FOUR TLHE 'dI1CIiC f . r~1L i1 4 0e 1mdligau Dutr Fifty-F fth Year AHINGTON MRifY-GOROUND: La Guardia for Labor Post? K ee p M oving By ANN FAGAN GINGER ;, - . /' rI 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 Waiice Ray Dixon Hank Mantho . Dave Loewen berg Mavis Kennedy . Managing Editor City Editor . . Associate Editor Sports Editor Assbciate Sports Editor Women's Editor 'ss Staff Busine: Lee Amer . . Barbara Chadwick . . Jme Pomering . . . Telephone Business Manager AssocIate Business Mgr. Associate Business Mgr. 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, Michigan, as second-class mail matter. Subscriptions during the regular school year by car- rier, $450, by mal, $5.25. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1943-44 NIGHT EDITOR: LIZ KNAPP Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. New Bud uret WHEN PRESIDENT Roosevelt's fourth war- time budget was submitted to Congress it was discovered that appropriations set aside for jobs, education, medical care and financial as- sistance for veterans constituted one fifth of all 'expenditures for other than war activities." This bdget which did inot differentiate be- tween expenditures for veterans of this war and those of other wars is needed to cover expenses for increased pension costs occa- sioned by losses in the service; for recent legislation increasing coverage and liberal- izing payments to veterans of former wars and to their dependents; and to carry out the provisions of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944-the so-called G. . Bill of Rights which covers a wide range of aides for vet- erans of this war. Before criticism is advanced for this enor- mous jump in veteran appropriations it must be remembered that there has been an increase in war deaths aid insurance must be paid out to cover national service life insurance policies which are held by almost all service men and women. The costs of education, readjustment allowances and loan guarantees will jump. The G. I. Bill of Rights is partly responsible for this, but the advantages to be gained by this new ruling will more than make up for this tremendous sum. It can be assured that this is one part of the budget which is being put to the best use and will bring many advantages to those veterans who will make up one-tenth of the population at full tide and will constitute almost one fourth of the labor forces. -Liz Knapp P Ili nes WHEN THE JAPANESE phase of the war draws to a close, we will once again be faced with the problem of Philippine Independence. But the events in the Far East since December 7, 1941 has altered the picture for both Americans and Filipinos and now both seriously question the wisdom of the McDuffy-Tydings Act of 1934 providing for Philippine Independence. As the situation stands now, there are two possible roads for American territories to fol- low: 1) They may be granted eventual inde- pendence as has been considered in the case of the Philippines. Z) They nmay eventually become states in the Union as has been con- sidered for Hawaii - and Alaska, but so far, this has not occured in non-contiguous terri- tory settled by Americans with American democratic institutions. It is quite evident that neither of these roads would be acceptable to both Arericans and Filipinos in light of existing conditions. Filipinos will always be fearful of being singed by thea rays bf the Rising Sun and Amercans will eter- nally be bound to maintain defense against agression in the South Pacific area. And the Filipinos would unquestionably resent an Amer- ican "big stick" held over their heads in event of Independence. Statesmen have recognized the implications of either course and have suggested the adoption of a third road for American dependencies, espe- cially the Philippines to follow, namely the even- tual attainment of some sort of dominion status as exists in the relationship between the United Kingdom and her dominions. Rominion status would prevent American domination of the Phil- ippines without depriving them of protection by By DREW PEARSON Drew Pearson says: WASHINGTON, Jan. 12-White House advis- ers have been staging a quiet campaign this week to put Mayor Fiorello La Guardia across as the new Secretary of Labor. So far the President has been unable to find the right-or willing-person to step into Miss Perkins' shoes and "The Madame" is intent on leaving. Some of the President's friends, there- fore, think La Guardia is not-only a natural, but could be persuaded to take what is the most thankless job in the cabinet. The labor post is being hard to fill because pThssible appointees will have to step int the middle of the hot CIO-Afl row, in which they are sure to offend one side or the other. La- Guardia, however, is used to stepping on people's toes, doesn't care how many people he offends, and will ride roughshod over any group he thinks is wrong. Moreover, the Little Flower's political pros- pects as Mayor of New York for a fourth term are not bright. The Republicans, and nomin- ally he is one, say they won't nominate him again. The Democrats, toward whom he leans nationally, oppose him locally. La Guardia's popular following is just as large as ever, but he will have a tough time being re-elected if nominated. So you may find the fiery Fiorello coming back to his old haunts, Washington, where he once served as one of the most efficient hard- hitting representatives ever elected to Con- gress. Secret Democratic Caucu s... THEY WEREN'T talking about it publicly, but several Democratic Senators were hopping mad last week when, in secret caucus session, Texas Statesman Tom Connally told them to check with the Foreign Relations Committee before forming conclusions or taking a stand on foreign affairs. Connally held forth at some length to as- semfbled Democratic Senators as chairman of that committee. He appeared to be trying to re-establish the prestige lost by his committee when it railroaded the six state department nominations through last month, only to have the full Senate toss them right back at Con- nally and his committee for further considera- tion. .Connally's remarks were addressed princi- pally at the neW me bers. "Freign rela- tions," he explained, "are an extremely com- plicated subject today ad I hope, before you declare yourself or commit yourself in any Way, you'll give our Committee a chance to reach some important concltsions and to help you personally." The Democrats, as one of thern put it, sat "silent as a tomb, but not meek as a lamb." Not only were there murmurings about Con- nally, but there was no enthusiasm among the new Senators over the leadership of Senator Kenneth McKellar, of Tennessee, who was elect- ed president pro tem of the Senate. There was a strong feeling that the Senators who really should be heard from are those who aided in the campaign last year. Connally and MKel- lar were not active, whereas Senators like O'Ma- honey of Wyoming, Pepper of Florida, Kilgore of West Virginia, Guffey of Pennsylvania, really went down the line, working night and day to re-elect Roosevelt to his fourth term. Note-One of the freshman Senators whom Connally lectured was Fulbright of Arkansas, former Rhodes Scholar and University Presi- - dent, who knows more about foreign affairs than Tom eyer thought of knowing. It was Fulbright who forced Congress and Connally to adopt an international cooperation reso- lution last year. The British Diplomatic Game ... THE LONG, LEAN gracious Earl of Halifax emerging from a one-hour session with the President last week, told news men he had come to wish F. D. R. a Happy New Year and present him with a book as a gift. "Did you discuss Drew Pearson's column with the President?" Halifax was asked. "No," he replied. "Did you discuss it with Mr. Stetttinius?" "Are you sure you didn't discuss it with Stettinius?" repeated the questioner. "No," said Halifax, somewhat more icily. "But, Mr. Ambassador," he was reminded, "only ten minutes ago Mr. Stettimius said you did discuss it with him." "Did he?" answered the Ambassador. "Well, i must have-I tniust have talked to him about it--er-on the telephone or something." One Republican's Viewpoin.... REPUBLICAN National Comniittee publicity expert Lee Clhesley was sitting with a group of friends discussing politics the other day. One of them was trying to console Chesley on the Dewey defeat in November. "Just think, Lee, if Dewey had been elected, you'd be busy as a beaver now working your head off trying to jam everybody into the inaugural proceedings and not having half enough tickets to go around." "Yes, I know," replied Chesley, "But it would be worth the effort. I have been wait- ing so long to see the inside of the White House, I think if Roosevelt were smart, he'd invite a few of ors Republicans in for dinner, show us the place, and tell us something about his troubles. Maybe then we wouldn't be so eager to jump on him." (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, nc.) I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Nazi Morale By SAMUEL GRAFTON NEW YORK, Jan. 12-We hear a lot about "German morale" from persons who are in no position to know anything about it; great and earnest speculations as to whether the Ger- mans are despairing, or sad, or merely a little blue. The isolationist press often says that we are stupidly "improving German morale" by our slogan of unconditional surrender; it remarks that this slogan makes the Germans fight more desperately, etc. Most of these discourses are based on a pro- found misconception as to the nature of mor- ale. Morale is not desperation, Morale is confidence that we can solve our problems. The unconditional surrender slogan certainly does not increase Germany's confidence that it can solve its problems. But when one American, such as Senator Wheeler, gets on the air and demands that we give up the unconditional surrender slogan, and that we offer terms to the Germans, that speech must increase Germany's confidence that it can solve its problems. It indicates to Germany that some Americans want a more considerate approach to the Reich than others do; it opens up that tiny chink of hope on which morale is based; it can onl en- courage the Germans to hang on in the hope that more Americans will turn against the un- conditional surrender policy. AT THE SAME TIME, Senator Wheeler's ap- proach would seem to hurt our own morale. It does not do our morale any good for us to be told that our policy is "brutal" and "costly"; that it is "asinine" and "an obvious mistake"; and that Dumbarton Oaks is a grim hoax." These statements destroy hope when they reach the ears of the impressionable; they may make some of us think that our leadership is stupid and inept and asinine, that our hopes for world accord are only a joke. Such remarks close up our own chink of hope, the hope on which our own morale is based; if these comments become general, our world would cease to make sense, and when the world ceases to make sense, morale goes. The proposal that we ought to try to make the charging Panzer divisions in the Belgian bulge stop short by offering them softer, or better, or more definite peace terms is a wild pitch, indeed. Such an offer would be much more likely to make the German troopers feel that they had won a point, and that if they only fought more, they might win more. It would tend to convince them that their war effort makes sense; that there is a pattern un- derlying their hopeless lunges; that they are not without a plan. For "better" peace terms to follow immediately after the German offen- sive would be to make that offensive a success. BUT GERMAN MORALE will not crack on successes; it will crack on failures; it will crack when Germany is finally convinced that Hitler has no plan. Let us not be fooled by Germany's desperate last stands, etc., into be- lieving that German morale is good. The Ger- mans fought desperately at Stalingrad, but if their morale had really been good, if they had been confident that they could solve their prob- lems, if they had had the high swinging planful- ness that goes with genuine morale, they might have retreated at Stalingrad months before the showdo fn, and reformed their lines, and held a large part of their gains. Desperation led them to surrender; morale, and all that it implies, might have saved their armies.. Our problem is to convince Germany that Hitler has no plan. But the possible effect of some statements by our own prophets of gloom is to tend to convince us, at just this critical moment, that we have no plan, that our lead- ers are stumblebums, swinging wildly in a void; that we don't know Where we are going; that the hope of peace is a myth. The result must be to make some of us feel that the blackness of empty night is descending over us, rather than over Germany. He who toys with morale toys with dynamite; in this field it is well to know one's business. (Copyright, 1945, New York Post Syndicate) On Second Thought . By RAY DIXON WAR MOBILIZATION Director Jimmy Byrnes doesn't care if you have a hot time in the old town tonight (providing you keep the tem- perature down to 68 degrees.) Jimmy wants to keep the home fires burning and those are the hard, coal facts of the situation. Therefore, sez he, it's fuelish to feed the fire more than necessary. I T CAN'T TRULY be called "enter- tainment," because it is not a relaxing thing to sit quietly in a well- upholstered theatre-seat and Watch men make the mistakes which are responsible for a stranger sitting beside you, instead of your husband. But this is not a condemnation. It is high praise. It may mean that the mistakes won't be repeated; that the next generation won't need to sit so. "Wilson" deserves a dramatic review, because it is a movie, not a history lesson. And it would come off very well under such treatment. But the most important point is not that it is a movie, but that it is a history lesson, and 20th Cen- tury Fox is to be heartily congratu- lated for recognizing the need of such a lesson at this particular moment in America's history. One detracting feature is the de- gree to which history is "personal- ized." The fight over ratification of the Versailles Treaty, with its accom- panying proposal for a League of Nations, becomes little more than a personality clash between Wilson, the hero, and Sen. Cabot Lodge, the heel. Agreed, movies consist of the actions of people, but if the industry can produce a "Fantasia," a "Lady in the Dark," and a super-horror "Frank- enstein," it can surely discover a way to represent facts and motives and an over-all view of the political, social and economic conditions of a period. As in all history, a coloring was given the picture by the presentation and omission of particular incidents. As a record, it is unfortunate that so much time was spent on scenes at the party nominating conventions. so that there was no room for the stirring Senate debate following Wil- son's request for a declaration of war, in which Old Bob LaFollette, Lindy's liberal father, Borah, Wheeler par-3 ticipated. Nor for scenes showing the terrorism engendered by anti- German propaganda. Of union- smashing. Supreme Court decisions upholding violation of fundamental civil liberties for the sake of the "emergency." The imprisonment of another great man of- the decade: Gene Debs, Socialist candidate for President. And that only brief men- tion was made of the charge that this country was fighting an imper- ialist war to protect Morgan's heavy investments in the British Empire. BUT ALL THESE are minor facts. And the main stream can :e missed by no movie-goer. Not even by the most rabid of isolationists; so they better stay away. THE MAIN STREAM is Wilson's idealism for a truly integrated United States taking her proper place in a unified League of Nations to finally settle problems which are not idealistic at all: the same basic ques- tions which have racked the peoples of all nations for a time: how can we get enough to buy food and cloth- ing and pay the rent, and still live at peace with our neighbors? The failure of this sincere ideal- ist DOES NOT MEAN the final failure of his purpose . . Because men must go on living, so they will continue to try to find the answers. But it means that it is taking longer than it might have done. And it is taking more out of all the people: more in loss of life, loss of nerve, loss of security, loss of gen- tleness, loss of serenity. One thing for which we can be thankful: the men who are fight- ing this war, the workers who are making the weapons of war, the women who are waiting for the war to end, the manufacturers who are more interested in free- dom than in profits, The Peaple are not idealists this time. They have ideals. But they are not idealists. This is their saving trait. Idealism about wars can lead only to disillu- sionment. And the road back from disillusionment is the high wide and desperate one of the 1920's and '30's. This time we know the facts of the fighting. What freedom means, not only in contrast to German and Japanese dictatorship, but in con- trast to the home variety of race riots, lynch-law, bossism. And this time we know the facts of peace. We know the very places where we can go wrong. We know the remedies. And we have the will to use them. Watching "Wilson" now, can be the antidote for watching a similar movie, "Roosevelt," twenty-five years from now. ;r.: s >k- T DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN FRIDAY, JAN. 12, 1945 VOL. LV. No. 56 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 form to the Assistant to the President, 1021 Angell lall, by 3:30 p. m. of the day preceding publication (11:30 a. m. Sat- urdys). Members of the University Coun- cil: There will be a meeting of the University Council on Monday, Jan. 15, at 4:15 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. All members of the Senate may attend. The agenda is as follows: Approval of the Minutes of Nov. 13, 1944. Report on Government Contracts-Vice-President M. L. Nie- huss. Report on Special Services- Dean C. S. Yoakum. Statement About the Library-Director W. G. Rice. Memorandum from the Inter- national Center-Dr. E. M. Gale. Subjects Offered by Members of the Council. Reports of Standing Com- mittees: Educational Policies-W. C. Olson; Student Relations-C. H. Stocking (Four Reports); Public Relations- K. K. Landes; Plant and Equipment -J. f. Cissel. Louis A. Hopkins, Secretary Mail is being held at the University Business Office for the following people: Arehart, Ethel; Bradley, Sarah Grace; Butcher, Charles; Cetschman, George F. J.; Chrest, Dr. and Mrs. Clarence P.; Crunigan, Dr. A. J.; Cuttrell, June; Franke, Wesley C.; Forrest, Marguerite P.; Giller, Bea; Girvin, Donald, Jr.; Gligeroff, Thomas G.; Gould, Georgia; Hamil, Margaret; Hayase, Tom; Hollinger, Daniel; Krug, Mrs. Joe; Leiberman, Carol; McCloskey, Dr. Mark A.; Max- well, Katherine; Milton, Charles; Myers, Dr. Muriel; Niervin, George; Ohberg, G. E.; Parre, Mrs. Jerry; Porter, Susan; Prescott, F. H.; Pur- cell, Bernard; Rich, Townsend; Rich- ardson, Steve; Rigg, Betty; Rimmer, Mrs. William; Robinson, E. R. Jr.; Sieben, Glen; Seigler, Violet; Stumpf, Caroline Y.; Sister Sylvia; Thorn- ton, Dr. O. R.; Troeschels, Dr.; Truesdale, Mrs. Beverly; Professor and Mrs. Robert VanSickle; Vonn Toon, Miss Bobby Ray; Walcott, Gloria:Wurdock, Beatrice. City of betroit Civil Service An- nouncements for Technical Aid (Male & Female) (Business Admin- istration) (General) (Medical Sci- ence), salary $37.54 to $38.81 for 40 hour week, and $48.80 to $50.45 for 48 hour week, and Jr. Engineering Aid (Male & Female), salary $42.54 to $44.08 for 40 hour week, $55.30 to $57.20 for 48 hour week, have been received in our office. For further information, stop in at 201 Masor Hall, Bureau ' of Appointments. Important Notice in re Rationing of Certain Materials for Research: Stricter rules and regulations govern. ing the rationing of "Processes Foods, Meats, and Sugar" have no gone into effect. This applies to all laboratories and departments manu- facturing or carrying on researeb work, and to the feeding of animal, for research which use rationed items In order that the University may be properly registered with the, Loca Ration Board, it is requested that you report to Mr. W. W. Buss, Rm B124, University Hospital, by Jan. 2f the quantities of rationed foods yor anticipate using from Jan. 1, 1949 through Dec. 31, 1945. The points are grantednby quar- terly periods of three months each Therefore, please indicate the quan- tities you need for each quarte under the following classications: 1. Processed Foods. 2. Meat, Fats Oils and Canned Fish. 3. Sugar Laboratories or research project failing to make this report ma. expect to find themselves denies their necessary supplies. Withholding Receipts for 1944 Income Tax: Numerous requests hav( been received by the Business Offic( for withholding receipts showing total wages paid. and total income tax withheld (Form W-2) from indi- viduals desiring to make final incom tax returns by Jan. 15, 1945. Th( work involved in preparing severa' thousand of these receipts renders it impossible to have then'i ready b3 Jan. 15, but the Payroll Department will gladly give any individual the figures his or her receipt will contain when finally prepared. The deadline for having these completed forms ir employees' hands is Jan. 31, 1945 but it is anticipated that those for U-ni versity employes will be sent to their a few days earlier. H. P. Wagnei Attention all members of Phi Eta Sigma! Pictures will be taken for the Michiganensian Jan. 14, at the Mich- igan Union at 3 p.m. Academic Notices 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 Rm. 4, U.H. If your name does not appear, or, if included there, it is not correctly spelled, please notify' the counter clerk. Attention Engineering Faculty: Ten-week reports below C of all Navy and Marine students who are not in the Prescribed Curriculum; also for those in Term 5 in the Pre- scribed Curriculum are to be turned in to Dean Emmons' Office, Room 259, W. Eng. Bldg., not later than Jan 20. Renort cards may be ob- Concerts Organ Recital: Bernard Piche, Or- anist of the Cathedral of Trois- Rivieres, Quebec, will appear as guest ,rganist in Hill Auditorium at 4:15 Sunday afternoon, Jan. 14. He has arranged a program to feature com- positions by Bach, Franck, Gigout, Rameau, LeBegue, Vierne, Widor, Dupre and Tournemire, and will play ne of his own compositions, "Rhap- sodie sur 4tNols." The recital will be open to the public without charge. Choral Union Concert: Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist, will give the seventh program in the Choral Union Series, Monday night, Jan. 15, at 8:30. His program will consist of numbers by Czerny, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Prokofieff, Chopin, Samuel Barber, and Liszt. A limited number of tickets are till available at the offices of the ,University Musical Society in Burton Memorial Tower, and at the Hill Auditorium box office after 7 o'clock on the night of the concert. Charles A. Sink, President Exhibitions Exhibition, College of Architecture and Design: Twenty Lithographs, by prominent artists, loaned through the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Ground floor corridor, Architecture Building. Open daily 9 to 5, except Sunday, through Jan. 29. The public is invited. Events Today SRA Poster Club meets this after- noon at 3:30 in Lane Hall, to be fol- lowed by Association Coffee Hour. All interested in artistic expression are invited. No talent required. Coming Events Pi Lambda Theta will hold a guest tea, Saturday afternoon, Jan. 13, from 3 to 5 in the West Conference Room of Rackham. All members are cordially invited to attend. The Lutheran Student Association will have a sleigh ride Saturday night and all members who wish to attend are asked to meet at the Parish Hall, 309 E. Washington St. no later than 9. Reservations must be made by calling Emil Hahn, 4348. The regular Sunday afternoon meeting of the Association will begin with the program at 5 and supper following at 6. Mr. Charles Will- mann. Vicar of Zion Church, will speak on the Liturgy. Initiation to Phi Eta"Sigma will be held Jan. 14, in Rm. 302 Michigan Union at 1 p.m. Any initiates inter- ested in running for office please report at 12:15 p.m. Ameeting for special permission girls and those living in private homes in Ann Arbor will be held on Monday, Jan. 15 at 4 p.m. in the Michigan League. The room for the meeting will be posted on the League L9 I w . f t Personal hygiene rules to don't care how often Gen. gets his feet wet wading islands. the contrary, we Doug MacArthur ashore on new - ..- . -r Sfr y BARNABY By Crockett Johnson CIOCKE T II No. I've no word vet rom ! outlinedl our nloh to i , J ..f r f