T1HE MICHIGAN~ DAILY SUNDAY Fi fty=F f th Year WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUNl: GOP Leans Toward Jones taie KEEP MOVING w "4 ,i roc 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 Dave Loewenberg Mavis Kennedy Editorial Stafff . . . . . Managing Editor . . . . City Editor * . . . Associate Editor . . . . . Sports Editor . . . Associate Sports Editor . . .Women's Editor Business Stafff e Amer. rbar Chadwick ne Pomering Telephone Business Manager Associate Business Mgr. Associate Business Mgr. 23-24-1 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: ARTHUR J. KRAFT Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Visionary' O.NE of the most conservative bodies in the Senate, the Commerce Committee, has voted 14 to 5 against the nomination of Henry Wal- lace as Secretary of Commerce for the ostensible reasons that Wallace is a "visionary" and a man without practical ability or experience. Wallace himself has refuted the second argu- ment. In his testimony he reminded the Com- mittee that as Secretary of Agriculture he di- rected more than 12,700,000 separate loans, total- ing more than six billion dollars, that in private life he supervises a profitable company marketing a special type of seed corn which he developed. Secretary of Agriculture for eight years, vice- president of the country for four years, he is no upstart amateur in government. His qualifica- tions are undeniable. This large fuss over the financial abilities of Wallace causes us to wonder whether we want an accountant or a long-range planner and an efficient administrator in the office. The now shopworn epithet "impractical dream- er" has been applied to Henry Wallace ad nauseum by the Committee. This argument is as ridiculous as the argument that he has no ad- ministrative ability. Henry-Wallace is probably the most practical man of our time. He is one of the few men who are brave enough or wise enough to say again and again that we must not return to pre-war ruin- ous fluctuations in the business cycle, unprece- dented but feeble governmental attempts to deal with "overproduction" and standards of living under which one-third of our population had not enough food or clothing. Henry Wallace is far enough ahead of his time to realize that pros- perity in China or Germany or Italy or Bul- garia is closely bound up with 60 million jobs in America, and that the prosperity of all coun- tries is the only guarantee of world peace. He is fearless enough to state that the advocates of "good, old-fashioned Americanism" are the greatest enemies to the security and prosperity of post-war America. Let us admit that Henry Wallace is a vision- ary, that he looks into the next decades and into the next century as few men dare to look. But when we call him "visionary," let us pre- fix the word "practical." His ideals are not empty talk but the starting points for an in- tensely commonsense program to achieve those ideals. He has outlined ways and means of such a program many times, and he reiterated them once more in his testimony before the Com- merce Committee. He has proposed plans- hard-headed plans-to provide 60 million post- war jobs, to promote foreign trade, to establish a "floor" of fifty-seven million postwar jobs, to raise wages and maintain them at an annual guaranteed level, to expand the farm program, to rule out monopolies, to improve housing, health standards, education and the social security system. If Henry Wallace is an impractical dreamer then the United States needs many more im- practical dreamers and needs them badly. Henry Wallace is fast attaining the stature of a hero who personifies all the social and eco- nomic aims toward which we are striving, but a hero singularly without friends, certainly no friends in legislative circles and few vociferous friends among the press or public. The 14 members of the Commerce Committee who cast their votes against him would tell us that he lacks tact. They would not tell us that he is disconcertingly honest that they fear him be- cause they fear a prosperous post-war America. The curious paradox in the thinking of our conservative senators and their powerful friends is that full employment, expansion of interna- tional trade and higher wages would not ruin business or take away legitimate profits, but By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON-For about one year after Pearl Harbor, the members of Congress who rode Jesse Jones hardest for his failure to provide synthetic rubber plants were the Republicans. In various committee meetings they heckled him unmercifully for overriding the recommendation of the National Defense Council and refusing to do anything about rubber. But now the situation is reversed. Appar- ently certain GOP Senators have short mem- ories. It is these same Republicans who are now supporting Jesse Jones in their fight against Henry Wallace. For instance, GOP Senator Owen Brewster of Maine is leaning toward Jesse Jones in the cur- rent fight. But as a member of the committee, Brewster's brilliant cross-examination made Jones look like a monkey. Brewster brought out that Ed Stettinius, then in charge of raw ma- terials for the National Defense Council had re- peatedly urged, implored and demanded that Jones begin synthetic rubber production as early as two years before Pearl Harbor. Brewster even showed Jones up regarding the committee of experts on rubber as recommended by the National Defense Council. Here is a cross- section of Brewster's penetrating cross-examina- tion: Senator Brewster: The report recommended the creation of a committee of experts to pass on these technical questions. Did you create such a committee? Mr. Jones: We consulted freely with the ex- perts of the National Defense Council. Senator Brewster: Now did you have a com- mittee of technical experts or did you not? Mr. Jones: I don't know whether we had a committee of technical experts or not. Senator Brewster: Mr. Jones, that is a very amazing statement: Mr. Jones: I don't think it is amazing at all. Senator Brewster: You don't know whether you had a committee of technical experts or not? Mr. Jones: I don't know what an expert is. Senator Brewster: Well, you know what a conimittee is, don't you? Mr. Jones: Yes. We had a committee. Senator Brewster: You had a committee. And how was that composed? What was it composed of? Mr. Jones: I say we had a committee. We had a great many people working on it. Senator Brewster: I .am seeking to find out whether or not you undertook to constitute any kind of committee to advise you on this program. Mr. Jones: We got all the advice we could get from every source. Senator Brewster: Well, I think, then, we will conclude that you did not constitute a commit- tee. Is that a correct conclusion? Mr. Jones: That is your answer. It isn't mine. Note-Last week Senator Brewster leaned back and smiled benignly as Jesse Jones ap- peared before the Commerce Committee. No embarrassing questions were asked about the subject which still has the American public unable to get tires. Brownell Under Fire . . ALTHOUGH Chairman Herbert Brownell was finally re-elected unanimously, there was more opposition than expected. However, the anti-Brownell forces couldn't unite on a substi- tute, so decided to stick with the man they al- ready had. Former U. S. Senator Arthur E. Nelson of Min- nesota, a strong Stassen backer, was the first to blast Brownell. "We can't function under a man with Wall Street connections who is really in there to promote his own candidate for the presidency," Nelson said. "Brownell represents a defeated candidate. All his actions will be in behalf of Dewey." Nelson then went on to suggest the selection of a midwesterner as national chairman-a mid- westerner from a state with no favorite son to promote. At this, G. Mason Owlett of Pennsylvania jumped to his feet, quipped: The only man who would fit that descrip- tion is Charlie McCarthy's dummy, Mortimer Snerd." One bit of strategy planned at the last minute by GOP bigwigs failed to come off. Brownell de- cided to have Congressman Charlie Halleck of Indiana, chairman of the Republican congres- sional campaign committee, sound off during an afternoon session, with newspapermen present, 4 ONESECOND TTOUGHT... Brilliant Suggestion Department: Maybe the Henry Wallace-Jesse Jones situation should be removed from the jurisdiction of the Senate Commerce Committee and put in the hands of the War Feud Administration. Jones pictures himself as a little business man which obviously puts his Houston news- paper, bank and skyscrapers in the realm of the corner popcorn stand. And by the same "logical" reasoning, Wal- lace's positions as Secretary of Agriculture, head of the Commodity Credit Corporation and Board of Economic Welfare is analogous to that of janitor-at least there's as much dirt involved. against President Roosevelt's nomination of Henry Wallace as Secretary of Commerce. This plan inadvertantly was knocked out by author- politician Clarence Buddington Kelland of Ari- zona who threatened a hot resolution during the afternoon session putting GOP policy-making apparatus in the hands of the Republican execu- tive committee and congressional leaders rather than in the hands of Brownell. Result was, the doors were not thrown open to the press and Halleck's remarks were heard only by a few. One other very important decision reached by Republicans behind closed doors was to make a strong bid for the labor vote in 1946 and 1948. Leaders said they would appeal over the heads of labor bosses for AF of L and CIO rank and file support, and were prepared to invest a. lot of money in the project. After the meeting, Willkie follower Fred Baker of Seattle, who helped plan the strategy of the progressive forces, summed up results of the meeting to one friend in this way: "Wendell Willkie had more control over the Republican party in death than he did in life." To which Ralph Cake remarked that the meeting left the Chicago Tribune crowd in its usual position-"Talking to itself in the cor- ner all alone." (Copyright, 1945, by the ,Beli Syndicate, Inc.) I'D RATHER BE RIGHT : Tear Will Out' By SAMUEL GRAFTON N EW YORK - American conservative opinion is not too impressive at the moment, because it is so palably in a state of fear. The Wallace nomination has been like a flashlight turned upon a sea of frightened faces. The opposition to Mr. Wallace is not merely against him on objective grounds; it is shaking with rage and fear. So much concentrated fear is in itself a fearful spec- tacle. It becomes one of the features of the country, like Boulder Dam; a manifestation worth study in its own right. The vast accumulation of fear in America spills over into any receptacle which can hold it. A bill for a modified form of national service is in- troduced into the House, and immediately, efforts are made to insert an anti-trades union amend- ment. Fear, like murder, will out; the amend- ment is irrelevant and mischievous; its only pos- sible effect must be to delay or block passage of the bill, but those who are afraid of unions can- not resist, and they will record what is in their hearts whether the occasion is appropriate or not. The same tidal wave of fear registered itself in the lavish affection which was piled upon the old Dies Committee; affection offered to it by men who would not have tolerated its slov- enly methods in their own business for a mo- ment. Fear showed itself again when the Dies Com- mittee was reconstituted "about an hour or so after the new Congress met for the present ses- sion; really calm and thoughtful men might have waited a week. BUT it is in the case of Henry Wallace's nom- ination as Secretary of Commerce that our vested fears have really revealed thmselves. Con- servative opinion is really saying that this one, slight, scholarly man could actually ruin the country. It says that this single proposed official, though in a position in which his every act would be subject to the scrutiny of Congress and the press, and though he would have to go to Con- gress for every dollar he wanted to use, would still, somehow, be able to reduce Pittsburgh and Detroit to rubble, halt every railroad, and send tumbling everything we have built in a century and a half. Upon what meat doth this our Henry feed that he is grown so terrifying? Is it actually true that this one man, by virtue of his own decisions, in a relatively subordinate place in government, could "change our economy," could wipe out the fruits of the sweat and work of the hundreds of millions of people that have gone into the making of America? A country so delicately poised as that, between ruin and salvation, would really be in dreadful danger; in danger so great that merely reject- ing Wallace couldn't save it. One suspects that our private enterprise system is sounder than some of its defenders' arguments. Fears which can load to extravagances such as those do have to be put to rest, for the health and happiness of the country. One can understand, and sympathize with, the busi- ness community's agitation over its postwar future. But only a plaV for full employment and stable trade, comparable in scope with some of those now: being discussed in England, can really make these agitations subside. The plain truth is that even if business should suc- ceed in rejecting Wallace, it will still be just as afraid as it was before; it will merely have been comforted for a moment., by the bedtime story of how the good Mr. Jones bested the bad Mr. Wallace. The postwar problem will remain. The great illumination thrust upon us by the Wallace in- cident is that conservative opinion in America is not really trying to end its fears, by constructive proposals; it is merely giving mechanical expres- sion to them. (Copyright, 1945, New York Post Syndicate) By ANN FAGAN GINGER 1 'HERE are many ways of betraying your country: by actually giving information to the enemy, by spread- ing the enemy's doctrines of racialj hatred and breeding disunity, by re- placing the democratic procedure of government by the people with gov- ernment by the elite. There are men who knowingly betray their country's principles, and there are men who sincerelyhbelieve that they are work- ing for the good of the nation. Of whatever variety, (and most belong to the last class), those Senators who are opposing Henry Wallace's nomination as Secretary of Commerce, are betraying the United States, the United Nations, and the permanent peace in the world. This is strong language, and not to be spoken lightly. But this is the only term we can find which is applicable, after looking at the facts. President Roosevelt was re-elected on Nov. 7. The votes cast for him were not only an expression of con- fidence in his personal abilities, but in his policies for conducting the government through the war and into the peace. Yet here we se the anti-Roosevelt Senators trying to force a recount, as if the American peoplethad made a mistake which they, the elected representatives, will gladly irectify. It is not important that Henry Wallace, the man, receive this posi- Dominie Says OUR senior senator in congress re- cently reversed his theory of gov- ernment. He did it with a definite- ness ,which brings admiration. This illustrates two familiar principles. (1) Any ethical result must wait upon slow social, economic, and political movements. The ideal is early, but the practice late and (2) the poli- tician is cultures town cryer. In 1807 the missionaries enroute to the orient, in 1912 our able statesmen at the Hague, in 1919 a president in Versaille and in 1940 one-hundred Jewish, Catholic and Protestant leaders act- ing jointly were saying, "We must make ready to assume our responsi- bilities as a nation in the community of nations." But only in 1947 or 1950 can that happen. Wider world organ- ization was always ethically desirable but that status had to wait upon the economic fact that profits now de- pend on a wider distribution of buy- ing power. The senator's address should live in history as the advent of a new trade epoch. By the religious it should be recorded as the belated acceptance of an ethical trend. This sort of an analysis is often re- jected by religious leaders as a re- pudiation of faith and a denial of spiritual values. Here is where the social Christian and the personal Christian part company. Social Chris- tians see spiritual values in the total life of humanity and accept the so- cial, economic or political manifesta- tions as valid alongside of ethical ones. ;Traditional Christians on the other hand, more quick to defend the extra-human or superhuman forces, fail to identify dynamic factors as found in human life. They attribute the directive process to intervention of the Deity. Social Christians also find in humanity the unity out of which all of thosehforces emerge, while their opponents believe that such observation is not true to fact and therefore is spurious. This is why social Christians are referred to in derision by the traditional believer as being "humanists" or "naturalists." In the main, the social Christian talks reform, lines himself with so- cial movements, struggles to ident- ify his faith with the needs of the oppressed and finds delight in the growing independence of persons. Orthodox Christians, aiming to be directly loyal to the altar or the priestly ministries as well as more alert to scripture as the immediate source of motivation, identifies faith with worship and views hu- man life as flowing in two streams, the one sacred and the other sec- ular. Such believers find their de- light apart from the growing inde- pendence of persons and are apt to preach the meaning of dependence. While they mean a dependence on the Deity their emphasis invariably is used by property holders to just- ify the established order, to per- petuate the servility of the masses, and to retard society in its hard climb from the ideal or ethical starting places to social, economic and political stations on its way to Utopia. An idealist can speak, the language of progress; but the real- ist must punctuate it. Edward W. Blakeman Counselor in Religious Education I tion in this government, either to assure his political future or to pay a political debt. But it is vitally im-I portant that the policies which he stands for, which were upheld by the people in the election, be put into practice in each department of the government, in order that we may build the sort of prosperous post-war America envisioned by every citizen. If Wallace and all the followers of the Economic Bill of Rights, of Dum- barton Oaks, of strengthening United Nations unity, of insuring 60,000,000, post-war jobs were really the ideal- ists they have been called, they would want to have nothing to do with the Commerce Department, and its ma- terialistic concerns with loaning money. It is precisely because Wallace- and the Common Men he repre- sents-is not a dreamer, is not a Utopian idealist, that he is being opposed so vigorously by the same men who oppose every move to plan a peacetime America which includes in its bounties all citizens: workers, farmers, small business- men. Wallace stands for winning the war and building the peace on the same foundations: cooperation among all groups in this country, and among all nations fighting fascism, based on assurance that men's human rights will be real- ized-the right to a job, to a decent house, to equal educational oppor- tunities, to electricity and indoor plumbing, yes, and to a quart of milk for his kids, Cin the post-war world. Defeat of Wallace will mean that the policies adopted by the majority will give way to the narrow, tradi- tional, ill-conceived, plans of the de- feated minority. It will mean that there will be less chance for accep- tance of the President's program: of Missouri Valley Authority, St. Law- rence project, establishment of a Peace Production Board, and work- ing out of the Dumbarton Oaks pro- posals to insure a peaceful future for the world. His defeat can only serve to teach us a lesson: that it is not enough to work and vote on Election Day, but that we must all know what our rep- resentatives are doing every day, and we must constantly inform them of our opinions so that they can cast truly representative votes. But we have had too many chances already to learn this lesson. And too much is .at stake to learn it now. When the soldier vote was bungled, and the anti-poll tax law defeated, and the Dies Committee reincarnated- we should have learned. It is not too late even now to do what peoples all over the world are fighting for the right to do: tell our Senators how to vote on the George Bill and on Wallace's nom- ination. And this isn't a matter just involving you or your friends: it actually involves the lives of your children and their chances for growing up in a calm and produc- tive nation. Michigan senators are Arthur H. Vandenberg and Homer Ferguson. Their address is the Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. It is their duty to listen to their con- stituents, just as it is your duty to let them know your opinions. This is their chance of proving their faith in the future. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN SUNDAY, JAN. 28, 1945 VOL. LV, No. 70 Publication in the Daily Official Bul- 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 Hall, by 3:30 p. m. of the day preceding publication (11:30 a. m. Sat- urdays). Notices To Members of the Faculty, Col- lege of Literature, Science and the Arts: There will be another special meeting of the Faculty of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at 4:10 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 29, in Rm. 1025 Angell Hall, to continue the discussion of the Combined Re- port of the Curriculum Committee and the Committee on Concentration and Group Requirements. A large attendance is desired. 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- ment. See bulletin board outside of Rm. 3209 East 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 the time 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 House Heads: Women students liv- ing in League Houses and converted fraternities have until Monday, Feb. 5, to notify their house heads if they intend to change their residence. Lectures - University Lecture: Dr. Gustav E. von Grunebaum, Professor of Arabic, University of Chicago, will lecture on the subject, "The Arabian Nights and Classical Literature" at 4:15 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 7, in the Rackham Amphitheatre; auspices of the De- partment of 'Oriental Languages and Literatures. The public is cordially invited. Concerts Orchestra Concert: The University of Michigan Symphony .Orchestra, Gilbert Ross, Acting Conductor, will present a concert at 8:30 tonight in Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. The pro- gram will open with Haydn's Sym- phony in D major ("The Clock"), to be followed by Wagner's Siegfried Idyll. It will be concluded by Sym- phony in D major, Op. 36, No. 2, by Beethoven. The general public is invited. Student Recital: Elizabeth Lewis, violinist, will present a recital in par- tial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Music, at 8:30 Tuesday evening, Jan. 30, in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. A- stu- dent of Professor Gilbert Ross, Miss Lewis will play compositions by Pug- nani, Bach, Mozart, and de Falla. The public is cordially invited. Events Today The Congregational-Disciples Guild will meet at the Memorial Christian Church (Disciples) Hill and Tappan, at 5:00 p.m. Following the supper Dr. Preston A. Slosson will speak on "The Religion of an Historian." Miss Bev- erly Paul will lead the worship service. Those coming promptly from Kampus Kapers will be served. The Turkish Student Club of the University of Michigan will play host for the program at the International Center tonight at 7:30. Coming Events Biological Chemistry Seminar will meet on Wednesday, Jan. 31, at 4:15 p.m., in Rm. 319 West Medical Build- ing. "The Relation of Serum Proteins to Immunity - Protein Nutrition as a Factor in Immunity" will be dis- cussed. All interested are invited. Sigma Rho Tau: All members of the Stump Speakers' Society of Sigma Rho Tau are required to be present for the Ensian picture Tuesday, Jan. 30, at 7:30 p.m. in Rms. 319-323 of the Union. Black or dark ties should be worn. The support of non-profit extensions of public utility services will be discussed. New opposing teams will debate upon peacetime military conscription. Michigan Youth for Democratic Action will meet Monday, Jan. 29, at 8 p.m. in the Union, Rm. 302. There will be a discussion on affiliating with the national American Youth for Democracy. All members are I >I Mon.; Mon. Mon. Mon. Mon. Mon. Tues. Tues. Tues.; Tues. Tues. Tues. Tues. at 9-Sat., Feb. 17, 10:30-12:30 at 10-Friday, Feb. 23, 8-10 at 11-Tuesday, Feb. 20, 8-10 at 1--Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2-4 at 2-Monday, Feb. 19, 8-10 at 3-Thursday, Feb. 22, 8-10 at 8-Fri., Feb. 23, 10:30-12:30 at 9-Wed., Feb. 21, 10:30-12:30 at 10-Tu., Feb. 20, 10:30-12:30 at 11-Monday, Feb. 19, 2-4 at 1-Saturday, Feb. 17, 2-4 at 2-Thursday, Feb. 22, 2-4 at 3-Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2-4 D 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. BARNABY Ftby. .urn down that radio. I' thphone. . I 11 it ttR Now I can hear you, John. 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