~I'T~t' MiCiiiaT~ A AT i"~ ~i TTV ?MTV Qnav TAV a ________________________________11 *UJV 1T1LU...11UEUl.Y .!9IN L ~L4I 1 '.i1 e'f J~~r." A 1 WASHINGTON MEIRY-GO-ROUND: Bad Warehousing Wastage £tier to the 6kor By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON, Jan. 9-One of the little real- ized tragedies about the food situation is the wastage from bad warehousing and from storing it too long., The situation has been so bad-and has been so completely ignored by_ top War Food Admini- stration officials that two important men have resigned. They are: Andy Current, veteran warehouseman, who came here in 1941 to set up a warehousing system, for foods; and J. E. Salisbury, an expert on the shipping of food. They quit War Food Administration because they considered its purchasing and storage methods impossible. New head. of the section is Eldon Richardson, whose storage experience was gained with Lever Brothers, soap and shortening manu- facturers. Another reason Current and Salisbury quit was because WFA was ignoring their ominous reports concerning "overage" foods, showing huge stocks of food rotting away in warehouses while newer foods were moved out. Lieut. Col. George Olmstead told. the Mead Committee in February, 1944, WFA had only 380,873 pounds of 1941 food in storage at that time. However, when the warehousing division of war foods checked into only 10 per cent of the WFA warehouses, they found more than 8,000,000 pounds of 1941 food. But what has conscientious WFA officials biting their nails is although most food is con- sidered overage at from five months to a year, a lot of it doesn't move out of WFA warehouses until after that period. As a result overage stocks now in storage are reported as around 300,000,000 pounds. The Mead Committee has been investigating food on hand since 1941, but has passed up the fact it doesn't take four years to spoil some kinds of food and a great deal of food stored in 1943 is now classed as "average," Exit Dried Eggs .. . Last month a WFA agent in Oregon threw 2,300 pounds of dried egg powder off a dock into the sea. It had been sitting in a ware- house for two years-about 18 months longer than necessary for dried egg powder to spoil and begin to smell. The hapless agent,' who thought he was doing the agency a favor, got a terrific dressing down-because WFA offi- cials were "working on a deal" to sell the powder for animal feed. It could be used for animal feed, but that was all. Part of the wastage undoubtedly is the natural wastage of war and may avoidable. But in addition. war food, have failed to make inspections and reject a lot of poor quality food. due to be un- off icials do not In many cases, the government bought mil- lions of pounds of eggs, paying good prices simply on presentation of a shipping receipts. The warehousers who had agreed to store these eggs until WFA could get.them to drying plants immediately began to howl. The odor of a few rotten eggs can contaminate all the eggs in a warehouse-including those stored for private concerns as well as WFA. So the storage people began writing WFA urg- ing disposal of "these putrid eggs." For in- stance, the Rainier Fruit Co., of Yakima, Wash., wrote that, "practically all the cases in its shipment contained maggots and cockroaches." The New Haven, Conn., Cold Storage Com- pany reported it had received a shipment of eggs which had been without refrigeration for from four to six weeks. One company reported receipt of a car of colored Easter eggs more than a month after the holiday, another com- pany reported receipt of a shipment of putrid duck's eggs and there were constant complaints of inadequate shipping containers. Some cases were made of fibre which frequently collapsed when a second case was piled on top. Warehouser James Ronin of Albany, New York, wrote Andrew Current, WFA warehouse- man now resigned: "These eggs are coming in in lousy condition and the smell from some of them in the box cars (eggs should be shipped only in refrigerator cars) would almost knock you off your feet." The result is storage companies, though anx- ious to aid in the WFA egg-drying program, can't contaminate other food in their plants, so many have simply refused to accept ship- ments from WFA. In eastern Maryland recently 150,000 cases of canned tomatoes went bad after being kept too long. In New Bedford, Mass., 200,000 cases of pork and beans were going bad in the Stokely Warehouse, but most of the lot was lost when the New England hurricane hit last fall. On the whole, Judge Marvin Jones and his War Food Administration aids have done a good job with food production, but warehousing looks like a weak point in their setup. Steve Early Protects Press... It's not known outside the White House, but Steve Early threatened to resign last month in a friendly but firm disagreement with the Presi- dent over two newspapermen. When the President returned from his Geor- gia vacation one of the first things he did was call in Early and propose that the press creden- tials of Patterson-McCormick columnists John O'Donnell and Frank Waldrop be taken up. "I don't want them at my press conferences any more," Roosevelt told Early. "But every paper in the country will be hol- lering about freedom of the press if you do that," Early replied. The President told Early it was not a case of freedom, that the same papers could assign other men to the White House. He has long suffered from the vicious pens of these two whose isolationist anti.British, anti-Russian pens furnish many quotes for the Axis radio. Early then said he would do as the President asked-but that if he did so he would then resign as press secretary. And he could not be talked out of it. So President Roosevelt yielded to the judgment of the man who has guided his press relations for 12 long years. He wanted Steve around the White House more than he wanted O'Donnell and Waldrop kept away. Noe-The President once bestowed a Ger- man Iron Cross on O'Donnell. (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Tnc) I'D RA THER BE RIGHT: G.O.P. Confusionl By SAMUEL GRAFTON NEW YORK, Jan. 9-Continuing my exhorta- tion to the Republicans, I should like to point out that the G. O. P. cannot play both ends against the middle in the new Congress without confusing itself and everybody who watches it. It cannot, for example, recover its historic role as the spokesman for the Negroes and other racial minorities, and at the same time join with Representative Rankin of Mississ- ippi, as it did on Wednesday last, to set up a new Dies Committee. Mr. Rankin is not often re- garded as friend of America's minority groups. For the Republicans to work with him, while declaring themselves the champions of the op- pressed, is a confusing piece of business. You do not win the voter's confidence by making him feel that there are spots before his eyes. Another area of possible confusion in Repub- lican policy lies in its attitude toward the place of Congress in making the peace. The G. O. P. is firmly sof the mind that Mr. Roosevelt must not make a "personal peace," that Congress must be consulted, etc. But the party committed itself last summer to a platform which demands that all treaties' must be ratified by the Senate" Provided that two-thirds of the Senators present concur." The words are taken from the Constitution, but this Constitutional clause makes it extremely diffi- cult for Congress to play a constructive part in shaping our foreign policy. The requirement that two-thirds of the Senate must agree on every treaty is, in fact, one of our greatest Con- stitutional failures. It was adopted by the Fath- ers on the theory that two-thirds of the Senate is better than a majority, but its practical effect has been to make one-third-plus-one better than a majority. The clause has actually led us to violate the Constitution at times; we annexed Texas, for example, by joint majority resolution of both Houses, instead of by treaty, because it was clear that two-thirds of the Senate would not consent. When it is necessary to break the law to let the will of the people prevail, it is time to change the law. 4 CONSTITUTIONAL amendment has been proposed, providing for ratification of treat- ies by simple majorities of both Houses, instead of by two-thirds of the Senate. This would allow Congress to play a great part in shaping the peace. But the G. O. P., which wants Con- gress to play a great part, clings to an absolute rule which prevents Congress from playing any intelligent part. It demands that Congress act freely, and it demands that Congress wear chains. The two-thirds rule was gratuitously in- setted into the Republican platform as a cryptic message to isolationists, a kind of love letter in code, and the isolationists are ready to read it in court in case they have to sue the G. O. P. for breach of promise. I spoke to Wendell Willkie about it by tele- phone, the night the pledge was adopted in Chicago, and I shall never forget his heart- break over it. If the G. O. P. wants a clear record as the champion of Congress, it must denounce its pledge, and come out for an amendment making ratification easier. Otherwise it is backing and filling again making the voter's eyes swing from side to side in wild dismay. There are other wobbles in Republican policy. One is a tendency on the part of some Republi- can leaders to insist on only the purest forms of international accord; either the Atlantic Charter to the letter, or nothing; and the public gets the impression, from some of their previous atti- tudes toward the Atlantic Charter, that maybe they want nothing. These indirections must be cleared up. It was sufficiently demonstrated in 1944 that a political party which tries to make use of both sides of almost every arguments ends up, because of some mysterious law of democracy,3 with a minority of the vote. (Copyright, 1945, New York Post Syndicate) Post-War Germany willing to take this risk, since he be- lieves that, deep-down, the Germans R. RAY SHINN in his editorial are good, and that this goodness will "What is Post-War Status of affect their country's conduct, if they Germany To Be?" repeats the same are given an "all-is-forgiven" peace. statements he made in his previous Neither America nor her Allies seem article on "Post-War Germany." to be willing to gamble on this issue, ,His arguments are better presented because the odds that Germany will but they are only superficially logi- follow the straight and narrow path cal. .Since this article seems to be a are desperately small in the light of clarification of Mr. Shinn's ideas, Germany's notorious record of war- and an answer to my criticisms, I making. shall so examine it. "Germany has been one of the Mr. Shinn says that "Germany can birthplaces and centers of social be a leader in the co-operative democracy; she has produced men sense" The whole problem of what who have spread those principles to do with Germany after this war throughout the world," says the hinges upon the question of whether author, and that may have an ele- Germany can be cooperative, of ment of truth in it, but Germany whether she can be, and remain, a has also produced millions of men law-abiding member of the nations who have spread principles of vio- of the world. Tf she can, there is no lence through the world. She has point in suppressing her after this produced too many of these men. war. But il she cannot be trusted, And that has to be stopped once then 3roln.ate measures, how- and for all, if we do not want a' ever harsh, must be taken, third-and even costlier-world rear Mr. Shinn, who seems to believe jwith Germany. in the ee p-down goodness of the Can't we gain if we seek to re- ma orit - of the individuals that strain Germany in her habitual drives compose a nation has said, in for power? Can't we gain by stop- rather vague, general statements, ping that threat to our lives? The rthers vgue, gera sttemns Germans might lose in the deal, but that "to say that the Germans any the rest of the world stands to lose more than any other people want nothing, and to gain incalculably. war, want to oppress others, want "What lives have been lost are to kill their fellow men is essen- lost forever." Yes, alas, they are tially silly. Their roots are not in lost, they are lost forever. I know. w ar." Essentially it might be true But I see no reason why more lives that individual Germans do not should be lost; and all that because' want war, and, deep-otwn, they of a foolhardy gamble-a gambile might be jovial, hearty peoaple with that none of the victim-nations in a glass of beer, a welcoming smile, Europe would risk. and lovely children, all making a - s-Fay A.jzenberg, '46F, charming family scene. But allf these endearing traits seem to be, according to the contemporary abor-Draft history of our world, too deep- WITH THE NEWS of a 4-F labor down to make any difference in draft making its perennial ap- the actions of the Germans as a pearance in the press, one begins to nation. wonder what the reason behind the After seeing with our own eyes, movement to secure a work army after reading, after hearing, after really is! We hear of many highf feeling the actions of Germany in the sounding and patriotic excuses for past seventy or eighty years, climax- such a plan but none of these seelip ed by the hideous realities of the last worthy of this drastic step. As Mr. 12 years, shall we take the chance Dewey was prone to say, "Let's look once more? Mr. Shinn might Ofe at the record." Admittedly, arms production in the United States has surpassed even the wildest dreams of the most opti- mistic. Airplane production has been the best example of this over-pro- duction. To be sure there are cer- tain shortages, but I wonder if such shortages are not due more to mis- planning than to a labor shortage? Most war plants in Detroit have be- gun systematic lay-offs. Midnite shifts are being abolished and pe'r- sonnel is being cut in almost all in- dustries. There is actually the be- ginning of unemployment Contracts are being cancelled in great number every day. Surely such occurrences are not the result of a need for a labor draft. In addition to inactivity in war plants due to oversupply, the Ar- my and Navy are both guilty of "hogging" manpower. The cream our our manpower lies at rest in our college training programs and in our Army camps throughout the country. What are these men- able bodied and young-doing in school when such a need for labor has developed that men who are physically unfit for so-called "tough Army routine" are to be /drafted into war jobs? This seem- ingly contradictory set of circum- stances in our national war effort makes one wonder what the real reason behind the 4F draft might be? Is it possible that our Army and Navy chiefs are too greedy in re- spect to their demands for more men? Is there a lust for power present in the heads of our supreme commanders? Perhaps it is possible that low pay- ing industries see a chance to con- tinue their low paying practices if they can get work done at $50 per month. People begin to wonder why others are not as patriotic as they should be. The answer is that some people think about things that big-wigs don't expect them to. No, I am not a 4-F! -Allan Anderson 4 ° r DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN ;4 ® ' TUESDAY, JAN. 9; 1945 VOL. LV. No. 53 Publication in the Daily Official rut- letin is constructive notice to all mem- hers of the University. Notices for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the Assistant to the President, 1021 Angeli all, by 3:30 p. m. of the day preceding publication (11:30 a. tn. Sat- urdays). Notices Student Tea: President and Mrs. Ruthven will be at home to students Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 10, from 4 to 6 o'clock. Food-Handlers Lectures Two series of lectures for food- handlers will be given in the Audi- torium of the W. K. Kellogg Build- ing, Fletcher St. and N. University Ave., on the following Clays. The lec- tures will include slides and films. Series I Lecture 1, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2:00 p. m. Lecture II, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2:00 p. m. Series II Lecture , Wednesday, Jan. 10, 8:00 p. m-. Lecture IT, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 8:00 p. M. The speakers will be John Veenstra of the City Health Department (Jan. 10) and Melbourie Murphy of the University Health Service (Jan. 17). All food-handlers employed in commercial establishments are re- quired by City Ordinance to attend a series in order to obtain a permanent food-handlers card. All persons concerned with food service to University Students who have not previously attended are asked to attend one of the present series. Other interested persons are cordially invited. The United States Civil Service Commission gives notice that Jan. 22, 1945, will be the closing date for ac- ceptance of applications for the fol- lowing examinations. Astronomer, $2,433, Chemist, $2,433, Chemist Aide, $2,190, Meteorologist, $2,433, Pharma-' cologist, $3,163 to $5,228, Toxicologist, $3,163 to $5,228, and Physicist, $2,433 to $6,228. Applications must be filed with the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington 25, D. C., not later than that date. United States Civil Service an- By Crockett Johnson I nouncement for Laboratory Mechan- ics, salary $1,752 to $3,828, has been received in our office. State of Michigan Civil Service Announcements for hild Guidance Psychologist 11, $230 to $270 a month, Bacteriologist 1, $180 to $220 per month, Dockman B, $125 to $145 per month, Social Worker A2, $165 to $185 per month, Laboratory Guard A, $150 to $170 per month, Liquor Store Manager Al, and 1, $180 to $220 per month, Vocational Education Fore- manship Conference Leader IV, $360 to $420 per month, Vocational Visual Education Consultant IV, $360 to $420 per month, Prison Psychiatrist V, $440 to $550 per month, Indu- strial Hygiene Engineer II, $230 to $270 per month, and Industrial Hy- giene Engineer I1,,$280 to $340 per month, have been received in our office. For further information stop in at 201 Mason Hall, Bureau of Ap- pointments.- Lectures French Lecture: Professor Michael Pargment of the Romance Language Department, will give the second of the French Lectures sponsored by the Cercle Francais on Tuesday, Jan. 9, at 4:10 p.m. in Rm. D, Alumni Memorial Hall. The title of the lec- ture is: "An atole France." Tickets for the series of lectures may be procured from the Secretary of the Department of Romance Languages (Rm. 112, Romance Lang- uage Building) or at the door at the time of the lecture. These lectures are open to the general public. All servicemen are admitted free of charge. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for Mark Whitezel Bills, education; thesis: "The Relative Equality of Education- al Opportunity in Twelve Represent- ative Michigan Counties," Tuesday, Jan. 9, 9:30 a.m., at 4019 University High School. By action of the Executive Board the Chairman may invite members of the faculties and advanced doctoral candidates to attend this examina- tion, and he may grant permission to those who for sufficient reason might wish to be present. Attention Engineering Faculty: Ten-week reports on standings of all civilian Engineering freshmen and all Marine and Navy students in Terms 1, 2, 3; and 4 of the Prescribed Curriculum are due Jan. 20. Re- port blanks will be furnished by cam- pus mail and are to be returned to Dean Crawford's Office, Room 255, W. Eng. Bldg. At the 'regular Seminar meeting of the Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering on Thurs- day, iJan. 11 at 4 p. m. in Rm. 3201, East Engineering Building, Mr. L. E. Brownell will speak on "Electric Strain Gauges;" followed by Mr. D. V. Doane on the subject "Stresses in Surface Hardened Steels." Any- one interested.is cordially invited to attend. Seniors in Aeronautical, Electrical, Mechanical, and Structural Engi- neering: A representative of the Bu- reau of Aeronautics, Washington, D. C., will interview seniors graduating in February and June, on Thursday, Jan. 11, for positions of P-1 trainee engineers. Interviews will be held in Room B-47 East Engineering Building. Interested men will please sign the interview schedule posted on the Aeronautical Engineering Bulle- tin Board, near Room B-47 East En- gineerin'g Building. Seniors: College of L. S. & A.; Schools of Education, Music, and Public Health. Tentative lists of March graduates including candi- dates for the Certificate in Public Health Nursing have been posted on the bulletin board in Room 4, U. H. If your name does not appear, or, if included there, it is not correctly spelled, please notify the counter clerk. All Graduate Students interested in forming a graduate social organ- ization, please see Miss Kelly in 1008 Rackham. Concerts Organ Recital: Bernard Piche, Guest Organist, will be heard in re- cital at 4:15 Sunday afternoon, Jan. 14, in Hill Auditorium. His program will include music by Bach, Franck, Gigout, Rameau, Le Begue, Vierne, Widor, Dupre, Tournemire, and one of his own compositions. The general public, with the eicep- tion of small children, is invited Events Today At the Seminar in Special Func- tions at 3:00 p. m., in 317 West Engineering, Professor Rainville will speak on "General Systems of Poly- nomials." The Prescott Club: There will be a short, informal meeting in Rm. 300 Chemistry at 7:15 p. m. It is important that all members be pres- ent. Refreshments will be served. Sigma Rho Tau: Tonight the A 1 A . I 7 I RARNABY i Don't act dumb, Baxter. There's a grand in it for you if you deliver those That was the thieves! Now THEY think I have the furs!i I'll pay Baxte menage of hi wand is a nisi iL _ _ _ t that sit .. .COc"(@-f A O tNOr/ I -- arnaby! Now know I I v