V. -TV TTT~A NT D AVTV %KILV* o ' ^t .i i i " ". 1 1 1 T. JUL i T F H 1\ L 'H 1 L 1 *MO.fNDAY, OC. 34.~S, 1944I j JAW._A,& 1 - - _ Fifty-FifthYear WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: John L. Lewis Has Vital Role World War II Veterans Give Blood "t"o m&S '"" ""w"ia."o"S""" T"u.."""o' w~era - Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Evelyn Phillips Stan Wallace Ray Dixon Hank Mantho Mavis Kennedy Editorial Staff ., . . .Managing Editor * . City Editor .Associate Editor * . . . Sports Editor . Women's Editor Business Staff . . Business Manager Telephone 23-24-1 Lee Amer 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, $4.50, by mail, $5.25. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1943-44 NIGHT EDITOR: STAN WALLACE Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staf and represent the views of the writers only. Welcome, Class of '48 Many, many times in the last few years, new students to the University have been told that "this year marks one of the crucial years in the history of the world. As young people entering your college education, it is your duty and obli- gation to face the issue squarely and do a magni- ficent job." And most always the oratory with which those eloquent phrases are delivered makes a deep impression for the moment, the new student is filled with an enthusiasm that would bring forth great effort, and then as the year pro- gresses, interest wanes, and students are "back to normal." "The never before in history" phrase is usually worked to death and as its repetition becomes monotonous, it carries little weight. All well meaning interests on campus extend hearty greetings to the new class each year but always seem to forget that they can't achieve a whole- some, civic minded, attitude by nice sugar coated phrases. The staff of the Daily, your campus news- paper, extends its welcome, yes, but we feel that a greeting this fall carries with it the most important challenge a new college gen- eration has been asked to face. Without recounting in detail the horrors of the war and the bliss we all dream of after hostilities cease, a moment's reflection on the problems of the next ten or fifteen years gives a forceful glimpse of what is to come. It is only realistic to realize that many of the best leaders this nation has produced will not be on hand to help fashion the kind of world for which they have died. We pause, and it is only fitting, for a moment of solemn reverence for those heroic dead, but we know that we must continue to work for the future. We are always moving forward, never backward. Though some have gone, there must be others to take their place. Among you the class of 1948 will be the men and women who will be the leaders of this nation and the world in 1958. Among you and the rest of the college youth in the nation will be found our future senators and congressmen, our great doctors and lawyers. But over and above these technical and pro- fessional people and infinitely more important as a unit are the mass of the people, those so commonly referred to as the common people, "the little ones." In our nation the ultimate source of all power is with them, Mr. and Mrs. Average Citizen. Their wishes and their hopes will prevail. For their decisions to be wise, for their hopes to be realized some amongst them must be intelligent and civic minded. Here then lies the meaning of our "web come." Herein is where each new student embarking upon a college career fits. In all the fun lies this responsibility. To the class of 1948 WELCOME. Evelyn PhillipsT Stan Wallace Ray Dixon Veterans Return According to most recent estimates, there will be approximately 150 honorably discharged war veterans enrolled 'in the University this fall. This makes the University of Michigan one of the first large schools in the nation to have a considerable number of veterans on the cam- By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON, OCT. 29-Many political ob- servers believe that one man and one man alone will have more influence on the final outcome of this election than anyone else in the U. S. A. -and he is not Franklin Roosevelt or Tom Dewey. He is John L. Lewis. Lewis is attempting to control half a million members of his powerful United Mine Workers in the two key coal-mining states of Pennsylva- nia and West Virginia. In the last election, he attempted to do the same for Wendell Willkie, but failed. Willkie confided to friends at the time that he did not know whether Lewis' support did more to helD him or hurt him. But this time Lewis has been more adroit. He did not plunk for Dewey at the last minute, but planned his strategy well in advance at the Cin- cinnati convention of the United Mine Workers. Also, he has an added factor to help him- namely, the national coal strike and the fact that the President took over the mines. In the end, the miners got most of what they wanted, but some of them are still irked. Lewis has been playing up his resentment. Both Pennsylvania and West Virginia went for Roosevelt in 1940. But this year they are reported very close. A few thousand votes one way or the other would carry them for either Dewey or FDR. Dewey's advisers admit privately that in order to win he has to carry both New York and Pennsylvania. At present they are hopeful of carrying New York-though since the Presi- dent's trip through rain-soaked New York City, last Saturday, Republican chances have some- what lessened. I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Little Things Count By SAMUEL GRAFTON NEW YORK, OCT. 29-Last week-end may have been the turning point in the presidential campaign. Mr. Walter Lippman came out in support of Mr. Roosevelt on Saturday. The President toured New York City that day, and in the evening delivered his major foreign policy speech at the Waldorf. Next night, Mr. Russell Davenport, Wendell Willkie's 1940 campaign manager, gave us a strong speech on behalf of the President's re- election. On Monday morning Senator Ball declared for Mr. Roosevelt. There are elements of high drama in this accumulation of events, in this freshening tempo. These are not isolated incidents. One thing is leading to another. This is a story, and a great story. Curious Technique It is the story of the at least partial failure of Mr. Dewey's campaign technique. This has been, by and large, the technique of picking fly-specks out of pepper. Mr. Dewey works small and close, like a watchmaker. But it is an inappropriate method, it is like a watchmaker working on a railroad. Thus Mr. Dewey is forever discovering some tiny flaw, a little mark, a nick in the steel rails, and he is invariably filled with a vast myopic delight at his discovery. But just as he points with pride to it, and claps his hands with joy over what he has found, the midnight express goes roaring safely by, quite disregarding the tiny nick in the rail. Thus in his oratorical Grand Tour of Europe, during his Herald Tribune Forum speech, Mr. Dewey held Romania close to his eye, and found that we had let a Russian Marshal sign the Romanian armistice for us. Of course, the Russians had let Eisenhower sign for them in Italy, but Mr. Dewey disregard- ed that. He had found his scratch, his nick, and he clung to it. Then Mr. Dewey held Germany up close to his eye, and discovered that Mr. Morgenthau had scared the Germans into fighting us. That was all he saw in Germany. United Nations Stand But then at the end, after all this close hand work, if you just looked up and contemplated Europe, there were the United Nations, still standing, and the war still being won, and the midnight express still roaring by, with Mr. Dewey looking down as if he had dropped a dime somewhere. The fault is partly due to Mr. Dewey's mech- anical and almost pathetic dependence on or- ganization, on "staff work," on that little group of ex-newspaper men in the Albany hotel suite who burn the midnight oil and perpetually col- lect smart "points." But you cannot produce insight by factory methods; you cannot manufacture understand- ing on an assembly line. Somewhere in the picture there must be an integrating personal- ity, who can make unity out of diversity, who can actually reduce confusion for us. That is why there is almost a stampede of Willkie Republicans toward Mr. Roosevelt. For regardless of how Mr. Willkie would have voted, those who followed him know that he was a world-maker, not a watch-maker in the wrong job.j (Copyright, 1944, New York Post Syndicate) All this is why so much attention is being paid to Pennsylvania. If John L. Lewis can swing enough of the United Mine Workers, the state probably will go to Dewey. If he can't swing them, Pennsyl- vania will go to Roosevelt. So in this election it won't be "as Maine goes, so goes the nation," but perhaps "as John L. Leis goes, so goes the nation." Robot Bombs Even today few people outside high Army circles know the full scope and ambition of the German High Command regarding robot bombs and Hitler's plan for the destruction of England. It now is established that Hitler began to plan for the robot bombs as early as the sum- mer of 1943, nearly 18 months ago. Apparently he figured that the bombard- ment could bring about the complete anni- hilation of London, be so effective that an. Allied invasion would be prevented. To that end, German airplane production was curtailed and everything was concentrated on robot bombs. One hundred launching platforms were erect- ed along the coast of France near Calais. Each platform was capable of launching two bombs an hour or about 5,000 bombs a day. That the program failed is due only to one thing-the incessant, tireless, dayin-and- day-out rain of Allied bombs. Every time a robot bomb was launched, the Allies discovered the platform and endeavored to bomb it out of existence. Today, the Nazis are still so fanatical regard- ing robot bombs that they are launching them from airplanes at sea. German two-engined Heinckels fly within range of London and let go. Today, only a few robots are hitting London every 24 hours. Hitler, who is getting very short on aviation gasoline, is losing much more for each bomb lost. We may not know the full truth until the end of the war, but many War Department ex- perts believe that the landing in Normandy saved even the United States from a siege of Nazi robot bombing. When American engineers penetrated 15 kilo- meters past Cherbourg, they found a giant rocket bomb launching site covering several square miles, camouflaged and about two-thirds complete. Figuring the slope of the platform and the direction in which it was aimed, engineers estimated that any rocket bombs launched from it would carry far beyond England. Experts don't really believe it possible, but the only alternative target would have been the United States. (Copyright, 1944, United Features Syndicate) War Chest Drive First all-campus drive to aid a war-worthy cause, the annual War Chest campaign, began last week and ends this Saturday. The University goal this year has been set at $23,000. Only $10,000 has been collected thus far. The majority of the remaining $13,000 must be contributed by students dur- ing the coming week. Publicity given the campaign in newspapers and magazines all over the nation during the month of October has educated most of us to the needs which the War Chest fulfills. The campaign takes place only once a year and is, in effect, a consolidation of 24 money-collecting drives. These are the supervised agencies through which your War Chest contribution is spent: Ann Arbor Community Fund USO (United Service Organizations) United Seamen's Service War Prisoners Aid American Field Service Allied Jewish campaign American Relief for Czecho-Slovakia American Relief for France American Relief for Italy American Relief for Norway Belgian War Relief Society British War Relief Society Friends of Luxembourg Greek War Relief Philippine War Relief (of the U. S.) Polish War Relief Queen Wilhelmina Fund Refugee Relief Trustees Russian War Relief United China Relief United Lithuanian Relief Fund of America U. S. Committee for the Care of European Children United Yugoslav Relief Fund Combining the drives of all these organiza- tions into one War Chest Campaign is a boon to Americans who want to be sure that they distribute their donations where they will do the most good and where the need is greatest. The War Chest can be trusted to see that funds which they collect reach the right people at the right time and that they are used in Pictured are five veterans of World War II donating blood at the Red Cross Blood Bank. Part of the recently established Veter- ans Organization at the University, the men are, from left to right, Alexander LaMako (on the bed), Bob Lyndh, Leonard Cavanough, Tom Patton and Alvin LaVine. These men have already done their part by serving in the armed ser- vices of our nation but they are ever willing to do more. The Red Cross Blood Bank should be con- sidered an individual responsibil- ity by every student on the*campus, along with many other vital war activities. There can be no ques- tioning the importance of the Blood Bank as the thousands of seriously wounded-can testify. The campus unit will be open the sec- ond Thursday and Friday° of every month at the Women's Athletic Building and you should hold one of those days open for your contri- bution to the Red Cross Blood Bank. THIS IS YOUR RESPON- SIBILITY. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN MONDAY, OCT. 30, 1944 VOL. LV, No. 1 All notices for The Daily Official Bul- letin are to be sent to the Office of the Assistant to the President, 1021 Angell Hall, in typewritten form by 3:30 p. m. of the day preceding its publication, except on Saturday when the notices should be submitted by 11:30 a. m. Notices Identification Cards: All students who attended the Summer Term should show their identification cards at the time of registration in Waterman Gymnasium. Automobile Regulation: The Uni- versity Automobile Regulation will become effective at 8 a.m. on Thurs- day morning, Nov. 2. All students who require driving privileges are urged to apply for the same at the Office of the Dean of Students, Rm. 2, Unive'sity Hall, prior to Nov. 2. Eligibility Certificates: Certificates of eligibility for extra-cilrricular ac- tivities can be issued at once by the Office of the Dean of Students if each student will bring with him the latest blueprint or photostat copy of his record. Social Chairmen are reminded that requests for all social events must be filed in the Office of the Dean of Students on the Monday before the event. They must be accompanied by written acceptance from two sets of APPROVED chaperons and in the case of fraternities and sororities, by approval from the financial adviser. Approved chaperons may be 1) par- ents of active members or pledges, 2) professors, associate professors or assistant professors, or 3) couples already approved by the Office of the Dean of Students. A list of the third group may be seen at any time at the Office of the Dean of Stu- dents. Freshman Health Lectures for Men: Fall Term-1944. It is a Uni-, versity requirement that all entering freshmen are required to take, with- out credit, six lectures in community and personal health and to pass an examination on the content of these lectures. Transfer students with freshman standing are also required to take the course unless they have had a similar course elsewhere. These lectures will be given in Rm. 25, Angell Hall at'5 p.m. and repeated at 7:30 p.m. as per the following quired and roll will be taken. Warren E. Forsythe, M.D Director, Health Service Rules governing participation int Public Activities: ."I. Participation in Public Activities: Participation in a public activity is defined as service of any kind on s committee or a publication, in a pub- lic performance or a rehearsal, or it holding office in a class or other student organization. This list is not intended to be exhaustive, but merely is indicative of the character and scope of the activities included. II. Certificate of Eligibility: At the beginning of each semester andtsum- mer session every student shall be conclusively presumed to be ineligi- ble for any public activity until hi eligibility is affirmatively establisheds by obtaining from the Chairman of the Committee on Student Affairs in the Office of the Dean of Stu- dents, a Certificate of Eligibility Participation before the opening o1 the first semester must -be approved as at any other time. Before permitting any students to participate in a public activity (see definition of Participation above). the chairman or manager of such activity shall (a) require each appli- cant to present a certificate of eli- gibility (b) sign his initials on the back of such certificate and (c) file with the Chairman of the Committee on Student Affairs the names of all those who have presented certificates of eligibility and a signed statement to exclude all others from participa- tion. Blanks for the chairmen's lists may be obtained in the Office of the Dean of Students. Certificates of Eligibility for the first semester shall be effective until March 1. ill. Probation and Warning: Students on probation or the warned list are forbidden to participate in any pub- lic activity. IV. Eligibility, First Year: No fresh- man in his first semester of residence may be granted a Certificate of Eli- gibility. A freshman, during his second semester of residence, may be grant- ed a Certificate of Eligibility pro- vided he has completed 15 hours or more of work with (1) at least one mark of A or B and with no mark of less than C, or (2) at least 2% times as many honor points as hours and with no mark of E. (A-4 points, B-3, C-2, D-1, E-0) . Any student in his first semester of residence holding rank above that of freshman may be granted a Cer- tificate of Eligibility if he was admit- ted to the University in good stand- ing. Eligibility, General: In order to receive a Certificate of Eligibility a student must have earned at least 11 hours of academic credit in the pre- ceding semester, or 6 hours of aca- demic credit in the preceding sum- mer session, with an average of at least C, and have at least a C average Dominie Says Jesus thought in terms of the family. He called all men brothers and God, father. TbPhbeatitudes . make humanity a family where the other comes first, the strong bear the infirmities of the weak and there is forgiveness. Gentle virtues, such as humility, forgiveness, meekness and love take the central places. But there are powerful forces necessary to perpetuate a race. The drives: (a) hunger, a vast egotism 1clutching at air, food, wa ,ter to sustain being. (b) There is the herd instinct, a tremendous love of security in the pack, causing the offspring to gang up and by sheer number save itself from extinction. (c) There is reproductionthe determined blind will of the race of every living thing to perpetuate its kind. _ These drives are pushing forward in the child or youth with millions of horsepower. He must act. He is "set on a trigger ready to go- off" says Herrick in "The Thinking Ma- chine." For lack of an ideal~ which can supply direction, grow purpose and bring unity, to utilize these drives, to redeem, to make rational and to spiritualize them--the indi- vidual goes off at random. WX call these random explosions in society mischief, faulty conduct, destructive activity, uncoordinated movement or evil ways. They often result in de- linquent character. This year in Michigan, as in other states, five to ten boys and girls in each 1,000 of the adolescent age will 1appear in court, delinquent, Since it takes aboutten problem children, so-called (which are in reality prob- lem parents or parents who for some reason are unable to mature their own offspring successfully), to de- liver one to the court, it becomes plain that there are 50 to 100 in every 1,000 of our boys and girls who are problem children. This does not mean that they are low in mentality. It may be that their mentality is so far above that of their parents and their teachers that they think too fast for the directing agents, think too readily for their playground, learn too cleverly to be challenged by the group life and the family they, are in. That is, delinquency is as often caused by a family and school lag as by a personal and intellectual lag. What of religion in this situa- tion? It is the function of the ideal to pull forward on the personality where the ideal is made attractive, where there is a lofty adventure wooing the child or youth with a power at least as strong as those several drives which are pushing him from behind, there is a move- ment toward integration, a passing of impulses into sentiments. If these sentiments can be deepened into habits, they will then move on into dispositions. This is the route toward character, constructive purpose and religious personality. Edward W. Blakeman Counselor in Religious Education of the Committee on Student Affairs. VI. Special Students: Special students such a way that our allies reap the greatesta This is our chance suffering as a resultc war of all time. We help if the need was When approached next fighting men and our possible benefit. to aid those who are of the most disastrous would not hesitate to right before our eyes. week by representatives schedule. Lecture No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Please note Day Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Monday Tuesday Date Nov. 6 Nov. 7 Nov. 8 Nov. 9 Nov. 13 Nov. 14. of the War Chest Campaign, let us give gener- ously and let us be thankful, for the privilege of being able to give. Ray Dixon that attendance is re-I BARNABY By Crockett Johnson Well, back to the old conference There's a persistent table, gentlemen . . - Now what's belief that, because But there's no connection. A war is a war. And an election is on- Let's appeal to our opponents' spirit of fair play, gentlemen. _I II i Ii i m