r' THE MICHlIGAN I Atli.v, TUESDAY. JAN. 16. 1945 1 J. J.. Al lfnI 1,4,w 14. fate' -Alk L'7 it :4u I AL - iLJKJn7B v TAN)L l'. V, Oi1#J J WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Investigation of FCC Fails RISE OF THE NAZIS: i-I 1 1* + MIUSJIC *Th Gi ermian oldier'/ By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON, Jan. 16-In its last dying hours, the 78th Congress issued a report which might well have been labeled: "How to waste the taxuayer's money and the confidence of the American people." It was the last report of the House Committee investigating the Federal Communications Com- mittee. It cost the taxpayers $110,000. It used up the time of a five-man committee of congress- men for two years, plus dozens of FCC officials who had to drop the work they were doing to answer committee questions. In the end, it reported that nothing was wrong with FCC, praised ex-Chairman Larry Fly, and exonerated Tom Corcoran and Ed Noble of the Blue Network of any wrongdoing in connection with the purchase of station WMCA. Behind the investigation was the personal vengeance of one man-Congressman Eugene "Goober" Cox of Georgia. The FCC had learn- ed he accepted a $2,500 fee from a Georgia radio station for lobbying before the FCC in connec- tion with a wave length, and reported the mat- ter to the Justice Department. The head of the criminal division recommended prosecution. Whereupon Cox, one of the most powerful men in congress, with a whole strong of relatives on the public payroll, initiated an investigation of the FCC. For a time he had a field day. He employed as counsel Eugene Garcy, one of Roosevelt's bitterest enemies. And with Cox himself sitting as chairman, he rode roughshod over the FCC. Finally, other congressional leaders realized that Cox's thirst for blood was blackening the name of all congressmen and they forced him out. The probe dragged on in the less-biased hands of Congressman Lea of California, in the end giving all those investigated a clean bill of health. Net result was to focus reams of unfavorable and undeserved publicity on Noble, Corcoran and Fly whom everyone now concedes did an A-1 job. But more than that it boomeranged and hurt Congress. As long as one congressman can use the comradery of his colleagues on Capitol Hill to wield the tremendous investigating powers of Congress in a personal grudge fight, the public is not going to have much faith in our legis- lative institution. Street-Cleaner Congressman,. CONGRESSMAN William J. Gallagher, the former Minneapolis street-cleaner has been having quite a time romping arund the capitol since his arrival in Washington. The other morning, Gallagher sitting in his office alone, answered the phone. "Is Mr. Munn there?" asked a voice in- quiring for the congressman's secretary. "Nope," replied Gallagher, "he ain't here. Who's calling?" "This is the White House. We'll call back," answered the voice. "Nuts to you practical jokers," said Gal- lagher, banging down the phone. To his surprise, after Gallagher's secretary returned, the phone range again and it really was one of the White House secretaries wanting some information. Later the same day, Gallagher walked over to the stately Senate caucus room, where he at- tended the Democratic policy-making powwow. When it was all over, he ambled out of the room, but couldn't get his bearings. "Hey, boy," hollered Gallagher at good-nat- ured young Congressman Outland of California. "How in hell do I get out of here?" Outland smiled, showed him the way back to the house office building. He didn't tell the gentleman from Minnesota who he was. Steuinius Spreads Out.,.. When Secretary Stettinius appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to urge con- firmation of his new assistants, he was asked about press reports that he planned to wrest from Leo Crowley the Foreign Economic Admini- stration-one of the best-run agencies of the government-and place it under new Assistant Secretary Will Clayton, millionaire cotton king. Stettinius replied soothingly, and tried to convince the Senators they were unduly wor- ried. But last week a very significant move occur- red that looks as if Stettinius was going right ahead with his maneuver. President Roosevelt called in Lauehlin Cur- rie, who has run the FEA for Crowley, and told Currie he could no longer spare him from his regular job as White House administrative assistant. Currie has long been attached to the White House, but was loaned to help Crowley run FEA. Now, the President said, he wanted Currie to come back full-time. Those who know the score around Washing- ton, see the hand of Stettinius, Harry Hopkins and Clayton behind this bit of presidential diplomacy. Roosevelt has been able to spare Currie for 17 months without any noticeable ripple around the White House. In view of the manpower shortage, his advisers think he could spare him longer. But that isn't the point. The point is that the State Department wants to euchre the Foreign Economic Ad- ministration under its steadily expanding wing, Secret plan is to bring ambitious Oscar Cox, who was the brains behind Stettinius in the Lend-Lease Administration, over to the State Department under Clayton. Then Clayton and Cox would run FEA. Capital Chaff ..,, Congratulations to Miami Beach, Florida, on helping convalescing servicemen and their fam- ilies to find apartments. Apartment-hunting in overcrowded Miami is tough, but in recent weeks a small group of citizens secured 146 apart- ments for service men, also organized a house hospitality committee for opening Miami homes to returning service men, built a snack bar at the local Y. M. C. A. and signed 175 merchants out of 250 in the military area with hospitality pledges, which means cash discounts to soldiers. Orchids to the soldiers canteen organized by the citizens of New Philadelphia and Dover, Ohio. These two adjoining towms have the distinction of being about the livest of any cities in the U. S. A. Not on a main railroad. So they have stationed their elaborate can- teen ten miles away at the nearest trunk line, and keep it going night and day. (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) FD RATHER BE RIGHT: Lend Lease Aid By SAMUEL GRAFTON NEW YORK, Jan. 16-There is a regrettable American tendency (as the New York Her- ald Tribune remarked the other day) to believe that we can step out of the war anytime some- thing about it doesn't quite suit us. This text can stand many illustrations. An organized group made demand on the State Department last Thursday that we cease lend-lease aid to Russia, unless Russia agrees to behave in a particular fashion toward the Poles. The members of this group probably buy war bonds in satisfactory amounts, on the theory that they are saving their country, and the lives of its sons; they probably feel that they must give blood, that they must work. But let a political question come along in which deep emotions are entngled, and all the musts become perhapses; suddenly we can choose whether to help Russia or not; suddenly we can do whichever we like. This "in again, out again" attitude toward the war shows up strongly in the isolationist section of the press. That pres dutifully tagged along when the Sixth War Loan Drive began; it print- ed the appropriate cartoons, urging purchase of bonds, as a life or death matter. But in the heat of last week's debate over foreign policy, one such "nationalist" journal cracked winningly that our soldiers will come home "sick of fight- ing other people's battles and having their own country bled white via lend-lease, without even thanks from the beneficiaries of lend-lease." The war is a life-and-death matter one week, and a plain case of fighting "other people's bat- tles" just a few days later. In again, out again. ANUMBER of American liberals, too, seem to feel that they can pronounce the war to be a people's war on some days, and on other days declare it to be no such thing. They are for- ever giving the war good marks and bad marks. Their feeling seems to be that unless we are free to pull away from our allies, to "get tough" with them, we have no hope or method for forcing them into an effective world organiza- tion. The exact reverse is true.. .We are going to get along with our allies, not because we hold over their heads the terrible threat of separating ourselves from them, but because we can't separate ourselves from them. We are going to get along with them precisely because we must, precisely because there is no other way; and they shall get along with us for the same reason. We shall end up in the same world organization because we are in the same boat. The way out lies, not in threatening Russia, but in understanding her need for security on her western borders; not in threatening Britain, but in understanding her serious postwar econ- omic problem. And every time an American publicist, regardless of his politics, raises, how- ever obscurely, the warning that we may pull away from our allies, he hurts the chances for world organization. He hurts them because if it is possible to separate, then it is possible; if we can, we can. But we can't, We are going to have to help solve Russia's problems and Britain's problems, because these are our problems, too; because we sink or swim together. We have no choice but to try to understand. Our threat of sep- aration is unreal. It is unreal because the war is real. (Copyright. 1945. New York Post Syndicate) On Second Thought,. By RAY DIXON THE HOOPER case has all the elements of a murder we ever heard of except a beautiful woman-and one of those might show up before very long, Don't let anyone kid you about Michigan being a graft-ridden state. It looks as though it is, but at least we've got enough courage to expose it. The Russians start the big push through Pol- and and change the subject of conversation from politics to Poletics. N SUNDAY'S account of the growth' of Nazi military power, the ex- 135,000 boys each year. Many of cerpts taken from "The German Sol- these boys used their skill to great dier," prepared by Capt. Arthur advantage in 1940, when Crete was Goodfriend and issued by the editors inaded and captured largely by Ger- of The Infantry Journal, traced the mans carried in giant glider tans- revival of the German military ma- ports. Later, when Hitler renounced chine after the World War had dealt the disarmament clauses of the Ver- it the most severe blow it has ever sailles Treaty, real planes were added met. The material presented, de- to the equipment of the Flying Corps. signed to better acquaint readers! "But airplanes and gliders are with what went on in Germany after just one part of the picture. The the last war, traced military prepara- National Socialist Party enrolled tions only in their incipient state. almost 300,004 boys in motorized The material ended with a descrip- units. Automobiles, trucks and tion of the training of German boys, motorcycles - 5,000 motorcycles started as early as 1923, to achieve each year-were donated to the German domination of the world by motor units, and 1,300 repair shops force. It continues with a detailed were set up to maintain them. In- disclosure of the actual training and dividual families had no cars, but equipment used in the nationwide the Nazi Party had plenty-enough preparation of Hitler Youth for a to settle the Army's transport prob- war which these same boys, now lem when the war finally broke. grown members of Germany's le- "Other boys of 16 to 18 were taken gions, are fighting today. into the Hitler Youth Navy. And "In 1939, the Hitler Youth be- tens of thousands of others plugged camne an irregular part of the army away at the fundamentals of the and was put under the Storm infantry--marching, care and use of Trooper section of the Nazi Party. weapons, tactics and many other The Hitler Youth received enough subjects that prepared boys to be- rifles to enable 30,040 of its best come soldiers. shots to compete in national rifle "Before all this took place, Ger- matches. In Obermatzfeld, there many's regular army was busy too. was a modern firearms school to Those 100,000 men were drillingI which the boys were sent. The and studying. And the high com- Nazi Party supplied its youth with nand, quiet and unknown, was 10,000 revolvers a year. burning midnight oil over the maps "A special unit of the Nazi Party of neighboring lands. was formed, called the National So- "At 11 a.m., Monday, Jan. 30, 1933, cialist Flying Corps. It was given Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of enough gliders and teachers to train Germany. "In January, 1935, General Goer- Navy Nurses ing, commander of the Luftwaffe,3 had about 1,000 planes ready for TN ITS grace-and in the face of a action, 44 new airfields built, and sickening shortage of nurses in hundreds of trained pilots. the armed services-the Navy decides "Germany's heavy industry start-f that nurses already in the service may ed the big job of conversion to war. marry. And why, if one may ques- Books were burned. The universities tion the bizarre ways of Admirals in were Nazified. A four-year plan was Washington bureaus, is the Navy still launched: its purpose was to make unwilling to accept nurses who have Germany self-sufficient in food, raw committed the offense of getting materials and all the other materials married before enrollment? If a mar-= of war. And the German people were ried woman in the one instance be a never allowed to forget for a minute proper officer and gentleman, why why all this was being done. The may she not in the other? Will some object-and Hitler made it very. clear sea lawyer please explain? -was just one thing: 'PEACE.'" I -St. Louis Post Dispatch -Arthur J. Kraft By KAY ENGEL LAST evening Vladimir Horowitz presented to a capacity audience a performance that climaxed pre- vious concerts of this season. Super- latives in any form would probably undermine the exalted state of this reviewer. Horowitz is without doubt one of the few great pianists of our day. A rather heavy group of selec- tions was initated by the rarely programmed Variations on the aria, "La Ricordanza," Op. 33 of Czerny. Many depreciators of this superb artist, after expecting an in- finiate number of highly pedantic variations, were probably begrudg- ingly surprised to hear a simple group embellished with only the usual garnishings. Virtuosity, by this select clan, is too often con- fused with exhibitionism. Horowitz may respond to the title of virtu- oso but never to that of exhibi- tionist. This was proved last night by the infallible execution and praical interpretation effected in a thoroughly intellectual study of each selection. The above aduiation was especially inspired by theexquisitely played Waldstein Sonata. Too frequently the later sonatas of Beethoven are executed with an over abundant use of the pedal coupled with a blurring of complex passages. Such was not the case with last night's version. Counter melodies and ornamentations were independent of such cloudiness. The sensitive second movement was marred only by the consistent cough- ing that seems to be psychologically contagious when commenced by an unsuspecting victim. ' The second half of the recital continued the worthy standard set up by the artist in the previous portions. Unlike many pianists who feel they must let their emotions run away with them when per- forming Chopin, Mr. Horowitz maintained perfect control. The concert 'came to a close with the pianist's arrangement, of The Stars and Stripes Forever. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN TUESDAY, JAN. 16, 1945 VOL. LV, No. 59 Publication in the Uaily Official Bid- 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 Mall, by 3:30 p. m. of the day preceding publication (11:30 a. m. Sat- urdays). Notices Important Notice in re Rationing of Certain Materials for Research: Stricter rules and regulations govern- ing the rationing of "Processed Foods, Meats, and Sugar" have now gone into effect. This applies to all laboratories and departments manu- facturing or carrying on research work, and to the feeding of animals Allied Unity "THE VITAL and lasting interests ofnthe Soviet Union, Great Bri- tain and the United States," said Radio Moscow Tuesday night," de- mand consolidation of their unity during the concluding stage of the war and also after victory is won." Mr. Churchill and Mr. Roosevelt have said as much in recent weeks. But this is the first word from the Kremlin, by way of a controlled' Soviet information medium, that Russia, too, is anxious to fill in the political cracks in the rock of Allied solidarity. In the brief history of Big Three military alliance, there has been much expertizing on the direction of Soviet foreign policy. Some commen- tators brand it without relief as grasping and domineering. Others maintain that Rgussia as well as Britain pursues two policies--the one nationalist, the other international- ist, depending on the way the other powers move. Whichever is right,j there is invariably an "inspired"' Russian voice raised, at every dan- gerous moment in Big Three rela- tionships, for the basic principles of! collective security. The Muscovite voice just heard from might have carried more au- thority had its medium been Pravda or the even more official Izvestia. But its intent is clear: No differences of opinion among the Allies can "change the basic alignment of forces," the Big Three alignment in peace as well as war. -St. Louis Post Dispatch' By Crockett Johnson for research which use rationed items. In order that the University may be properly registered with the Local Ration Board, it is requested that you report to Mr. W. W. Buss, Rm. B124, University Hospital, by Jan. 22 the quantities of rationed foods you anticipate using from Jan. 1, 1945 through Dec. 31, 1945. The points are granted by quar- terly periods of three months each. Therefore, please indicate the quan- tities you need for each quarter under the following classications: 1. Processed Foods. 2. Meat, Fats, Oils and Canned Fish. 3. Sugar. Laboratories or research, projects failing 'to make this report may expect to find themselves denied their necessary supplies. School of Education Faculty: The January meeting of the faculty will be held on Monday, Jan. 22, in the University Elementary School L brary. The meeting will convene at 4:15 p.m. Tryouts for the French Play will beI held todayrand Thursday from 3 to 5 and tomorrow from 3 to 4 in Rm. 408, Romance Language Bldg. Any student with some knowledge of the French Language may try out. A cademnic Notices Students, College of Literature, Science and the Arts: Casting for the Speech-English Department one-act play bill will be held this afternoon, froin 2-5 o'clock in the speech fra-1 ternity rooms, 4th floor Angell Hall. Men. are especially needed. Sigma Rho Tau: Members of the Stump Speakers' Society of Sigma Rho Tau will meet at 7:30 p.m., in Rms. 319-323 of the Union. Debate topic: Should the federal govern- ment adopt a system of compulsory military training for all citizens in the post-war period? Post-War Council Seminar Group: There will be a meeting tonight at 7:30 in the History Seminar Room in Haven Hall. The Cercle Francais will meet to- night at 8 at the Michigan League. Mr. Richard Picard, of the Romance Language Department, will give an informal talk on France. Miss Ruth Whittemore, of the Music School, will sing a few French songs. Games and group singing. The Christian Science Students' -Organization is holding a meeting tonight at 8:15 in the chapel of the Michigan League. All are welcome to attend. COnng Events A meeting of the University of Michigan Section of the American Chemical Society will be held on Jan. 17 at 4 p.m., in Rm. 151 of the Chem- istry Building. Dr. Herbert C. Brown of Wayne University, will speak on "Steric Strains." The public is cor- dially invited. Dr. Maurice L. Moore, Director of Organice Research for Frederick Stearns and Company, Detroit, will present an illustrated lectureon "The Development and Use of Sul- I 'I F i fonamides as Intestinal Antiseptics," E xnibl nttsoin Rm. 303, Chemistry Building, at Exhibition;' College of Architecture'4:15, Wednesday, Jan. 17. Pharmacy and Design: Twenty Lithographs, by students and all others invited to attend. prominent artists, loaned through crilynvtdoate. the Museum of Modern Art, New Inter-Racial Association: There York City. Grou~nd floor corridor, Ine-ailAscto:Thr Architecture Building. Open daily will be a meeting Wednesday at 7:30 9 to 5, except Sunday, through Jan. p.m. in the Union. 29. The public is invited. - - Research Club: The January meet- ing of the Club will be held in the Events Today Amphitheatre of the Rackham Buil- " ding, Wednesday evening at eight Orchestra Rehearsal: The Univer- o'clock, Jan: 17, Professor Carl D. sity of Michigan Symphony Orches- LaRue will read a paper on "Studies tra, Gilbert Ross, Acting Conductor, on the Growth and Regeneration of will meet in Hill Auditorium at 4 Plant Embryos and Endosperms in p.m.. today. . Culture" and Professor C. C. Fries a .-_paper on "Some Illustrations of Mod- There will be a meeting of the ern Linguistic Principles and Tech- Post-War Council in the soda bar of niques." the Michigan League at 4:30 today. Plans for next semester will be dis- La Sociedad Ilispanica announces cussed. 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