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Fifty-Fifth Year

WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:
Post Mortem by Herbert Hoover
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By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19-Ex-president Herbert
Hoover had a significant talk recently with
his old friend, ex-editor of the San Francisco
Chronicle and ex-Marine lieutenant, now Naval
Commander, Paul Smith.
Hoover still seemed irked over the election
and made no secret of his displeasure over the
way Republican leaders had handled the cam-
paign. He appeared to have as little love for
Tom Dewey as he had for Wendell Willkie after
1940.
Alf Landon ignored his advice in 1936, Hoover
complained, and so did Willkie in 1940. And so
did Dewey in 1944. They all acted as if they
secretly admired Roosevelt-that was what de-
feated them.
Hoover said he felt the last election returns
vindicated the ideas and leadership of the party's
old leaders, and that the party should get back
to its original basic philosophy.
Commander Smith asked Hoover who he
thought the Republican nominee should be in

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Write Now!
The subject of discrimination against minor-
ity groups in industry looms as one of the most
important problems in the present as well as
the post-war worlds. Our friends and relatives
on the battle fronts are giving their lives and
limbs to preserve the democratic way of life-
so that each man, regardless of color, may have
an equal, unhampered opportunity to earn a
livelihood, Unfortunately the foibles of hu-
man nature and racial prejudice reach, out their
grimy hands and through unfair discrimination,
take away that precious freedom to which every
Anierican is entitled--the freedom of oppor-
tunity.
To prevent just this, a temporary Fair Em-
ployment Practices Committee (FEPC) was set
up in 1941, to "investigate complaints of dis-
crimination in violation of the provisions of
the Executive Order forbidding discriminaton
in defense industries or the agencies of federal
government, and to take appropriate steps to
redress grievances."
This wasa wartime necessity, however, set
up to expediate the war effort. When the
hostilities cease will minority groups be as-
sured of their rights? The bill for the estab-
lishment of a permanent FEPC is up in the
Senate now; the ose Labor Committee has
recommended that a "permanent commission
be set up with seven members having statu-
tory authority to enforce legal measures upon
employes and labor union' heads"
Today, the Inter Racial Association, with the
assistance of MYDA, is conducting a campaign
to aid in the passage of the bill now in Con-
gress for the establishment of a permanent
FEPC. It is the duty of each and every stu-
dent to cooperate in this activity.
Write to your own state Senators telling
them that YOU want the\FEPC made permanent.
Today IRA is distributing postal cards from its
tables in the library and Angell Hall-so all you
have to do is address and mail the cards.
In addition, various members of IRA are assist-
ing in the taking of a campus-wide poll of
people's opinions on the FEPC, the results of
which will be published in the Daily.
To answer "yes' 'or "no" to a few simple
questions and to mail a postal card aren't
difficult tasks. Do them! You will be con-
tributing your vital share in the preserva-
tion of democratic institutions, for a perma-
nent FEPC is one of the steps toward keeping
bigotry and prejudice out of industry.
-Marion Mondsheim

Another answer has been found as to why
there is a cigarrette shortage.' This time the
trouble lies with tobacco companies. - In a re-
cent conviction three leading. concerns were
found guilty of fixing and depressing prices to
farmers growing leaf tobacco, fixing, prices to
distributors and consumers of- tobacco' products,
and engaging in unfair and predatory trade
practices.
With these trade practices it is easy to see
that manufacturers are looking after their own
good, not that of the public which has been sub-
jected to shortages. The anti-trust laws have

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By SAMUEL GRAFTON
NEW YORK, Dec. 19-If America had been oc-
cupied by a foreign power, and if a number
of Americans had formed an underground band
to fight the oppressors, and had lived together in
caves and cellars during that fight, it seems
to me that these Americans might well be tempt-
ed to form a permanent organization after-
ward. We form permanent organizations for
much less reason. I don't think you could keep
an American resistance movement from making
a kind of lodge or society out of itself, and
having conventions, and wearing unifoams, and
passing resolutions.
I can't understand why we, the greatest join-
ers in the world, should think it odd that the
men and women of the European resistance
movements want to join together, and cling to-
gether, and act as a unit in support of their in-
terests.
We have an organization, functioning on
American soil, which consists of the remote
descendants of an original resistance move-
ment, the Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion.
The French understand this point. They have
made a "mystique" of the resistance; they talk
of the French government as an "emanation of
the resistance." They speak of the French
press of the future as "a projection of the resist-
ance press."
A convention has just been called in Paris of
delegations from the resistance movements in
each of the 84 Departments. These groups as-
sert claims to authority which are embarrassing
to the de Gaulle government; they wish to be
consulted on local appointments; they have
sometimes attempted, on a local basis, to take the
administration of justice into their own hands.
But the de Gaulle government is, wisely not
pressing the issue; it is not even attempting
summary enforcement of its order requiring re-
sistance groups to turn in their arms. It hopes
that, in an atmosphere of developing confidence,
doubts will fade; that the moment will come
when arms will be turned in, almost casually,
simply because there will not be much joint in
not doing so.
The French recognize that the resistance
movement cannot, after four years of the
most violent action and danger, be asked to
roll over and play dead. That is like asking
life itself to stop. There must be at least an
unwinding.
The resisters lived for almost half a decade
in a black and white world, in which everyone
who was not utterly for them was utterly against
them, and utterly evil. Their world is still
black and white, and it will take them some
time to appreciate grays and ochres, and Chur-
chillian purple.
As for the demand that the resistance move-
ments give up their arms, which has been the
key to both the Belgian and Greek disputes, we
Americans ought to remember that the right of
the people to keep and bear arms was a lively
issue in American life after we won our own
independence; and that the national govern-
ment was prohibited from interfering with this
right by the second article of the Bill of Rights.
This is.the same Bill of Rights which is adored
by many American conservatives who feel that
the . resistance movements ought to lay down
their arms on demand. If this issue has ceased
to be an issue in American life, if our minds
are quiet on this score now, that is because we
have learned to have confidence in the processes
of our government; we have reached domestic
disarmament the right way.
Really, for people who are proud of their
knowledge of "psychology" and salesmanship,
we have been crude indeed in our approaches
to the resistance movements. We have shout-
ed at them for years, via radio, to stand up.
Now we ask them to lie down. We have bid
them to defy authority, even by illegal means.
Now we bid them to respect it, even when
they don't trust it. We have told them that
free men cannot be put down by force. Now
we are trying to put them down by force.
This is the day for the humility which comes
of understanding, and for the disarmament
which starts in the friendly heart.
(Copyright, 1944, New York Post Syndicate)

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1948 and, while not committing hiself, Hoo-
ver made some favorable comments about
Governor Stassen of Minnesota. He said he
understood Stassen had his foolish ideas about
international cooperation knocked out of his
head during the war.
Hoover was emphatic that Governor Dewey
wouldn't have a chance in 1948.
Germany's Fresh Troops .
SOME startling facts have been gathered by
Allied war strategists regarding Hitler's abil-
ity to throw reserves into the western front.
They give one explanation as to why the war
against Germany has lasted so much longer than
the war planners expected.
It has been estimated that since D-Day when
Allied troops landed on Normandy, the Germans
have lost 1,000,000 men killed, wounded or taken
prisoners. This is a terrific loss in a period of
six months.
However, despite that heavy loss, war strate-
gists estimate that a greater number of Nazi
troops now face the Allies than on D-Day. The'
total of D-Day (June 6) was sixty-five divisions.
But today Germany has seventy-five divisions
on the western front.
It is also estimated that Germany's total
strength on all fronts is just under 6,000,000
men.
This increased strength on the western front
has not come from the Russian front. It is
known that a few thousand divisions have
been transferred from the Russian front, but
they have been replaced by other troops and
the eastern front has been kept at full
strength. It is too risky to take chances there.
Therefore, war strategists estimate that the
chief increase of strength on the western front
has come from the Volksgranadier divisions.
These include boys of around 16 and old men
of 46 which Hitler started forming into groups
around Sept. 1. There are 10,050 men in a
division; they have little training, poor liason,
and are short of arms, especially machine guns.
But they fight with considerable ferocity when
mixed in with units from the regular army.
German youth has had military training for
years, which has been a big help. Reports are
that these new troops fight in bursts-furiously
for a while and then are exhausted. whey have
no stamina.
Another factor which has helped the German
High Command is the withdrawal of about
twenty divisions from the Balkans, thus the
shortening of the front line in Holland. Several
Finnish divisions also have been thrown into the
western front. ,
However, it remains an encouraging fact
that as of today a dwindling percentage of the
German army is made up of men of the
proper fighting agc-from 18 to 38.
Happy O'Daniels Ghost Writers
UNIQUE and interesting tie-up between
Texas' gift to the U. S. Senate, pass-the-
biscuits "Happy" O'Daniel, and George E. Sok-
olsky of the New York Sun has just leaked out.
Sokolsky, one-time apologist for the Japs
and paid publicity agent for the National Asso-
ciation of Manufacturers, Tom Girdler and
Ernest Wier, has been revealed as one of the
master minds behind the "W. L'ee O'Daniel
News." This was the rabid, anti-Roosevelt
propaganda sheet which dripped vitriol last
summer.
This significant tie-up was revealed when
Senator Green's campaign investigating com-
-mittee asked Mrs. O'Daniel who helped edit
and write the Senator's propaganda sheet.
She replied:
"Senator W. Lee O'Daniel, George E. Sokol-
sky, Samuel B. Pettengill, Garfield Crawford
and others."
Sam Pettengill is a leader of Frank Gannett's
Committee for Constitutional Government whose
executive secretary, Edward Rumely, was jailed
as a German propagandist during the last war
and who is now under indictment for refusing
to produce the Gannett committee's records for
Congress.
Sokolsky, New York Sun columnist, was once
paid $6,000 by the National Association of Manu-
facturers at the same time he was writing for
newspapers; also was paid $14,000 by Tom Gir-
dler, Chairman of Republic Steel. In 1917 he was
editor of the Russian News in Petrograd.

Clayton's Cotton Empire. ..
CALIFORNIA'S. Attorney General Bob Kenny
became the first man to worry Secretary of
State Stettinius about his new Assistant Secre-
tary of State, Will Clayton, and the property
interests of the far-flung Clayton cotton empire.
Kenny called on platinun-haired Stettinius to
discuss the dynamite-packed U. S.-Mexican
treaty for distribution of waters from the Colo-
rado, Tijuana and Rio Grande Rivers.
"Of course," replied Stettinius, "Clayton would
have nothing to do with the treaty. He will
handle only economic matters in the depart-
ment."
But Attorney General Kenny remained un-
convinced. Also he got no assurance from
Stettinius that the State Department would
revise its treaty with the Mexicans. Instead,
he got the traditional "I'll take care of you
and everybody else" reply from the new Secre-
tary of State. Kenny now plans to talk to
President Roosevelt, and, if not successful
there, will fight ratification in the Senate.
(Copyright, 1944. by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)

By ANN FAGAN GINGER
This is a day for excuse me's, and
I promise to do better's.
I am sorry that occasionally a lack
of mail or news of military set-backs
has given this column a Standing
Still air. And I am told that my
emphasis on a single topic per col-
umn hassometimes led people to the
conclusion that I think All Is Black.
This is scarcely the case. As a
matter of fact, for the first time in
many years, there isdreason for
feeling that The Good People of
the world are uniting to defeat
fascism once and for all. That
they know what they are doing,
and why. That they will not be
stopped.
And The Good People now com-
prise much more than the minority
who worried about Japanese aggres-
sion into Manchuriatthe anti-poll
tax bill in the '30's, the rape of the
Spanish Republic. Today all anti-
fascists who are determined that we
CAN make a peaceful post-war world
are working together. They are
fighting on the battlefronts; they are
deciding foreign policy; they are
tightening the bonds of United Na-
tions cooperation; they are building
trade unions and teaching racial
tolerance. They are making post-war
plans which include jobs for 60,000,-
000 Americans, at 40 hours per week
and at least 65c per hour, with ade-
quate medical and social security tc
make them free from fear.
The trouble is that the world is
not full of absolutes. So that while
we can say all this, and mean it,
we still must not deny what is
happening in Greece, or among
the Chinese warlords, or in those
American firms interested in post-
war cartels-for war purposes.
But we must try to see' every-
thing that is happening in the sort
of unified outlook which is a pre-
requisite for individual action and
group strength. And in this sense,
there is no cause for defeatism.
We are strong . . . We are growing
stronger. Witness our military ad-
vances against the Japanese, the
new recognition of the political prob-
lem in China, the organization of
Americans to get out the vote in the
past election, the urging of all groups
to unite on the basic problem of
defeating fascism.
Which brings us to one more ex-
ample. The existence of the Fair
Employment Practices Committee.
established by President Roosevelt's
Executive Order 8802 in the summer
of 1941. This group has successfully
dealt with thousands of cases of
discrimination on the basis of racial
and religious prejudice, mainly in
war plants, transportation concerns,
and other government agencies,
(United States Employment Sei'vice,
Navy, etc.)
The result has been surprising,
especially to some employers who
had been leary of the no-discrimi-
nation principle. Among the warm
endorsers of job equality are the
heads of the Kaiser interests, the
International Harvester, Curtiss-
Wright, Packard, Lockheed-Vega
Aircraft, Boeing, International
Business Machines, du Pont de
Nemours, and North American
Aviation.
The question now before Congress
is the continuation of this committee,
born out of the necessity of war, but
based on the lasting democratic prin-
ciples of the equality of opportunity
among all free men. The Inter-
Racial Association, with the cooper-
ation of the Michigan Youth for
Democratic Action is distributing
petitions on campus today, urging
Congress to make the FEPC perma-
nent. This is one more proof of the
positive movement going on. And as
such, it deserves the supportof all
of us.

It shows that the world is truly
keeping on the move.
'Ike' on Pay..
WHEN Gen. Eisenhower the other
day met the delegation of Con-
gress members visiting the Western
front, he told them that in his opin-
ion medical enlisted men are entitled
to $10-a-month battle pay, just like
the fighting soldiers, and urged that
they receive it.
-St. Louis Post Dispatch
On Second Thought
By BAY DIXON
Both Christmas shoppers and the
Nazis are using the counter offensive
these days.
To carry it a step farther, theY
Christmas shoppers are trying to
get a buy while the Germans are
trying to get by.
We are reminded that Major Bong
has the most appropriate name in
this war as we receive word that he
just downed his 40th Japlane.

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Yes, I was an isolationist. And
even now I sometimes would prefer
to side with those who are still iso-
lationists than profess my allegiance
to those who call themselves inter-
nationalists-and act like isolation-
ists or nationalists.
There is nothing worse than hypo-
crisy. Even intolerance is more justi-
fiable. Intolerance one can fight.
Hypocrisy in the hands of gifted
statesmen is unconquerable.
There is no middle course to inter-
nationalism. Internationalism must
be economic and social as well as
political if it is to be of value. Those
that cry for less are isolationists
hiding their identity with loud noises
There is no free peace-peace
must be bought with the money,
the sacrifice, and with the labor
that must not be spent in war. The
billions that are spent in war in
peace could begin to make all men
equal in worldly goods. The sacri-
fices that ' are made by the have
nations in wartime could by their
continuance in peacetime relieve
the suffering of the have not na-
tions. The labor that is spent in
war, destroying it in fire, could
rebuild the world in peace.
We must share not only with the
poor of our own country but alsc
with the poor of the world. We must
share ideas, skills, goods, and pleas-
ures with all if we are to have peace
We can do it, simply. What we
must have is world government. A
government set up with a "senate"
and a "house of representatives.'
A government not made up of states-
men, politicians, and great men ir
particular fields, but of men trained
in world history, world economis
social welfare, engineering. Mer
whose business has not been to sat-
isfy a group of self seeking member
of parties or citizens of nations, but
whose business has been to get at the
truth and who are capable of doin
something about it if given the op-
portunity.
And these men who shall make ur
our international government must
be men who will serve for life witY
their lives-not men who rush legis-
lation to get home for holidays or tc
campaign for reelection. They must
be in eternal vigilance to correct
injustice and relieve suffering wher-
ever in the world it might occurhand
for whomever it mighat plague. They
must be a body of men who know nc
intolerance toward men because of
their race, creed, or color. Men whc
are trained for an international pur-
pose, to make the whole world fit tc
live in and to givemen in every land
the opportunity to live a peaceful
just, and healthy life.
And we, we of America, must
pay for it. We and the other peo-
pes yof the world who are fortunate
enough to have been born, through
no effort of our own, in a laind of
plenty. We must pay for it until
all nations are capable of contribu-
ting. And each nation thereafter
must pay in proportion to the rich-
es of the land they occupy just as
the citizens of a nation pay their
government in proportion to the
riches they possess. And it oust
not be a paltry sum. It must be
sufficient to develop every other
part of the world into land which
can support the people who lve on
it. We can do it in time, even for
the millions of India and China.
Our soldiers are giving their lives
so that we may have peace again
They cannot give their lives so that
we may have peace forever. When
we do have peace again we roust
continue to give the equivalent, ii
there is an equivalent, to preserve
that peace.
I will subscribe to no lesser aim
L. E. Hutchings, '43f1
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Choral Union Members: Members
of the Choral Union who have not
already done so, please return their
copies of "Messiah". at once, and
receive in lieu thereof copies of other
choral works which will be sung at
the May Festival, between the hours
of 10 and 12, and 1 and 3, at the
offices of the University Musical
Society. Burton Memorial Tower.
To February, June, and October
graduates: Senior pictures for the
1945 Michiganensian are due at the
Student Publications Building Feb. 1.
Appontments with photographers
should be made at once. Pictures
from any photographer are accept-
able if they are a glossy print, meas-
uring 4" by 6", preferably with a
I light background.
Faculty, College of Literature, Sci-
ence, and the Arts: Midsemester re-
ports are due not later than Satur-
day. Jan. 6.
Reports cards are being distributed
to all departmental offices. Green
cards are being provided for fresh-
men reports; they should be returned
to the office of the Academic Coun-
selors, 108 Mason Hall. White cards,
for reporting sophomores, juniors,
and seniors should be returned to
11220 .Angell hall.
Midsemester reports should name
those students, freshmen and upper-
;lass, whose standing at midsemester
s D or E, not merely those who re-
ceive D or E in so-called midsemester
?xaminations.
Students electing our courses, but
registered in other schools or colleges
2f the University should be reported
:o the school or college in which they
ire registered.
Alditional cards may be had at 108
Mason Hall or at 1220 Angell Hall.
Detroit Armenian Women's Club
Award: The Detroit Armenian Wo-
men's Club offers a scholarship award
f $100 for 1945-46, open for compe-
',ition 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
y F. E. Robbins, Assistant to the
IPresident, 1021 Angell Hall.
Academic Notices
Students, College of Engineering:
rhe final day for DROPPING COUR-
SES WITHOUT RECORD will be
Saturday, Dec. 30. A course may be
-ropped only with the permission of
the classifier after conference with
the instructor.
Students, College of Lngineering:
the final day for REMOVAL OF IN-
'OMPLETES will be Saturday, Dec.
30. Petitions for extension of time
mnust be on file in the Secretary's
-Officeon or before Friday, Dec. 22.
Candidates for the Teacher's Certi-
ficate for February and June, 1945: A
ist of candidates has been posted on
-he bulletin board of the School of
Education, Rm. 1431 University Ele-
nentary School. Any prospective
-andidate whose name does not ap-
oear on this list should call at the
>ffice of the Recorder of the School
of Education, 1437 U.E.S.
Geometry Seminar will mieet Thurs-
day, Dec. 21, at 4:15 in Rm. 3001
Angell Hall. Mr. Bickerstaff will
speak on "A Geometrical Minimum
Value Problem Arising in Statistics."
S BiologicalChemistry Seminar will
be held from 4:15 to 5:15 today in
Rm. 319 West Medical Building.
The Relation of Pterins to Some
Growth Factors" will be discussed.
All interested are invited.

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Jan. 15. Application blanks available
in Rm. 108 Tappan Hall.

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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20, 1944
VOL. LV, No. 42
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Bulletin should be sent in typewritten
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1021 Angell Tall, by 3:30 p. m. of the day
preceding publication (11:30 a. m. Sat-
urdays).
NotIces
To All Staff Members and Employ-
ees: All those who find it necessary
to file requests for supplementary
gasoline ration for privately-owned
passenger cars ("B" or "C" book)
for either driving to and from work,
driving on University business, or to
carry on other occupatiorns must file
their original or renewal application
15 days prior to the, date ration is
needed or the expiration dtte of
their present book.
This procedure is necessary to give
the University Committee on Organ
ized Translrtation Plan and the
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Graduate Record Examination in-
dividual report charts are now avail-
able at the Graduate School office.
Students may call for them between
9:00 and 12:00 a.m. or 2:00 and 4:00
tp.m.
Events Today
A meeting for all those interested
in working on the Hillel News will be
held at 4:30 p.m. at the Hillel Foun-
dation.
Michigan Christian Fellowship:
The regular Bible study and prayer
meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. in
the Upper Room in Lane Hall.
Research Club: The December
meeting of the Club will be held in
the Amphitheatre of the Rackham
Building this evening at eight o'clock.
Professor Walter A. Reichart will
present a paper on "The Reception
of Gerhart Hauptmann's Work in
America" and Dr. James B. Griffin
a paper on "The Growth and Devel-
opment of Indian Cultures in the
eastern United States."
La Sociedad Hispanica invites you
to help celebrate the holiday season
by attehding a Christmas program,
Latin-American style. Christmas car-
ols and customs of Spanish-speaking
countries will be featured. Tonight
at. 8 o'clock, Michigan Union.


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