightened nations to help mis-
guided peoples in every way pos-
sible to become better citizens of
the world. Rather than continue
the use of the harsh, unmodified
dictum "an eye for an eye", would-
n't it be better to substitute a
modernized "Golden Rule"?
It seems to me that Plan Three is
only half a plan' and the short-
sighted, idealistic antithesis of, Plan
One. Therefore, I suggest that we
throw out all three plansand substi-
tute a fourth, composed of some of
the poin.ts of Plan One and Three;
cemented together with as much un-
derstanding, compassion, foresight.
and justice as we can muster.
Today, prison authorities do not
prepare a- convict for his return to
society by daily beatings. Criminals
are watched and guarded closely, but
they are subjected to psychological
and educational therapy which en-
deavors to help them become fit
memoers of society before the day of
release. Wnile it is true that many
never change, it is also true that
more do bccome good citizens than
would if no effort were nade to re-
claim them. Furthermore, it is very
difficult to keep an eye on a criminal,
once he has been released, for he may
never be heard from again unless he
commis another crime. A whole na-
tion of criminals should be much
easier to keep under surveillance.
I tnink we are evading our re-
spor,;ihihities when we talk of a
"had" er "soft" peace. We are
fully as ruch to blame for this war
thro nga faiure to maintain the
peace aAter 1918 as Germany and
Japan were through Their policies
of 'aggression.
I suggesil that we retain rigid mili-
tary conmrol over Germary and Ja-
pan for an indefinite length of time.
They must be allowed to live as nor-
mally as possible unde: this control.
What mat er whether they retain
their peacetime industries as long as
Allied soldiers are literpdly just a-
round she corner? Let us fully ac-
quaint the individual citizen of the
conquered country with the results
of his reader's acts, and be sure that
he und.e-:,,ands that these leaders
and their hcrible crimes came about
in part because of his indifference
and lack of responsibility not only to
himself as a citizen of his country,
but as . tcAizen of the world, as well.
I think that these people can, in time,
be educated to democracy.
We must not act in haste. We
must give this humn-?n being full
education in how to be a good
world citizen (we might want to sit
in rn his classes ourselves). Let
us not delude ourselves that an
accelerated system of education in
vanquished countries will turn out
honer graduates en masse.' W,
must reach not only the present
members of disgraced nations, but
their children and grandchildren
as well. Yes, and their great-grand-
children and great-great-grand-
children. We must not forget that
we owe our own coming genera-
tions the benefits of a similar edu-
cation. This will be a staggering
and unending job. As we contem-
'iate it, 1 suspect that we lose
much of the bubbling enthusiasm
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By Crockett Johnson
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