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IGHT EDITOR: NORMAN A. SCHORR
Defense Economics:
An Analysis . .
IT IS already being hinted that Con-
gress will be asked to appropri-
ate still more billions for national defense.
War Department sources have indicated a wish
for equipment costing $3,000,000,000 more than
that already authorized, and in addition also,
apparently, to the $4,000,000,000 already author-
ized by the House for a "two-ocean" navy.
No one wishes to economize where economy
would mean inadequate defense. But before
new billions are authorized or appropriated the
public is entitled to a far clearer picture than
it has yet had of how the billions already
appropriated are to be spent. It also has a right
to ask that only as large funds should be ap-
propriated or authorized nos as are necessary
to insure the fullest and most efficient phy-
sical poduction for defense that we can secure
within the next twelve months, before the end
of which time new appropriations can be made
in the light of the situation as it then appears.
TO APPROPRIATE more than this would be
actually harmful. It would complicate our
already grave fiscal problem: putting our na-
ional finances in order is an essential part
of national defense. And it would tend to give
us dangerously false ideas about the state of
our defenses. Big monetary appropriations lead
many people to think that we have equally
big defenses. But defense is not a matter of
monetary appropriations: it is a matter of
actual physical production of planes and ships
and tanks and guns and the training of men.
To put faith in appropriated billions as such
is to mistake the shadow for the substance.
No clear picture whatever exsists in the pub-
lic mind regarding the directions in which the
billions of dollars already appropriated are be-
ing spent. As a result of an attempted analysis
published today the National Economy League
concludes that "confusion still seems the order
of the day in Washington. It is evident from
a review of the figures revealed that we have
a loose-leaf method of adding billions and yet
mibre billions to defense costs with seemingly
no adequate analysis of needs."
T is not merely that the ordinary citizen does
not know how the money appropiated for
defense in the last few weeks is to be spent.
Congress itself does not know: and this refers
not only to the average Congressman but even
to the committee members who recommended
the appropriations. As Representative Collins
of Mississippi said m speaking to General Mar-
shall, Army Chief of Staff, in a committee hear-
ing: "All we can do is to ask you to protect this
money and see that as much of it as possible
goes for the purpose that the American peo-
ple hAve been led to believe it has been appropri-
ated for."
Many of the appropriations, in short, have

been in the nature of blank checks. The picture
remains blurred, since appropriations are made
according to bureaus and departments instead
of according to specific items of expenditure.
The greatest discretion is allowed i nthe pro-
visions for speeding up production and in finan-
cing additional capacity in oveGrnment and
privateplants. Analyzing three recent acts-the
Military Establishment Appropriation Act of
1941, the Navy Department Appropriation Act
of 1941 and the first . Supplemental National
Defense Appropriation Act of 1941-and Con-
gressional hearings and reports on them, the
National Economy League finds that appropri-
ations for these purposes for the fiscal year 1941.
toal about $4,300,700,000, which together with
authorizations for naval vessels, bring the total
of commitments for defense to about $6,000,-
000,000.

WASHINGTON-There was a lot of immediate
jubilation in New Deal circles over the non-
ination of Wendell Willkie on the basis that he
was a power-trust-J. P. Morgan mogul and.
therefore easy to beat. However, sober-minded
reflection from Democratic realists is now the
opposite.
They recognize that whether the GOP bosses
liked him or not, the Republicans have nom-
inated a man who will give Roosevelt or any
other Democratic candidate the fight of his life.
Political "oomph," in their opinion, counts for
more than the power trust handicap, and there
is no getting away from the fact that Willkie.
is the oomph wonder of present-day politics.
All this sharpens the issue of the third term.
More than ever it puts the future of the Demo-
cratic party solely in the hands of one man.
For all the Democratic realists admit that
Franklin Roosevelt is the only man who can win
against Willkie. Cordell Hull would seem a kind-
ly old saint from the early pages of American
history compared with the young political dy-
namo who cleaned up Philadelphia on the fifth
ballot.
FDR Shuns Third Term
Meanwhile, those who have talked to Roose-
velt in recent weeks get the impression that he
definitely and genuinely does not want to run.
The word he gave Colonel Frank Knox-that
Secretary Hull was his candidate-he has also
repeated with monotonous rhythm to many oth-
ers. He has appeared tired and very much dis-
couraged at the way things have been going in
Europe. He has said that he does not see why
it is up to him to carry the burden for the
Democratic Party.
Also, he has made the point that in these
days of encroaching dictatorships, the United
States should avoid making any move which
might appear, even by precedent, to be, a step
toward dictatorship.
So consistent has Roosevelt been in saying
this that one of his close friends, a Supreme
Court Justice, has been telephoning Roosevelt's
friends in New York asking them to urge the
President to run.
Only one deviation from this line of reason-
ing has crept into the President's conversation.
This is the challenge of Hitler. Roosevelt re-
gards the Fuehrer as the greatest menace this
country ever has faced; a challenge to every-
thing the American people stand for; likewise
a challenge to Roosevelt. And he would like to
be in the vanguard of those who eventually down
Hitler.
No Other Democrat
However, there is another situation which is
important. This is the precarious position in
which the Democratic Party finds itself if
Roosevelt does not run. With two weeks to go
before the Chicago convention there is abso-
lutely no other. Democrat built up sufficiently
to take the ball and carry it. The President has
virtually all the delegates pledged to him. The
whole convention will be centered on Roosevelt
and on no other man.
In other words, Roosevelt will have to run
or else it means sure Democratic defeat. Fur-
thermore, if he should back out at the last
minute, a tide of resentment would flood against
him from those who felt he had let them down-
a deluge unequaled since the storm of bitter-
ness against Teddy Roosevelt when he was al-

most nominated in 1916 but proposed Henry
Cabot Lodge instead. The convention refused
to accept Lodge, chose Charles Evans Hughes
and never forgave T. R.
Faced with a similar situation at Chicago,
the Democrats might follow Roosevelt's advice
and nominate Cordell Hull, but against Willkie
they could not elect him.
in other words, it looks as if Roosevelt, whe-
ther he wants to run or not, will have to come
through. So barring the unpredictable, you can
be pretty sure that the candidates you will have
to choose between in November, 1940, are Will-
kie and Roosevelt.
..Note-At least one member of Roosevelt's
cabinet will vote for Willkie if Hull is nominated.
TWo Immigrarnts
On the night before the Immigration Bureau
was transferred from the Labor Department to
the Justice Department, Immigration officials
staged a farewell party with Madame Perkins
as the principal speaker. As Secretary of Labor
she had made no protest against the removal
of the agency from her jurisdiction, but on this
occasion she spoke her mind.
"I am proud of the humane record of the
Bureau," Miss Perkins said. "It has always
been our policy to remember that the immigrant
of today is the citizen of tomorrow. It has been
our policy to make the entry of immigrants at
Ellis Island a friendly and sympathetic welcome.
It is my fervent hope that this will continue to
be the Bureau's policy.
"Some of you have been in the service long
enough to have been on hand when years ago
a tow-haired boy from Denmark went through
Ellis Island as an immigrant seeking oppor-
tunity in our country. That boy realized his
dreams and today William S. Knudsen is pa-
triotically serving his adopted country as a
member of the National Defense Council.
"Some of you have been in the service long
enough to have also been on hand when years
ago a curly-haired boy from Lithuania went
through Ellis Island as an immigrant seeking
opportunity here. That little boy also realized
his dreams and today Sidney Hillman is pa-
triotically serving his adopted country as a
member of the National Defense Council.
"Always remember that our country was
founded, settled and made great by immigrants."
Mai Bag
L. 1., St. Paul-Governor Stassen's charge
that Roosevelt had caused the country to be
unprepared was hardly based upon fact. Ac-
tually, Roosevelt has done a better job of build-
ing up the navy than any other peacetime Pres-
ident. During the first four years of Roosevelt.
the Army got about the same treatment as
under Hoover, but in the last three years army,
appropriations shot up sky high. As a matter
of fact, Roosevelt went even further than Con-
gress and took money out of PWA funds for
the Army and Navy, until Congress inserted a
clause in the PWA bill preventing him from do-
ing this. He was much more defense-minded
than Congress . . . C. K., Syracuse, N. Y.-Con-
trary to previous reports, the Brill Car Manu-
facturing Company, a subsidiary of American
Car and Foundry, is not being investigated by
the Justice Department for keeping new-type
Pullman cars off the market. The investigation
applies to other ,subsidiaries of American ,ar
and Foundry .. .

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DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN

The Straight Dope
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Bulletin are to be sent to the Office
of the Summer Session before 3:30
P.M. of the day preceding its pub-
lication except on Saturday when
the notices should be submitted be-
fore 11:30 A.M.
Linguistic Institute luncheon con-'
ference, today, 12:15 p.m., at the
Michigan Union. Dr. Charles Hockett
will discuss "The Linguistic Approach
To Style."
Summer Session Excursion No. 3
to the Ford River Rouge Plant will
leave today at 12:45 from in
front of Angell Hall. The excursion
ends in Ann Arbor at 5:30 p.m.
Tickets, which may be purchased at
1213 Angell Hall, are $1.25.
All Episcopal Students and their
friends are cordially invited to tea
at Harris Hall (corner of State and
Huron) Wednesday afternoon from
four to six.
There will be a lecture at 4:05 to-
day by George H. Fern-"The
School's Responsibility for Occupa-
tional Adjustment."
Chemistry Lecture: The first in
the series of chemistry lectures will
be given by Prof. Howard B. Lewis
today, July 3, at 4:15 p.m. in the
Amphitheatre of the Rackham bldg.
Subject: Chemistry of the Vitamins.
Pi Lambda Theta Lecture: Dr. M.
Evelyn Dilley, Foreign Language
Consultant in the Curriculum Work-
shop in the School of Education, will
speak on "Pi Lambda Theta and Cit-
izenship," today, July 3, at 7:30, in
the University Elementary School
Library. The lecture is open to the
public.
Due to the unusually large crowd
which has attended the first two
square dancing classes held each
Monday night, students will be re-
quested to present identification
cards before entering the ballroom.
Also, no one will be admitted after
7:45.
Cercle Francais: The second meet-
ing of the Cercle will be held
today at 8 o'clock at the Foyer
Francais, 1414 Washtenaw. Mlle.
Jeanne Rosselet, Directrice of the
Foyer will give a talk entitled "Un
Heros de Jules Romains Louis Bas-
tide." Group singing. Rrefreshments.
Students who are interested may still
join the Cercle.
"The Star Wagon" by Maxwell
Anderson, distinguished American
playwright, will open tonight at 8:30
p.m. in the Lydia Mendelssohn The-
atre. Other performances will be
given on Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday nights. No one will be seated
during the opening scene. This is
the second production of the Michi-
gan Repertory Players of the De-
partment of Speech. Tickets are
available at the box-office (Phone
6300); prices are 75c, 50c and 35c.
The Intramural Sports Building
will be closed all day, July 4th.
The Michigan Wolverine will hold
an "Independence Whirl" from 8:00-
11:00 p.m. July 4th. All summer
students are cordially invited. There
will be a door charge of fifteen

day, July 5, from 9 to 10:30 p.m.,
followed by dancing until 1:00 a -m.
All students and their friends are
invited.
All-Campus Women's Tourna-'
ments: Entrants in the all-campus
women's tournaments (archery, bad-
minton, golf, and tennis) should
hand in their names at Office 15,
Barbour Gymnasium not later than
Saturday, July 6th.
Physical Education for Women.:
Activity courses in archery, body
conditioning, golf, riding, beginning
swimming and tennis will be offered
starting the week of July 8 by the
Department of Physical Education
for Women. Women students may
register in Room' 15, Barbour Gym-
nasium.
Biological Chemistry Lectures: Dr.
Rudolph Schoenheimer of the De-
partment of Biochemistry of Colum-
bia University, will deliver a series
of lectures on July 8, 9, 10 and 11 at
2:00 p.m. in the Amphitheatre of
the Rackham Building. Dr. Schoen-
heimer's lectures will have as their
general title "The Use of Isotopes in
the Study of Metabolism." All in-
terested are cordially invited.
Students, College of Literature
Science, and the Arts: No course may
be elected for credit after the end of
the second week. Saturday, July 6th
is therefore the last date on which
new elections may be approved. The
willingness of an individual instruct-
or to admit a student later will not
affect the operation of this rule.
The use of the eye in seeing what
is said is of special advantage to
those with poor hearing.; A course i
speech-reading is availablecratsthe
University Speech Clinic, 1007 E
Huron St. The class is open to those
who wish to develop the speech-
reading ability for practical use i
case of any deficiency in hearing. I
is also a laboratory for the benefit
of teachers and students in the fiel
of Speech Science, especially in con-
nection with certain courses outlined
in the University bulletins. Telephon
or call or write for consultation ap-
pointment.
School of Education, Changes ol
Elections (Undergraduates): Nc
course may be elected for credit aftel
Sat., July 6; no course may be
dropped without penalty after Sat.
July 13. Any changes of elections o
students enroleld in this school musi
be reported at the Registrar's office
4 University Hall.
Membership in a class does no
cease nor begin until all changes
have been thus officially registered
Arrangements made with instructors
are not official changes.
Foyer Francais: Places are still
available at the French table. Price
for single meals are as follows: Din-
ner, 55c; lunch, 35c. Lunch and din.
ner by the week, $5.60. Arrange-
ments may be made by calling Mis
McMullan, Telephone 2-2547.
Public Health Nursing Certificat
candidates for August 1940 shoul
make application at the office of the
School of Education, 1437 U.E.S.
Registration: Registration blanks
will be distributed by both the teach-
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Where Labor
Stands Today
For five years preceding the Hitler
blitzkrieg, the advances and the
tribulations of the American labor
movement were Page 1 news. Today
accounts of skirmishes between the
CIO and AFL have given way to the
cabled reports of bloodier battles in
Europe.
Unfortunately, the high hopes of
the great organizing drives of 1937
and 1938 are only half-realized. Too
much was made of the war between
John L. Lewis and William Green,
and too little attention was paid to
the building of sound machinery for
collective bargaining.
As a result, the unions have lost
many friends-people who saw in
them in instrumentality for bring-
ing about that economic democracy
without which political democracy
must remain only a half-fulfilled
promise. Labor could use these
friends, now that some feel the rever-
berations of Europe's war offer anop-
portunity to put the unionists "back
in their places."
There would be less indifference
today toward some of the more out-
rageous proposals to amend the Wag-
ner act if -the labor leaders had dis-
played a brand a statesmanship com-
manding real respect. As affairs now
stand, they can prepare to meet some
serious opposition-and sincere op-
position, too.
Not For Gifted Few
No matter what blindness may be
charged to John L. Lewis and his
followers, they never conceived or-
ganized labor as a movement for the
gifted few. They set out to organize
not only the highly skilled mechanics,
but also the white-collar workers,
the sailors, and even the sharecrop-
pets and migratory farm labore
And the AFL-has perforce' followed
suit to a considerable degree.
As a result, even a divided labor
movement today is engaged in an
effort to raise standards for the many
and not for a few. And now this musb
be the goal for all of us if the Ameri-
can way is to retain its meaning. Col-
lective bargaining in this sense is
one way of making democracy wbork.
It is unfortunate that intransigence
on the part of a few threatens to
perpetuate the rift between the two
labor functions. Such an attitude
sets at naught the efforts of a Sidney
Hillman or a Dan Tobin, and it
smooths the way for the Bioffs and
the Scalises.
ILGW Back In AFL
New efforts are under way today
to consolidate the labor front. David
Dubinsky, for example, has taken
his International Ladies Garment
Workers back into the AFL on con-
dition that the federation drop its
anti-CIO war chest-the special' as-
sessments that caused the Interna-
tional Typographical Union to sever
its AFL connection. This has been
done, but th eAFL has not yet taken
any steps toward making good its
promise-also given to Dubinsky-to
cleanse its ranks of racketeering. Nor
did William Green make a move to-
ward peace with his last-minute in-
dorsement of the _proposed Smith a-
, mendments to the WagnerActITn
ternationals and central trades
unions in all parts of the country
are filling the Congressional Record
with protests against his stand.
Just as long as these differences
remain purely inter-union matters,
the public will show little nterest
in them. The average citizen is tired
of the unionists' bickering. He hs
decided to let the labor leaders Iook
'after labor's interests.tHowevet, if
those differ cYices 'should threte to
. impedetour national defense pr-
gramn, they wil imme'diatly becomee
a public issue.-They will not be toler-
ated when united effort is the order
of the day. The sooner labor leaders
I get this thr'ugh their heads, the

I better.

IT SEEMS to be time again for our weekly "I
Love Life" column which we pound out on
a recalcitrant typewriter from material derived
solely from the public prints. Our first note
comes from the usually rather stolid city of
Omaha. In Omaha, we are sorry to state, Cupid
is being discouraged. Since very early times in-
deed no wedding has been considered binding
unless it was attended with feasting, merry-
making, singing, dancing and lute playing. Not
to mention other more intimate sounds such
as the tears of the bride's mother and the loud
huzzas of her father. Omaha would put a stop
to most of this.
Police Commissioner Jepson has forbidden
noisy wedding parades with the succinct re-
mark that he, for one, sees nothing to celebrate.
He further commented that such wedding pa-
rades with cars following the bridegroom, re-
plete with bells, whistles and old shoes to throw,
tended to disturb workers in offices and hence
to upset the economics equilibrium of the city.
Here we have the matter in a nutshell. Even
love, even a legal marriage has to defer to the
machine which is crushing us, comrades. It is
indeed a sad world. First Hitler and then such
a man as Com1issioner Jepson. Vae victis, we
might add and vale Omaha. If Lynn Fontanne
and the Grand Hotel could see you now,
NTEW ENGLAND meanwhile is illustrating the
perversity of nature in disregarding the
best laid plans of men. In Burlington Mr. Wil-
lard Hyatt made up his 'mind to die at the not-
to-early age of eighty- years. Mr. Hyatt de-
cided that life owed him only a few more than
three score and ten at best and was willing to
compromise his expectations at a flat four
score and end all uncertainty.

Having arrived at this conclusion, Mr. Hyatt
sensibly took thought for the morrow and bought
a tombstone. Not knowing what inefficiency
might follow his demise he had it carved. Want-
ing a thing well done he did it himself. Finally,
he had it set up in a grassy plot and saw for
himself that it could withstand the weather.
All this was in 1918. The dates on the stone
wetle 1854-1934. The cruel part of it is that
Mr. Hyatt is now enjoying the best of health
at the age of 86, shows no signs of dying and
numbers among his regrets only the fact that
he wasted a lot of time and money on carving
which will have to be done over again. Mr. Hyatt
now refuses to have any part of the date re-
moved on the sensible grounds that nobody can
tell if he will outlive this century. As indeed
nobody can. Truly, a burnt child fears the
fire.
ALSO IN THE NEWS is an old acquaintance
of ours, Mr. George Lott, the tennis player.
We first knew Mr. Lott when he came to our
home town to play a match against Bill Tilden.
We were then a very promising young player,
being wholly ignorant of wine, women and
Flautz' Cafe. So we got to meet Mr. Tilden
out at the Tennis Club. Mr. Tilden was swell
to us and we learnedly discussed for some min-
utes the best methods of putting spin on a
forehand drive. Mr. Tilden held that our am-
bitions at that early stage were somewhat rad-
ical but he didn't seem to mind when we said
that much as we admired him personally we
felt he had got hold of some bad ideas on the
subject of tennis.
About that time George Lott came over and
Tilden introduced us. For one fleeting moment
we were so proud we could burst. We were be-
ing introduced to George Lott by Bill Tilden
as "my friend Mr. Himself." It was the first

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New Locks . .
The "horses are off" at Panama,
The third set of locks for exclusive
use by the Navy is being started. But
the race will be a long one, probably
six years.
The digging job alone will mean the
moving of 85,000,000 cubic yards of
earth. The whole topography of the
place will be altered. Towns will ap-
pear and disappear. The new locks
will be 140 feet wide, 1,200 feet long
and 45 feet deep, which means that
they will be 30 feet wider, 200 feet
longer and five feet deeper than
existing locks. And they will be hea-
vier and stronger than anything so
far built. The U.S. will probably have
to put up at least $277,000,000.
- Detroit Free Press
Michigan League. All wives of sum-
mer school students are urged to
come and get acquainted.
Th c Michiganh Dames will hold a.
bridge party at the Michigan League
on Wednesday, July 10th. at 2
o'clock for the wives of the summer
school students. There will be a
charge of 10c to cover expenses and
prizes.
Students, College of Literature,