rAGE TWO T14 AZ Z tI, CIA A i..C.I A N 7,3 A I I . SATUIMAY, DEC. 16, 1944 .;. .._.. ._ .. __ _. .. . it lI D. 1 l.a AR. .A. ll'. t 1\ V;, 1'].. d. Aa 1 __ _.__ _ .. _ .. ..__...__._. _..: __ ._ J Fifty-Fifth Year WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Facts on New State Department + ..he n!dio i . - DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN . ' ...... Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of 'Student Publications-. Editorial Staff Evelyn Phillips . Stan Wallace Uay Dixon . Hank Mantho . Dave Loewenberg . . Mavis "Kennedy Business Lee Amer Barbara Chadwick. . June Pomering . Telephone . . Managing Editor * * City Editor Associate Editor . . Sports Editor Associate Sports Editor Women''s Editor Staff . Business Manager Associate Business Mgr. Associate Business Mgr. 23-24-1 Member of The Associated Press The Asociated 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. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second-class mail matter. Subscriptions during the regular school year by car- rier, $4.50, by mail, $5.25. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1943-44 NAIE9tNTED VOANATtONMA AOVL130aE0 BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISoN AYE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CI4ICA(;b .DOSTON + LOS A4GELES " SAN FRANCISCO NIGHT EDITOR: MARGARET FARMER -W .- - .. Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are "written by members of The Daily stafff and represent the views of the writers only. Tired of DriNves?.. FIRST it was the War Chest. Then it was Galens and the Sixth War Loan. After that came the Tuberculosis Seals. Now it's the Good, fellow edition. After Christmas it'll be the Red Cross and the Infantile Paralysis campaign. That's all people want, you say. Money, money, money all the time. It's too much. lust plain too much. But it's not too much. And why not? Because the sum requested from each student is small. Very small. A dime or a quarter. Two cokes, a movie, a package of cigarettes. Giving up no more than that is all that is asked. Because you can't honestly say that you don't have the money. Because you can't say -that fifteen cents or a quarter or two cokes or a movie mean that much to you. tecause the causes are worthy. The War Chest, the Galens, the Textbook Lending li- brary, the Family Service Bureau are fillin'g imperative needs, needs which can be met .only with funds contributed by the more for- 'tunate. Because you are the "more fortunate." You have plenty to eat and drink. You have a warm' room and sufficient clothing-with plenty of extra cokes and malteds and hair clasps and giddy ties. You are not working fifty-four hours a week before a drill press. You are not risk- ing your life on a battlefield. So give. Without complaint. It's the least you can do. --Margaret Farmer By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 15-Two of the new assistant secretaries of state got their first boost in diplomacy, directly or indirectly, from the famous social war of Dolly Gann.. It occurred at that turning point in the life of the nation, when having progressed far from the unceremonial days of Andrew Jackson's muddy-booted, farmer-worker inaugurals, we began to understand the European niceties of who should sit where at dinner. And having grown up as a nation, we appointed James Cle- ment Dunn as chief ceremonial officer of the White House. . He was a full-fledged State Department ca- reer officer, given the weighty job of arranging White House place cards and making sure that the gold-braided naval aides lined up the Vice President and the chief justice's wife ac- cording to strict protocol. The Dolly Gann social war made Jimmy Dunn famous. Actually, he adroitly sidestep- ped the issue, dumping it in the lap of Chilean ambassador Carlos Davila. But from that day on, his job was made. Before some people had turned u their nose at the idea of a full- time, full-fledged career diplomat paid by the taxpayers 'to rule on protocol. But from that point on, Jimmy, a charming and delightful person, became a fixture in Washington's dip - lomatic-social whirl. Cordell Hull's Closest Friend ... In fact, Jimmy Dunn's State Department Bu- reau of International Conferences and protocol was enlarged and became quite an institution. He used it as a springboard to attend confer- ences all over the world. So when Cordell Hull came into office, a simple senator from Tennessee, unused to the folderol and trappings of diplomacy, it was natural for Jimmy Dunn to go with him to the famous London economic conference. There, Hull had trouble with his old enemy, Professor Raymond Moley. Also Hull did not know the minute details of how a conference should operate, but Jimmy Dunn did. And Jimmy, in that brief trip to London, became the new-found friend, eventually the closest confidant of Cordell Hull. Next to his marriage to gracious and ambi- tious Mary Armour, heiress to the Armour millions, this was the wisest move Jimmy ever made. After the London conference, Jimmy accom- 1janied Hull to the Pan-American conference at Montevideo, this time taking his wife. On the long voyage, she and Mrs. Hull got ac- quainted. Since then scarcely a day has pass- ed during the 12 years Hull remained Secre- tary of State that Mrs. Dunn and Mrs. Trull have not visited together. Nor has there been a day wheni the weather and Mr. Hull's health were good that he has not played his favorite game, croquet, with Jimmy Dunn. Naturally Mr. Hull soon promoted Jimmy out of his routine niche in charge of protocol and conferences, placing him in charge of vitally important European affairs. As a young man, Jimmy had never got through college. But he became Hull's "political advisor for Europe." From Kansas to White Spats.. .. Having risen to this key position, Jimmy reached out and put his friend, Julius Holmes, now a Brigadier General, into his old protocol job. Possibly this was because Julius came from kansas and Jimmy feared another vice-presi- dent's sister from Kansas would precipitate a new Dolly Ganp war. Kansas has done ,well by Hohnes. It is not certain, however, that he has done so well in, sticking by Kansas' democratic ideals. He married the delightful daughter of Kansas' famed ex-governor and Senator, Henry Allen. Uut when he was stationed in Rumania he came back insisting that the Iron Guard was not fascist (later it threw the country to Hitler) and in the State Department he was long a staunch defender of Franco. "Shockingly pro-fascist in his leanings," was the way an old Kansas friend recently rescribed him. But as a Kansas boy, home state of General Eisenhower, Julius has shot up to high position on Eisenhower's staff. He jumped from Major to Brigadier General in about the time it takes the average youngster to be trained as a rookie. And in North Africa he was in on the ground floor in helping to arrange for Admiral Darlan to take over. H was also working closely with Robert Murphy when it was arranged that French fascist Marcel Peyrouton, the police official who started 'labor and religious internment camps under Vichy, should become governor of North Africa. Sumner Welles, then under- secretary, tried to hold up Peyrouton's pass- port in Argentina, but was overruled from Al- giers. Eisenhower always claimed that he knew nothing about these political matters, that he left everything to his State Depart- ment advisers. Murphy and Hlohnes were those advisers. (Copyright, 1944, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) I'D RATHER RE RiGHT: Anti-British Uproar By SAMUEL GRAFTON NEW YORK, Dec. 15-The American public is being flooded with anti-British pronounce- ments, manifestos, declarations, cartoons, wise- cracks. Some of this material is put out by liberals, who quite properly object to current British policy in Belgium and Greece. But some of it, too, comes from publicists who have always been anti-British, from isolationists, who see in the present near-crisis an opportunity to get in their own particular anti-British licks. Lib- erals denounce British policy in Belgium and Greece, and isolationists chime in to remark that the British are fighting to the last American, etc. The two currents of criticism of Great Britain combine to make an uproar. By an unhappy coincidence, the question of postwar commercial air routes has come to a head at this time, and there is American pres- sure against Britain on this point, too. Just as our liberals have been fighting the British on their conduct in liberated countries, and just as our isolationists have been fighting the British out of sheer, numb habit, so the Ameri- can delegation to the recent International Civil Aviation Conference also has been in the position of fighting, or at least, opposing the British. So this third stream of anti-British pressure is joined to the main flood. These have come to- gether at the same moment, and the result is that there seems to be a torrent of comment unfavorable to Great Britain. It is as if all those planets which exert a malign influence on American-British under- standing have come into conjunction. The ef- fect, just by sheer bulk and weight and volume of discourse, is almost such as to make it seem that all of America is passing through an anti- British phase. Everywhere you turn, somebody is saying it. Yet this effort is misleading; the groups now criticizing Britain in America are quite different, and they are moved by quite different motives. Only an unhappy set of coin- cidences has activated them all at the same moment. In actual fact, of the major Ameri- can groups now attacking Britain, each one probably wishes that the other two would drop dead. THIS crazy coalition cannot last very long. Yet it is important for liberals to realize that it is a kind of coalition; or that it has at least the effect and weight of a coalition. If you make the same sounds as the next man, you are singing with him, no matter what you intend. That is why it has been suggested,in these dispatches, that we need a major economic settlement with Great Britain, to assure the British that they are going to be able to live after the war, to assure them that they are going to have an opportunity in world trade. It is perfectly clear that British fears on this point are behind Britain's unhappy experi- ments in repression in Belgium, Greece and Italy. Ernest Bevin, Britain's Labor Mini- ster, has just said, in so many words: "The British Empire, whether we like it or not, cannot abandon its position in the Mediter- ranean." An apprehensive Britain is fighting for its life. When a Labor Party man, like 1evii, finds he has nowhere to go except toward Toryism, it is time for American lib- erals to consider whether they don't have some basic thinking to do on this point. An economic settlement with Britain, giving her some hop'e, would let us unwind current ten- sions, would make less necessary Britain's des- perate try at power politics in the small coun- tries. And that is the way to get back to the spirit of the grand alliance, to break up the massed anti-British chorus; leaving only the isolation- ists to carry on with the theme, like cats cry- ing on a back fence at night. (Copyright, 1944, New York Post Syndicate) U.S. Veterans Committee In view of the fact that a very large part of your readers, past and pres- ent, are now serving in the arnied forces of the country, I should like to call your attention to the follow- ing in the hope that you may find it of sufficiently wide-spread interest to warrant investigation and perhaps space in some future edition of the Daily. I believe we should all be extremely concerned that the veterans of this war do not unwittingly become a. part of a reactionary organization, a tool of the backward looking for- ces of the country. We hope, on the contrary, that they will be able to find some common ground on which to build the liberal and democratic forces necessary to win the peace as our military force is winning the war. The veterans of this war, under a great and honest leadership, will hold this force in their organization, and I believe that the plan of the Am- erican Veterans Committee is at least a beginning of such an organization and our surest path to avoid a reac- tion-controlled continuance of oth- er veterans' groups. The AVC was founded, as the en- closed newspaper reprints indicate. by Lt. C. G. Bolte and a group of like-minded veterans in the hope that, through their committee, they might be able to form the nucleus of a liberal organization and bring to- gether, before the close of the war. as many as possible of the interested and thinking men arid women serv- ing our country. In this way their individual energies might not be spent in isolation and without accom- plishment. In order that the Committee may accurately reflect the beliefs of its members, the present leaders have not formed an all-inclusive plat- form. Rather they have announced a "statement' of intentions" upon which the AVC has been foundedand from which beliefs will come its eventual platform. This statement includes liberal viewpoints on finan- cial, medical, vocational, and educa- tional assistance to veterans; a sys- tem of cooperative private and gov- ernment action in the post war busi- ness world to provide economic and social security; the active continu- ance of the United States in the United Nations organization to pre- vent aggression and to promote so- cial and economic measures which will remove the causes of war. Obvi- ously this is a large order. Yet these points do provide some outline of the problems which must be faced if we are not to come again to the econ- omic and social catastrophe of World War III. It is these things, alon with their related issues, about which the AVC is concerned and of which the leaders would like to make the veterans of this war conscious. Both as a future veteran and as a member of the AVC,-I should like to ask the editors of the Daily to consider the matter and, if they feel it deserving of publicity in a student-opinion pub-. lication, to let the readers know of this new and, I feel, promising or- ganization. Very sincerely, -Rex C. Wilder, '43 SM Deeper Analysis Needed Had Mr. Daum (letter to the Daily, Dec. 12) penetrated a bit more deep- ly with his analysis, he might have found the source of the evils he por- trays in our way of life or culture. In accordance with the mores of this 'culture, men of every class and occupational group are in the m in driven to advance themselves in a material way with little regard for the general welfare, Because of this fact, the general welfare suffers greatly. In short, our individualistic culture is so destructive in its mani- festations that it cannot long con- tinue. As Professor Becker remark- ed, some form of collectivism is in- evitable, fascism being the only form we can achieve without effort-by merely drifting. The "socialized democracy" which he advocated would involve a moral revolution, the mores being completely reversed so, that they would drive ambitious in- dividuals to put the welfare of their country ahead of personal material gain. I do not understand that Pro- fessor Becker considers businessmen any "worse" than other men. It is Inerely that because of their relative power in our present scheme of life the individualistic culture expresses itself through them more destruct- ively than it is in general able to do through the activities of less highly placed persons. Should the change which he advocates take place all men would be obliged to begin march- ing to different music. -PAZoy 1. holmes B Crockett Johnson, So sculpping a litle one-ton ermine SATURDAY, DEC. 16, 1944 t VOL. LV, No. 39 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 typewrittent form to the Assistant to the President, 1021 Angell Tall, by 3:30 p. m. of the dayc preceding publication (11:30 a. m. Sat- urdays). Notices School of Education Faculty: The, December meeting of the faculty will be held on Monday, Dec. 18, in the University Elementary School Li- brary. The meeting will convene at 4:15 p.m. The hours for women students on the nights immediately preceding1 and following the Christmas vaca- tion will be as follows: Friday, Dec.' 22. 8 p.m. (Dormitories and League Houses close for the vacation period at this time and those students remaining in Ann Arbor over Friday night will have to be in their resi- dences by this time.); Wednesday, Dec. 27, 12:30 a.m.; Thursday, Dec. 28, 10:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, Dec. 29 and 30. 12:30 a.m.; Sunday, Dec. 31. 2 a.m. State of New York Civil Service Announcement for Fire Driver in Chautauqua County, Salary $32.50 per week. has been received in our office. For further information stop in at 201nMason Hall, Bureau of Appointments. City of Detroit Civil Service An- nouncements for Ambulance Opera- tor, Salary $1.03% to $1.08%/ per hour. and Occupational Therapist, Salary $2,216 to $2,553, have been received in our office. For further details, stop in at 201 Mason Hall, Bureau of Appointments. Academic Notices Students, Fal 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- ses without penalty through the eighth week. Students, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: Except under extraordinary circumstances, courses dropped by upperclassmen after to- day will be recorded with a grade of "E." Students, College of Engineering: The final day for DROPPING COUR- SES WITHOUT RECORD will be Saturday, Dec. 30. A course may be dropped only with the permission of the classifier after conference with the instructor. Students, College of Engineering: The final day for REMOVAL OF IN- COMPLETES will be Saturday, Dec. 30. Petitions for extension of time must be on file in the Secretary's Office on or before Friday, Dec. 22. Psychology 31, Makeup exam will be Tuesday, Dec. 19 at 4:30 in m. 1121 N.S. Zoology 31 (Organic Evolution): Please return all examination papers to the boxes for a necessary change of grade. Concerts The Messiah wll be presented by the University Musical Society Sun- day afternoon, Dec. 17, at 3 o'clock, with the following performers: Desi Halban, soprano; Mary Van Kirk, contralto; Hardesty Johnson, tenor; Gean Greenwell, bass; Hugh Norton, narrator; Frieda Op't Holt Vogan, organist; a special "Messiah" orches- tra; the Choral Union, and Hardin Van Deursen, Conductor. The box office will be open until noon Saturday at the office of the University Musical Society in Burton Memorial Tower, and on Sunday afternoon from 2 to 3 p.m., in Hill Auditorium. Erenis Today The Weekly Lane Mlall Luncheon will be held at 12:30 today. An infor- mal discussion period will follow, Reservations can be made by calling 4121, extension 2148. Outing Club-Women Students; The Outing Club will meet at the Women's Athletic Building at 2 o'clock. There will be tobogganing and instruction in skiing. Dress warmly. For further information, call Lee Wellman, 3018. The Post-War "ouncil is so"nsor- ing an evening of movies on the Negro in America. The influence of environment on the childhood of the today at 8:15 at the Student Center, 1511 Washtenaw. Lutheran students and their friends are cordially in- vited. Wesley Foundation: Christmas par- ty tonight beginning at 9 o'clock. Program of Christmas carols and stories. U.S.O.: The usual Saturday night dance will be held at the club. The University Women's Glee Club will present a group of Christmas songs. All servicemen and Junior Hostesses are invited. Refreshments will be served. DOB GAL. 2 Ml Garand A Chanukah Mixer will be held at the B'nai Brith Hillel Foundation this evening. There will be games, popular dancing, entertainment and refreshments in the form of potato "lotkes." The public is cordially in- vited. Coming Events Michigan Sailing Club: There will be a meeting in the Michigan Union at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 17. The Christian Science Students Organization announces a lecture on Christian Science by Robert Stanley Ross, C.S.B., of New York City, N.Y., in the Michigan League Building on Sunday afternoon. Dec. 17, at 3:15. All are welcome to attend. The Lutheran Student Association will meet this Sunday afternoon at 5:30 in Zion Lutheran Parish Hall. The meeting is one half hour later because of the Messiah. Supper will be served at about 5:45 an~i the Christmas program arranged by Miss Evelyn Olson will follow at 6:30. Michigan Christian Fellowship: The Sunday meeting will be held at Lane Hall immediately following the Messiah Concert. Rev. Leonard Ver- duin of the Student's Evangelical Chapel will be the speaker. The Monday Night Hymn Sing will be held at the League from 6:45 until 7:30. The room number will be posted at the elevator. There will be an important business meeting follow- ing the Hymn Sing and it is urged that as many members as possible be there. There will be a business meeting of the Michigan Youth for Demo- catic Action at 8:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 18, in the Michigan Union. Officers for the coming semester will be elected. All old and new members urged to attend. Le Cerele Francais will hold its Christmas meeting Tuesday evening Dec. 19 at 8 o'clock in the Michigan Union. A special program has been prepared for the occasion. All - Campus Christmas Party: Thursday, Dec. 21, 8 p.m. The Mich- igan Union cordially invites the fac- ulty and student body to gather in Hill Auditorium to sing Christmas Carols and receive a Christmas mes- sage from President Ruthven. The program will be given in the com- munity fashion typical of the old American Christmas. Churches Zion Lutheran Church: E. Wash- ington at S. Fifth Ave. Regular Sun- day morning worship service at 10:30. Sermon by Charles Willmann, Vicar. Trinity Lutheran Church: E. Wil- liam at S. Fifth Ave. Regular Sunday morning worship service at 10:30 and the Rev. Henry O. Yoder will preach the sermon. Presbyterian Church: 10:45 a.m., Morning worship. Sermon "Skies ove' Christmas" by Dr. Lemon. 5 p.m., the Reverend Edward H. Red- man, Minister of the Unitarian Church will speak on "What I Believe About Jesus." Supper will follow. Please dress warmly for the carolling to follow later on in the evening. University Lutheran Chapel, 1511 Washtenaw, has its Sunday service for students and servicemen at 11. The Rev. Alfred Scheips will preach on, "Getting the Most out of Christ- mas." Gamma Delta, Lutheran Stu- dent Club, will omit its Sunday Sup- per Meeting this week-end because of the Messiah concert. 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 "Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force." 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, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and other writings by Mary Baker Eddy may be read, borrowed or purchased. Open daily except Sundays and holidays from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays ,,".1fil(I-m I 4 1 I Privileoe Mast o - -Everywhere GREAT DEAL may be interred from H. G. 'Well's words "events . . . move with a swift- ness that this earth has never known before." The slow pull and tug of human progress is giv- ing way to a new dynamism. The days of oli- garchy and of one man rule are approaching an end; the mass of human beings are beginning to flex their muscles and find them strong. A society maintained for the benefit of the few, a society of privileges for some and poverty for others cannot endure much longer. Winston Churchill is beginning to find this out. The lib- erated peoples of Europe, finding new strength Mu a unity derived from common misfortune at the hands of bestial dictatorship, will no longer ttand for royalism, when royalism connotes privi- lege. That a special group or one man should control the destinies and fortunes of many is now considered repugnant by the people of the so-called civilized nations. Peoples everywhere hope for a society based on the Four Freedoms. Such a society, that benefits all people, cannot be attained by a' small, privileged ruling class, one that guards its. privileges zealously. Furthermore, while suAh privilege exists it has a negative effect on humnxian progress. To get down to cases we need only consider the prominent question of .the hour, British imperialism. Britain has maintained her prominent position in world affairs through a vast and wealthy colonial -empire, one that must be guarded by military benefits for itself only; two, privilege frustrates the attempts at progress made by the common masses, who seek a satisfactory life for them- selves. That Mr. Churchill, once a great believer in the will of the common people is a die-hard sup- porter of the privileged element of Great Britain who control the destinies of vast colonial popula- tions is now quite evident. We need only recall the words of the Atlantic charter, signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941: point two-"They (Great Britain and the United States) desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the pepole con- cerned." The Poles may snicker at that when reminded of U. S.-Great Britain hands-off pol- icy as regards Russia's claims to Polish terri- tory. The third point-"They respect the right of all peodles to choose the form of government under which they will live;" It took us a long time to get around to letting the French decide who would lead them, and the Greeks and some Italians are pretty angry with British (and presumably American) intervention in the choice of their governments. -Arthur J. Kraft '4 ), BARNABY you only know what an ermine's FUR r- , I once constructed acomplete _- I t -- -- --- -- --.a 'I I. II 11