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Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1943-44 NIGHT EDITOR: PAUL SISLIN Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. MERRY-GO-ROUND: Salary Grabs By DREW PEARSON PAC vs. dies T HE SWAN SONG of the Dies committee on un-American activities is a blanket and as yet unsupported charge that the National Citi- zens Political Action Committee "represents th, Communists' supreme bid for power" in this country. Similar statements have come from other prominent sources. According to the Nazi news- paper, Pariser Zeitung, July 23, "...The CIO- ,AC is under the complete domination of the Communists...fighting...for the re-election of Rloosevelt and the dissemination of Communist ideas," as pointed out by this week's New Re- public. Traditionally the Nazi philosophy finds ac- eusation sufficient cause for conviction; in America conviction or acquittal must be pre- ceded by fair trial. Ignoring the oft-repeated and confident chal- lenge of Sidney Hillman, president of the PAC, to call him in for questioning and to exam- ine any records of the PAC, the Dies com- mittee has delayed the hearing with full know- ledge that with each day of delay they permit newspapers to print and reprint their un- supported charges. Those who want to know the facts can, if they look beyond such sources as the Hearst and Scripps-Howard papers, and other self-proclaim- ed partisan periodicals, find evidence clearing the PAC and Sidney Hillman of charges of communism., THE COMMONWEAL, a leading Catholic week- ly, points out that Hillman carried on an intensive campaign to eliminate Communist elements from his own union, the Amalgamated. It explains in addition that the PAC members, called Communist by the Dies committee, are in reality prominent and quite respectable liber- als. The three ranking members of the Dies committee, Costello, Dies and Starnes, are in a peculiarly irresponsible position. Defeated for re-election in their home states by the efforts of the PAC, these lame-duck con- gressmen are bitter and are blithely painting the PAC a bright red with inferior paint that will not bear close examination. In the light of these facts their efforts should be recognized as the most primitive of ;Iroga- ganda methods, Name-Calling and the Smear Campaign. The intelligent voter rejects these tactics as not worthy of consideration. -Betty Roth Polls of Little Help CAMPAIGN managers for both major political parties are predicting victory next Tuesday by an overwhelming majority. In Michigan, for example, the Democrats forecast a 100,000 majority, while the Republi- cans, on the basis of political history, claim at least 75,000 plurality. Three of four nationwide polls give Presi- dent Roosevelt a slight lead. The fourth, the Gallup Poll, gives Gov. Thomas E. Dewey the edge. - However, all four carefully pointed -out tlat the margins were not conclusive. ?but in spite of Roosevelt's lead in total popu- r vote, it is emphasized that his plurality in veral important states is so narrow that it quite possible for Dewey to capture a ma- WASHINGTON-Congressional secretaries on Capitol Hill are boiling mad over another case of an attempted salary kick-back. This one involves Republican Congressman John But- ler of Buffalo, whose former secretary, Miss Marie Colquist, admits that he asked her to return $1,400 of the salary paid her during the past two years. She states that the Congress- man said he needed this money to help finance his election campaign. Miss Colquist, however, refused. She didn't have $1,400 in the first place and, in the second place, felt that she was entitled to her full salary. Forced to leave, she was then given a job by another Buffalo Congressman, Walter G. And- rews, also a Republican. Mr. Andrews has at- tached no strings to Miss Colquist's salary. NOTE-Congressman Butler also has his daughter-in-law, Mrs.. George Butler, on the Government payroll as a secretary in his office More information has just come to light regarding another Congressman who goes in for salary kick-backs. Representative Ed Rowe of Ohio, who required his secretary, Mrs. Margaret Nelson, to turn back around $110 per month out of her salary for the upkeep of his private office in Akron. It further appears that Congressman Rowe, on receiving requests from some of his con- stituents to do special jobs for them in Washington, referred them to his ampaign manager, a lawyer who charged the constitu- ents a fee, thus getting reimbursed for his campaign services. One of Congressman Rowe's constituents, Burt Vandevier of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, states that, when his boy died in the Navy, the Vet- erans' Administration was slow in paying in- surance, so he went to see his Congressman. Mr. Rowe referred him to an attorney, James Hinton, who had been Rowe's campaign man- ager. After some correspondence with the Veterans' Administration by Rowe, and the preparation of an affidavit by Hinton, the dead boy's insurance was paid. Whereupon Hinton sent the father a bill for $50. When Vandevier complained about this, the fee was adjusted to $25. Mrs. Nelson, former secretary to Rowe, says that the Congressman gave her instructions to refer many constituents to Hinton so that he might be reimbursed for his campaign ex- penses. Navy Interest in Arkansas ... SIDE from the future of its Commander-in- Chief, the Navy Department also has a peculiar interest in this election, especially in Arkansas, which is voting on a State constitu- tional amendment which would ban closed-shop unions. The Navy is not particularly noted as a champion of labor. Moreover, it so happens that it is contemplating construction of a huge plant for making rockets on the Quchita River, near Camden, Arkansas. Rockets are counted on to play a big part in the Pacific war, and the plant is needed in a hurry. However, if the Navy has to worry about violating the technicali- ties of a State law under which certain con-. struction unions cannot or will not work, off i- cials say they will probably put their rocket plant in some other state. The Arkansas amendment, incidentally, is similar to one being voted on in Florida and California, and is being quietly backed by Sen- ator "Pappy" O'Daniel of Texas and Vance Muse, with a lot of Texas oil men and big East- ern industrialist money behind them. Muse is the man who, in 1936, persuaded the du Ponts to shell out several thousand dollars to finance his Southern Committee to uphold the Constitution and its "grass roots" convention at Macon, Ga. Only trouble with the grass rots meeting was that the big-money boys put up all the dough and the real people of the South had little to do with it. Utah Senator Caipaign .. . PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has told advisers that, if there wasn't a war on, one State in which he would have liked to campaign this year is Utah-not because he considers it doubt- ful, but to support his old friend, Senator Elbert Thomas. Thomas, now chairman of the important Sen- ate Education and Labor Committee, has helped pioneer some of Roosevelt's important progres- sive legislation, in addition to being a key mem- ber of the Senate Foreign Relations and Military Affairs Committees. He is being opposed this year by Adam S. Bennion, leading Mormon utility lawyer with the backing of the reactionary hierarchy of the Mormon Church. Real head of the church today is Reuben Clark, a strong Hoover man whom Hoover appointed U. S. Ambassador to Mexico. Clark is doing everything possible to elect Bennion. The White House has received word that Thomas is in for a close race but, according to latest reports, he will be re-elected. NOTE-Senator Thomas, a former Mormon missionary in Japan, is one of the few people in the capital who speak Japanese. Each week during the war, he has broadcast to Japan, urging surrender. (Copyright, 1944, United Features Syndicate) IJeiiri to the 6cbt TO ALL MICHIGAN STUDENTS: Tuesday, Nov. 7, is not very far away. Tuesday, Nov. 7, is not just another election day, but rather one of the most significant dates in American history. Why significant, you - say. After all, you're not eligible to vote anyway. Or else you are going to vote for Mr. Roosevelt or Mr. Dewey and. then sit calmly back and observe election returns and continue on the daily routine. It is not so important whether you vote or not, whether you vote for Mr. Roosevelt or Mr. Dewey. The important thing to be aware of is that an election is being held in the United States in the middle of the most trying time in all history. Look at the other great democracies engaged in this war and see what has happened to the right kind of a free choice. France can not and will not have an election until her prison- ers are returned from Germany. In England the life of Parliament, and thus of the Chur- chill government, has been extended for the duration. Only in the United States are the people availed of a chance to inaugurate a new administration, or to express their confidence in the existing government. Y1OU MAY SAY that we have an election every four years, and naturally we should have one this year, war or no war. But it would be very possible to pass over this election on the grounds that any change in government would severely set back the war program, which was the argu- ment used in England. In answer I say that the American people and their opinion prevent any continuation in office without election. Our democracy is so strong, and the people have such faith in democratic traditions that an elec- tion is not only possible, but it actually strength- ens the nation. Regardless of which side wins the election, democracy is the true victor. Whether you vote or not, ask yourself how many of the great nations are strong enough internally to hold a wartime election. Only America has that power. Tuesday, Nov. 7, should be ample proof of the strength of our democracy. -Don Shepard I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: GOP Congress By SAMUEL GRAFTON NEW YORK-One election argument runs to the effect that there are likely to be a num- ber of isolationists in Congress; that most of these are Republicans; that therefore Mr. Dewey should be elected, because these men would be more likely to work with him, as a matter of party loyalty, than with Mr. Roosevelt. To offer to give isolationists the President they want is certainly a remarkable proposal for getting rid of isolationism in American life. This is a plan to destroy isolation by feeding. it to death; to stuff it with political fruit cake and honey buns. The idea is that we ought to reward those Americans who were wrong about the Hit- ler menace, and wrong about the Japanese men- ace, by giving them a veto power over the na- tional choice as to who is to be the next Presi- dent. Here the Congressional problem becomes really complicated. In the first place, we have Mr. Dewey working for the election of a num- ber of isolationists. Then he turns around and announces that the presence of a number of isolationists in the Senate will constitute a problem, and that the only way to solve the problem is to elect him, too. But he is helping to make the problem he offers to solve. THE INCUMBENT senior Senator for the State of New York is Robert F. Wagner, Democrat. Senator Wagner is a seasoned internationalist; he has been a friend of world peace, since the beginning of the present crisis. Yet against Senator Wagner, the Republican organization has nominated, and Governor Dew- ey fully supports, one Thomas J. Curran. The New York Times has remarked tartly that Mr. Curran's "views on the whole broad question of foreign policy were completely unknown on the day that he was nominated." Mr. Curran can be elected only if Mr. Dewey is elected. He is a routine party worker, with not much appeal; he is almost unknown to the people of New York, and he either rides iii on Mr. Dewey's coat-tails, or he doesn't ride. So here again, the question of which candidate the Congress would be more likely to work with is complicated by the fact that Mr. Dewey is working hard for the election of a somewhat worse Congress than the present. When we re- member how much help Mr. Dewey's candidacy gives to the election prospects of such Senatorial aspirants as Capehart of Indiana, and Hicken- looper of Iowa, both rather uncertain workers in the vineyard of world peace, we might say that Mr. Dewey is not the answer to the problem of how to get the Congress to work for world peace; Mr. Dewey ,is the problem. He is working hard for the election of the kind of Congress which, he says, will require very delicate handling, if we are to have world peace. In other words, he offers us both the ailment and the cure, all wrapped up in one neat -package. There must be a shorter road to glory than that. (Copyright, 1944, New York Post Syndicate) (Continued from Page 2) permission of the Committee on Stu- dent Affairs. VII. 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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. k Men's Glee Club: A first get-to- gether sing, smoker and tryouts for new members will be held at the Glee Club Rooms, third floor, Michigan Union, Sunday, Nov. 5, at 4:30 p.m. All men on campus including fresh- men and all men in service are welcome. General Library Hours: Until fur- ther notice, the General Library will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily, except Sunday. Sundays hours will be 2 to 9 p.m. Over-night books may be returned without penalty until 9 a.m. daily. Lectures Season Tickets for the University of Michigan Lecture Course are now on sale at the box office, Hill Audi- torium. The schedule of lectures is' as follows: Nov. 16, Hon. Francis B. Sa-yre, "Our Relations with the Phil- ippines"; Nov. 22, Hon. Carl J. Ham- bro, "How To Win the Peace"; Nov. 30, Lillian Gish, "From Hollywood to Broadway"; Dec. 12, Osa Johnson, "The Solomons", with color motion pictures; Jan. 11, Mme. Wei, "China After the War"; Jan. 23, Eliot Jane- way, "New Horizons for Democracy"; Feb. 6, Ruth Draper, "Character Sketches"; March 15, Joe Fisher, "Land of the Maharajahs", with color motion pictures. The box office is open daily (except Saturday after- noon and Sunday) from 10-1 and 2-5. Academic Notices To All Male Students in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: By action of the Board of Regents, DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN -t all male students in residence in this College must elect Physical Educa- tion for Men. This action has been effective since June, 1943, and will continue for the duration of the war. Students may be excused from taking the course by (1) The Uni- versity Health Service, (2) The Dean of the College or by his representa- tive, (3) The Director of Physical Education and Athletics. Petitions for exemption by stu- dents in this College should be ad- dressed by freshmen to Professor Arthur Van Duren, Chairman of the Academic Counselors (108 Mason Hall); by all other students to Assis- tant Dean E. A. Walter (1220 Angell Hall.) Except under very extraordinary circumstances no petitions will be considered after the end of the third week of the Fall Term. Students, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: Election cards filed after the end of the first week of the semester may be accepted by the Registrar's Office only if they are approved by Assistant Dean Walter. Graduate Students: Preliminary examinations in French and German for the doctorate will be held on Fri- day, Nov. 10, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Buil- ding. Dictionaries may be -used. English 211 will meet Tuesday at 1:30 in 3217 A.H. English 211f will meet Tuesday at 4 in 3217 A.H. English 31, sec. 4 (MWF, 9), will meet in Rm. D, Alumni Memorial Hall. English 71, see. 1, will meet in 1035 A.H. English 71 sec. 2, will meet in 1009 A.H. History Courses: The following Sections have been added in History:i History 11-Section 12, Tues., Th., 1, "G" HH; Section 13, Mon., Fri., 10, 101 Economics; Section 14, Mon., Fri., 1, "G" HH; Section 15, Tues., Th., 11, 35 Angell Hall; Section 16, Tues., Th., 1, "E" HH. History 41-Sec. 3, Wed., 11, 103 Economics. History 49-Sec. 3, Th., 9, 216 HH. Note new room assignments for the following: History 11-Lee., III, Tues., Th., 9, 231 Angell Hall; Sec. 1, Mon., Fri., 9, 101 Economics; Sec. 9, Mon. and Fri., 9, 216 HH; Sec. 11, Mon., Fri., 11, 216 HH. History 12-Sec. 1, Mon., Fri., .9, "G" HH. History 37-MWF, 10, "D" HH. History 41-Sec. 2, Wed, 9, 229 Angell Hall. History 347; Sat., 10-12, 408 Library. History 50 Omitted. Mathematics 161 will meet Tues- day, Thursday, and Saturday at 8 a.m. in Rm. 204, South Wing. Math. 327: Mathematics 327, Sem- inar in Theoretical Statistics, meet- ing to arrange hours at 3 p.m. Mon- day in 3020 Angell Hall. Spanish 197: This class will meet on Monday, Nov. 6, at 4 p.m. in Rm. 106 Romance Languages Building, to arrange hours of future meetings. N. W. Eddy Seminar in physical chemistry will meet on Monday, Nov. 6 in Rm. 410, Chemistry Building at 4:15 p.m. Pro- fessor R. Samuel of the Illinois Insti- tute of Technology will speak on "Dissociation Spectra of Polyato- mic Molecules." All interested are invited. Concerts Choral Union Concerts: Helen Traubel, distinguished Wagnerian so- prano of the Metropolitan Opera, will open the season in the annual Chopal Union Concert Series, tonight, at 8:30, in Hill Auditorium. She will present a program of songs and arias, and will be assisted by Coenraad Bos at the piano. The public is respectfully requested to come sufficiently early as to be seated on time, since the doors will be closed during numbers. Holders of season tickets are further request- ed to detach coupon No. 1 before leaving home, and present only this coupon for admission. Other concerts to be given in this series are: Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell, Conductor, Sunday, Nov. 12. (this concert will begin at 7 p.m. promptly and will be broadcast nationally and by short wave. Audience must be seated before the opening of the program). Fritz Kreisler, violinist, Friday, Nov. 17. Simon Barere, pianist, Monday, Nov. 27 (Mr. Barere will be heard instead of Josef Lhevinne, previously announced). Carroll Glenn, violinist, Tuesday, Dec. 5. Bnston vmnhnnv Orchestra. Serge Season tickets (10 concerts), tax included: $14.40, $12.00, $9.60 and $7.20; and individual concerts, $3.00, $2.40, $1.80 and $1.20 each. May be purchased at offices of University Musical Society, Burton Memorial Tower. On the night of the concert the box office at Hill Auditorium will open at 7 o'clock. Charles A. Sink, President Events Today Masquerade: Tonight at the USO. Members not admitted after 8:30 Wesley Foundation: Open House at the First Methodist Church to- night beginning at 8:30 o'clock for all Methodist students and their friends. Come over after the concert. Coming Events Michigan Sailing Club: All mem- bers please attend a meeting in the Union Sunday at five o'clock. Junior Research Club: The No- vember meeting will be held Tuesday, Nov. 7, 1944, in the Amphitheatre of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies at 7:30 p.m. Pro- gram: Methods in Electrical Instru- mentation, by Melville B. Stout, De- partment of Electrical Engineering, and Retirement Funds, by Carl H. Fischer, Department of Mathemat- ics. University of Michigan Section of the American Chemical Society: A meeting will be held on Nov. 8, 1944 at 4 p.m. in Rm. 151 of the Chemistry Building. Dr. Charles C. Price of the University of Illinois will speak on "Substitution and Orientation in the Benzene Ring." The public is cor- dially invited. Churches Grace Bible Fellowship: Masonic Temple, 327 South Fourth Avenue. Harold J. DeVries, pastor. 10 a.m., University Bible Class, Ted Groes- beck, leader. 11 a.m., Message by the pastor, "The Marks of the Tomb." 6:30 p.m., Youth Forum. .7:30 p.m., "The Christian and His Pastor." The First Baptist Church: 512 E. Huron. C. H. Loucks, Minister. The Guild House, 502 E. Huron. Satur- day: 7:10, Choir Practice in the church. New members are invited. 8:30, The Roger Williams Guild of- fers "A Hunt." Licenses issued at the Guild House. Barbecue promised. Sunday: 9, "Welcome Breakfast" at the Guild House. Make reserva- tions at 7332. 10, Student Class on "A Guide to Understanding the Bible." 11, Church Worship, Dr. Luther Wesley Smith, preacher.. 5, Roger Williams Guild, "You Are Living-for What?"-Dr. Smith. First Congregational Church: Morning service at 10:45. Sermon by Dr. Parr on "Religion and the Com- monplace." At 5 p.m. Student Guild and servicemen's Hour with supper- and program. Memorial Christian Church (Disci- ples): 10:50 a.m., Morning Worship. The Rev. Frederick Eugene Zendt will speak on "The Fortune of Chris- tianity." 5, Guild Sunday Evening .Hour:Disciple students, servicemen and their friends will'join with Con- gregational students at the Congre- gational Church. A cost supper will be served followed by a program set- ting forth the activities and pro- grams of the Guild for the current semester. The meeting will close by seven o'clock with a brief worship service. First Methodist Church and Wes- ley Foundation: Student Class at 9:30 a.m. Dr. E. W. Blakeman will begin a series of discussions and les- sons on the theme "Understanding Ourselves." Morning Worship Ser- vice at 10:40 o'clock. Dr. James Brett Kenna will preach on "How to Be- lieve in a Victorious Lord." Wesleyan Guild meeting at 5 p.m. Dr. Kenna will be the speaker. Fellowship hour and supper following the meeting. First Presbyterian Church: Wash- tenaw. 9:30 a.m., Church School Young Adult Class. 10:45 a.m., Morn- ing Worship. Sermon by Dr. Lemon "Life Extraordinary." 5 p.m., Pres- byterian Student Guild will have the first of a series of discussions on "What I Believe." Dr. Lemon will speak, "About God." Supper will follow. The First Unitarian Church: State and Huron Streets, Edward H. Red- man, Minister; Miss Janet Wilson, Organist. 10 a.m., Church School session 2 hours for Nursery through High School. Adult Study Group- Dr. Ross Allen, Chairman; Prof. David Owen speaker: "Effects of the Radio on Children." 11 a.m., Service of Worship--Rev. Edward H. Red- a BARNABY I-3 Hello, O'Malley. I'm siding with the Senator on that Education plank .v . .,A ll , .. Must economize. It's 1935 by my watch and the national debt is 28' billion!.. . l :f ni- nr1^1er t;n. r iraarn..n By Crockett Johnson It's all for your own good, son. You'll have to pay that 28 billion ... And we wff 4o. nurl . y,, nso n rt,., Sryr 4 I i i i