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G00-dfellows
The belief that the wartime boom makes the
tradition of helping the needy at Christmas time
obsolete is orle of the -most unfortunate ideas
to stem from the war.
The overcrowded stores, the bustling shoppers,
the tales of huge paychecks coming out of the
factories tend to make us forget that the down-
to-the heel shanties by the railroad track and the
overcrowded apartment houses are still here,
and still filled with children who believe in
Santa Claus.
For many families, these wartime holidays
are the first to find a bountiful Christmas feast
on the table and a tree full of presents, but for
many years, this Christmas will mark the first
spent with a star at the window as well as on
the tree.
The Goodfellow drive is your chance to play
Santa Claus to the hundreds of Ann Arbor
children whose Santa isriding a B-29 instead
of a reindeer this year, to keep your Christmas
merry and your New Year happy.
-Annette Shenker
Sedition Trial
Statements on American judicial procedure
made by Prof. Carl L. Becker during his lecture
here on "Constitutional Government" have been
given added pertinence by an announcement that
the mass sedition trial at Washington would be
discontinued.
Twenty-six persons under indictment for sedi-
tion were thus released by the recent death of
Justice Edward C. Eicher, trying the case. Unless
the government institutes new action these 26
persons, all shadowed by suspicion, are free to
return to their earlier pursuits.
Prof. Becker asserted in his lecture that exist-
ing defects in the laws of civil rights by which
Americans are protected were attributed to their
age. Eighteenth century laws on civil liberties
need revising, he said. Foremost among those
antiquated laws, which have since ceased to
guarantee the liberties they were framed to pro-
tect, were the right to trial by jury and other
phases of the American conception of fair judi-
cial procedure. Some revision is needed, he
asserted.
The ending of the sedition trial is a tragic
confirmation of Prof. Becker's statements.
The trial's completion would have indicated
whether this democratic nation possessed suffi-
cient legal machinery to protect itself from
subversive elements in war-time. The spirit of
the trial was admirable, but eight months of
hearings and some three million words of testi-
m ny were not sufficient to bring the case to a
jury.
It is evident that some revision of the method
of trial is needed.
-Paul Sislin
Facka ges
Orchids and bouquets to the campus coeds who
have gone out of their way in the past few
weeks to provide Christmas packages for wound-
ed veterans at Percy Jones Hospital at Battle
Creek.
Their efforts have been wholly unsolicited and
sprung from their sincere desire to help make
this Christmas just a bit more bright for some
Fallmir xvh riihi hn!' for thn ninn in
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13-Grey, grizzled Joseph
C. Grew, newly alpointed Undersecretary of
State, is about six feet three in height, towered
like a grandfather over the diminutive Japanese
when he was in Toyko. Grew was just two
years ahead of FDR at Groton and Harvard, is
descended from the Boston Cabots, married into
the J. P. Morgans, and after a youthful career
of shooting tigers in Manchuria and elephant-
hunting in India, settled down to diplomacy.
Popular in Turkey . .
When Grew was Ambassador to Turkey he
once jumped into the Bosporus and rescued a
Turk from drowning. For this and other quali-
ties he was immediately popular in Turkey, also
in Japan. But when he was Undersecretary of
State, the job 4o which Roosevelt has again
nominated him, Joe was in constant hot water.
Frank B. Kellogg, then Secretary of State, and
a former senator from Minnesota, was green at
the job. He leaned heavily on Grew, a career
diplomat. Before long, Kellogg woke up to find
he had landed Marines in Nicaragua and was
trading hot verbal blows with Mexico. All Latin
America turned against us.
The Nicaraguan row was especially messy.
Senator Borah got all steamed up. Various
senators introduced resolutions. They claimed
the State Department had picked its own
man, Adolfo Diaz, an employee of an American
company, and made him president, then sent
in the Marines to keep him in office. Worried
over the rumpus, the State Department ac-
cused Mexico of stirring up trouble in Nica-
ragua against us. Old man Kellogg got the
blame, but Grew and career diplomats led him
into, it. Finally Calvin Coolidge stepped in,
appointed Henry L. Stimson as special envoy
to Nicaragua over the State Department's
head. Stimson cleaned up the mess. However,
it took five years to undo the error and get
the Marines out of, Nicaragua. Also it took
the appointment of Ambassador Dwight Mor-
row to smooth over relations with Mexico and
put things on a non-nose-thumbing basis.
Unfair Promotions Clwrged . ..
By'this time Grew was ready to resign. But an
equally smelly mess was brewing right inside
the. State Department-unfair promotions. It
brought four resolutions in Congress before it
was finally cleaned up. For many years, U. S,
diplomats had wanted a career service of their
own. Finally, in 1924, Congress gave it to them.
That same year, Grew was made Undersecre-
tary of State, also made chairman of the per-
sonnel board to administer promotions under
the new Rogers Act. Running the new career
state department with Grew were Hugh Wilson,
heir of the Chicago shirt manufacturer; J. Butler
Wright, arbiter of protocol and diplomatic dress;
and Leland Harrison, scion of a wealthy New
York family. Their appetites were insatiable.
Their friends got the promotions, hard-working
consuls in the field got none.
Illustrative case was Eugene Hinkle.
Gene was a nice boy and socially successful.
He squeezed through the career service examina-
tions, but after one year of the usual training in
the State Department he still didn't know what
it was all about. So the personnel board of
which Grew was chairman decided to attach him
to the office of press relations where he would
have to answer half a hundred news queries
a day and learn to stay on his toes. At first,
newsmen were patient. But when Hinkle got
bound up in endless red tape, they complained to
Secretary Kellogg-to no avail. Hinkle had a
friend at court. He was related to Undersecre-
tary Joseph C. Grew.
Senator George Moses of New Hampshire help-
ed to break open the whole promotion scandal.
A good friend of Coolidge, Moses went to the
White House. Also he introduced a bill in
Congress. So did Congressman Steve Porter,
also Congressman Edwards of Georgia, and Con-
gresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers, whose husband
sponsored the career service. About that time
Tracy Lay, who helped write the Rogers act,
resigned as U. S. Consul General at Buenos
Aires because of unfairness in promotions.
Things got so bad that Vice President Charley
Dawes even made a speech about it.
Favoritism Admitlled . . .
FINALLY Frank B. Kellogg, in an official an-
nouncement, ate crow. He admitted rank
favoritism for a few of the blueblood insiders.
"In view of this," he said, "steps should be taken
On Second Tiwuht..
By RAY DIXON
This EAM-ELAS-EAH situation is so compli-
cated that it's time someone revives the old
expression about, "It's all Greek to me."
Tokyo claims we bombed the Imperial Palace
as well as photographing it, while the U. S.
neither denies nor confirms it. It it's true we
hope the Japs believe that a man's home is his
palace.
Stettinius proved he's a 1rue diplomat by the
way he avoided the Senate committee's question-
ing on Tuesday.
to correct any unintentional injustice that had
occurred." Since then, favoritism has been less
blatant. No longer at official functions is the
caste line drawn so carefully as when Joe Grew
gave a reception at his palatial home and invited
the career officers one day and the ordinary
non-career functionaries of the State Department
the next.
Grew and friends saw the handwriting on the
wall about the time Congress started its vari-
ious investigations. Kellogg and Grew had
not been getting along any too well anyway,
with the Secretary of State chafing more and
more at his career advisers. As the Congres-
sional probes broke, Grew promoted himself
to be Ambassador to Turkey; together with
Hugh Wilson as Minister to Switzerland, Le-
land Harrison as Minister to Sweden and But-
ler Wright as Minister to Hungary. These were
juicy plums. With Grew to Turkey went his
relative, Eugene Hinkle, as secretary to
embassy, thereby breaking the rule that young
entrants to the career service must first serve
two years as consuls. Freed from the admini-
strative job of running the delicate machinery
of the State Department, Grew made an A-1
ambassador-in fact, one of the best in the
service.
(Copyright, 1944, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
I'D RATHER BE RIGHT:
U.S. Foreign Policy
By SAMUEL GRAFTON
NEW YORK, Dec. 13-Two themes run through
American foreign policy. It seems to me
there is a constant struggle between them. One
is the theme of intertnational cooperation, and
so we have Dumbarton Oaks, and Bretton Woods.
The other is the theme of "freedom," of "inde-
pendence," and so it turns out that while Britain
and France now have twenty-year treaties of
mutual assistance with the Soviet Union, we
have not. We are willing to join in some kind
of big general post-war organization with Rus-
sia, but we are not willing to enter into any
sort of marriage; we are willing to attend the
same picnic, but not to live in the same house.
Mr. Stettinius' recent statement, affirming our
detachment from any effort to shape the politi-
cal futures of Italy, Belgium, Greece, etc., pleas-
ed the liberals, but I think it also stroked other
groups the right way. It reaffirmed our "inde-
pendence," our disconnectedness.
It relit ancient fires of hostility to Britain,
in some quarters; and pleasantly, too, because
it did so on the soothing moral basis of our
concern for Italian, Belgian and Greek free-
dom. (Only an idiot will think that I am criti-
cizing Mr. Stettinius' fine statement in mak-
ing this objective report on some of its inci-
dental effects and meanings. I think Mr.
Stettinius' stone was well and truly cast. This
is a story about the ripples.)
Historical patterns die hard, and slowly. Mr.
Stettinius' admirable statement also contained
within itself the idea of commercial freedom as
well as political freedom; freedom for ourselves
to set up air routes to everywhere, to send mer-
chant ships anywhere.1
Business enterprise, in America, uses the
word "freedom" with the same meaning. The
struggle that has been going on inside Amer-
ica these many years between the concept of
government regulation, and the concept of free
enterprise, is not unlike the struggle between
the idea of an organized world, and the idea
of American freedom to go out and get the
business wherever we can get it.
SOMETIMES wonder whether we really love
peace, or whether we only hate war. There
is a difference. Peace is a kind of house, which
we rqust first agree to help build, and then must
consent to live in, and according to certain rules;
no ashes on the carpeting, take your turn at the
bathroom door, no loud music, after eleven
o'clock, and a decent regard for the feelings of
the rest of the family.
I do not say we are entirely without the
desire for this kind of a world community; but
this constructive concept does struggle in our
minds with another one, that war is merely
an unhappy accident: let's get it out of the
way, and then be free to do whatever we want
to do.
Mr. Stettinius' fine statement undoubtedly
aroused images of this sort in many minds. Its
pattern was a pattern of disengagement from
Britain, of going it alone; and this may be one
reason why so many conservatives liked it, even
though its point was support of liberal and leftist
movements in three countries.
Of course I feel that the only way out is to
build that house, and to learn to 'live in it; to
come to a financial accord with Britain which
will give her some hope of a future, even if it
costs us some air lines, and thus enable her to
forego these destructive Greek and Belgian ex-
periments. That would give Britain's liberals a
place to go, too; we cannot expect them to give
up their support of Toryism without an alter-
native.
But it would be so nice not to have to do it;
not to have to give anybody anything nor to
ask anybody anything; to go freely where the
trade is, where the green grass beckons and
the soft winds invite; and we sniff the air of
this freedom, and it is sweet, and the two
impulses in American life are perhaps in sharp-
er conflict than we know.
(Copyright, 1944, New York Post Syndicate)
AMERICANS are proud of their
high standard of living, the high-
est in the world. Some citizens feel
satisfied just because our standards
are the highest, disregarding the per-
iodic depressions, unemployment, and
1/3 of the nation being ill-housed,
ill-clothed, ill-fed during the '30's.
But even we who admit these statis-
tics, and are trying to make plans
to correct these in post-war America,
frequently forget how we got where
we are.
Under our capitalist system of ec-
onomics, capital and labor are the
two forces involved in production.
And these two factors were respon-
sible for building this high standard
of living. Most Americans know the
story of the Great American For-
tunes, of the mergers of U. S. Steel,
Standard Oil, the beginning of mono-
poly-capital in the early 1900's, the
exciting achievements of inventors
who later headed rubber, radio, auto
industries. We are brought up on
the philosophy of Jay Gould, Com-
modore Vanderbilt, I-picked-myself-
up-by-my-bootstrais-Tom Girdler.
But do we know the other side of'
the story, or even consciously admit
that there is another side? Do we
know anything at all of labor's ef-
forts in building railroads, clearing
forests, digging coal to run factories?
And all this at great personal risk,
before the safety of workers was even
considered in setting up manufactur-
ing processes. All this at low wages,
12 to 15 hours of work six or seven
days a week, and much of it done
by slave labor, and by women, and
children.
Workers have had a great part
in inventing new methods of pro-
duction, too. This is particularly
clear from results in defense plants
where Suggestion Boxes have been
provided. Much time and money
has been saved by this means.
But what we hear in wartime news-
papers is, instead, a constant rhythm
of "labor strikes, workers squander
their.money, the common people are-
n't doing their part, aren't patriotic:"
THE United States War Department
has now come forth to blast these
myths. Gen. G. C. Marshall, Chief of
Staff, and Gen. J A. Ulio, Adjutant
General have issued Orientation Fact
Sheets Nos. 29 and 33 for distribu-
tion to servicemen in this country
and overseas.
No double talk here. No sugar coat-
ing. "Two opinions rather widely
held by soldiers are responsible for
considerable 'anti-civilian' feeling.
They are: (1) That war production is
being seriously hampered by labor
disputes. (2) That war workers are
living in luxury on huge wages. The
serious thing about these opinions is
that they are misconceptions based
probably on inadequate access to fac-
tual material."
As for the "strike myth": " . . . so
prodigious and faithful have been the
efforts of the great majority of our
people that the loss (of production
due to strikes) represents less than
1/10 of 1% of the total labor time
available." "The prominence given
in the press to accounts of strikes has
sometimes tended to overshadow the
positive achievement of labor in the
war effort. Undoubtedly press re-
ports have tended to dramatize and
perhaps overplay the occasional stop-
pages that have occurred in war pro-
duction. It is precisely because these
are extraordinary that they are news-
worthy."
"During the past year American
workers have turned in over 1,000,-
000 suggestions through their Lab-
or-Management Committees
resulting in the saving of millions
of man-hours and millions of
pounds of critical materials." For
example, suggestions at Kaiser's
Oregon and Washington shipyards
during 1943 resulted in saving of
"1,823,278 man-hours and a total
saving in manpower and materials
valued at $2,850,000."
"High-living, champagne-drink-
ing workers grab headlines and
feature comic strips, By contrast,
a Dept. of Labor study asserts 'the
burdens of the war have been
borne by nearly all factory workers
in the form either of a reduced
scale of living or of harder work
without material improvement in
current living."
No. 29 quotes statistics showing
that in October, 1943 (there have
been no pay increases since then) the,
average factory worker with three
dependents had real earnings ('after
deductions for taxes and bonds, al-
lowances for increased living costs)
of only $5.65 a week above his earn- 'I
ings in January, 1941.
"The single worker with no de-
pendents had (an increase of)
22c, enough for two beers per week"
above his January, 1941, earnings.
Tin conclusion, the War Depart-
y Crockett Johnson
ment says: "The production front
record of management and labor is
magnificent. It needs and should
have no apology, only publicity and;
understanding."
General Marshall and the War
Department are to be congratulat-
ed for finally setting the facts down
straight and for leaving out the
myths created by supposedly "im-
partial" news reports.
DRAMA1
THE DEPARTMENT of Speech
launched its dramatic season last
night on an auspicious stream of
chuckles. No, not chuckles-belly
laughs, for Jerome Chodorov and
Joseph Fields' adaptation of "Junior
Miss" is scarcely on the subtle side.
It is, in fact, a jerky, episodic, al-
most plotless and everywhere pre-
cious take-off on adolescent America.
That the audience, what there was
of it in a half-empty theatre, some-
times acted in a manner not far
different from that of the cast, is' a
comment on the far-reaching effects
of Hollywood-which this play paro-
dies.
Judy Graves, the in-between who
befuddles affairs andistraightens
them out with equal ability, is ex-
pertly played by Ethel Isenbeg. She
moves about the stage in correctly
"awkward" and graceless fashion
cavorts with her playmate from the
apartment above, Fuffy Adams, gor-
geously done by Mary Acton, giggles
here, and simpers there all with
telling effect.
The playwrights compounded this
farce from several short stories by
Sally Benson, and it seems strung
together rather unevenly though the
humor sparked by bright dialogue is
3ustained throughout and a climax
of sorts is reached somewhere near
the middle.
Lucille Genuit, playing Judy's older
sister Lois entertains an assortment
of boy friends around whom some
very nearly terrific slapstck is built
One discerns the experienced hand
)f Director Valentine Windt in on
of the funniest bits of pantomine this
reviewer has ever seen on an Ann
Arbor stage: Albert Kunody (James
Land) lighting a cigarette. No
character was seriously mis-cast un-
less it was Miss Genuit whose talents
are best put to sweeter roles, and
Robert Acton who looked as young
as his offspring. Byron Mitchell was
properly subdued, if somewhat ill at
ease in a role that called for sobriety,
Babette Blum contributed a gem as
Hilda, the maid, and Orris Mills
blustered more effectively as the eve-
ning progressed.
Herbert Phillipi's settings shook
some, but they were adequate. The
make-up Was not. This is a very
serious defect in any attempt to cre-
ate versimilitude-one which can be
overcome by tonight if the proper
steps are taken.
-Bernard' Rosenberg
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BULLETIN
THURSDAY, DEC. 14, 1944
VOL. LV, No. 37
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the year. Fraternities and sororities
which maintain houses on the cam-
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temporarily without houses, are not
included in this list.
Alpha Chi Sigma, Alpha Kappa
Alpha, Alpha Kappa Delta, Alpha
Phi Omega, Am. Inst. of Architects,
Am. Inst. of Elec. Engineers, Am. Soc.
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Cooperative Council, Interfraternity
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Newman Club, Palmer Cooperative,
Panhellenic Association, Phi Delta
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Prescott Club, Quarterdeck Society,
Rho Chi, Robert Owen House, Roch-
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Organization, Vulcans, Women's Ath-
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Wyvern, World Student Service Fund
Com., Zeta Phi Eta.
Students, Fall Term, College of
Literature, Science, and the Arts:
Courses dropped after Saturday, Dec.
16, by students other than freshmen
will be recorded with the grade of
"E." Upon the recommendation of
their Academic Counselors, freshmen,
(students with less than 24 hours
credit) may be granted the extra-
ordinary privilege of dropping cour-
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eighth week.
L.S.&A. Civilian Freshman Five-
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13, Wednesday, A through H; Dec.
14, Thursday, I through ; Dec. 15,
Friday, P through Z.
Detroit Armenian Women's Club
Award: The Detroit Armenian Wo-
men's Club offers a scholarship award
of $100 for 1945-46, open for compe-
tition by undergraduate students of
Armenian parentage residing in the
Detroit Metropolitan district who
have had at least one year of college
work and who have demonstrated
both scholastic ability and excellence
of character. The award will be
made by the scholarship committee
of the club May 15, 1945. Applica-
tions will be received and forwarded
by F. E. Robbins, Assistant to the
President, 1021. Angell Hall,
Lectures
French Lecture: Professor Palmer
A. Throop of the Department of His-
tory, will give the first of the French
lectures sponsored by the Cercle
Francais today at 4:10 p.m. in Rm.
D, Alumni Memorial Hall. The title
of his lecture is: "La Predication de
la Croisade."
Tiokets for the series of lectures
may be procured from the Secretary
of the Department of Romance Lang-
uages (Rm. 112,.Romance Language
Building or at the door at the time
of the lecture.
These lectures are open to the gen-
eral public. All servicemen are ad-
mitted free of charge to all lectures.
Events Today
Chemical and Metaihtrgical Eugi-
icerin;. Seminar: At the regular
Seminar meeting of the Department
of Chemical and Metallurgical Engi-
neering today, Mr C. Karkalits will
speak on the subject, "Oscilloscope;
Its Use in Colorometric Determina-
tions."
The mnpptim, will h. held at 4 1.m
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Note on the manpower shortage: a
ours claims he saw a bunch of girls
snowballs at a man yesterday,
Students are getting tap-happy
Mortarboard and Senior Society talk
members.
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