THE MiCHIGAN DAILY 5TTN3DAT, JAN,. Zl, 1945 . ___________________________________________________ U ___________________________________________________ _____ _______________ Fifty-Fifth Year WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: National Service Legislation I O 7 1 . 3-1 H( MET pr~~~TL~~I,~ 1Wrga ited and managed by students of the University chigan under the authority of the Board in Control udent Publications. n Phillips Wallace Dixon Mantho Loewenberg s Kennedy Editorial Staff . . . .- . Managing Editor .. . City Editor . Associate Editor * . . . Sports Editor Associate Sports Editor .. . . . Women's Editor Business Staff [ee Amer . . . . Business Manager Barbara Chadwick . . Associate Business Mgr. gune Pomering . . . Associate Business Mgr. Telephone 23-24-1 Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use ror republication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this newspaper. 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On the first point there will be little con- troversy; the value of Lease-Lend to the war effort is clearly recognized. Over the second there may be a major Congressional battle-a battle which it is to be hoped that the Anglo- phobes and the isolationists lose. Britain needs aid during a three or four year post-war period, it is to the dollars-and-cents advant- age of the United States to give such air, and Lease-Lend is the logical way to give it. .How hard Britain has been hit by the war is clearly demonstrated in a recent British White Paper entitled Statistics Relating to the War Effort of the United Kingdom. It points out, for example, that one out of every three houses in England has been either destroyed or damaged, and no new houses have been built during the war. The quantity of ex- ports fell 71 per cent and the value 50 per cent between 1938 and 1943. Overseas assets worth over 4 billion dollars have been liquidated. Over- seas debts totaled over 9 billion in 1941. Almost three thousand merchant ships have been lost by 1943. Such losses are serious to any nation. They are doubly serious to a nation which depends almost entirely upon imports and world trade for the maintenance of her people. Writing in the November Harper's Magazine, John Fischer, formerly a member of the Foreign Economic Administration, points out that before the war Britain paid for her imports by export- ing about two and one-half billion dollars worth of goods a year, by drawing interest on invest- ment Englishmen have made during the past three centuries, and by a variety of "services" to other countries, including carrying foreign cargoes in British vessels. Now that England has lost considerably more than half her export market and nearly half her foreign investments, which have either been liquidated or damaged in the Asi- atic war, together with much of her domin- ance in shipping, Britain will be able to pay for only a part of the imports she has to have in the first two or three years after the war. To make her income equal her import costs, she might reduce her purchases abroad or bor- row from other countries. Both methods Mr. Fischer terms impractical, the first because it would mean lowering the English living stand- ard, the second because Britain already has a huge overseas deficit. The third course would be relentless economic warfare, involving cut- throat competition with the United States, and a continuation of exchange controls, import- export licensing, quota allotments and retalitory tariffs. All of which would be hard on post-war plaps of American businessmen for free, trade. Post-war Lease-Lend aid from the United States in the form of food and lumber and other raw materials is the fourth possibility. Such aid wonld carry Britain through her period of post- By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON-While hammers were nailing up platforms for the inaugural, the White House was the scene of one of the grimmest con- ferences in months, as congressional leaders met the President and his military chiefs to solve the manpower problem. Leaders of the House and Senate Military Affairs Committees sat unsmil- ing as General George Marshall and Admiral Ernest King outlined the gravity of the present military situation. "It's not a question of losing the war," Gen- eral Marshall told the legislators. "But to do our job right we need legislation to provide the men and the materials which will save the lives of thousands of American boys and# shorten the war considerably." Marshall, with customary caution, did not talkI in figures or months, but there was no doubt in the minds of his hearers that he feels the sav- ing can be important. The Army and the Navy need some 900,000 men in the next six months, and, without new legislation, they will have to rely mainly upon 18 years olds, of whom there are not enough to make up half the call. Another 700,000 men are needed in production to assure a speedy victory. President Roosevelt himself had little to say during this round table conference. He sat and listened. He was ready, he said, to send to Congress a message demanding full na- tional service legislation for all men under 60. This was opposed, however, by Andy May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Com- mittee, and by Texas' Ewing Thomason, its ranking majority member; also by Senator Elbert Thomas of Utah, chairman of the Sen- ate Military Affairs Committee. Warren Aus- tin, ranking Republican on the Senate Com- Dominic Says "WE HAVE still to learn that the human race is tolerated in the universe only on strict condition of good behavior," said Principle Jacks. One wonders how the balance stands after we Westerners have deliberately snarled our so called civilization into knots. Here are ethical knots, economic knots, political knots galore and yet we look down on the uncivilized tribes who have fled to the jungles to sit in naked peace and grin at the big show. Few of us ever contemplate this gratuity on the part of the universe. Nye have falsely sta- tioned ourselves in the preferred relation of owner and master as though the forces eternal and inexorable which belong to the universe were ours. The listing of three citizenships as Jacks did in that series of essays gives one a perspective which might help us reorient our- selves before we decide that Russia has no right to rule Europe and God does not dare to let another balance of power settlement follow this war just because we Americans have done two per cent of the suffering. You see that old bal- ance of power settlement run by the European trio France, Russia and England has political reason in it for those who do 98% of the suffering. Every European people has a vast political stake in the settlement whereas America has none. Our stake is ethical, ideal- istic and humanitarian plus our investments of pride, money and time. Jacks says we are citizens; first, of the coun- try in which we were born or which we adopted, second, a citizen of this small busy planet, the earth. You see he understood that there is a constellation out there in the east- ern sky the light of which left that remote group 800,000 years before I see it. Citizenship number two has variety, distance and per- spective, and third, a citizen of the universe. It is this third citizenship which must bulk large if our war is to result in a lasting peace. Without American there will be no endurance due to our credit.status. But the only compul- sions to keep us at the task are ethical ones. We cannot understand our duties in this po- litical international, inter-racial, inter-cultural task unless we frankly accept the spiritual com- pulsions of rights and duties. There are duties which humanity is required to fulfill. These have emerged from the privileges which this law abiding universe has granted to us. Are there rights? Yes. "Were we, to begin with," Jacks states, "human beings and citizens of the universe we should have no rights nor duties whatsoever." Without the ; cosmic background our political citizenship in these United States or any country would be incomprehensible. It follows therefore that to have the America we love and call our own we must behave as citi- zens of the Universe. The religious say: join the family of God. -Dr. Edward W. Blakeman Counselor in Religious Education On Second Thought . . By RAY DIXON BIG Thrill Department: We have it on reli- able authority that men were permitted to walk in the side door of the Union during yes- terday's open house. S * * ,' Also at the Union open house, we overheard a fellah ask a girl if she would like to go upstairs and play pool. "I'm sorry, but I don't swim," she said. mittee, also agreed it would be best now to let the House continue working on the May Bill which provides for labor battalions for 4-Fs aged 18 to 45. The President finally agreed to this, with the understanding that before the May Bill is re- ported to the House an amendment calling for national service of all men between 18 and 60, not merely 4-Fs, will be offered. This is in line with last year's bill by Senator Austin and Rep- resentative Wadsworth of New York. Labor Opposition..-. Representatives May, Thomason, and Ham Andrews of New York, ranking Republican on the House Military Affairs Committee, all ad- vised the President that the amended bill could be passed in the House, but admitted it would pass only by the narrowest of margins. Andrews, who will support the bill, said he cannot count on more than four votes among the 11 Repub- lican members of the Military Affairs Commit- tee. He added the proportion will be no better, if as good, among Republicans generally when the full house votes on the bill. Democrats May and Thomason reported the pressure against the bill from labor and farm groups has been terrific. They are convinced there is strong sentiment in favor of a na- tional service act from the families of service- men, but they don't believe this pressure has been felt as strongly yet as the pressure from groups in opposition. For this reason they hope General Marshall will testify before the Military Affairs Commit- tee. If he reports on the casualties suffered in Europe during the past month, and the hun-j dreds of thousands of cases of illness among soldiers - including pneumonia, flu, trench mouth, and other ailments an minor wounds, then they believe opposition will be difficult. In the Senate. Chairman Thomas admitted there is no certainty of speedy action. The bill will be given a clear track in the Senate once it gets by the House, but strong opposi- tion from Senate isolationists and even some liberals is anticipated. (copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Congress Jeforrn By SAMUEL GRAFTON NEW YORK-If the National Planning Asso- ciation's proposals for improving Congress went through, the Capitol would then resemble the higher executive offices of Life, Time and Fortune magazines. Each Congressman would be a brain entirely surrounded by facilities. He would receive $25,000 a year, two-and-one-half times his present pay, and there would wait quiveringly, at his right hand, a "high caliber assistant," earning $7,500 to $10,000 per year. Large research staffs would function in con- nection with all committees. A Congressman seized by a sudden happy thought for a sensa- tional speech could repair $o one of these re- search centers for a quick check-up as to his facts, leaving the room ten minutes later, mut- tering and shaking his head. There would be fewer Congressional com- mittees in all, but there would be two new ones in each House, a committee of the ma- jority and a committee of the minority, each responsible for party policy. Then if Con- gress did something silly, like passing a bill calling for price control, but failing to appro- priate the money for it, the public would have a name and address to make its reproaches to; it could go to the chairman of the committee of the majority and ask him just what he thinks he's doing around here. rFHE idea, you will see, is to increase responsi- bility, to make Congress make sense; at pres- ent Congress is not required to make sense, either by law or custom. It does not have to report to anybody on its total of work for a year. It does not have to follow any consistent pattern. It can be arbitrary and inconclusive. It can face two ways, and there is none among its 531 members to whom a newspaperman can go and say effectively, aren't you ashamed? An additional proposal is that each House shall have the right to put questions to mem- bers of the President's Cabinet, in full session. There is no intention to make circuses of these question hours. The whole point of the proposed reform, in fact, is to raise Congressional efficiency to the business level, to introduce into Congress some of our standard American business customs, such as the principles that all letters are an- swered same day received, that responsible people don't make fool statements, and that you have to program your work and know where you're going. BUT here we run into a dreadful impasse. This is a program for the refinement and improve- ment of government, but it is offered to a coun- try in which a large number of people have been trained not to believe in government. Some of the very same newspapers which today ask for an improvement in the methods of Congress, have elaborately educated their readers in the doctrine that all government is evil, or, if not evil, malicious, or, if not malicious, idiotic. This is a true fight between the past and the future, and if these Congressional reforms are delayed, it will be because this struggle is un- resolved, and for no lesser reason. (Copyright, 1945, New York Post Syndicate) E Squabbles C S MR. ANTHONY EDEN has in- F formed the House of Commons that the "British government ad- t heres to the view that the Italian c government has no right to the re- p turn of its colonies." Without a fur- i ther condemnation of wrangling in i war-time on a post-war issue, it C seems that Mr. Eden or possibly the s entire British Foreign Office is fol- r lowing the same old English line ofd deciding the economic future of European nations, without regarding h that nation's needs.1 Although this is not a defense oft Italian imperialism, it appears thatt in a world conditioned by grabbing, t the impoverished and defeated Ital-.' ians should be aided in some man-T ner, not told, at every turn what theyN cannot do. As things are shaping up now, ifN you are on the winning side in oneN of these world conflicts, regardlessN of your needs, you are entitled toN many "favors." If you are on theZ losing team, you're supposed to put your head between your hind legs,z bringing it out only to smile Z sweetly at the benevolent victors.I Modes of thinking and standards of values on issues that will confront this nation after the present conflictC are strangely similar to those of World War I.t Few will contest the fact that World War I "statesmanship' just did not "pan out."3 Could it be that we have not progressed in any but technolog- ical processes since 1918? It's be-1 ginning to look that way. - Bob Goldman5 Letter To the Editor AFTER reading what Fay Ajzen- berg had to say concerning Post- War Germany, I couldn't restrain myself from adding a few words. Myf whole argument is summed up in what Herbert Hoover and Hugh Gib- son once said: "Victory with vengeance is ulti- mate defeat in te modern world1 We can have peace or we can have revenge, but we cannot have both." -Milton Budyk DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN SUNDAY, JAN. 21, 1945 VOL. LV, No. 64 Publication in the Daily Official Bul- letin is constructive notice to all mem- 1 bers of the University. Notices for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the Assistant to the President, 1021 Angell Hall, by 3:30 p. m. of the day preceding publication (11:30 a. m. Sat- urdays). Notices To Members of the Faculty, College of Literature, Science and the Arts: There will be a special meeting of the Faculty of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at 4:10 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 22, in Rm. 1025 Angell Hall, to continue the discussion of the Combined Report of the Curricu- lum Committee and the Committee on Concentration and Group Re- quirements. A large attendance is desired. School of Education Faculty: The January meeting of the faculty will be held on Monday, Jan. 22, in the University Elementary School Li- brary. The meeting will convene at 4:15 p.m. All Students, Registration for Spring Term: Each student should plan to register for himself according to the alphabetical schedules for March 1 and 2. Registrations by proxy will not be accepted. Registration Material, College of L. S. & A., Schools of Ed- ucation, Music, Public Health: Students should call for spring term registration material at Rm. 4, University Hall beginning Jan. 22. Please see your advisor and secure all necessary signatures be- fore examinations begin. Registration Material, College of Architecture: Students should call for spring term material at Rm. 4, University Hall beginning Jan. 22. The College of Architecture will post an announcement in the near future giving time of conferences with your classifier. Please wait for this notice before seeing your classifier. Registration Material, School of Forestry and Conservation: Registra- tion material should be called for beginning Jan. 22 at Rm. 2048, Nat- ural Science Building. Robert L. Williams Assistant Registrar College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, College of Pharmacy, School of Business Administration, School of ducation, School of Forestry and A Conservation, School of Music, d chool of Public Health; Fall Term. M chedule of Examinations, Feb. 17 to e: eb. 24, 1945. M Note: For courses having both lec- w ures and quizzes, the time of exer- ise is the time of the first lecture eriod of the week; for courses hav- ng quizzes only, the time of exercise s the time of the first quiz period. v Certain courses will be examined at U pecial periods as noted below the t egular schedule. To avoid misun- C derstandings and errors, each stu- M dent should receive notification from A his instructor of the time and place p of his examination. Instructors in L he College of LS&A are not permit- i ed to change the time of examina- tion without the approval of the Examination Committee. v Time of Exercise Time ofExm Mon. at 8-Thu., Feb. 22, 10:30-12:30 t Mon. at 9-Sat., Feb. 17, 10:30-12:30 J Mon. at 10-Fri., Feb. 23, 8:00-10:00 M. at 11-Tues., Feb. 20, 8:00-10:00t Mon. at 1-Wed., Feb. 21, 2:00-4:00 Mon. at 2-Mon., Feb. 19, 8:00-10:00 Mon. at 3-Thu., Feb. 22, 8:00-10:00f Tu. at 8-Fri., Feb. 23, 10:30-12:30 Tu. at 9-Wed., Feb. 21, 10:30-12:30 Tu. at 10-Tues., Feb. 20, 10:30-12:3C Tu. at 11-Mon., Feb. 19, 2:00-4:00 Tu. at 1-Sat., Feb. 17, 2:00-4:00t Tu. at 2-Thu., Feb. 22, 2:00-4:00 Tu. at 3-Tues., Feb. 20, 2:00-4:00f Conflicts, Special-Sat., Feb. 24, 8-10 Special Periods, College of Litera- ture, Science, and the Arts: Time of Examination Speech 31, 32; French 1, 2, 11, 31, 32, 61, 62, 91, 92, 93, 153-Mon., Feb.1 19, 10:30-12:30.t Chemistry 55-Mon., Feb. 19, 8:00- 10:00 English 1, 2; Economics 51, 52, 53,1 54-Tues., Feb. 20, 2-00-4:00. Botany 1; Zoology 1; Psychology1 31-Wed., Feb. 21, 8:00-10:00. Sociology 51, 54-Thu., Feb. 22, 8:00-10:00. Spanish 1, 2, 31, 32; German 1, 2, 31, 32-Fri., Feb. 23, 2:00-4:00. Political Science 1, 2-Sat., Feb. 17,1 8:00-10:00. School of Business Administration: Courses not covered by this schedule as well as any necessary changes will' be indicated on the School bulletin board. School of Forestry: Courses not covered by this schedule as well as any necessary changes will be indi- cated on the School bulletin board. School of Music: Individual In- struction in Applied Music. Indi- vidual examinations by appointment will be given for all applied music courses (individual instruction) elec- ted for credit in any unit of the University. For time and place of examinations, see bulletin board at the School of !Music. School of Public Health: Courses not covered by this schedule as well as any necessary changes will be indicated on the School bulletin board. College of Engineering, Schedule of Examinations: Feb. 17 to Feb. 24, 1945. Note: For courses having both lectures and quizzes, the time of exercise is the time of the first lec- ture period of the week; for courses having quizzes only, the time of ex- ercise is the-time of the first quiz period. Drawing and laboratory work may be continued through the examina- tion period in amount equal to that normally devoted to such work dur- ing, one week. Certain courses will be examined at special periods as noted below the regular schedule. All cases of con- flicts between assigned examination periods must be reported for adjust- mnent. See bulletin board outside of Rm. 3209East Engineering Building between Feb. 1 and Feb. 7, for in- struction. To avoid misunderstand- ings and errors, each student should receive notification from his instruc tor of thetime and place of his appearance in each course during the period Feb. 17 to Feb. 24. No date of examination may be' changed without the consent of the Classification Committee. Time of Exercise Time of Exam. Mon. at 8-Thu., Feb. 22, 10:30-12:30 Mon. at 9-Sat., Feb. 17, 10:30-12:30 Mon. at 10-Friday, Feb. 23, 8-10 Mon. at 11-Tuesday, Feb. 20, 8-10 Mon. at 1-Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2-4 Mon. at 2-Monday; Feb. 19, 8-10 Mon. at 3 Thursday, Feb. 22, 8-101 Tues. at 8-Fri., Feb. 23, 10:30-12:30 Tues. at 9-Wed., Feb. 21, 10:30-12:30 Tues. at 10-Tu., Feb. 20, 10:30-12:30 Tues. at 11-Monday, Feb. 19, 2-4 Tues. at 1-Satui'day, Feb. 17, 2-4 Tues. at 2-Thursday, Feb. 22, 2-4 Tues. at 3-Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2-4 Draw. 2, 3-*Monday, Feb. 19, 8-10. E.M. 1, 2, C.E. 2, Draw. 1-*Satur- day, Feb. 17, 8-10. M.P. 2, 3, 4, French-*Monday, Feb. 19, 10:30-12:30. Economics 53, 54-*Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2-4. M.E. 3-*Wednesday, Feb. 21, 8-10. Surveying 1, 2, 4-*Thursday, Feb. 22, 8-10. E.E. 2a, Span., Ger.-*Friday, Feb. 23, 2-4. Irregular, Conflicts or Make-up- *Saturday, Feb. 24, 8-10. *This may also be used as an irregular period, provided there is no conflict with the regular printed schedule above. A special examination schedule is provided for the prescribed V-12 courses. Seniar & Graduate Students in L11 members must be present Mon- ay, Jan. 22 at 7:45 p.m. in 316 tichigan Union to have picture tak- n for the Michiganensian. Navy en bring dress jumpers. Civilians ear coats and ties. Bring $1 fee. Lecturies University Lecture: Dr. Gustav E. on Grunebaum, Professor of Arabic, rniversity of Chicago, will lecture on he subject, "The Arabian Nights and !lassical Literature" at 4:15 p.m., Vednesday. Feb. 7, in the Rackham amphitheatre; auspices of the De- artment of Oriental Languages and Literatures. The public is cordially nvited. French Lecture: Dr. Francois Du- 'alier, from Haiti, will give the third f the French Lectures sponsored by he Cercle Francais on Thursday, ran. 25, at 4:10 p.m. in Rm. D,Alumni Memorial Hall. The title of the lec- ;ure is: "La Culture Haitienne." The lecture is open to the general public. All servicemen are admitted free of charge. Academic Notices Psychology 31: Makeup examina- tion will be Tuesday, Jan. 23, at 4:45 p.m. in Rm.1121 N.S. Concerts Faculty Concert: John Kollen, As- sistant Professor of Piano in the School of Music, and Mrs. Marian Freeman,, guest violinist, will appear Wednesday evening, Jan. 24, in a program of sonatas for violin and piano by Mozart, Schumann, and Brahms. Scheduled to begin at 8:30, the recital will be open to the general public. Exhibitions Exhibition, College o 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 The Congregational-Disciples Guild Sunday Evening Hour will' begin at 5:00 p.m. at the Memorial Christian Church (Disciples). Following the supper Rev. Chester Loucks will speak on "The Dangers of Devotion." Miss Marjorie Warren will lead the closing worship service. The March of Time picture "Can- ada" and Mr. Paul LaChance of Quebec as the speaker will bethe program at the International Center, tonight at 7:30. Cominvg Events Ann Arbor Bird Club: Meeting for members and for others interested, Monday evening, Jan. 22, at 7:30. Dr. Hann: Migration. Dr. Test: Field Identification. Museum of Zoology, rear door and elevator to third floor. Avukafi presents a public debate tonight at the Hillel Foundation at 8:00 p.m. on "The Pros and Cons of Zionism."' The participants will be Max Dresden of the physics dept. and Bob Feldman of the psychology dept. Discussion afterwards will be thrown open to the audience. Pre- ceding the debate there will be a cost supper at 6:00 p.m. Monday Evening Drama Section, Faculty Women's Club. Monday, Jan. 22, 7:45 p.m., library Unitarian Church. Sigma Rho Tau: Members of the Stump Spe.akers' Society of Sigma Rho Tau will meet Tuesday, Jan. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in Rms. 319-323 of the Union for a second round of debates on the topic: "Should the U. S. gov- ernment adopt a peacetime system of compulsory military training for all citizens?" Workouts in Hall of Fame and in Project Speeches will be in order. Mark Starr, Educational Director of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and an outstanding leader in the field of Labor educa- tion will speak under the auspices of the Department of Economics on Wednesday, Jan. 24, at 4:10 p.m. in Rm. 101 Economics Building on "Trends in the American Labor Movement." Institute of the Aeronautical Sci- ences: Meeting Wednesday, Jan. 24, at 7:15 p.m., in Rm. 316 of the Mich- igan Union. Mr. Chester S. Ricker, Detroit Editor of Aviation, will give an illustrated lecture on "Some Structural Features of Foreign Air- planes." There will be an election of officers, and a group photograph will be taken at 9:00. Aeronautical En- gineering students desiring member- ship are cordially invited to attend. Navy men who wish to attend should leave their names with Mrs. Ander- son, Rm. B-47 East Engineering Building, so that permission can be obtained from Navy officials for them to be present at this meeting. There will be a meeting of the Prescott Club on Tuesday, Jan. 23, at 7:15, in Rm. 300, Chemistry Build- ing. A group picture for the Ensian will be taken at 8 o'clock, at the 7 4 4 ;, t '1 z" 4I A BARNABY They went in the cellar- Ill see what's delaying them Don't permit the officers to r ho'Malley! They're oit alIrendvI. fy Crockett Johnson F l e tter LOCK ,L