THE MICHIGAN DAILY &IrE &lAan DUII Fifty-Fifth Year WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Britain Has Her Problems THE PENDULUM. Peace Cannot Be Built on H ate 0 Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Stafff Evelyn Phillips dStan 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 By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON, NOV. 9-One of the most im- portant documents bearing on the post-war world will be issued by the British Government in the form of a White Paper. It will be a survey of Britain's financial position and a frank admission that she is bankrupt. The White Paper will tell in detail how British investments throughout the world have been liquidated to naiy for the war and will come to the conclusion that, if the British Empire is to continue free trading, she must have outside help. The alternative to free trade and free com- petition, the White Paper will say, is a system of barter, restricted trade and cartels, such as that practiced by Germany after the last war. Back to Wor k NOW THAT THE excitement of the campaign and the election is over it will become in- creasingly clear that things are continuing pret- ty much the same; we are still at war; we must still work for peace. It is time to forget election differences. This is no time for "I told you so" or discontented statements and lackadaisical effort in our important jobs. A president has been elected and it is our duty as fighting Americans to support the war and peace effort of his administration and that of our representatives in the Congress. We must not turn our eyes, no matter what our political preference toward sowing seeds of dis- content and mistrust in either candidate as has been done, and has always been done, in the political campaigns. Although some of us may have forgotten the real issues that face us during the past few months, it is now time to get back to the more sober tenor of a people at war. It is time for unity and let us not forget that. -Arthur J. Kraft Lee Amer . . Business Manager Barbara Chadwick . . Associate Business Mgr. June Pomering . . Associate Business Mgr. Telephone 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: STAN WALLACE Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NAM vs. Closed Shop Amendment RETURNS are not yet in on the proposed amendment to the constitutions of Florida, Arkansas and California which would outlaw the closed shop, but passed or not, the proposal is significant. Certain groups, led by the National Associa- tion of Manufacturers, are bent on re-establish- ing their dominance of the industrial scene at the expense of labor. In the past decade, labor has made trengen- dous gains. Their right to organize and to bargain collectively has been recognized and disputed by only the few diehards of the Sewell Avery variety. Organized labor under these conditions and with the added impetus of full employment has' reached record strength. These special interest groups Are the first to object to trust, securities and other regulatory legislation on the grounds of their unconstitu- tionality. The question of the constitutionality of the proposal under the due process clause is an important one. It would, in effect, forbid an employer and a union to include in their con- tract a stipulation that employees must join a union as a condition of employment. This would be an abridgment of "liberty of contract" with- out due process of law. More important than the legal aspect is the implication that the closed shop is an unjusti- ied limitation on the freedom of the individual. In the "Little Steel" case, the WLB provided for a maintenance of membership clause, which states that "All employees who, 15 days after the date of the Directive Order, are members of the union . . . and those employees who be- come members, shall during the life of the agreement as a condition of employment remain members of the union in good standing." Since the proposed amendment would also outlaw maintenance of membership, the con- curring opinion of Dr. Frank P. Graham, repre- sentative of the public on WLB, commenting on the justice of the clause is significant. "Membership in any organization neces- sarily imposes restrictions. A free union, like a free society, derives its freedom from the consent of the governed and from subordina- tion of personal rights to the general welfare of all members of the union. Limitations on individual rights are, by the very nature of organized society, the basis of civilization itself. "Some limits on the liberty of workers are self-imposed for larger liberty of the hid.e- pendence, dignity, self-expression and creative cooperation of workers in labor unions through which they have won and are winning a larger share in the economic, social and-spiritual things by which men work and live and for which they hope and dream for themselves and their chil- dren." If the requirement of membership in a union as a condition. of employment is a limitation of individual liberty and thus undemocratic; by the same reasoning our own government is undemocratic. That organized action and unions raise the standards of living of the workers is a recog- nized fact. The costs of this action should be distributed evenly among those benefits, just as is the cost of government, police protection, education and national defense, shared by all the citizens of a nation. Democracy is based on the principle of rule mic weapon of labor, thus making possible the strike-breakers, labor goons, neo-Pinkerton services and unrestricted war of the early '30's with the employers riding high with the aid of the militia, guns, and teargas. --Betty Roth UNIVERSITY students, for the first time in three years, are being asked to take an active part in the homecoming celebrations this weekend. Homecoming weekend, a campus tradition that like most traditions has been dormant since 1941 because of the war. Active partici- pation in the festivities and celebrations this weekend will serve two functions: It will help to revive the pre-war campus spirit; and will also serve to unify the students on campus once more. The Michigan-Illinois game is the main feat- ure on the weekend program. The footbz4l game, plus the Friday night pep-rally at Fer- ry field; dormitory, league house, fraternity and sorority displays and judging; and the dance at the Union Saturday night, which promises to be one of the best dances the Union has had this semester, should assure every student that a good old fashioned college weekend is in store for him. The revival of this tradition can only be a success if all of us shoulder a part of the responsibilities necessary to carry out the plans of the committee. Only with the combined efforts of every stu- dent, can the campus as a whole display to returning alumni, and Illinois patriots, who will be here this week, that in spite of the war, the University of Michigan has a united, enthusi- astic, and faithful student body. Can we do it? It is seldom that we can support wholeheart- edly gay festivities in gvar time. Most always we frown upon them and decline because "it isn't in keeping with the proper spirit." This charge may have been held by some when details for the first University Homecom- ing weekend were announced and such criticism such criticism we feel is unjust. Homecoming was abandoned on campus dur- ing the darkest days of the war and then rightly so. Though we still must view the job ahead sternly, we know that happy people will always do their part better. Since having a Homecoming celebration does not involve extra essential items and since it is a big morale factor in campus life, it de- serves 100 per cent support. The Union has done a fine job in organizing the weekend and the rest is up to the campus. A big crowd at the Pep Rally tomorrow night will do the trick. -Carol Zack INVEST IN VICTORY BUY WAR BONDS & STAMPS International cartels, of course, have been blast- ed publicly by President Roosevelt and one British corporation, Imperial Chemical Indu- stries, already has been prosecuted by the Jus- tice Department on a charge of conspiring with the du Ponts before the war to control the World production of certain chemicals. According to inside word from the diplomatic corps, the publication of Britain's frank survey of her bankrupt financial position will coincide with the secret conferences now taking place here between Lord 'Keynes and U. S. officials regarding the renewal of lend-lease. With the war in Europe nearing a close and with U. S. forces now getting a greater propor- tion of war supplies direct from the United States, British war needs for lend-lease are dwindling. However, the British have pro- posed, in Lord Keynes' private conversations, a new type of post-war lend-lease whereby the British could resell goods to foreign countries in order to re-establish their export trade. Keynes Proposal . . Word leaking from the diplomatic corps is that Lord Keynes now proposes a total lend- lease allotment to Great Britain of six and a half billions for 1945, of which three and a half, billions could be re-exported in British trade. Most of this would be in the form of American raw materials which the British would process into finished goods and then sell. The British do not propose that finished American products be given them for re-export, but only that they get lend-leased raw materials to revive their crippled industries. One proposal is to set uo a new post-war lend-lease court composed of one Britisher and two Americans which would decide which goods could be used for British trading pur- poses. The whole plan will be submitted to Congress probably before Christmas, and promises to be full of controversy. NOTE-General Pat Hurley and Jim Landis, U. . economic administrator in Cairo, both submitted scorching reports on the use of Brit- ish lend-lease in the Near East, claimed it was being used to bolster British trade. Recently, however, Landis has been more satisfied. Army's Pre-Fabricated Bridges.-. One of the great but little known stories of the Western front is the way in which Army engineers got a group of bridge experts together nearly two years ahead of the European inva- sion and designed fabricated sections of bridges which would exactly replace specific bridges in France, Holland and Belgium. Through the European underground, Army engineers were able to get exact measurements of the bridges which they knew would be destroyed by the retreating Nazis. Each part was numbered, and special assembly crews, trained in England, rehearsed the job of put- ting them in place. When the invasion came, these bridges travel- led so close behind our advancing armies that they were frequently ahead of the field kitchens. And on arrival at a destroyed bridge, its re placement was a matter of hours. Cool Witness Before Senators .. . Least ruffled witness before a Congressional committee in a long time was George K. Sim- mons, publisher of the Philadelphia Trade Union News. This is the sheet which first published the story linking Sidney Hillman with a group of New York racketeers, plus the series of pictures which put President and Mrs. Roosevelt, Fanny Perkins and other high Government officials alongside Lepke, Gurrah and various members of Murder, Inc., some of whom have now been elec- tric-chaired. This story was later published in pamphlet form by the Pennsylvania State Republican Committee-which, however, omitted to identify itself as the publisher of the three million copies. Simmons appeared last week before the Sen- ate Campaign Expenditures Committee. Mast- head of his Trade Union News lists E. B. Faunce as "Publisher and Managing Editor." Asked to identify Faunce, Simmons said he was the printshop foreman. Simmons himself is editor -with no editorial staff. Although Simmons published the Hillman story, he did not attempt to check the facts. He did, however, publish a box stating that the editors of the Trade 'Union News had gone to great pains to get the story and give their readers the facts. He admitted, under question- ing by Senator Joe Ball, that this was published "just to impress the readers." Asked the circulation of the paper, Simmons replied, "I told you gentlemen 20,000. Actually, it's about 2,000." Senator Homer Ferguson sharply remarked that Simmons had earlier said "20,000" while under oath. When Ball quizzed him about his staff-or, rather, his lack of staff-Simmons explained that he did not need a staff because the paper prints only labor news, "I see," Ball replied, looking at the screaming headlines linking Hillman with, gangsters. "Nothing sensational." "No, nothing sensational," Simmons grinned back, enjoying the whole situation. (Copyright, 1944, United Features Syndicate) By BERNARD ROSENBERG WE ARE LAYING the superstruc- tures of tomorrow's society on a foundation of hate. And hate can blow us to kingdom come. When the New Republic says that a Carthaginian peace is no peace at all, it gives utterance to the most elementary truth. Carthage was com- pletely destroyed by Caesar's legions -and yet, periodic warfare contin- ued unabated in the West. If eighty million Germans obligingly vaporized into the air and disappeared from this earth today, nothing basic with respect to power politics would be altered-except for the moment. We cannot cure a world-wide dis- ease by getting rid of its victims. Little over a hundred years ago France was the terror of Europe, and at least one English historian re- ferred to what he called the congeni- tal nature of Gallic militarism. We did not exterminate Frenchmen en masse then. In fact we have lived to see France scornfully referred to as decadent because of its pacifistic tendencies. Hate will get the Allies nowhere if it is directed at men instead of at factors that shape and mis- shape men, that cast and re-cast them into what they are. The sublime Spinoza said, "Do not condemn or execrate or criticize, but understand." Never did a time more importunately call for such an attitude. The science of criminology has taught us to treat law breakers curatively instead of punitively. Criminals are not bad, they are sick people. (Clarence Darrow once ob- served, "I may hate the sin, but never the sinner.") Unfortunately. American prisons have not caught up with university textbooks, or uni- versity textbooks with Mr. Darrow Thus, punition is stiil the rule-- and so is crime, at a higher peace- time per capita rate than any- where else in the world. But, at least the principle has burrowed into the consciousness of most people who are willing to recog- nize it theoretically even if they are unwilling to employ it prac- tically. In the international field, and one hopes this is only due to war fever, we do not even seem to have recognition of the principle.L THE "HITLER GANG" is a good name for the National Socialist Party because those who are in it have the same pathological symp- toms that may be observed in any gun-toting underworld character. Dc we condemn or execrate or criticize the inmates of an insane asylum? Not if we use our heads. We cer- tainly condemn paranoia as a terribe illness; we do the same with Nazism However, unless our statesmen are prepared to accept the Nazi premise that sick people should be ruthlessly exterminated, they cannot with a clear conscience sharpen their diplo- matic knives to vivesect Germany Viewed ethically by any objective standard, it is true that the German people, in the grip of a mass psycho- sis, are evil itself. Lidice and Lublin testify to that fact no more than a hundred equally atrocious acts. Thi should scarcely betregarded as perti- nent. What needs to be asked is not. "Are the Germans evil?" Of course they are. The relevant question is. "Why are they evil?" Any effort to affix blame for the present moral collapse of Germany promptly proves its complexity. To cite one example, the German Thyssens are no more blameworthy than the American, French, and English big businessman who went along with the Nazis-seeing in them a bulwark against -Soviet Russia. Again, who is to blame for not having stopped Japanese aggression when it first reared its ghoulish head two years before the fall of Weimar? Exactly what fraction of the onus falls upon our own heads for failing to re-distribute natural resources after World 'War I in such a way as to abolish poverty? Whom shall we curse for the refusal of those willful Senators who by a Constitutional quirk were empowered with the right to destroy collective security by iso- lating America? I know and you know a score ofj similarly embarrassing questions. None of them changes Germany's guilt. All they do is extend that guilt to include every major power. They sinned as we sinned. Germany and Japan are the dregs from the cup of iniquity whose contents we all im- bibed-each in our turn. Nazi-Fas- cism stands as the Frankenstein monster society has created. That we must destroy it or expire ourselves is beyond reasonable dispute. But it is hydra-headed and international. Lopping off one head, in vindictive rage, will only make room for a clus, ter of new ones. The literary critic, Wallace Fowlie, has stated that just as' the Middle Ages were characterized by scholas- ticism and the Renaissance by schol- asticism, so ours is dominated by psycologism. This reads more like a prophecy than an appraisal. If man had used the few rules of psychology he has learned no planetary havoc could be wrought half so monstrous as this one that maddens us now. The frustration-aggression pat- tern is fundamental in war. If we would stop being vengeful and sub- limate some of our hate into the study of frustration, then, possibly, the insects would not replace us as masters of this globe so soon. _.. .. _ -_.._., DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN I THURSDAY, NOV. 9, 1944 VOL. LV, No. 8 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, excep't on. Saturday when the notices should be submitted by 11:30 a. m. Notices .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- ference. 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 Counselortto 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. Fraternity Rushing. Anyone wish- ing to register for fraternity rush- ing may do so by coming to the In- terfraternity Council office, 306 Mi- chigan Union, Wednesday through Friday from 3:00 to 5:00 p. M. Orientation Advisers: Please pick up enough assembly booklets to dis- tribute to each girl in your group at your meeting to discuss assembly andpanhellenictorganizations. Book- lets should be obtained between 2 and 5:30 p.m., today in the new assembly office (Kalamazoo Room) in the League. The Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information: We have received notice from the Division of Teaching Personnel, Cincinnati, O., that they are interested in having applications from teachers in the kindergarten-primary. and physical education fields. Anyone interested may receive further information by calling at the Bureau, 201 Mason Hall. Registration for positions will be held by the University Bureau of Appointments and Occupational In- formation Monday, Nov. 13, at 4 p.m. in Rm. 205 Mason Hall. This regis- tration is for those interested in both teaching and non-teaching positions, including business, professional, gov- ernment service, etc. It is open to seniors, graduate students, and Uni- versity staff members who may be desirous of positions after each of the next three commencement peri- ods. Only one registration is held during the school year and everyone who will be available up to next on the land. At the end of the sea- son, each gardener should clear his plot.' Corn stalks, stubble and dead plants of all kinds should be pulled up and, after the earth has been knocked from their roots, piled in the middle of the plot, so that they may be readily picked up by the garden truck and burned. Stakes should also be pulled from the ground and taken away if the owner wishes to use them again) or piled separately from the rubbish. There need be no hurry in clearing those parts of the gardens that are still productive. Gardeners who do not clear up their plots this fall, as well as those who have not contributed the dollar requested last sPring, will be con- sidered ineligible for further use of this garden area. Academic Notices 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. Mathematics 327 will meet- Tues- day and Thursday at 9 in 3201 Angell Hall. Social Studies 93: Problems of the War and the Post War. This class will hereafter meet in Rm. 25, Angell Hall (south end of basement floor) Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1 p.m. Students in Dr. Hance's Classes: Speech 31, Section 3, MWF 10, and Section 6, MWF 1, and Speech 32, Section 1, MWF 9, will not meet on Friday. Concerts Percival Price, University Carillon- neur, will be heard in a recital' on the Baird Carillon in Burton Memor- ial Tower at 7 this evening. His program will include University of Michigan songs, a group of folk songs, and four compositions written especially for the carillon at Arnhem, Holland, by Frans Althuisen. Events Today John Muehl will lead a new semi- nar in Social Ethics, featuring Ber- trand Russell's What I Believe, this evening. This Association Seminar begins at 7:30 in the Lane Hall Library. Students, servicemen, and faculty are welcome. Graduate Record Concerts at 7:45 p.m. in the Men's Lounge of the G.raduate School will begin again this evening with a program includ- ing the Brahms Double Piano Con- certo, Beethoven's 7th Symphony, and the Don Juan Tone Poem by Richard Strauss. Graduates, ser- vicemen and their guests are cr- dially invited. 'Coiing Events The Ann Arbor Library Club will have its first meeting'of the aca- demic year on Friday, Nov. 10, at 7:45 p.m., in Rm. 110 of the General Library of the University. Dancing class: 7-8 p.m., followed by the regular Friday night dance, 8-12 p.m. Portrait sketching by Mrs. John Bradfield from 2-5 Friday afternoon, U.S.O. Saturday night dance: 8-12. Re- freshments. All servicemen and jun- ior _hOstesses are invited. tS.O. _ 'Ip +c ; t TVA: See Its Record " OU CAN JUDGE by works," David E. Lillienthal has advised the people of the Missouri Valley- the works of the TVA. It is an important suggestion and one wE should heed. TVA's record of experience, it chairman pointed out in his address at Bismarck, N.D., can be a pearl of great price to the Missouri Valley, and at no time more so than now, as the people study the merits of an MVA and weigh the objections being raised to one big plan for one big river. Nearly every one of the objec- tions was hurled at TVA while it was still on the drafting board, and every one dissolved into the dust of a dead issue as the Authority carried out its great creative job. Mr. Lillienthal cited the principal hobgoblins which time and the river laid to rest, One was the invasion of states' rights, although, as the chairman said, "in 11 years TVA has not taken one single power of the states." Some said TVA would be a "superstate"- but in fact it has no power to compel anyone to do anything (save such land condemnation powers as rail- roads and private utilities possess.) Others professed to fear it would dry up local initiative and frustrate local government-but, being in the valley, it was close to the people and more responsive than agencies officed in Washington. -St. Louis Post Dispatch By Crockett Johnson C, I BARNABY Exhausting campaign, wasn't it? So many confusing issues. And- You seemed a Me? Nonsense! Maybe there was a moment or two when I seemed a bit distracted, but- Ir 7 - f . a r f.i ..l- I haven't seen the papers yet. But undoubtedly the returns are exactly what were to be expected as result of your Frirv Gorfther' nrned rk= No, Barnaby. .. I'm still too exhausted. Get me a diverting magazine- -., - -a h