THE MICHIGAN DAILY
FRIDAY, NOV
Fifty-Fifth Year
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:
Farming Easier than Columning
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otilng Duty
COLLEGE STUDENTS all over the nation, are
a now organizing to urge all qualified voters
io appear at the polls on Tuesday.
The students of the University of Michigan,
with the exception tof a handful of undergrad-
uates, however, cannot be included among the
several thousand stuents from this country's
Jolleges who are canvassing voters to get them
to the polls.
1 Seven hundred students from Metropolitan
New York colleges have cooperated with the
01O Political Action Committee to get people
to register and to vote.
Squadrons of door-bell ringers, telephone bri-
gades, baby-mindings services for voting moth-
drs, and automobile pick up services, where gas
pationing will permit, have been organized b
students at colleges in the East, West, North,
and South.
Nothing like that has been done here. Stu-
dents parade the campus flashing Roosevelt or
Dewey buttons, which is fine. But none of these
students are going out to get people to vote
in the most crucial election this country has
ever faced.
Everyone knows, or should know, the im-
portance of the election to be held this Tuesday
in every city, town, and municipality in the
country. The outcome of the election can not
be considered the desires of the people, if every
person qualified to vote does not go to the
polls this Tuesday.
In New England, students from Wellesley,.
smith, Radcliffe, and Havard will explore the
countryside in search of the apathetic or lazy
voters. Girls from Smith College will drive
a hay wagon through rural Northampton to pick
up voters and take them to the polls.
In southern Ohio, students from Wilberforce
and Antioch Colleges routed out 500 persons
who would otherwise have passed up their vot-
ing privilege and got them to register on the
last day of registration.
Other students can do it, why can't the stu-
*ents here en masse, bring in the voters on
election day? An hour a day campusing by each
student can't hurt anyone of us.
The PAC and other organizations in Ann
Arbor have pleaded repeatedly for volunteers.
They don't care if you are a Democrat or a
republican, or qualified to vote. Here is an
excellent opportunity for civic minded students
to do their bit for their country.
It is up to every student to see that all
qualified voters are at the polls Tuesday to
elect the next President of this UnitedStates,
-a country now at war, but looking forward
to a lasting peace after hostilities cease.
-Aggie Miller
Homeeoming Day
HIS YEAR the annual Homecoming celebra-
tion has been revived and it is going to be
interesting to see how such a project will succeed
during war time.
A traditional get-together time for alumn
td come to Ann Arbor and renew old school
ties, it has been sorelymissed by those of us
who fee Michigan has lacked a certain sparkle
lately which used to pass for "school-spirit."
Coming, as it does, on Armistice Day, there
will be a definite effort to emphasize the won-
derful job the University is doing to aid in the
By DREW PEARSON
(Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service
with the Army.)
(Editor's Note:-Drew Pearson's column to-
day takes the form of a letter to his sister
Mrs. Gordon Lang at Swarthmore, Pa., after
he had spent some time on his farm in Mary-
land.)
WASHINGTON, NOV. 3-My dear sister: 1
have been out on the farm, where you can
think about a lot of things more important than
politics, and where we have finally finished
bringing in the Lespedeza. You know, Lespedeza
is one of the good things the Japs brought
to this country-an excellent type of hay. I'll
bet this was the latest hay crop ever harvested
in this part of Maryland, and it was all Mr.
Roosevelt's fault.
We got delayed first of all by the new silo.
The only place I could get a silo was in Kala-
mazoo, Mich. They promised to send it in a
hurry, but it didn't come, and didn't come.
Meanwhile, the corn was getting ripe, and I
was cussing out the railroads and the way Mr.
Roosevelt was handling things.
Finally, the silo tiles arrived, but not the silo
hoops. Somehow or other, the bureaucrats
held the hoops out on me for three more weeks,
so we didn't get the silo built until late August,
by which timethe corn was almost bonetdry.
Despite that, we started cutting it. That is,
we tried to start. But by that time, the labor
which had promised to help had gone off to
other jobs.
So I brought part of the office force out
and put them to work in the cornfield. Mrs. P.
drove a truck. Hal Horan of Time Magazine,
who thought he had come down for a vacation,
found himself working two inches off his
waistline. Even his wife cut two acres of corr.
Well, we finally got the corn in the silo, by
which time it was already late for the hay.
Then it rained some more-and kept on rain-
ing. Every time we'd get some hay cut and
all raked, it would rain again. At long last,
however, the hay is in the barn, but now Henry
is going to quit and I have to find a new
dairyman.
Farmer Versus Columnist ...
ALL OF WHICH makes you realize how tough
it is to be a farmer-especially during the
Roosevelt Administration. Tough as it is, how-
ever, I sure would a lot rather be a farmer
than a newspaper columnist at election time.
Sometimes I almost think the British are
right, and that it's cheaper to have a king.
Actually, of course, it's a great tribute to
our democracy that it can pull through all
this name-calling, and it will--even if read-
ers do call a columnist all the names in the
phone book before it's over, and even if
editors, usually most tolerant, do get jittery
and temperamental.
I dropped in to chat with an editor out in
Ponca City, Okla., some time ago. At the time
I went into his office, I considered myself no
amateur critic of Mr. Roosevelt. At least, I
knew that Mr. Roosevelt considered me no ama-
teur. I had watched him close-up for twelve
long years and thought I knew a lot of the
things that were wrong with him.
But before I had talked to that Ponca City
editor for fifteen minutes, I found I didn't
know anything. He knew more about what was
wrong with Roosevelt than all the news.men in
Washington put together. In fact, there wasn't
anything right with him.
Criticism of Administration , . .
LOOKING BACK over the years, I can re-
member a whale of a lot of criticism I have
leveled at the Roosevelt Administration-day-in-
and-day-out exposes, beginning with Jimmy
Roosevelt's insurance deals even before the 1933
inauguration and the kit bag deal just after
the inauguration, exposes whiah sent some lead-
ing Louisiana Democrats to jail until the White
House stopped the prosecution; also how Mr.
Hull was letting airplanes be shipped to Ger-
many in violation of a treaty even in 1938; and
the tragic fumbling of the Spanish Civil War;
the shilly-shallying on scrap iron; Roosev's
long-time refusal to recognize de Gaulle, and
his knuckling under to Churchill on India.
However, it seems to me that one of the
very important things in this election is study-
ing all the qualifications of all the candidates.
We have now had Roosevelt under the most
searching microscope in the world, the Ameri-
can press, for twelve long years. But when
newspapermen try to hold the microscope up
to Dewey, it isn't so easy. Take, for instance,
two illustrations.
When you -ask Dewey's draft board in New
York for the facts regarding his reported
agricultural deferment during the period after
he was District Attorney and before he became
Governor, you run up against a blank wall of
silence. It seems to me that the public is en-
titled to know all such things about any candi-
date as important as one for President of the
United States.
Likewise, when you inquire as to how Governor
Bricker came out of an athletic career in Ohio
State University in 1917 to be suddenly ordained
a minister and an Army chaplain by a little
7The Pendulum
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THERE ARE extra-curricular activities on this
campus besides those generally recognized.
Amorous dalliance is, I suppose, necessary and
natural. But a few nights of the week not
spent gazing into the opalescent eyes of your
lover, or for that matter, poring over musty
text books or sitting in stupefaction at one
of the local movie houses or sipping watery
beer, could also prove valuable.
Freshman presumably are not corrupted
yet. Perhaps they can best energize student
movements that might overwise die of inat-
tention. So listen, kiddies, don't believe what
the stuffy cranks tell you about not being
old enough to deal with serious problems.
You have more chance for unprejudiced reas-
oning today than at any other time in your
life. It is criminal to waste that time by
delay now in fond expectation of some "fu-
ture maturity,"
There is an organization in Ann Arbor known
as the Michigan Youth for Democratic Action.
You will hear the members of this group are
Reds. Some of our leftist brothers may even be
in MYDA. I don't know. I do know that it
is independent and can be welded to any
sort of representative student agency. The
composition of its membership will determine
that. If you are of conservative persuasion and
the group strikes you as being too radical,
the fault is yours for not joining it and chang-
ing things. Students have more than once
protested vehemently against the pro-Roosevelt
editorials in The Daily without availing them-
selves of the opportunity of writing anti-Roose-
velt editorials. But the columns, like the
organization and unlike the fraternities, are
open to everyone.
Never has student interest sunk so low as
this past year. A Post-War Council functions
here. Created in order to present intelligent
discussion, of problems the resolutions of which
will chart our lives for an unpredictable number
of years, this Council has succeeded in cham-
ing only the same circle of individuals into its
precincts week after week. However, if you
are so deeply embroiled in your work, that you
have only an occasional free night, a good
place to spend it is at an Inter-Racial gath-
ering. There is no reason .why everyone in the
University should not become an active parti-
cipant in the Inter-Racial Association. There
has seldom been a more crying need for com-
prehension. The Swedish scholar Gunnar
Myrdal, having made an exhaustive study of
the Negro in America, has concluded that the
basic obscession of Southern Bourbonism is in-
ter-marriage. Last month I spoke to an edu-
cated woman from Texas who could not say a
good word for "Othello" though she had seen
it in the finest presentation of our times on
Broadway because Paul Roveson, a colored man,
was in the lead. Next she said she was from
the south and did not approve of micegination
"Madam," I said, "-temporarily curbing my
anger, "Mr. Robeson's married to a Negress."
No matter, why should he appear in a New
York play production. "Lady," I said, a bit
more curtly, "the role calls for a person with
dark skin." She countered with the suggestion
that a made-up white man might have been
used-so it goes. The Negro, the Mexican, even
the American Indian, the Jew, the Japanese
and Chinese are all persecuted in our land
whether or not they are brothers under the
skin.
If we could take one person who had no
prepossessions and convince him of the need
for improvement in this realm or could dis-
suade a single bigot, we would justify our-
selves as human beings. This is the task of
Inter-Racial Association should undertake in-
stead of bringing together already sympathetic
people and providing them with information
they have already long since possessed.
Awake, ye prisoners of intellectual starvation,
Look around, taste a few cultural delicacies.
Forswear the sensuous for a while. Leave your
tux in mothballs another week. Lay that foot-
ball down, try some mental gymnastics.
-Bernard Rosenberg
church at Mt. Sterling, Ohio, without one single
day of theological training, again you run up
against a blank wall of silence. Governor Brick-
er lists himself in Who's Who as a "first lieu-
tenant, U. S. Army, World War." Maybe there
was a good reason for all this, but you can't
get any explanation as to why Bricker suddenly
deserted law for the ministry, when unmarried,
just at the beginning of the last war.
Well, these are just some of the things that
the people who are fighting this war probably
would like to know-certainly have a right to
know-about the men they are going to vote on
for the highest office in the land.
I started this letter by telling about the
trials and tribulations of farming. But I still
say that farming is easier than columning--
especially during elections, when both edit-
ors and readers bite off your head practically
every day.
Your brother, Drew.
(Copyright, 1944, United Features Syndicate)
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at gram of songs and arias, and will be
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BARNABY
By Crockett Johnson
No, Barnaby. Our meeting's
not over. I stepped out for
a day or so. The Ex-Senator
Publisher Wurst is strong for
Education. Up to the third
grade ..._ But the Ex-Senator
He wants all schools abolished.
Claims they're subversive... An
investigation he headed found
You see, hewas
Sdefeated in the ,,,