aGE TWO ;T _J. _._ __ _ . FEMAY, DEC. 29, 1944 '._u-_ . 1E .LA Ld 111 1 a.. 1 ..0 11'd . - A 1f.LS...as R D Y.DC12.14 ... _a..y..._ .. ..., a Fifty-Fifth Year WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: The German Counter-Offensive Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Eelyn Phillips - Managing Editor Stan Wallace. .. City Editor Ray Dixon . . . . . Associate Editor Bank Mantho . . . . - Sports Editor Dade Loewenberg . . . Associate SportsEditor Mavis Kennedy . Women's Editor Business Staff Lee Amer . . . Business Manager Barbara Chadwick . . ssociate Business Ugr. June Pomering . . . Associate Business 'Mgr. Telephone 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. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Vfichigan, as second-crass mail matter. Subscriptions during the regular school year by car- rier, $4.50, by mail, $5.25. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1943-44 N PRE96NTED FOR NATONnL ADV RTLING ,8V National Advwrtising Service, Ihc. College Publisbers Representative 420 MAo[SiO AVE. NEW YORK. N.Y. CHICAGO - BOSTON . LOS ANGELES . SAN FRANCISCO NIG14T EDITOR: STAN WALLACE Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. United Press The stand of United Press relative to its re- cent "maintenance of membership" agreement reveals again the old managerial inability to admit that workers organize and bargain not whimsically but with specific ends in mind. The United Press signed the agreement re- luctantly and resentfully in compliance with a directive from the Newspaper Commission confirmed by the National War Labor Board. The agreement nevertheless marks progress for editorial employes, hardpressed and usu- ally underpaid in a highly conpetitive field. U. P. pouted: "The United Press management is still unalterably opposed to the imposition upon its editorial employes of any form of enforced union membership. Its acceptance of maintenance of membership was not volun- tary but was purely in conformance with the mandates it had received from the wartime gov- ernmental agencies. We will continue to con- test enforced union membership for our edt- orial employes at every legitimate opportunity." This statement indicates, of course, the high altruism of the press service. With their em- ployes interests ever at heart U.P. will continue to crusade against "any form of enforced union membership." The implication is that the em- ployes do not really want union security. In view of management's opposition to maintenance of membership (particularly Montgomery Ward's non-compliance), it seems necessary to point out that this form of union security is not coereive. It provides that there be taken a referendum to 'deter- mine the representative union. Following a two-thirds yes vote all employes Who are members of the union and any new employes who subsequently become members must as a condition of employment remain mem- bers for the duration of the agreement. It provides in addition a period before the agree- ment becomes final during which employes may drop out of the union. Maintenance of membership is a compromise between labor's demand for the closed shop and management's insistence on the open shop, preventing coercion of workers and protecting their security. Its provision for a referendum insures its equitability. U. P.'s concern for its employes seems a bit insincere. The union. which represents the workers, bargained for maintenance of membership. It is reasonable to assume that the majority of the employes want it. Betty Roth Allied Unity THE PRESENT set backs of the Allied armies in Germany prove without doubt that the hardest tests of the war are still ahead of us. Nevertheless, since this is not the darkest hour of the. war, we must have both courage and faith to continue the fight. Germany is trying to prolong the war through its pres- ent counter-offensive, but the Allies are still strong, and they can still win battles and wit the war, provided they are united. As long as the Allied countries remain united, the Germans know they cannot hope to defeat them. At present, however, the Allies are not united. The Greeks are fighting the Britons, the Polish are fighting the Russians, and Chur- By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 29-No matter what hap- pens from now on regarding the German counter-offensive, we -have to face the cold fact that the Germans at least have achieved their main objective. They have prolonged the wear by about six months. Their objective undoubtedly was to get time to form 100 new divisions to be ready for next spring. They have been scraping up manpower from every -conceivable source, and already have organized several new divisions. Our winter drive was for the purpose of taking the west bank of the Rhine including the Sieg- fried line well °before spring. Now that is defi- nitely out. Those who are close to the war planners figure that the time gained by the Nazis cannot help but prolong the war by at least six months - possibly more. Another possible result may be the :slowing down of the Philippine offensive. MacArthur's men are in no danger and can hold out indefi- nitely. They also have plenty of reserves in New Guinea and Hollandia. But the big offensive they had planned against Luzn may be held up. ar .otes ... ' E NAZIS have now done what the Dutch did not do in 1940 - opened the dikes and flooded large sections in front of the British Army. This means it will take Dutch farmers 50 years to get the salt out of their soil in order to raise crops again . . . Military observers are puzzled by the fact that the Japs have been so slow in opposing MacArthur on Mindoro Island. Dense jungles and mountains haven't stopped the Japs from attacking in other cases. . . Mean- while MacArthur is fitting Mindoro out as an excellent air base which eventually can accom- modate B-29's for attacking the mainland of China . .. The Nazi breakthrough put a terrific crimp in the U.S. supply of artillery shells. Not only have the Nazis captured a lot of U.S. stores, but the First Army on the defensive has been using up shells at a rate equivalent to a major offensive. The supply problem can't .all be blamed on American workers, however. Ships have to wait their turn in line to be unloaded in Europe, after which the French railroads :ire another bottle- neck . . . A handicap to the supply problem has been German mines which Nazi E-boats sow in the English Channel every night. Formerly British airplanes spotted the speedy German -E-boats by the white wake left oehind. Now, however, the Germans have learned to remain absolutely still When a RAF plane approaches; thus the plane sees no tell-tale wake ... Latest RAF system is to send out a special plane which d'rops flares on the water. Once a Nazi E-boat is ;ighted, the RAF plane calls out "Want Willie, Want Willie." This is the signal to bring up patrol mdanes to polish off the E-boat. Churchill's Old Grudge.... EX-FOREIGN Minister Count Sforza knew all too well what he was up against when he returned to Italy, according to private letters he wrote to members of the Roosevelt cabinet. Sforza has now been barred by Churchill from serving as Premier or Foreign Minister of Italy, despite the long and valiant years he spent bat- tling for Democracy and against Mussolini. Before he returned, Sforza wrote to Secre- - 'tary of t'he Interior Ickes, September 30, 1943, trophetically indicating the troubles he would have with Churchill. "I am leaving with the worst apprehensions about the peace," Count Sforza wrote Ickes. Probably the worst fault will be with Churchill. But the fact is that the leaders of the Democra- cies, afraid as they are of Russia, are preparing the triumph of Russian diplomacy with their cheap schemes of division of colonies, naval bases, and other 18th century conceptions. "When you come to Rome I may be in 'power' or I may be in jail-which may be more comfor- table. In either case come to see me." Count Sforza probably knew that Churchill nursed a grudge against him because of a book the Italian statesman wrote several years ago, "Makers of Modern Empire," in which he took the British Prime Minister over. the hurdles. In one place Sforza said: "Winston Churchill, back from Antwerp, whither he had gone to play the Napoleon, didn't know how to define King Albert." In another case, he told how Foch smiled at "Anti-Bolshevik expeditions dear to Chur- chill's heart." NOTE - Sforza's prediction that Churchill would drive Italians over to Russia seems to be coming true. Italians, bitterly resentful of Brit- ish plans for taking over some of their Mediter- ranean Islands, are leaning more and more toward Russia. New Year Turnovers .. . SUCCESSOR to stormy petrel Normal Littell's job as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the lands division will be either Walter Arm- strong of Memphis or William C. Brooker of Tampa, Florid . ....Brooker has the powerful support of Senator Claude Pepper. Armstrong is a progressive leader in the American Bar Asso- ciation, isn't very anxious to leave his private law practice ... Jim Landis, who did such a good job of reorganizing the office of Civilian De- fense, will leave his present job as U.S. Eco- nomic Minister in Cairo to return to Harvard .. President Conant- of Harvard told the State Department that the Harvard Law School was undergoing serious wartime problems and Landis would have to come back as Dean immediately. Conant even refused to give Landis an extra ten days in Cairo to wind up some important work . . . Dr. Juan Negrin, Prime Minister of Loyalist Spain, will give his first address before an American audience at Madison Square Gar- den, Jan. 2, in a rally organized by The Nation .. One of the Nazi war chiefs now denting the 1st Army in Belgium is General Hansel Mann. teufil, who commanded the 7th panzer divi- sion in North Africa. Now he commands the 5th panzer division opposite the 1St Army. Christmas Congratulations .. . =ONGRATULATIONS to Postmaster Gen- 'eral Frank Walker and all the post office employees on the way they handled the Christmas mails. With fewer trucks and scarce manpower, it was a more difficult job tithan anyone imagines . . . Hats of to the employees of the Wiliamette Iron & Steel Corporation of 'Portland. 'Ore., for launching the ship, '"Wisco Blood Donor." 5,000 workers employed in "building the ship gave their blood within three weeks ... Orchids to Irving Berlin whose "This Is The Army" is still touring the battle- fronts, having now got to India and Burma ... The brass ring to $1-a-year man Spancer Love who went back to his Burlington, North Carolina, textile mills after more than a year of directing WEB's textile leather and clothing division, where 'he did much to speed up the lagging tire cord program ... Good men from industry are increasingly hard for the govern- ment to draft these days. But with the war going badly in Europe, more will have to be drafted. The Capital Chaff THE ARMY is printing new currency for U. S. troops in France to provide a more equitable rate of exchange. Prices have been exorbitant for our troops, largely because the artificial exchange rate was pegged at a relatively high level as an aid to French recovery. ....General 'Eisenhower has urged his men to send as much money back home as possible. As a rehult, between 85 and 90 per cent of all G. I. pay is now coming back to the U. S. A. . .. Repre- sentative Paul Shafer, himself an amateur ma- gician of some skill, demonstrated a rope trick at the Royal Palace in Rome, with Prince Hum- berto as his stooge. He nearly stopped the show when he told the Prince to say the magic word. Instead of specifying "Aracadabra," Shafer told him to say "Addis Ababa," which happens to be the capital of Ethiopia, which Mussolili once conquered. The Prince flushed, finally whisper- ed "Addis Ababa." . . . Formation of a Special House Committee to watch over surplus property disposal is being discussed by several members who are dissatisfied both with the law and with the administrators chosen. (Copyright, 1944, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) On Second Thought. By RAY DIXON This is a nice Christmas vacation, wasn't it? At last the crooners got the White Christ- mas they've been dreaming of all these years and we're beginning to wonder if it was worth it. Those who didn't get caught in the draft got caught in the drift, you can bank on that. The trains were so crowded that students were forced to sit on the bags under their eyes. An appropriate song for the return trip on the jammed trains and busses with students dripping from the ceilings and packed three in a seat would be the old-timer, "The Aisle of Mayhem." We can now sleep through classes for a couple of days in preparation for knocking our- selves out over New Year's. I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: In a Bitter Mood By SAMUEL GRAFTON NEW YORK, Dec. 29-The German offensive has put America in a bitter mood. Let us face it. Critics are saying ferociously that our Army Intelligence failed to give us warn- ing; that this is our second Pearl Harbor; that we are short of supplies because we have treated labor too leniently, etc., etc. This is petulant slapping, angry-child .style; we are aggrieved, and we look about for something to hit. It is always some other group that is accused, never one's own, nor one's self. Yet the responsibility for the present emotional shock is, it seems to me, a national responsibility. Al- most the entire country went off on a strange emotional binge from Sep- tember to November, an optimistic jag. For three months past we seem to have engaged in an informal com- petition to forget the war. The Presidential campaign con- tributed, for Mr. Roosevelt ran partly on the theory that he ought to be re-elected because we had a bitter war to fight; but also on the theory that the war was well in hand, that the supply problem had been met, that we had produced our way to victory. He ran on the twin planks that the war was our great problem, and that he had solved it. The.Republicans might have help- ed keep us down to earth, but didn't: they went even further than Mr Roosevelt. They spread the theory that 'we were really electing a peace- time President; that the war was ir such good shape any President coul( run it, by giving alternate Thursday mornings to conferences with the general staff. Then, suddenly, all the stops were pulled out. There was an air con- ference at'Chicago to divide up post- war international air routes; Russis was offended and stayed away be- cause of the inclusion of fascist Spain, but never mind. Shipping ex- perts began to talk, not about our war-time transportation shortage but about how much of the shipping business America was to obtain after the war. We became pert with Brit- ain on a dozen points of commercial rivalry. The anti-Soviet part of the American press began to scare itself about the red menace hovering over Europe, quite as if this were 1933. We carried on not only as if the war were over, but, in a sense, as if it had never been. We became ocky and loud. It was as if the war hadbeen crushed, like a gnat, and tossed aside, and could now be forgotten, along with everything that had been a part of it. The world was our oyster, and we could forget about war, except maybe for hav- ing some kind of international organization functioning like a fire department on a side street. One reason the new German of- fensive shocks us so deeply is, I think, that it makes us realize we are still dependent on Britain and Rus- sia. We do need them; the thing isn't over; we had begun to make our flip cracks too soon. We had zoomed off, especially in our com- mercial thinking, into an ecstatic individualistic stratosphere; now we find that our coat is caught in the door;,we can't go; the war is still on. We still need friends, and we must put up with liking them a little,. longer, before it wiill become quite safe to dislike them again. The German offensive shocked us because it caught us smiling fondly to ourselves over a secret dream. We had better put that dream away. This war will never be over, in the sense in which we had persuaded ourselves this autumn that it was over; we shall always need our allies, and we shall have to live with them, day to day and every day, time without end, if there is to be peace. The German offensive is only a symbol of what dreadful surprises may come to a world in which al- lies begin to separate; a symbol of what happens when a divorce takes place secretly in the heart, though no word about it is uttered. (Copyright, 1944, N. Y. Post Syndicate) V) - - ---- -----_-- e Vdkrj or ASA Pseudo journ.lis - From an infrequent reading of the Michigan Daily, I gather that some controversy has been in progress re- garding the maturity and -intelligence of the columnists therein employed. Being myself an unsuccessful competitor for such a position, I felt bound by a sense of dignity and restraint to refrain from pub- licly exposing the earnest if dis- gusting efforts of these Junior Journalists, these Litterateurs of Liberalism. However, when one such purveyor of luke warm intellectual mush car- ries her horrible hobby to the point where it becomes a species of ghastly autoparody, my strong per- sonal love of propriety can no long- er control the digestive spasms with which my stomach refuses this re- gurgitated fudge. I refer, of course, to that mumbo- jumbo about "The Good People" which was blatantly published on page 4, Wednesday, December 20. The use of the phrase quoted could perhaps be excused once :-the type- writer keys might have been slippery from stale root beer. But over and over again; and capitalized each time, as thoughnthe writer were try- ing to satirize herself in this puerile paean! Or does she hope to be Dis- covered by the Y.M.C.A Secretaries' Monthly? Forgive me if I belabor- this unclean subject no longer. It is not dignified. I also wish to announce the formation of a league, the object of which will be to agitate for the publication in the Daily of select- ed passages from "Holy Living and Holy Dying." -Frank A. Haight In Appreciation THE SEVENTH Contracts and Re- adjustment Class, which has just completed its course of instruction at the Judge Advocate General's School, raised funds for certain pre- graduation activities. A small sur- plus remains unexpended. In ap- preciation of their pleasant stay in Ann Arbor and their agreeable asso- ciations with the University of Mi- chigan, the members of the class voted to contribute this surplus to the worthy causes supported by the Goodfellow Fund. tohn . Weidner 1st Lt., J. A. G. D. Assistant to Executive Officer Editor's Not'e: The check enclosed with this letter has been added to the funds already collected in the Goodfelow Drive. Many thanks to the men in the seventh Contracts andReadjustment Class and best wishes for a successful career in the vital work they are about to perform. Cross - Purp oses The Supreme Court, ruling on two cases involving removal of Japanese- Americans from the West Coast, moved in almost dimetrically op- posite directions of policy Monday. It held, 6 to 3, that the Army had authority to exclude these people from the coast area; then it turned around and declared unanimously that the Government had no right to hold the loyal persons among them (the great majority) in re- location camps. Two steps were taken in the hand- ling of Japanese-Americans: (1) exclusion from the coast; (2) con- finement in camps. Both were un- democratic actions, but when the first was taken, the second became a temporary necessity. Otherwise, the 115,000 people, expelled from their homes and with no place to go, would have become a distressed and confused horde of wanderers, travel- ing about aimlessly in search of homes and employment. Yet the court now says that the first step was legal, the second il- legal, so far as loyal Japanese- Americans were concerned. Fortun- ately, Federal authorities did not act on such a narrow construction or the situation would have been even worse than it was. The court ruling is academic so fat as the Army's power is con- cerned, for its order had been re- voked the day before. The other decision outlaws the concentration camp as an American institution, and so is in the true spirit of our traditions. -St. Louis Post-Dispatch Mindoro ... In spite of the hyperbole with which General MacArthur finds it necessary to surround his account of the blow at Mindoro, the move is ob- viously of the first importance. It breaks through the barrier of the Philippines and lets American surface ships into the South China Sea, the key area of the whole Japa- nese system of empire. 'The enemy have probably succeeded in stockpil- ing some of the goods they can get Sewell Avery sEWELL AVERY i actig p again. For the second time in it year lie has had Montgomery Ward & Co. refuse to comply with an or- der of the WLB. In a way, the man is smart. That is to say, he has the money sense, that unique and accidental gift not necessarily connected with know- ledge- or judgment, which enables its possessor to make money and then put his money to work reproducing itself. He made money at the U. S. Gypsum Co., and was put in Mont- gomery Ward to do the same. But Sewell Avery is, in a very real sense, a public menace. Any man who, in time of war, acts as he has acted toward the United States Government, is in a psy- chological and philosophical sense an anarchist, trying to undo the Government battling for the com- mon good. He made his chief bid to fame in Chicago last spring when he violat- ed an injunction of the Federal District Court forbidding his contin- uing in obstructive possession of his office, and was physically removed. It was a staged rebellion, a plan- ned contumacy, a phony show, that Sewell Avery put on, and none could have been more delighted than this mail-order Machiavelli .n the photo- genic pictures of the poor old man being lifted out by bashful soldiers. The true Avery was revealed at a hearing before the House commit- tee specially set up for investigat- ing the case, at which he could not restrain himself. By unfortu- nate coincidence, he testified in Washington the same day our forces landed on the Norman beaches, and his words of venom and defiance received but slight 1attention at the time. He charged that the National Labor Relations Board and the War Labor Board had "conspired togeth- er" to effect the Chicago seizure, that the President's order as Com- mander in Chief "was usurpation" and that his advisers knew it to be "unfair and illegal." And mind you, on D-Day, he said this about an or- der to his company as a supplier of war needs. The present trouble has not been so drastic, but Sewell Av- ery's spleen has been as great, and the episode as revealing. "Free enterprise" does not mean free- dom to interfere with the win- ning of the war. --St. Louis Post-Dispatch DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN FRIDAY, DEC. 29, 1944 VOL. LV, No. 45 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 typewritten I form to the Assistant to the President, 1021 Angell Hall, by 3:30 p. m. of the day precedingpublication (11:30 a. m. Sat- urdays Notces New Yeaer's Day is not a University holiday and classes will be conducted as usual. To February, June, and October graduates: Senior pictures for the 1945dMichiganensian are due at the Student Publications Building Feb. 1. Appointments with photoraphers 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 light background. Interviewing for spring, summer, and fall term orientation advisors will be held by the Judiciary Council in the Michigan League Friday, Dec. 29, 2:00-5:30; Saturday, Dec. 30, 10:00-12:00; Monday, January 1, 3:00-5:00. The individual interviews will be held at 5-minute intervals. Academic Notices Freshmen, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: Freshmen may not drop courses without "E" grade after Saturday, Dec. 30. Only stu- dents with less than 24 hours' credit are affected by this regulation. They must be recommended by their Aca- demic Counselors for this extraordi- nary privilege. School of Education Freshmen: Courses dropped after Saturday, Dec. 30, will be recorded with the grade of E except untler extraordin- ary circumstances. No course is con- sidered dropped unless it has been reported in the office of the Regis- trar, Rm. 4, University Hall. Sociology 191 will not meet Mon- day, Jan. 1. Bacteriology Seminar Saturday, Dec. 30, 9:00 A.M. in Room 1564 East Medical Building. Subject: Antifun- gal properties of Sodium Azide. All interested are invited. Events Today There will be Sabbath Eve Services t ;,y '4 ,4 f x :" 5.K r' BARNABY They found the bandit car smashed on the road back of Hanson's Farm. But the crooks and the stolen furs were gone. And that haul wasn't carried for on foot- r 23 Present the wrap to your mother now, m'boy, Later your Fairy Godfather may Police searched every nearby hiding place- Mom! emember that ermine wrap we promised you? Sorry to bust in on you this way On Christmas. We're workina on that load of furs Kids playing around there had trampled up the snow. So footprints couldn't be- Yes. Don' t nterrupt, Barnaby But you may not By Crockett Johnson The little ermine job, Crnaby. For your mother's Christmas . .. . Euta your old Fairy Gofther promised - 0 ' 4 '4 Maybe something you seen or heard during the night might give us a lead.: Or- Copyrgh 1944 Fuld Publictions Merry-Christmas, Mom- ft