TH~iiL VtillIGANI DAILY kt][L a .; c ; 'yl. ' Nom; i 7<* WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Disease Deadlier Than Bulles By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON, Jan. 25-When General Mar-. shall delivered his private report on the war to President Roosevelt and congressional leaders last week, he disclosed the Belgian winter forced thousands of American soldiers into hospitals--- not because of wounds, but from pneumonia, flu, and trench foot. These ailments, resulting from over-expos- ure and feet in mud and water for daiys at a time, perhaps have taken more men out of the front line than bullets. The situation also has resulted in complaints that the Army has failed to supply adequate clothing. Actually, records of the Quartermaster Corps indicate that plenty of clothing has been sent to France. However, many soldiers discard surplus clothing during battle only to regret it later. Also, men in advance positions sometimes get cut off and left in rain and snowstorms where they suffer severely no matter how much clothing they have on. It is admitted the standard government issue shoe probably is not adequate for the incessant, never-ending mud of the Western Front, and can't compare with the water- proof, felt-lined, heavy leather boot the Rus- sians have developed for winter fighting. These warm boots have been one reason why the Russian Army always have been able to out- walk, out-travel, and out-fight any enemy in the winter-time. Suggestion to lend-lease officials: why not get a million Russian boots on reverse lend-lease from the Soviet Government in exchange for air- planes, tanks, and guns we have been sending them? Another Statier Diuter .. . HOST FAMOUS dinner of the election cam- paign was that given by the Teamsters Union at the Statler Hotel in honor of the President, following which two naval officers in the Statler lobby engaged in a brawl with dinner guests who wore Roosevelt buttons. It didn't make the same headlines, but an- other dinner took place in the Statler recently also attended by President Roosevelt,' this one given by the radio broadcasters. This time Jack Benny, not Dan Tobin, was toastmaster. This time Army and Navy officers were present, not in the hotel lobby but at the dinner table. They were General Marshall, General Ar- nold, and Admiral King. And as they were introduced to the guests, President Roosevelt suddenly asked for the microphone and an- nounced to the entire banquet hal: "The guests may feel quite secure as they leave the hotel tonight. Your hosts have shown good judgment in choosing their military guests," FDR's Elephant Memory* THOUGH the President made his obligation to Henry Wallace, the official pretext for re- questing Jesse Jones' resignation, the inside fact is that Jones was out anyway. To close friends, F. D. R. has never made any secret of this ever since the Texas Demo- cratic Convention where Jesse Jones' nephew plotted to steal the vote in the electoral col- lege. Even in his conversations with Jesse- such few as there were-the President made no effort to conceal his feelings. Jesse saw the handwriting on the wall, and knew his political goose was cooked. At the last cabi- net meeting Friday, even before he got F.DR.'s letter, Jesse shook hands with everyone, even said good-bye to the White House Secretariat. One of the interesting little details of the Texas situation which leaked back to the Presi- dent, was a plan to put Jesse's nephew, George Butler, in the Austin State House as Governor of Texas. Lt. Gov. John Lee Smith was to give way on the ticket to Butler, and then Gov. Coke Stevenson was to resign, permitting But- ler to become governor. Lt. Gov. Smith actually sent a telegram of resignation to the Dallas Democratic Conven- tion. By that time, however, the Jones-Butler move had been defeated and Smith's telegram, addressed to oil lobbyist Wallace Hawkins, was never made known to the convention. F. D. R. may have a line-up of Democratic donkeys on his desk, but he has an elephant's memory. As early as last summer he deter- mined that Jesse Jones would never sit in his 4th term cabinet. When Wallace asked for the Commerce Department, he knew the job was open. Capital Cha f R EPUBLICAN Congressman Ham Andrews of New York, in conferring with the President and other congressional leaders regarding manpower, advised there would be only 4 to 5 votes in the entire Military Affairs Committee for the May bill unless the provisions for military compulsion were removed. The adoption of the Kildhay Am- endment, providing civilian penalties for those failing to work, bore out his advice. . . . Andrews and a good many other congressmen contend neither the Army nor Navy wants any 4-Fs On Second Thought By RAY DIXON POKER playing is not supposed to be nice on Sunday, but Kampus Kapers is still looking forward to a full house. *y * ** West is west and east is east, but never the twain shall transport Nazi troops between them if the aircorps has anything to say about it. as limited service men; also that it isn't fair to the many patriotic 4-Fs to put them in labor bat- talions when they are already working in war plants. Mayor La Guardia has told President Roose- velt he wantsto go to Italy after all. FTlorello had shied away from Italian duty in recent weeks, but now seems to think he can do a job there in connection with the rehabilita- tion of a new Italian government. .. . CO's Phil Murray has abandoned plans to attend the World Labor Conference in London next month. He will remain in Washington to keep an eye on the "work or fight" legislation. Tom Clark, able Assistant Attorney General who will prosecute the two Nazi saboteurs at Governors Island, N. Y., next week, is deter- mined to get the death penalty. Homer Cummings, venerable, astute ex-At- torney General, is being urged as the compro- mise choice as Senator from Connecticut to fill the seat of the late Senator Francis Maloney. Cummings is a Democrat and Gov. Baldwin who does the appointing is a Republican. How- ever, Baldwin must appoint with the consent of the Democratic legislature, and both sides like Cummings. Only trouble is that Cum- mings doesn't want to become a Senator. After years in public life he says he has had enough. (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Rsi an Offensive 'y SAMUEL GRAFTON NEW YORK, Jan. 25--The great Russian offen- sive has many meanings. One is that the problem of how to "stop Russia in eastern Eu- rope" has become obsolete. This problem has been a favorite of many American and British minds for a generation. Some of our journalists have been able to make their livings out of just that and the gold standard alone. But the march of the Russian armies has obliterated the problem of how to "stop Russia in eastern Europe." The problem no longer exists, or, rather it is no longer a reasonable problem; and problems have to be reasonable, too, as well as solutions. Any publicist tempted to retire to his study and fiddle further with the problem of how to "stop Russia in eastern Europe" would do better to devote his talents to finding the Northwest Passage, or the elixur of life, or to any other of that long list of ancient problems which died before they were solved. The question of our re- lations with Russia no longer has meaning if it is set up in the narrow form of how to "stop" Russia; it must be translated to the higher level of how to live with Russia and how to get along with her. In that form, the problem does have meaning; it is real, and it is solvable. The Russian offensive tells us that we have to get used to this higher conception. He have to get used to the idea of Russia in a new way; we have to come to accept Russia as a fact, just as Britain once had to come to accept Amer- ica as a fact. The offensive tells us that the problem of how to "stop Russia in eastern Europe" is Hit- ler's problem alone, and should be left to him; he has devoted his life to it, and is dying with it, and history has never taught a plainer lesson. The time has come for us to move on to richer and more meaningful conceptions. But it is hard to give up an old problem; a problem is sometimes as convenient a thing to have as a solution; it gives one something to do, and the appearance of purpose in life. I may have been moved to these reflections by the meeting of the Republican National Committee in Indianapolis. The Committee voted to put the Republican party organiza- tion on an active, permanent all-year-around basis in Washington, with staff, library, etc., Mnstead of just hiring some offices during a campaign. But what is the purpose of this sudden height- ening of organizational activity? It is, ac- cording to the program officially and unani- mously adopted, to "show more clearly the fal- lacies of New Deal doctrines," and to "ferret out the waste, extravagance and bungling of the New Deal agencies," etc. To me there is something infinitely pathetic in seeing the Republican party formally address itself to those narrow objectives, in the thir- teenth year of the New Deal, in Roosevelt's fourth term, and in a winter when the whole world is pregnant with change. The New Deal "problem" is now so old that it is no longer a problem; the Republicans might just as well try to wipe out Cleveland's first administration as to attempt to efface Roosevelt's first three. The G. 0. P. recognizes this truth itself dur- ing actual presidential campaigns, in the last two of which its candidates have been compelled to praise much New Deal doctrine, and to admit that a great quantity of it has been integrated into American life. Why go back, between cam- paigns, and try lonesomely to do what one no longer dares to do during campaigns? Perhaps it was the fact that the Republicans met during the great offensive, but uttered not a single word about it, or about its meaning for the world, that gave me the feeling that the party has become too attached to Roosevelt, almost too fond of him, almost as if it makes its living from him. It hates to give its little burden up, in a world ringing with the chal- lenge to constructive enterprises and new en- deavors. (Copyright, 1945, New York Post Syndicate) Nurses Object S a member of the nursing pro- fession, I think my expression of protest against the bandying around that, is being. handed this group of professional personnel deserves a hearing. When a minister entreats with his flock to contact all of their nurse friends in order to awaken these nurses to their moral duty of enlisting in the army, not only does it make the intellectual func- tioning of that individual question- able, but it decidedly casts asper- sions upon any congregation. When such a message is allowed to go out over the air under the guise of a "recruitment effort," it promotes an antagonism that hinders rather than stimulates action. This crucial army and navy nurs- ing shortage has been of relatively, short standing, and I feel that it was not until the President's recent re- port on the state of the nation, that the critical need for nurses was brought out. It has not been the threat of a draft that has filled the nurse recruiting offices these past two! weeks. It has been the nurses' re- sponse to a known need-this re-I sponse activated by an inherent rec- ognition of moral duty! Public opinion and public pressure can only be successfully utilized if well directed. Disastrous results are bound to occur when hysteria is at1 the basis of action. Clear thinking is essential in working out the best program. whereby nurses will be ac- cepted or assigned for military or home front duty in accordance with the greatest contribution they can! make by reason of background and experience. To strip hospitals of essential per- sonnel or to strip the community of those nurses who are leaders in the fight against disease, will cause a set- back equal to any major military defeat. We must get the nurses needed for military service! But let us use the far-sighted method and curb these "childish recruiting ef- forts" that out of ignorance can precipitate a major defeat . -Patricia Chut Van1 usen . . i- KEEP MOVING ANN FAGAN GINGER YOU can depend upon it: when the Southern Democrats and conser- vative Republicans say Henry A. Wal- lace doesn't know anything about commerce and therefore they will not confirm his nomination for Secretary of the department, they're talking through their hats. If he were really as dumb as they make him out to be, they would be voting for him, on the assumption that he would listen re- spectfully to their advice. No, they're not afraid of his stupidity, but of his wisdom, and the fact that his view of United States' commercial rela- tions may be slightly different from their own. Among the Indian troops sent by the British to fight against the EAM-ELAS forces in Salonika, Greece, there was neither "passive resistance" nor the feeling that "theirs was not to reason why." Very simply, and in orderly man- ner, the troops declined to fire against the side they considered in We Pleae IN THE TRADITION of Japanese politeness, perhaps, Premier Koiso intimates that he is grateful for our 13-29 raids on Tokyo. Says he, "They heighten the fighting spirit of the Japanese and strengthen the unity of the nation." That being so, we certainly can't allow the Nips to outdo us in cour- tesy. It they like our bombs, we will just have to keep pouring 'em on. -Chicago Daily News the right. Instead they co-operated with the Greek patriots. Let those who question the sin- cerity and courage of the Indian people in their struggles for free- dom from the British Empire take notice. Secretary of State Stettinius is do- ing a good job in remodeling the State Department and bringing it into closer touch with the oter gov- ernmental departments and the people's will. In line with the Atlan- tic Charter, the Big Three Confer- ence declarations, the approaching conclusion of the European War, the daily increasing understanding on the part of the peoples of the Allied na- tions as to what fascism is and how it acts, we hope that the new Secre- tary thoroughly reconsiders our re- lations with Fascist Franco of Spain, and then breaks them. 1 The anti-Russians are having a terrible time. First they wanted to know why the Red Army wasn't mov- ing faster during the German coun- ter-attacks at Christmas-time on the Western Front. And now they can't ! see how our armies are going to get to Berlin before those persistent Reds! If the student body is capable of putting on a good Kampus Kapers show, (and that it is, will be obvi- ous on Sunday to All who are doubtful), then the student body is certainly also caIable of putting on a Spring Parley to discuss our part in the world. If we know how to satisfy our fancies with tap dancing and song, we surely can do likewise by filling our heads with good talk. 3; i 0 S - DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN THURSDAY, JAN. 25, 1945 VOL. LV, No. 6"7 Pubiication in the Daily Omflelal Hol- letis is constructive notice to all mem- hers cf the University. Notices for the Bulletin should he sent in typewritten farm to the Assistant to the President, 16251 Anigell Hall, by 3:1,0 pi}~r. of (he day preceding putblication (11=36 a= in. Sat- urdays). Notices NDOUBTEDLY others of those who had the rare privilege of hearing Dean Henry P. Van Dusen, president of Union Theological Semi- nary, Monday night at Lydia Mendel- ssohn Theatre were as disappointed as To Members of the Faculty, Col- I when they read the report of it in lege of Literature, Science and the Tuesday's Daily. T should like to Arts: There will be another special recall briefly a few of the things Dr. meeting of the Faculty of the College Van Dusen really emphasized: of Literature, Science, and the Arts "It is the destiny of Christian at 4:10 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 29, in youth today to live out their lives Rm. 1025 Angell Hall, to continue dynamically, rejoicing in their tasks the discussion of the Combined Re- of meeting and conquering the prob- port of the Curriculum Committee lems of the world. and the Committee on Concentration "The status of the American and Group Requirements. A large Church today is the exception to the attendance is desired. Church's new status in the rest of the - - the East Engineering Building. All persons interested are cordially in- vited to attend. Geometry Seminar: Today at 4:15 in Rm. 3001 Angell Hall. Mr. Erdos will make some remarks on questions previously discussed and Mr. Wil- liams will speak on 'our-dimensionia Geometry. Tea at 4. Dr. Lawrence Preuss of the State Department will discuss the Dum- barton Oaks Proposals at an informal meeting this afternoon at 4:15 in Rm. 1025, Angell Hall. All students and members of the faculty are cor- dially invited. Alpha Phi Omega service fratern- ity will hold a special meeting today in the Michigan Union at 7:30 p.m. The purpose of this meeting is to nominate candidates for officers dur- ing the coming semester. All mem- bers are requested to be present. A. J. Muste, leader of the Fellow- ship of Reconciliation, will speak at Lane Hall at 7:30 p.m. on aspects of the world situation as viewed from the standpoint of reconciliation and achievement of a permanent peace. He is being sponsored by the campus Fellowship group. Thp Regular Thursday Evening Record Concert will be held in the Men's Lounge of Rackham Building. The program will feature Diveri- mento by Mozart, Archduke Trio by Beethoven, Variations Symphoniques by Franck, and Two Songs for Alto by Brahms. All Graduate Students are cordially invited to attend this concert which will begin at 7:45 p.m. The Leadership Training Course for girls interested in working with Girl Scout troops will have two more meetings. These will be held today and Feb. 1, in the Girl Scout Office, 303 South Main St. Corning Events t world. We alone here in the United States still criticize the Christian Church as decadent. People were saying it was weak and reactionary in Europe before the war, too, but when war came all other human in- stitutions fell sooner or later (higher education, the press, politics, indivi- dual writers) but the Church con- tinued to oppose fascism and con- tinues today with new vigor while other institutions crumble. "The living philosophy of the WSCF is summed up in the words Inclusiveness and Incisiveness. When applied to their fullest extent, these ideas are inseparable, and mean Christian fellowship and service to students everywhere, unmindful of skin, faith, or nationality. The Fed- eration has been the most inclusive of all, the most progressive of all inter- national student organizations in the world for thirty years. Christian stu- dents everywhere are peerless pio- neers in all new movement for social advancement. After an extensive tour of American colleges and univer- sities a purely secular Russian high official recently confessed that the most alive students on U. S. cam- puses are Christian students. The WSCF was the only international body to live through the First World War, and it was the first to reorgan- ize afterwards. What the soul is to the body, Christians and the Christ- ian movement are to the world. They are what hold the world together." For the 500-odd active Christian students on campus his words are a challenge and inspiration. As the time for the World Student Service Fund drive approaches, may we recall our own comforts and privileges as unbeleagued university students in free America, and give liberally for fellow students in devastated and desolate countries throughout the world. -Gale Potee, '45 By Crockett Johnson: Notice to Men Students: Men stu- dents living in approved rooming houses who intend to move to differ- ent quarters for the Spring Term or who expect to leave the University at the end of this Term, must give no- tice in writing to the Dean of Stu- dents before' 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 3. Feb. 24 is the official closing date for the Fall Term. Application Forms for Fellowships and Scholarships in the Graduate School of the University for the year 1945-1946 may now be obtained from the Office of the Graduate School. All blanks must be returned to that Office by Feb. 15 in order to receive consideration. Lectures French Lecture: Dr. Francois Du- valier, from Haiti, will give the third of the French Lectures sponsored by the Cercle Francais today at 4:10 in Rm. D, Alumni Memorial Hall. The title of the lecture is: "La Cul- ture Haitienne." The lecture is open to the general public. All servicemen are admitted !'free ofchge E Concerts The University of Michigan Sym- lphony Orchestra, Gilbert Ross, Act- ing Conductor, will be heard in a program of compositions by Haydn, Wagner, and Beethoven, at 8:30 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 28, in Lydia Mendels- sohn Theatre. The public is cordially invited. Exhibition, College of Architecture and Design: Twenty Lithographs, by prominent artists, loaned through th e Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Ground floor corridor, Architecture Building. Open daily I to ii, except Sunday, through Jan. _,9 Th ~e pulblic is invited. 4 Geological Journal Club: Meeting in Rms. 4065 and 4054. Natural Sci- ence Bldg., on Friday, Jan. 26 at 12:15 p.m. Program: Dr. Robert H. Hatt on "Paricutin volcano (Mexico) in the summer 1944." All interested are cordially invited to attend. Dr. Kenneth G. Nance, of the De- partment of Speech, will lecture on "The Big Five and the Little Fifty" on the Dumbarton Oaks Week pro- gram at the International Center on Friday. Jan. 26, at 7:30 p.m. The Post-War Council is sponsor- ing an evening of movies on the war effort both within our country and with our fighting forces overseas Fri- day evening at 7:30 in the Rackham Amphitheatre. All those interested are invited to attend. There will be dual Sabbath Eve Services at the B'nai Brith Hillel Foundation, on Friday evening, Jan. +7G - r, 4A.- - e IY«~ . tlHY: .Y[-111 Y -4 4 " x BARNABY So Mr. Cott hired Sables O'Ryan's gang to 4 Catt has been arrested? Fine. That winds it fI was telling the Lieutenant