PAGE TWO -THE ,MICHIGAN -DAILY SATURDAY, NOV. 25; 1944 PAGE TWO SATUUIDAY, NOV. Zn', 1944 00" 4w Fifty-Fifth Year. WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Democratic Sparks Fly Again Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control at Student Publications. Editorial Staff Evelyn Phillips Stan Wallace Ray Dixon Hank Mantho Dave Loewenberg Mavis Kennedy Busin S . . Managing Editor . . . City Editor . . Associate Editor * . Sports Editor * Associate Sports Editor . . . Women's Editor. ess Staff Lee Amer . Barbara Chadwick June PomeringT Tele photte Business Manager Associate Business Mgr. Associate Business Mgr. 23-24-1 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 re- publication 'of all other matters herein also reserved. 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Chungking, the Kuomintang capitol, itslf, is threatened by the imminent possibility of inva- sion. In this crisis Chiang Kai-shek's answer is a token reorganization of his cabinet-as Smed- Iey puts it in PM on Nov. 21, 'a new hand dealt with the old deck.' Let's look at members of the new cabinet: Dr. H. H. Kung, ousted as Minister -of Finance, still holds the position of Vice Premier. Kung has been the, object -of student demonstra- tions produced by his reactionary policies. Replacing Kung is 0. K. Yui, a Kung stooge from way back, who will undoubtedly maintain the Kungestablished status quo. There is Gen. Ho Ying-Cheng, replaced by Gen. Chen Cheng as War Minister, who remains Chief-of-Staff. He has been the major -ob- struction to compromise with the Communists- essential to national unity-turning thumbs down on moves to break the blockade against the Communist forces. This is, perhaps, an out- growth of his former connections with the late Wang-Ching-Wei, China's own quisling, leader of the puppet Nanking government. Ur. Chu Chia-hua, new Minister of Educa- tion, may well use the educational theories he supported as leader of the pro-Nazi faction. Dr. Chu was Tresponsilile for the importation of German military advisors to China and in- strumental in the program under which young Chinese studied in the Nazi army and German universities during the Hitler regime. New head of the organization department is Chen Li-fu, former director of the secret political police, the body which stymies all attempts at formation of a democratic government by en- forcing the no free speech, no free press, no free assembly that dictatorship requires. He is hated and feared by every liberal in China. The remainder of the changes are of little importance. What is important is that we recognize that there has been no effective change made. Will China, like France, fall because the gov- ernment was more concerned with dominating the people than with fighting the enemy? -Betty Roth PAC Continues THE C. I. O. Political Action Committee which played a key role in the re-election of Franklin D. Roosevelt will continue as a potent factor in the American Political scene. This was assured when on Wednesday the C. I. O. convention voted to continue its existence. In actively participating in the last election the P. A. C. departed radically from the historic non-partisan role of American Labor. Its suc- By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON, NOV. 24-For at least three months, during the campaign, all Roosevelt factions-liberals, conservatives, New Dealers- stuck together. None criticized another publicly. Hatchets were buried to promote the common cause. But last week, sparks flew again when liberal Attorney General Francis Biddle called in even more liberal Assistant Attorney General Norman Littell and asked for his resignation. The ses- sion culminated a .bitter long-smouldering per- sonal feud between them. "You realize," said Biddle, "that you and I cannot part as friends." "We certainly can never part as friends," snapped back Littell. Real fact is that Littell has been the Justice Department's most hard-hitting crusader for New Deal policies, has crusaded so hard that he was fretuently far ahead of his more cautious Cabinet chief. It was Littel who threw an unceremonious monkey-wrench into the Navy's plan to lease its precious Elk Hills oil reserve to Standard Oil of California. H stopped the deal. It was Littell who tangled with the Army over its plan to turn Palm Beach's swank Breakers Hotel back to the Florida East Coast Railway at great cost to the taxpayers after spending millions converting it to a hospital. It was Littell who fought the title companies in order to get the titles to Government-pur- chased land cleared more quickly, thus speed up payments to thousands of farmers forced to give up their land to Army caips. Littell was in the thick of almost every Justice Department fight involving liberal causes, and each fight got him more in the Attorney Gen- eral's thinning hair. What especially nettled Biddle was the way in which some Senators and Congressmen got hold of Littell's inter- departmental reports, used them to fire back at Biddle. This week Littell's Senatorial friends plan to light more bonfires under Biddle regard- ing the resignation of his tempestuous, hard- hitting, liberal assistant. Government Versus Private Power Most Congressional committee meetings just before Thanksgiving were sparsely attended. With the lame-duck Congress about to bow out, the Senate has been meeting haphazardly. Many seats have been vacant, many Senators have been resting from the recent campaign. But when the Senate Commerce Committee met this week, an unusually large number of Senators showed up. Those on the inside knew the reason. Those not on the inside soon dis- covered the reason. North Carolina's ponderous Senator Josiah Bailey began talking. Long supported by the Duke power and tobacco interests, Bailey with no apologies brazenly plunged into a eulogy of the Duke Power Company and talked of the danger of power competition from the Govern- ment. Then he introduced an amendment to the flood-control bill, up for final approval by his committee-an amendment which would pre- vent the Government from building transmis- sion power lines and 'distributing electric power Academic Freedom WHEN Dr. Homer P. Rainey was ousted as president of the University of Texas two weeks ago, the Board of Regents explained mere- ly that "the interests of the university" required that action. Developments since that time make it prti- nent to inquire, what interests? Not the facul- ty's interests, for it has given Dr. Rainey a unan- imous vote of confidence and asked for his rein- statement. Not the students' interests, for they have carried on a widespread agitation in Dr. Rainey's behalf, including parades, a strike, petitions and meetings, in addition to raising a $4,000 fund to spread the facts about his dis- missal. Not the interests of alumni, for their association is also backing Dr. Rainey, and has called for the resignation of the regents who oppose him. What this all comes down to is a fight for academic freedom, similar to those -waged in Georgia. Louisiana and other states in recent years. The regents have dismissed teachers who spoke their minds in public on issues of the day. They have dismissed others without stated cause and without a hearing. They raised a storm because John Dos Passos' book, "U.S.A.," was found on the reading list of an English class. They weakened faculty tenure rules, and interfered with school -dministration. They refused to sanction employment of Japanese- American students by the university. They as- sailed Dr. Rainey for "racial" speeches when he urged making modern techonology provide plenty for all. Freedom of speech, freedom of thought and freedom of inquiry-which add up to make academic freedom--are at stake in this Texas fight. If the benighted, reactionary ideas of the regents prevail, the University of Texas, with a faculty of pliant yes-men, will slide far down the educational scale. More power to the many Texans who are vigorously op- posing this attack on an able educator and a high principle. -St. Louis Post Dispatch BARNABY from the big flood-control projects authorized in the bill. Vote on Amendment,. .. The flood-control bill before Bailey's Com- merce Committee called for a continuation of this practice. But Bailey's amendment would put a complete stop to it. When the amend- ment came to a vote, only three Senators op- posed:--Bilbo of Mississippi, where cheap TVA power as been a boon to the State; Pepper of Florida, a strong advocate of public power- Voting for the amendment and the private power industry were three Republicans and a longer list of Democrats:-Burton of Ohio, Wi-. ley of Wisconsin, Brewster ofkMaine, all Rei publicans; and Bennett Clark of Missouri, Bailey of North Carolina, Radcliffe of Mary- land (who usually supports FDR), Mrs. Cara- way of Arkansas (also usually behind the Presi- dent). Arthur Walsh of New Jersey, Maloney of Connecticut, all Democrats. Three of them, Caraway, Clark and Walsh, are lame ducks who will leave Congress in a few weeks. But they were careful to be on deck for this vote. (Copyright, 1944, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: G.O.P. Iowa By SAMUEL GRAFTON DES MOINES, IOWA, NOV. 24-Iowa is a traditionally Republican state. When it votes Democratic, that is a sign it isn't feeling well. Iowa voted for Roosevelt in 1932 and in 1936. By 1940 the rising level of farm income had brought a flush back to its cheek, and it voted happily for Willkie. In 1944, it voted, a little less happily, for Dewey. But the city of Des Moines has voted for Roosevelt four times running. That makes it a Democratic city in terms of national politics. Even in the heart of Iowa there is demonstrated the diminishing Republican grip on the city vote everywhere. Des Moines is not huge, about 160000; and it isn't much of a labor town in the !strict industrial sense; many of the jobs here are in insurance. But Des Moines went Demo- cratic anyway. The fact that the G. O. P. can't seem to carry the cities has become a biggerj handicap to it than the fact that it can't carry the Solid South. Iasked a P. A. C. representative why Roosevelt was defeated in Iowa. "It's geographical," he said. "The county seat town of five to ten thousand is your real Republican territory. That's the base of Re- publican strength. Iowa is studded with towns of that size. The Democrats can carry the big ger places. And you'd be surprised how well the Democrats do in some of the really tiny places, too; how many of the dirt farmers vote Demo- cratic. But the prosperous county seat is the real Republican center." I yield to no man in my admiration for the county seat town. But it makes a small base for a truly national party. So even in Iowa there is documentation for the thesis that the G. O. P. can hardly hope to go anywhere un- less it modernizes its attitude toward labor. It is in danger of becoming, permanently, a narrow party of limited and special appeal. As such it undoubtedly affords a lot of satis- faction to the more noisy type of smoking- car argufier. But it just has to become, some- how, a longer cross-section of America if it hopes to have a future. For only a fifth of America is engaged in farming today. "If we're a really successful country," said Allan Kline, President of the' Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, "that percent- age will become even smaller. If 19 percent of the people, instead of 20, can raise all the food and fiber needed, that's fine. That frees more people to manufacture goods and provide ser- vices to make life better for all. If 18 percent can do it instead of 19, that's real progress, too. And the war has shown us how to produce more food with less people.'' So the long-term trends, as well as shorter- range considerations, such as the war, might be called, in essence, anti-Republican. I found Republican newspapermen in Des Moines quite articulately concerned about their party's narrow-gauge appeal. "Harrison Spangler, former national chair- man, is still functioning in Cedar Rapids," said one. "Sparig isn't a bad fellow. He con- siders himself a good, Christian man, who serves the traditional virtues. But he doesn't" know what the score is. He ran Hickenlooper for Senator. Hick is a standard Iowa politi- cian, a farm boy who went to State U. Spang brought Hick along through the years, up the" rigid, traditional ladder of Iowa politics, through the lieutenant-governorship and the governorship, and now the Senate. But it was a narrow squeeze in this election. We expected Hick to win by 150,000. He got in by 30,000. Things are changing, and the old boys are still depending on organization and tradition, instead of on an understanding of what the people want and are thinking about." I've just come from Minnesota. where the politicians were startled by a Democratic swing among farmers in the northern, poorer part of the state. If the poorer farmer and labor get together, the G. O. P. is really going to have to consult with its soul, and pray, and think things over. (Copyright. 1944. New York Post Syndicate) The I Pen duluin By BERNARD ROSENBERG THE Autobiography of Lincoln Stef- fens is in many ways an out- standing American document. For incisive self-analysis "The Education of Henry Adams" probably surpasses it. But, just as that classic has an added dimension, historical dyna-. mism, so Steffens' book extends be- yond its author to the field of poli- tical science. There is a proneness to believe that1 maturity and experience bring con- servatism with them. This process] of intellectual dehydration which does often take place, is usually and mistakenly called "wisdom." The old codger who long since has stopped thinking about any subject other than money looks with benevolent condescension upon youthful zeal- ots who will, in middle age, come to! see the error of their ways. This is an all too prevalent folk-way. Lincoln Steffens was the living contradiction of it-and it is for that reason, chief- ly, that I am interested in him here. Steffens began his adult life in a Wall Street broker's office; he ended it in the fold of radicalism. His sympathies swung in a life- time of growth from riches to rags. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he used it to eat proletar- ian food.. Young people with un- stable minds attracted to progres- sive ideas, are sometimes overcome} by premature senility. Others are not-and Lincoln Steffens is a shining example of it. His autobiography is instructive in other ways. He studied .philosophy in college, philosophy at the Univer- sity of California, Heidelberg, Mu- nich, Berlin, Leipzig, Berlin, and Paris. Despite that abstract academ- ic background, Steffens returned to America and eventually became the keenest social "critic of his time. Re- spected and consulted by presidents, he was the leading muck-racker in an era of the expose. His intelli- gence irradiated the most earthy and practical essay on civic corruption as much so as it doubtless had when he wrote papers as a student on Hegelian metaphysics. The common belief has it that a true liberal arts schooling is poor preparation for future life. Lincoln Steffens' experiences conclusively disprove this view. "A cultivated intellect, because it is a good in itself, brings with it a power and a grace to every occupation which it undertakes." So spoke Cardinal Newman, and he-not the educa- tional pragmatists-was right. What relation has Hegel to boss- ism? Exactly none. However rigor- ous training in the first makes for clearer comprehension not only of the second but any other interest. The man who has studied and un- derstood Aristotle will have a more luminous mind than the man who has not had that or some compar- able experience. A more luminous mind enables such individuals to be more effecient in whatever job they undertake. With it and the mental discipline behind it, they can be so much more effective as steam-fitters or as hod-carriers, as salesmen, or as journalists covering the police beat in New York city. Schools are institutions, and in- stitutions cannot be separated from the society that rears them. Our society has tragically decreed that the intellectual is in one sphere and the man of action is in another sphere. It has seldom occurred to us that the two may be integrated. And the result has been one group using its brains exclusively for econ- omic gain and shunning public office, while the other takes shelter in class- rooms and studies. The community can go to pot for all they care or do. Hill-Billy bigots need only pass biscuits to enough pappies and they find themselves in the governor's chair of our largest state before advancing to, or on, the Senate of the United States. But, what from the university of the same. state? Much frivolity, deep silence, and now, the forced resigiation of its liberal president. Lincoln Steffens applied the cul- tivation of learning to worldly af- fairs. This must be done on a larger scale in the U. S. A. (no allusion to the book of the same name which Texas U. has just banned) or we will continue to sink even below Senator W. Lee O'Daniel into the abysmal depths of governmental ignorance. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN .....Y SATURDAY, NOV. 25, 1944 VOL. LV, No. 21 All notices for The Daily 'Official Bul- letin are to be sent to the Office of the Assistant to the President, 1021 Angell Hall, in typewritten form by 3:30 p. m. of the day preceding its publication, except on Saturday when the notices should be submitted by 11:30 a. m. Notices Sixth War Loan Drive: 1. During this Drive. War Bonds may be purchased from students of the Junior Girls' Project, called "Bond Belles." who will canvass all parts of the University. You will re-j ceive an official receipt from these canvassers for the order and pay-I ment. If requested, arrangements can be made to deliver the bonds ,o your office. 2. You can call for a "Bond Belle" to take your order by phoning 2-325.1, extension 7. Bonds will be on sale at the cashier's office, Uiver ity Hall. Orders by campus mail can be sent to Investment Office, 100 S. Wing, University Hall. This latter office will be glad to answer ques- tions about the various bonds avail- able during the drive or the proced- ure for purchasing them (University Extension 81). 3. Checks should be made payable to the University of Michigan. Please print or type names and addresses --University War Bond Committee. Choral Union Members: Members of the Chorus, in good standing, will please call for their pass tickets for the Barere concert, Monday, Nov. 27, between the hours of 9:30 and 11:30 and 1 and" 4, at the offices of the University Musical Society. After 4 o'clock, no tickets will be issued. Student Admission to Basketball Game: Students will be admitted to the basketball game with Central Michigan College of Education today, upon presentation of their student receipts for fees. Found: Slide Rule in East Engi- neering Building. Call in Metal Pro- cessing office to identify. City of Detroit Civil Service An- nouncement for Principal Publicist, salary $5,750 to $6,230 has been re- ceived in our office. No residence requirements. For further details stop in at 201 Mason Hal,. Bureau of Appointments. Academic Notices School of Education Students: No course may be elected for credit after today. Students must report all changes of elections at the Regis- trar's Office, Rm. 4.sUniversity Hall. Membership in a class does not cease nor begin until all changes have been thus officially registered. To All Male Students in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: By action of the Board of Regents, all male students in residence in this College must elect Physical Educa- tion for Men. This action has been effective since June, 1943, and will continue for the duration of the war. Students may be excused from taking the course by (1) The Uni- versity HeaNh Service, (2) The Dean of the College or by his representa- tive, '(3) The Director of Physical Education and Athletics. Petitions for exemption by stu- dents in this College should be ad- dressed by freshmen to Professor Arthur Van Duren, Chairman of the Academic Counselors (108 Mason Hall); by all other students to Assis- tant Dean E. A. Walter (1220 Angell Hall.) Except under very extraordinary circumstances no petitions will be considered after the end of the third week of the Fall Term. Speeded Reading Course: A special short course in speeed reading will 'be given for students wishing to improve their reading ability. The course will meet Monday and Wed- nesday at 5 for eight weeks, starting Monday, Nov. 27. There is no charge for this non-credit course. Rm. 4009 University High School Building, School of Education. For further information call Mr. Morse, Ex. 682. M.E. 35: Class will be held at 9 a.m Monday as usual. This corrects the announcement made Friday. Charles B. Gordy Concerts Choral Union Concert: Simon Bar- ere, Russian pianist, will be heard in the fourth Choral Union concert taking the place of Josef Lhevinne Monday, Nov. 27, at 8:30. He will play the following revised program: Pastorale, Corelli; Menuett by Ram- eau; Gigue, Loeilly; Choral Preludes, Bach-Busoni; Carnaval, Op. 9, Schu- mann; Grande Polonaise Brillante Chopin; Poeme and Etude, Scriabin; Etude Tableau and Polka, Rachman- inoff; and Rhapsody No. 12, Liszt Epents Today ginning at 9 o'clock. The party will begin in the Student Lounge of the Methodist Church. Coming Events Sigma Nu: There will be a meeting of the fraternity at 2 o'clock tomor- row, Nov. 26 at the Michigan Union. The room number will be posted in the lobby. All members whether affiliated on this campus or not are urged to attend. The International Center Sunday program will feature movies of the United States. Time 7:30 p.m. , The Ann Arbor District Choir Fes- tival will be held Sunday evening Nov. 26 in the First Methodist Church at 7:30 o'clock under the general direction of Hardin Van Deursen of the School of Music. Youth and adult choirs from fiften different churches, numbering ap- proximately 400 singers in all, will participate. The' general public is cordially invited. The Lutheran Student Association will meet Sunday, Nov. 26, at 5 ptm. in Zion Parish Hall. Please note the change in time. The program will begin at 5:15 and supper will follow at 6. The Rev. Roderick Anderson, pastor of Kelley Road Lutheran Mis- sion in Detroit, will be the speaker. Rev. Anderson is a former member of the Association and will have a fine message for students and ser- vicemen. Everyone is invited to attend the Mortgage Burning Ceremonies to be held at Hillel Foundation tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. The principal speaker at the ceremonies will be Dr. Abram L Sachar, National Director of the B'nai Brith Hillel Foundations. Churches First Methodist Church and Wes- ley Foundation: Student Class at 9:30 a.m. Dr: E. W. Blakeman will continue the discussion on the sub- ject "Understainding Ourselves." Morning worship service at 10:40 o'clock. Dr. James Brett Kenna Will preach on "He Went a Little Far- ther." Wesleyan Guild meeting at 5 p.m. The Rev. Leslie Sayre of Addison will be the speaker. Ann Arbor District Choir Festival at 7:30 p.m. University Lutheran Chapel, 1511 Washtenaw, will have its regular schedule Sunday morning, Student Class at 10:15, and the Morning Ser- vice at 11. Gamma Delta, Lutheran Student Club, will have a party at- urday from 8:30 to 12 at the Luth- eran Student Center. Sunday at 5 the regular supper meeting' will be held. 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 "Ancient andModern Necromancy SAlias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced." Sunday School at 11:45 a.m. A convenient reading room is maintained by this church at 106 E. Washington St. where the Bible, also the Christian Science Textbook, "Sci- ence 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. Saturdays until 9 p.m. First Baptist Church: 512 E. Huron. C. H. Loucks, Minister. Saturday, 7:10, Choir rehearsal in the church; 8:30, Treasure hunt for Roger Wil- liams' Guild. Meet at the Guild House at 502 E. Huron. Sunday, 10. Study classes. The University stu- dent's class will have a discussion on the progress of "The Idea of God." 11, Morning worship. Sermon: "Re- building the World," Drs. LeRoy Allen and- P. B. Sullivan. 5, Roger Williams Guild presents a Forum on Labor Relations by four students who have worked in industrial plants. 6, Cost supper at the Guild House. First Presbyterian Church: 9:30 a.m., Bible Class for University Stu- dents at the First Presbyterian Church. Morning Worship at 10:45 a.m. Dr. Lemon's topic will be "Right Is Might." 4:30 p.m., Vesper Com- munion Service at which there will be a Reception of New Members including those students who desire to affiliate with the church during their Ann Arbor residence. Follow- ing the Communion Service at 5:45 p.m. there will be supper and an informal reception for the new Affil- iates. Grace Bible Fellowship: Masonic Temple, 327 South Fourth Avenue. Harold J. DeVries, pastor. 10 a.m., University Bible Class. Ted Groes- beck, leader. 11 a.m., Morning wor- ship. Message by the pastor, Psftlm T-"Bessed Is the Man." 6:30 p.m., Youth forum. 7:30 p.m., Evening service. Studies in the Gospel of John- "The Presentation of the A W (° t; A 1 You're all set with that can opener.H No fuss or feathers. Easy to carve- oL h...--as't And a Happy Thanksgiving, Myles- By Crockett Johnson Thanksgiving, Barnaby, can H050 never be all over... It's with us