PAGE TVO THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, NOV. 7, PAGE TWG TUESPAY, NOV. ~, i Ao 0 i, vAIUn 1a j Fifty-Fifth Year F. D. R.'S RECORD: PFreparations f4or War o~eter6to the 6cttor of] of Edited and managed by students of the University Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control Student Publications. Editor al Sta Evelyn Phillips stan Wallace Ray Dixon Hank Mantho Dave Loewenberg Mavis Kennedy . . Managing Editor City Editor Associate Editor * Sports Editor . . Associate Sports Editor . . Women's Editor . Business Staff Lee Amer Barbara Chadwick June Pomering T elep Business Manager Associate Business Mgr. Associate Business Mgr. hone 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- riblication of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second-class mail matter. oubscriptions during the regular school year by car- rier, $4.5, by mail, $5.25. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1943-44 NIGHT EDITOR: ARTHUR J. KRAFT Editorials published in The Michigan Dally are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. HOI1E RULE CLAUSE: Amnendment Number ROPOSAL NO. 4, the so-called Wayne County Home Rule Arendment, or similar amend- ments have been on the ballot about as long as the younger generation can remember. Previous attempts to have the proposal ac- cepted by the electorate have failed mainly be- cause of the organized resistance of office holders, together with the apathy of the public. Wayne County, through Proposal No. 4, is attempting to rid itself of the patronage, cor- uption, and graft, of an obsolete local govern- ment. The basic structure of Wayne's govern- ment has not changed since the 1820's. Since that time Detroit has grown into a great met- ropolis including 80 percent of the county's population. Today, municipal and county gov- ernment must be streamlined if this unwhole- some situation is to be eliminated. Briefly and simply the proposal will ac- complish this by means of the following: () empowering a commission to re-write the county's charter; (2) making possible a re- duction of the county board of supervisors from an 84 to a 21-man body; and creating the office of a county chief executive. Thie move to reduce -the number of super- visors would give Detroit, with 80 percent of the population, a maximum of 66 percent of the votes on the board. This refutes the charge of the proposal's opponents that Detroit would gain dictatorial, undemocratic power over smaller communities in Wayne County. The proposal, in no way will China's Politics T HE ANNOUNCEMENT that the two highest American officials in China are coming home has released a flood of doubt, mistrust and deep suspicion toward the Chiang Kai-Shek government. A clash of personalities with the generalissimo has been attributed to the recall of General Stilwell while Ambassador Gauss has been reported to have resigned from his State Department duties. It probably comes as a shocking surprise to most of the American public to find that China is not regarded as a great, heroic democratic and firmly united country among many U. S. officials in Washington and news correspond- ents in the Asia theatre. Following a two-year assignment in China, Associated Pressman Tho- burn Wiant has written from London that the "Kuomintang Party regime, headed by Chiang, has been-and is-more concerned with the inevitable civil war against the 80 million Chi- nese Communists than in the struggle against Japan. Apparently the generalissimo figured the Americans would do the job for him even- tually and he could hoard most of his resources for the civil war. "What also may sound strange to the Ameri- can people is that democracy does not exist in China. There is probably no more effective dictatorship than that of the Kuomintang Party. There is no freedom of speech; or of press; or of much of anything else. There are secret police, concentration camps and firing squads for those who dare to speak, or write, or act out of turn. There also are ingenious means of applying 'do-it-or-else" pressure." In an effort to aid China, former WPB Chair- man Nelson and a group of experts in war in- dustries are headed for Chungking this week. The meeting of the central executive com- mittee of the Kuomintang Party is scheduled for mid-November and it is up to Chiang and Editors Note: The following communication was sub- mitted for publication by Professor Emeritus William 1. Hobbs. IT HAS BEEN charged by Republican leaders that President Roosevelt utterly failed to prepare the country for the war which broke out in Europe nearly seven years after his inau- guration and in which after another two years we ourselves became engaged. Throughout these years, Republican leaders both in and out of Congress had been asserting that the war could not touch us.. Governor Dewey in his campaign for the presidency has reiterated the charge that Mr. Roosevelt failed to prepare the country for the war. The first line of our defense has always been the navy, and under the successive administrations of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover the navy had, through neglect, arrived at an all-time low. During this twelve-year period new construction had been only 13,800 tons, thirteen cruisers and nine submarines. an average of one cruiser and one submarine each year. Within a period about one-fourth as long, or until the middle of Mr. Roosevelt's first term, there had been authorized on his initiative and against strong Republican opposition in both houses of Congress, a hitherto unprecedented program of new :naval construction-five and a half times that of the twelve preceding years. It represented no less than 644,600 tons and was made up of six super-battleships, each of 35,000 tons, three aircraft carriers, twenty-five cruisers, ninety-seven destroyers and thirty-nine sub- marines. All of these vessels were either built or building when Japan's treacherous attack was launched at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. It is due entirely to the early passage of this act and to the vigorous prosecution of the construction that the new super-battleships Washington and North Carolina were already in commission some months efore Pearl Harobr Four reshuffle governments of small communities. County executive forms of government are neither new nor untried. They have been used successfully in New York, California, Tenne- ssee, Montana, and Virginia., In seeking per- mission to modernize its government, Wayne County is not taking the lead, it is merely fol- lowing good examples elsewhere. It is time for the voters of Michigan to adopt this progressive measure. It is time for tail to stop wagging the dog. It is time for the people of Detroit to have a fair voice in their own county government. -Bob Goldman Double Talk NOT ONLY is there double talk on the part of the Presidential candidate, but also in the entire United States. In one breath the United States maintained that seats in the executive council of a proposed world air authority should be available to Russia if she wants them, and in the next sen- tence stated that nonetheless the Soviet Union had been deleted from her program for desirable air routes. This was shown Saturday in a list of 20 routes submitted to the International Civil Aviation Conference. Russia refused to attend the conference be- cause of the presence of representatives of Spain, Portugal, and Switzerland at the con- ference table. Countries which she maintained had practiced pro-fascism toward her Union. Could it be that the United States reversed its council because Russia refused to attend the conference? It seems impossible that one of the leading nations of the world, and a nation that supposedly is fighting for a lasting peace, could abandon its policies just to spite another nation. To add insult to injury the members of the conference revised the draft to show additional stops in Spain, the Netherlands, and Romania. The Netherlands, yes, but Spain and Romania, after Russia protested, is too much to expect of anyone in Russia or in the United States to accept. -Aggie Miller Enigmatic AMERICAN and Soviet big-wigs are deadlocked over a proposal to grant authoritative power. to the new Allied inland European transport organization now being formulated. The crisis arose yesterday when the American delegation in London proposed that the organ- ization's executive board have power to dic- tate its decisions to smaller nations without their approval. Soviet representatives insisted that the smaller nations have the right to make their own decisions. Obviously the Russian proposal is the more democratic of the two. .Nevertheless seven out of eight of the small nations represented voted for the American proposal. We're puzzled.d-Liz Knapp ! Three of the four sister battleships were nearing completion, and as the dates of their probable commission were kept secret (three of them, the South Dakota, Massachusetts and Indiana. were ready only a few months later), we can the better understand why Japan made no at- tempt to follow up her success. The Washington and North Carolina alone outweighed in power all the ships which Japan temporarily put out of action. This, President Roosevelt's first great program of naval ship construction, liad been authorized in 1935 in spite of the depression that had been "dumped into his lap" by the Hoover admini- stration and had culminated in the nation-wide bank failures just before he entered the White House. Because of it even the usual appropria- tions for government departments had had t(; be cut to the bone, and enormous sums approp- riated for public works which would provide jobs for those out of employment. Yet even this seeming handicap in providing our defense the President had been able to use in building up the Navy. How it was done is best told by the Secretary of the Navy in his annual report which covers Mr. Roosevelt's first year as President. Mr. Swanson reported: N ADDITION to the opportunity of chosing the next President of the' United States and other political leaders, voters in Michigan on No- vember 7 have the chance, in cast- ing their vote on Amendment No. 4; to let Wayne County modernize its administrative structure. Function- ing at present- with a county board larger than many state legislaturesl and lacking any leadership possessed of power to guide its deliberations and expedite decisions, Wayne County has for years muddled along without muddling through. Scandals in Wayne County ockea the state a few years ago, when grand jury investigations exposed graft an~d corruption with the result that the county prosecutor, the county sher- iff, two members of the county board of auditors and numerous minor of- ficials were removed and imprisoned. Such scandals the county board prov- ed unable to prevent, nor is there yet any executive with whom respon- sibility to prevent repetition of such, a situation has beep lodged.! Wayne County, with about two- fifths of the population of the en- tire state and far more than that share of essential, wartime indu- stry, is forced to get along with a regime fixed more than one hun- dred years ago when all counties in the state were predominantly rural and agricultural. Now it will be possible, if enough Michigan voters mark "Yes" on Am- endment No. 4, for Wayne County to make changes in accord with the times and its urban, industrial needs:I specifically, to re-organize its county t __- l* government. The Amendment itself is only an enabling act to give the residents of Wayne the opportunity to reorganize. It will then be free k to have its own charter commission, which can, if it so decides, aeplace the present, unwieldy county board with a small body, elected on a non- partisan ballot, apportioned equitab- ly to the population of the county. At the present time, one township in Wayne County with only about one thousand inhabitants gets one rep-' resentative all to itself, while De- troit residents are represented in a ratio of one representative to every thirty-six thousand residents. More- over, Proposition No. 4 would permit Wayne County to have an executive head, either mayor or manager, in the sense that all good government, good business and good labor prac- tices today have executive manage- ment to carry out the mandates of their organizations, instead of let- ting the democratic process run into the ground for want of responsible leadership. 0PPOSITION to this amendment ,on the part of the usually for- ward-looking and liberal PAC-CIO is to be regretted now by those who for years have fought for this measure in the teeth of reactionaryout-state forces. Their opposition surely. wall be regretted in the future oy the PAC-CIO voters themselves if they defeat it and subsequently see their only reason for retaining the present set-up vanish: i. e., the current, par- tisan control of Wayne County. If the PAC-CIO wants its mete and right influence to be exerted in DAILY OFFICIAL] BULLETIN Wayne County, where its members bulk large in the population, then it should be far-sighted enough lo pre- fer a modern system under responsi- ble direction with representation ac- corded to the number of residents; an administration that can quickly reflect coming trends in economic and social life in this area. For labor to oppose this amendment simply be- cause it includes among its support- ers a certain number of business men is to overlook other sources from which the amendment stems-the lifelong specialists on public affairs who make governmental practices their profession. Such men devised the amendment in the first place, and for labor to withhold its vote be- cause business has seen the light would be similar to labor's with- holding its vote from Roosevelt be- cause Nelson has come out in favor of him. A "Yes" vote on Amendment No. 4, in favor of Wayne County Hone Rule, is not auyes vote for special interests-labor, big busi- ness, Republicans or Democrats, Roosevelt or Dewey. It is a Mi- chigan matter, of particular im- portance to Washtenaw Coijnty's next door neighbor--Wayne. A "Yes" vote on Amendment No. 4 is only giving our next door neigh- bor a chance to build a modern house on up-to-date lines of ad- ministrative architeeture. Labor has nothing to lose in voting "Yes" but much to lose if in voting no it perpetuates a framework so ar- chaic and undemocratic that labor loses its voice. -Olga Marshall THE OUTSTANDING event of the year for the Navy was the allocation of funds from the National Industrial Recovery Act by the President for the purpose of constructing and equipping thirty-two naval vessels. The Presi- dent's action goes far to alleviate the serious condition of our private shipbuilding industry which on July 1 was practically without work. The President's action also starts a building program designed to prevent further weakening of our naval strength." It was this timely rescue of the shipbuilding industry which alone made possible the near- miracle of rapid ship-building, both naval and commercial, which was to follow. In 1934 the Vinson-Trammel Act had been passed, which authorized the replacement of overage naval vessels, and Secretary Swanson was able in his anneal report of 1936 to refer significantly to the "unparalleled renaissance of American naval building during the admini- stration of PresidentRoosevelt." Even the naval construction program put through from 1933 to 1935 now seems small beside the one of 1940 for the "two-ocean navy." Together they have made us for the first time in history the un- disputed "mistress of the seas," as well as mis- tress of the air, likewise accomplished entirely on the President's initiative. At least four vitally important defense measures, each of them on the initiative of Mr. Roosevelt, have at critical times perhaps saved not alone our own nation but the United Nations as well. These have been: 1. Construction of a large part of the new American Navy in advance of Pearl Harbor. 2. The Roosevelt-Churchill arrangement for exchange of 50 overage destroyers for Atlantic bases, which probally saved Britain in her first supreme submarine crisis of the war. 3. The hurried shipment of weapons rushed to Britain from our arsenals after Dunkirk in order to equip the British Home army and ward off a Nazy invasion. Desnatched on fast ships were: 800 new 3.2 inch (18 pound- er) field guns, 75,000 machine guns, 1,000,000 Lee-Enfield rifles (used in World War I but all repaired and in good condition), together with vast supplies of ammunition for each of these classes of weapons. 4. The lend-lease act of 1941, a stroke of genius which solved the most vexing problem of the war-how to carry our aid to our allies. Mr. Stettinius, who made the allocations under the act, has told us that this solution was found by the President, and that without it the war must have been lost. Marshal Stalin has more than once asserted that with- out it the Soviet Union could not have with- stood the Nazi armies. MERRY-GO-ROUND: IGrea t World By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON, NOV. 7-During the cam- paign, Ann Sheridan, having returned from touring the war camps in India and Burma, wired Warner Brothers in Hollywood, with whom she has a long-term contract, asking if she could suspend her contract for about six weeks in order to do some campaigning for Gov- ernor Dewey. She added that she knew War- ner Brothers were for Roosevelt, but she wanted to do some work on the other side. To this Harry Warner wired back, telling her to take the time off she wanted and adding: "Isn't this a wonderful country where you can be for Dewey,-I can be for Roosevelt and we can all be good friends after the election." To which words, this colufrnist would like to say Amen and add that it's an even more won- derful country than most of us realize, because probably no other major nation in the world could weather a wartime election of such im- portance. And now that it's over and we have demon- strated that we can do it, let's all get on with the war. (Copyright, 1944, United Features Syndicate) I I'd Rther Sight By Sam-uel Grafton NEW YORK, NOV. 7-The political campaign just ended gave fur- ther evidence of the rise of inde- pendent political activity in the Unit- ed States. The Political Action Com- mittee was an outstanding instance, and it captured most of the head- lines, because of its usefulness as a campaign issue. But P.A.C. is not an isolated piece of business; P.A.C. is only one item in a general recent trend among Americans toward self- organization for political purposes, outside the purview and beyond the authority of the old-line party or- ganizations. The campaign for Wendell Willkie in 1940 was independently organized. It was thrust upon the Republican party, in a fashion not too unlike that which the P.A.C. has followed. The Willkie Clubs of the previous campaign were another example. In the recent contest, independent Re- publicans continue to behave inde- pendently, in a number of instances, by refusing to endorse the Republi- can candidate, and by moving their support to Mr. Roosevelt. The for- mal Republican organization showed itself to be somehow too narrow to be able to keep many of the Repub- lican independents "in line." Sen- ator Ball and Russell Davenport and Bartley C. Crum and others acted according to their hearts'desire, quite regardless of the suffering thus oc- casioned in the breast of Mr. Werner Schroeder. On the Democratic side, indepen- dent activity first dwarfed, then al- most swallowed the formal Demo- cratic organization. The Wall Street Journal comment- ed wonderingly during the campaign, on the odd fact that the chief radio orators for the President were not Senators, not Governors, not party chairmen, but two independents, . political amateurs both, Mr. Quentin Reynolds and Mr. Orson Welles.. The weakness of the movement, so far, is that it usually allows pro- fessionals to choose the candidates; the independents move in, as best they can, after the nominations have been made. Senator Ball came through for internationalism in Oc- tober, but he made no fight at Chi- cago, in June. the upsurge for Wen- dell Willkie in 1940 shows that it can be otherwise. It seems to me the next trend will be the maintenance of independent organization during the four-year stretch between Presiden- tial elections. There is clearly a groping toward a new and higher level in American political life, and the I've-been-to-ten-conventions" boys are in for a surprise. Some- thing new has been added. Every trend-spotting instinct in me is re- cording it. (Copyright, 1944, N. Y. Post Syndicate) TUESDAY, NOV. 7, 1944 VOL. LV, No. 6 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 Faculty, College of Literature, Sci- ence, and the Arts: There will be a meeting of this Faculty in Rm. 1025, Angell Hall, Nov. 6, 1944 at 4:10 p.m. Notices of this meeting and the proposed agenda and reports have been distributed through campus mail. Edward H. Kraus To All Members of the University Council. . There will be a meeting of the University Council on Monday, November 13, at 4:15 p. m. in the Rackham Amphitheater. S e n a t e members may attend. The program will consist of the following: Approval of the Minutes of March 13, 1944. Report of Nominating Committee on Vice-Chairman and Secretary. Election of Director of Michigan Union. Request for Approval of Faculty Representatives to the Western Con- Terence. Report of the Advisory Committee on the Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information- I. M. Smith, Chairman. Report of the Committee on Co- operation with Education Institu- tions-I. C. Crawford, Chairman. Report of the Counselor to Foreign Students and the Director of the International Center - Esson M. Gale. Report of the Committee on Hon- ors Convocation- J. A. Bursley, Chairman. Report of the Committee on Stu- dent Conduct-J. A. Bursley, Chair- man. Report of the Committee on Stu- dent Affairs-J. A. Bursley, Chair- man. Subjects offered by members of the Council. Reports of Standing Committees: Educational Policies-L. L. Watkins Student Relations--C. H. Stocking (Four Reports) Public Relations-H. M. Dorr Plant and Equipment-J. H. Cissel Announcement of Chairmen of the Four Standing Committees of the Council for 1944-45. Thanksgiving Day: Thursday, Nov. 23, is a University holiday. All Uni- versity activities will be resumed on Friday, Nov. 24. Issuance of Keys: On and after Nov. 15th the Key Office at the Buildings and Grounds Department will be open between the hours of 1 to 4:30 p.m., Mondays through Fri- days, and from 8 to 12 a.m. Satur- days. To Deans, Directors, Department Heads and Others Responsible for Payrolls: Payrolls for the Fall Term are ready for your approval. Please call at1-,Rm. 9,TUnivrity Hall begin- 'I Technical High School, Newark, N. J., Nov. 24, 1944. There is a very urgent need for civilian chemists, chemical engineers, physicists, and mycologists (both men and women), in the laboratory of the Materials Branch of the Engi- neer Board, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, where development and testing of materials and equipment for the Corps of Engineers is done. State of Michigan Civil Service An- nouncements for Budget Examiner, Salary $230 to $270 per month, and Housekeeper, Salary $120 to $143 per month, have been received in our office. State of Michigan Civil Service Announcements for Laboratory Tech- ician A, B, and C, salary range from $110 to $150 per month, and Boys' Supervisor B, salary range from $125 to $145 per month, have been receiv- ed in our office. Detroit Civil Service Commission announcements for Senior Govern- ment Analyst, salary $4,002 to $4,416, washman, salary $1,932 to $2,064, and Nutritionist, salary $2,282 to $2,547, have been received in our office. The United States Civil Service Commission gives notice that Novem- ber 20, 1944, will be the closing date for acceptance of applications for Apprentice Dietitian, $1,752 a year, and Staff Dietitian $2,190 a year. Applications must be filed with the United States Civil Service Commis- sion, Washington 25, D. C., not later than that date. Anyone interested may receive further information by calling at the Bureau, 201 Mason Hall. Orientation Advisers: Please pick up enough assembly booklets to dis- tribute to each girl in your group at your meeting to, discuss assembly and panhellenic organizations. Book- lets should be obtained between 2:00 and 5:30 p. m., Thursday, November 9 in the new assembly office (Kala- mazoo room) in the League. Mortar Board: Will meet at 5:00 p. m. Wednesday, November 8. Any- one who cannot attend should con- tact Bette Willemin at 21528. Fraternity Rushing. Anyone wish- ing to register for fraternity rush- ing may do so by coming to the In- terfraternity Council offie, 306 Mi- chigan Union, Wednesday through Friday from 3:00 to 5:00 p. m. Academic Notices Mathematics: There will be a meeting of those who are interested in seminars which have not been organized in mathematics so far on Wednesday, Nov. 8, at 4:15 p.m. in Rm. 3011, Angell Hall. 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. Biological Chemistry Seminar for the fall term will be held at 4:15 p.m. on Wednesdays, in Rm. 319 West Medical Building. The first meeting will be held on Nov. 8. "Hypervita- minosis A" will be discussed. All interested are invited. Engineering Aptitude Tests: All 'first-term civilian Engineering fresh- men will meet in Rackham Lecture =011 n+.Q n replr .. Thl.~davmn.. 4 SI 4' 4: 4 BARNABY 111-6 Quiet, O'Malley. My watch shows ifs nearly 1929!. . . Tock tick. Tock tick... It's January, 1930! Hush!... New Year's Eve-lt IS 1929! t's December, 1929!. .. Novembers Hold tight, everybody! Here we go! By Crockett Johnson Who cares about the election now? Stocks are up 50 billion points!