PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1940 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Fortune Survey Shows Growth In Sentiment For Aid To Allies Grin And Bear It.. By Lichry I DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN I I, Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to t or not otherwise credited in thi wpapr. Al ights of republication of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. RESPRENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVEK,.SNG BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MAOISON AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO *BOSTON ' LOS ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1939-40 Editorial Staff Managing Editor .............. Carl Petersen City Editor ............... Norman A. Schorr Associate Editors .......Harry M. Kelsey, Karl Kessler, David I. Zeitlin, Suzanne Potter, Albert P. Blaustein, Chester Bradley Business Staff Business Manager ............ Jane E. Mowers Assistant Manager ........... Irving Guttman NIGHT EDITOR: A. P. BLAUSTEIN Fight Fire With Fire? .. . A A DANGEROUS THOUGHT is creeping into a portion of American thinking. It is the belief that we can only pre- pare ourselves against the possible aggressions of dictators by aping the methods of dictators. Columnist Walter Lippman advocates "an organized collective power of equal force and authority" to the power and force of Hitler. He asks for a national plan "based upon an iron discipline." These words have the ring of to- talitarianism. Radio Commentator Kaltenborn on more than one occasion has ominously hinted at the necessity of tightening up the national life at the expense of liberty as we know liberty. The idea, with varying emphasis, is bruited about on the street, in restaurants and club- rooms. The faulty thinking proceeds along the fol- lowing line: Germany, a relatively poor country, made up for its economic weakness by yielding authority to one man. This man, being the law, proceeded to do away with all democratic rights; he subjected all things to one purpose- military might. This military might is the most powerful yet devised by man. IF WE ARE to be prepared to meet it, these theorists say, we, too, must set aside certain of our liberties, for only by some modified form of dictatorial procedure can we adequately pre- pare to defend ourselves against possible dic-- tatorial aggression. Such thinking is mad and unreal thinking; it is thought which is not thought; it is mental distortion which has its impetus not in the clean reaches of the mind but in midnight fears. The European disaster has in no way lessened the validity of democracy. It has instead only pointed the historical fact, repeated again and again in the world's life story, that somnolent nations always are at a disadvantage before nations of vigorous leadership, whether those latter nations be democracies or dictatorships, or anything between. THE EUROPEAN DISASTER has pointed an- other truth. We now know, beyond reason- able doubt, that modern warfare is machine warfare-and the machine and the mass pro- duction of the machine is one of this nation's outstanding contributions to the modern world. There is no nation in the world so able through natural resources, inventive ingenuity and mass mechanical ability to create engines of war as are we. Must we relinquish our liberties to ac- complish the building of mechanical monsters? Nonsense! Even in the merry, madcap days of the late '20's, we turned out automobiles in quantities amazing to the world. We did that job as a nation giddy with relative luxury, a nation that lived for the moment and pretty generally moist' with bathtub gin. Today, we are a land of sober, serious men and women, a people tried by our own portion of economic adversity, a people keenly aware of the spreading fires of Fascist reaction. WE CAN and will adequately prepare ourselves for any aggression that may be aimed against us. We will be asked to make sacrifices and we will be ready to make sacrifices. We will pay more taxes, we may have to give up certain luxuries. We will have to think harder and, on occasion, work harder. We will do these things because we wish to perpetuate our free, demo- cratic way of life. It is stupid to believe there is much purpose in preparing to defend our- selves against outside dictators if we are first to surrender ourselves to dictators from within. Americans have always worked best, risen to greatest heights, performed most miracu- lously, at the urge of their traditional American spirit. So will we work best in any crisis that NEW YORK, JUNE 26-More than 67 per cent of the American people now favor active aid to the Allies, as compared with only 26.1 per cent last winter, Fortune magazine reveals today in its July issue, which contains a special supplement on the results of a Survey of Pub- lic Opinion conducted since the blitzkrieg swept into France, but before Marshal Petain asked for peace. Other findings in the Survey are: 1.-Of the 67.5 per cent favoring aid to the Allies, 40.6 per cent want to stay out of war; the remaining 26.9 per cent want to go to war on the Allies' side now or later. 2.-Sentiment in favor of extending credit to the Allies has risen to 35.2 per cent from 23.8 per cent in December, but is still far short of a majority. 3.-But a majority believes that if Britain and France run out of cash we should supply it by buying some of their territory on this side of the ocean. 4.-The number of people who think Germany will win the war has increased fivefold during the last nine months. Dec. Survey Yes........... 44.6% No ............39.2% Don't know ... 16.2% England and France run out of cash and want to buy more supplies here, should we pro- vide them with the cash by buying some of their territory on this side of the ocean?" The re- plies were: "This proposal, already favorably regarded last winter, seems to have become a really pop- ular solution," Fortune observes. "By class and occupation and part of the country there are clean majorities in every group, and the dissent- ing votes rise no higher than 29.7 per cent, by geography in the Middle West, and 32 per cent, by occupation, among white-collar workers." Then to determine public opinion on prepared- ness in the U.S., the Fortune Survey asked: "In view of the .present international situation, Pres. Survey 61.4% 22.0% 16.6% <; s £ : a:.}} 4 S f .:1P1 ^: 2 3{ ;> ; > , ";1-' 1 ; , . , C "' '; ~~F~1r '_ 7"4 HERE IS HOW opinion was divided question: "Which of these comes to expressing what you think the U.S. do now?" on the closest should Enter the war at once on the side of the Allies ..... . ...... ........7.7% Help the Allies and go to war only if the Allies seem sure to lose .......19.2% Help the Allies but never enter the war .......................... 40.6% Take no sides................... 26.0 % Help Germany ..................... 0.2% o Don't know ....................... 6.3% "Thus only about a quarter of the nation remaims where fully two-thirds of the nation was last winter: 'take no sides,' " Fortune points out. "Against these are now a slightly larger number favoring war, now or later if necessary--- an increase of 10 per cent. In the middle posi- tion stand 40.6 per cent who favor helping the Allies without going to war. These, of course, include the 8.9 per cent who thought the same last winter, plus, presumably, a large percentage of the old 'take no sides but sell cash-and-carry' vote revealed last winter." AND HERE are the replies to the question: "What do you think the U.S. should do about selling supplies to the nations at war?" Sell only to the Allies, and on credit if necessary ............35.2% Sell only to the Allies, .and only for cash..... ..................23.7% Sell to either side for credit ........ 0.6% Sell to either side for cash .......... 16.7% Sell nothing to any warring nation ..15.1% Don't know.... ....................8.7% "Thus pro-Ally though the nation is as a whole, the people who favored extending credits to the Allies were still a minority of 35.2 per cent," Fortune points out. "But this figure represents a considerable increase over that shown in the December Survey, when only 11.5 per cent favored repeal of the Johnson Act, plus 12.3 per cent who would approve its re- peal 'only if it looks as if the Allies were losing.' No doubt the figure has been increasing faster during recent weeks." T E FORTUNE SURVEY also asked: "If which of the following do you ment should and should not Should Spend whatever is necessary to build up as quickly as pos- sible our army, navy and air force ... .93.6% Set up a nonpoli- tical board of lead- ing men in industry with power to con- trol industrial pro- duction in case we get into war ......68.5% Exempt all indus- tries producing mili- tary necessities from the 40-hour week law in order to speed up production........57.1% Start compulsory military training for all young men be- tween 18 and 20 . .52.6% Form a new Cab- inet made up of both Democrats and Republicans ...... 41.9% think our govern- do now?" Should Don't Not Know 3.1% 3.3% 9.1% 22.4% 26.0% 16.9% 37.9% 9.5% 29.1% 29.0% ^ " cuQN -- (C, .: \ '- Y { t Cti s' , 1 f ;,,y , - ':ti fN " ' F'- i..':. : l .r _ r ¢ ' f b .. i AML ,.q r ,y , "Niadam, we accept!-Nature will counter-attack. has hurled her challenge, but we Oj 154Q. ClItcago Times, Inc. Reg. IBS. Fat. Olt., All Rts. Es,, r ywr .w i i u.rr. rr i Ai ' Ywlrr ' rw ., . ir-rrMrrir qrr M "r i n-- , TbeDEMLYASWNEON WERRY ROUND . .d 4 .i "Thus all five defense proposals are embraced by overwhelming majorities of people who have definite opinions," Fortune points out. "Even compulsory military training is decisively ac- cepted. Of the five proposals the formation of a bi-partisan Cabinet gets the least decisive approval. In general, however, the answers and their distribution show that the U.S. is impressively united in favoring steps for national defense, even some that would not be acceptable if an emergency were not recognized to exist." ON THE QUESTION: "'Regardless of what you hope, which side do you think will win the war in Europe, as it looks now?" the an- swers were: Germany.............. .... . The Allies ........................ Neither .......................... Don't know ...................... 40.1% 30.3% 1.7% 27.9% "The 'don't know' vote remains about the same as it was nine months ago," Fortune states, "but the pessimists, then a handful, have since increased fivefold, and surely events since the first of June have immensely swelled their numbers." The Straight Dope R isl By Himself F VERY now and therf the collossal capacity of the American people to make fools of them- selves in a big way overwhelms this column. Not that we're at all immune or that we think we are. Don't we write a column for the Summer Daily? Don't we have to listen to the dulcet strains of "All the world is watching you, Highland Park Junior High march on." from a slap-happy ed- itor most of the night, while we are doing our feeble best to compose copy which may possibly amuse some of you? Could further proof of our true humility of spirit be adduced? We think not. BUT little items from here and there continue to astound us. For instance just two days ago three enterprising young men somewhere in .New Jersey held up a tavern and departed for other parts in haste. But evidently the Vice- President in charge of Supplies had fallen down on the job and their automobile ran out of gas within five minutes. The three alighted in per- plexity and glanced up and down the street for a source of fuel. None seemed to be near so they walked into the nearest building to telephone a garage. The nearest building was a police station where the three young gentlemen are now in- carcerated awaiting trial. OW maybe that could have happened some- - where else in the world but we doubt it very strongly. Only America in the hapless combin- ation individual enterprise and the machine age could witness such a feat. OR take a little item from Seattle where the county's mail recently contained a check for $1,110,005.00 from one of the city's leading banks. It seemed that one of the bank employees had intended to make a check for five dollars but that the computating machine had somehow gotten away from him. The machine is definitely winning the struggle against the mere mind and tissue which conceived it. In Denver, in the meantime, personality is as- serting itself. Mrs. Flora Miera named her infa nt sn some yeas an by the rather choice '. :. t>,. all night and wouldn't stop. The doctor says they aren't hurting him so now he smokes and doesn't cry atall." lUST what that little story may prove, wherein Lo search for a moral, we hardly dare state. Per- haps it is the tolerance of the great west, perhaps it is the lunacy induced by the mountain moon, perhaps it is the strong will of the male which may not be denied with impunity (visiting school teachers please note). Hitler cannot possibly, hold a world in subjection which contains char- acters like Eugene. IN Savannah on the same day insurance un- derwriters were congratulating themselves on the landing of a fat contract. The Georgia In- surance Agents Assoc. insured not only quail but also the eggs of the quail from a variety of evils including such diverse forces as fire, flood, light- ning, storm, explosion and other unforeseen calamities. "Surely the spirit of American enter- prise cannot be dead when in the very heart of the Bourbon south such individual initiative is forthcoming. Surely the Georgia agents are com- ing close to the status of minor deities who not only mark the fall of the fowl but insure it a- gainst pecuniary loss. The middle west comes through with its share of the comedy. A housewife varnished her kitchen floor in Lincoln, Nebraska, with lubri- cating oil and was perplexed and angered when it failed to dry. What Charlie Chaplin couldn't do with that little inspiration. Man against the universe. The state of nature versus civilization. Farther north in Council Bluffs, Iowa the disap- pointed heirs of a maiden aunt found in the proverbial tea kettle just sixty thousand dollars that nobody even suspected the old lady possess ed. Fifteen thousand of it was in old 1860 gold pieces and the rest in garden variety currency. The heirs announced their plans were uncertain. So are ours and we don't have sixty cents, not counting what we owe the assistant night editor in charge of fountain pen fillings. During the Republican Nation- al Convention in Philadelphia, the Merry-Go-Rounders will di- vide their forces. Robert S. Allen of the columnar team will cover the convention daily, while Drew Pearson will remain in Washington to watch the sizzling international devel- opments. PHILADELPHIA-President Roo- sevelt doesn't know it yet, but the new Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson, came near issuing a tart blast against his ex-chief, Herbert Hoover, just before he entered the Roosevelt Cabinet. The incident is important, because it is the key 'to what is almost sure to be a big issue in the coming pres- idential campaign. Mr. Stimson served for four years as Hoover's Secretary of State, but this did not prevent him from be- coming extremely wrathy when he heard about the talks Hoover was having with certain Republican leaders. Hoover had been pointing out that the Allies were defeated, and that Roosevelt had been staking every- thing on an Allied victory. But now it was no use for the United States to go down with them. So whether the American people liked it or not, Hoover told friends, Hitler was going to rule Europe, and the United States would have to be practical and do business with him. What the country needed was a man in the White House who had not alienated Hitler and who had contacts in Germany. Hoover did not state specifically that he considered himself this man (he lunched with Goering last year). But it was obvious he had himself in mind. These conversations came to the attention of Mr. Stimson and also of Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University and a Repub- lican, but like Stimson a strong be- liever in Roosevelt's foreign policy. They talked about making some statement, but finally decided not to do so. However, this same "appeasement" issue-whether the United States should or should not make friends with Hitler-buzzes through GOP delegations here and is sure to be important in the coming campaign. If Roosevelt runs for a third term, it will be all-important. Hitler And U.S. From diplomatic information it is possible to get a general idea of what the immediate future will bring forth in Europe if Hitler takes Eng- land, as he seems sure to do in the next month. First, he will want to buy U.S. cotton and grain in large quanti'ies -in fact, he will be willing to take most of our surplus-but he will want a huge loan from the United States Government to do it. This will be called reconstruction financ- ing, and it will be tempting bait to farming and business grops. Second, it is more than likely that Hitler will offer to freeze the arma- ments of Europe and the United States on the basis of their present armed strength. This also will be tempting to a Latin America would be open to at-, tack at any time, and the United States would be powerless to pre- vent it. Nevertheless, Hitler's plans would have strong appeal in the United States, especially if accompanied by the usual Nazi propaganda stating that Hitler had only the kindliest ideas about the United States and cherished absoluely no designs for any part of her soil. Note-This was the propaganda Germany dropped from airplanes ona France before the tanks came. It told how France and Germany had no basic quarrel, could live in peace indefinitely. Tafis Silent Manager In a convention featured by many colorful individuals, one of the most unusual is a tall, handsome Worldj War ace who is doing his stuff so effectively behind the scenes that his candidate is sure to have among the largest number of delegates on the first ballots. He is David Sinton Ingalls, Sen- ator Taft's cousin and campaign manager. It is characteristic of him that although he has a public record in many respects much more color- ful than his candidate's, he has as- siduously kept himself in the back- ground. Ingalls has two passions: one, modesty, the other, aviation. Born to wealth as the son of a vice president of the New York Cen- tral Railroad, Ingalls was five years old when he assayed his first flight- without benefit of airplane. He un- dertook this experiment while his nurse wasn't looking, from the limb of a tree. "Watch me fly," he yelled, and leaped. It was a gallant effort, but disastrous. Fifteen years later Dave achieved his ambition. As a Yale student he enlisted in the Air Corps. In six weeks of furious warfare in France he shot down, according to his Army citation, "at least four enemy air- planes and one or more enemy bal- loons." Ingalls returned home with a chest covered with medals and finished his schooling, graduating from Harvard law with honors and in 1925 enter- ing a law firm in Cleveland. Two years later he was elected to the Ohio legislature, later become Assis- tant Secretary of the Navy for air under ,Hoover, and in 1932 ran for Governor of Ohio. But the Rosevelt landslide snowed him under. Ingalls returned to private life until his cousin Bob commandeered him to run his senatorial campaign in 19.36 and now his presidential campaign. Forty-one years old, father of four girls plus a boy, Ingalls, like most flying men, is superstitious. He won't enter a room where there are thir- teen people. Recently he even held up a dinner conference until he could get another person to make fourteen.. Ingalls says he has good reason to fear the number thirteen. There had been thirteen flyers in the war unit to which he was assigned. They thought it was a joke, used to laugh about it, but within two days all thirteen had been shot down and killed. So now if you see Dave knocking wood and whistling, you'll under- stand why. P1aYLv a a H yl rn n (Continued from Page 2) those who have at any time had the following symptoms: sneezing and discharging nose, asthma, urticaria (hives), eczema, gastro-intestinal 4p- sets, headaches, migraine, frequent colds, and food poisoning. It is also recommended for one in whose family any of the above symptoms have ex- isted. If you wish the test made, please call 2-4531 (University Health Ser- vice) for an appointment in the Al- lergy Clinic. Health Service Dental Care: The Health Service is prepared to render some dental attention to Summer School students. For such an ap- pointment it will be necessary to come in the forenoon only. Waterman .(Men's) Gymnasium on the Campus: The building will be open during the Summer Session for exercise and shower baths. Locker fee-50c; towel fee-50c; towel fee is refunded on return of last towel. Secure tickets at cashier's office, south wing, University Hall, Campus. Gymnasium closing hours: Main floor-5:30 p.m.; Building-6:00 p.m. Faculty, School of Education: A luncheon meeting of the summer ses- sion faculty of the School of Edu- cation will be held at the Michigan Union Today at twelve o'clock noon. A full attendance is desired. Phi Delta Kappa will hold the first of its weekly Summer Session lunch- eons today, at 12:10 in the Michigan Union. Dr. Macomber, Professor of Education and Director of the Uni- versity High School at the University of Oregon,,will speak on the subject, "Misconceptions About Progressive Education." Important aspects of Phi Delta Kappa's plans for its sum- mer program will be announced at the luncheon. Lectures in Education Open to the Public: Attention is called to a series of lectures given during the summer session by members of the staff of the School of Education. These lec- tures are to be held in the auditor- ium of the University High School, Monday through Thursday, through- out the eight weeks of the session and are open to the public without fee. The first lecture will be given today. The lecture by Professor Beaumont originally scheduled for June 26 has been postponed to Tuesday, July 4. Fellowship of Reconciliatin will hold its first regular Tuesday meet- ing of the Summer Session at 7:00 tonight at Lane Hall. The discussion will be "Immediate Problems Facing the Pacifist." Summer Session Chorus: Open to all University students. Tuesdays 7 to 8 P.M. School of Music Audi- torium. School of Music Concert: The con- cert by the faculty of the School of Music, scheduled for 8:30 this even- ing has been cancelled. The first concert will be given Tuesday even- ing, July 9. German House tonight, June 25, there will be a meeting of the suni- per German Club at the German House, 1315 Hill Street. A summer program of activities will be an- nounced. All students of German and all those interested in German including faculty members are cor- dially invited to attend this meeting. English 298 will meet in 3227 Angell Hall on Monday and Wednesday at nine o'clock until further notice. Course, 350. American Culture and Institutions: The first meeting of the students electing the course will be held Wednesday, June 26, at 4 p.m. in Room C. Haven Hall. Students in Education: An as- sembly of all students taking work in Education during the summer ses- sion will be held in the auditorium of the University High School Wed- nesday, June 26, at four o'clock. Dean Edmonson will preside and import- ant announcements will be made. All Episcopal students and their friends are cordially invited to tea in Harris Hall (corner of State and Huron) every Wednesday afternoon from four to six. Cercie Francais: An organization meeting will be held Wednesday, June 26th at 8 o'clock at the Foyer Francais, 1414 Washtenaw (near the corner of South University). An ex- ecutive committee will be selected. There will be a talk, group singing of French songs, refreshments. Stu- dents from all departments who are interested in French are cordially in-