THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, JULY a MICHIGAN DAILY Washington Merry-Go-Round Grin And Bear It By Lichty . . . Ail- 1--l- 1. . I I- I - I..-I 1.- 11 -11- 1 - 1111111- - - - I - - I - p -.y I I Edited and managed by students of the University of Ochiga under the authority'of the Board in Control- of tadent Pilcations. Publisedn evey morning except Monday during the University year and Bummer Session. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republieation of all news dispatches credited to it, or mnot otherwise credited in this newspaper. All righte of repub ication of all other matters herein also iessrved. '. ikntered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as peond class mail matter. subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.OO; b'y mal, *4.W. - REPRESENED FOR NATIONAL ADVENR1SING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative "'4z0 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO ' BOSTON * LO ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO Member, *ssociated Collegiate Press, 193940 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: HARRY M. KELSEY er d- Enthusiasm in The G.O.P- -.-.- T HE GRAND OLD PARTY is return- ]ing to the strenuous life. After plun- ing to the nomination like a fighting fullback Wendell Willkie called on the Republican con- vention to join him in carrying on the campaign with the same vigor. His own record, the fresh enthusiasm of the young people and "amateurs" who upset the party machines in nominating him, and the new patrintism with which Ameri- cans are meeting the new threats to demo- crcy--all these give assuranse of a stirring campaign. Out of' the conflicts at Philadelphia the Re- publicans achieved every appearance of har- mony. All the earlier favorites could find hope for the party in the strength of a popular de- mand which swept them all aside in a united drive for Mr. Willkie. The spirit in which the other candidates pledged assistance indicated that they were ready For the "crusade." Robert A. Taft, who came so close to nomination, prom- ised "sincere and strenuous assistance." The Ohio Senator's honesty and magnamimity in his campaign for the nomination won the re- spect of the country and he can be of real help. The nomination of Charles L. McNary of Oregan for the Vice-Presidency brings several elements of strength to the Republicans' ticket. He is the minority leader in the Senate and should make a most effective link between the Willkie "amateurs" and the professional party leaders in Congress. Mr. McNary is one of the most popular and respected Senators, and his skill in concilation and experience in politics can be of real value to the candiate. He also adds to the ticket an appeal to the farmers and western vote.- In the general excitement about the Willkie nomination his platform has almost been over- looked. As platforms go it is excellent and the nominee is likely to strengthen those parts- particularly on foreign policy-which are out of keeping with the new and changng position of the Nation. Altogether the Republicans face the election with more enthusiasm, more unity, and more hope than seemed possible a few weeks ago. -Christian Science Monitor Where Mind's Find Strength Millions of us are so oppressed by the news from Europe that we have little heart for any- thing but reading the bulletins or sitting glued to our radios. The thought of thousands dying every day, of cities we know being faid waste, .is so appalling that our own pleasures seem like empty mockery. Yet we in New York have at our very doors the places where spiritual streng- th and hope can be found. At the World's Fair there are exhibits that give renewed faith to those who may be sick at heart over the cruelty and ruin in our world. At the Museum of Mod- ern Art we can see what our own generation can achieve at a, time of economic and social upheaval. At the Museum of Natural History we can draw inspiration from the eternal, un- changing world about us. At the Metropolitan Museum, and at the superb exhibition of 6,000 years of Persian art, we can see deathless mas- terpieces of form and color and beauty pro- - duced in the very midst of past invasion and horror. Serenity and renewed strength can be drawn from the contemplation ofthese things. There is proof in them of the continuity of civil- ization, of values which no conquere can finally destroy. --New York Times America's New Golconda There once was a day when America's great fortunes were made in railroads, in banking, in land. in manufacturing of various kinds. It's a wholly different story today, if the Treasury figures on top-bracket salaries are a safe indi- WASHINGTON-If Hitler succeeds in his boast regarding the conquest of great Britian, next move on the Nazi time-table is almost sure to be Russia. You can write it doin as fairly certain that Hitler will invade the Soviet around September 1. There is one big reason for this-food. Europe is sure to be famine-stricken this winter. The Polish wheat .crop is bad; so are the Balkan crops. The French will not be able to reap much of a harvest. Denmark is already killing its cattle for lack of grain. Norway never was en- tirely self-supporting. However, just across the Carpathians lies one of the richest granaries in the world-the U- kaine. Its wheat crop this year, although not the best, will be sufficient to keep down a lot of anti-Nazi unrest in a hungary Europe. Hitler not only needs it, but long ago announced in that infallible document, Mein Kampf; that he wil itake it. Obviously Stalin knows this. That is why he has sent tremendous reinforcements into the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. That also is why he has edged hisborders a- cross Bessarabia up to the Carpathian mount- ains. Ribbentrop Warning Key to Hitler's Russian policy was contained in a cable received here in diplomatic code which told of the great numbers of Red troops crowding into Lithuania, and how the Lithuan- ian Minister in Berlin reported this to Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop. He said, among other things, that Red troops from as far away as Siberia had entered ,Lithuania, and asked Rib- bentrop's advice as to what his government should do. "Don't do anything," Ribbentrop advised, ac- cording to the cabled report. "After we finish with Great Britian we'll take care of them." British-Russian Deal At present Sir Stafford Cripps is in Moscow as special British ambassador trying to work out a new deal between Russia and Britian. What will come out of his mission no one can predict. However, two things seem certain. One is that only a flank attack by Russia on Germany's sphere of influence in the Balkans or upon Germany itself can spare the British Isles vir- tual annihilation from the air. The other is that if the British Isles are con- quered, it will be Stalin's turn next. Purple Pants The President, accompanied by his personal bodyguard, Tommy Qualters, came into a room where arrangements had been made for taking photographs. Qualters wore a pair of slacks of purplish blue. While the cameras were being set, the Presi- dent quipped: "Have you got a color camera? I think you should take a color photograph of Tommy's pants." Who's Jesse Jones At Cabinet meeting last week, Secretary of Labor Perkins brought up a national defense project for which she felt some money should be raised. She asked the President to see the people involved. The President replied that he thought the Army was handling the matter and he didn't feel he should see Miss Perkins' friends. How- ever, she continued to urge that federal funds be lent, and finally in order to end the conver- sation, Roosevelt replied: "You'd better see Jones." But Miss Perkins continued to promote her cause until the President interrupted her again. "See Jones," he said. "Who's Jones?" asked the Secretary of Labor. The President did not say, anything imme- diately, and all the other Cabinet members around the table smiled. Noting their smiles, and frowning herself, Miss Perkins repe~ed the question: "Who's Jones?" "Jones," replied the President, "is the gentle- man on your left who is in charge of federal loans." Amid the laughter which followed (in which Jesse Jones joined) the crimson-visaged Secre- tary of Labor implored her Cabinet colleagues not to let her boner get outside of "school." "Why, Frances," kidded Harry Hopkins, "you don't think for a minute you can hush that up inside the Cabinet?" Communist Controlled That statement issued by the National Ad- ministrative Committee (top body) of the Work- ers Alliance, following the walk-out of president David Lasser, that the organization was not Communist-controlled was a lot of eye-wash. It was put by Communist members of the group on orders of the Communist party. Only four members participated in the com- mittee meeting at which the statement was "vot- ed", and of the four, three are CP members. Also present was Herbert Benjamin, Communist for- mer Alliance secretary, whom Lasser forced out last winter. Benjamin has no official connection with the Alliance but he bossed the NAC session. Lasser quit because of inability to purge Red officials from the Alliance command. He succeed- ed in ousting Benjamin under a threat to re- sign himself, and for aw hile thereafter the "Kommies" pulled in their horns and ceased "party line" agitation. But in May they sud- denly became active again and the following provocative incidents ensued: 1. At an Administrative Committee meeting, Sam Wiseman of New York, leader of the Red faction in the Alliance, and Frank Ingram, his close ally, demanded that President Roosevelt be called on to veto the relief bill if it was passed with a provision barring Communists from WPA rolls. Lasser opposed this on the ground that the Alliance was supposed to represent 2,000,000 workers and had no right to sacrifice their inter- ests for the sake of a small Communist minor- ity. 2. Several weeks later Ingram demanded that Lasser summon a national executive board meet- ing in Washington four. days later to take a stand on the "crucial questions of peace, nation- al defense and political action." When Lasser re- fused because such a call requires at least 30 days notice, Ingram informed him that certain board members would attend the Cominist Party convention in New York the following week end and they would be enough to consti- tute a quorum. In other words, the board meeting would be made up only of Communists. When Lasser in- dignantly pointed this out, Ingram's airy reply was that this could be smoke-screened by send- ing out notices to all the board members but that it would be "understood, of course, that only those able to come (i.e. the Communists) would be present. Lasser refused. to call the meeting, whereupon the Communist members put out a statement in New York denouncing aid to the Allies, the na- tional defense program, and Roosevelt as a war- monger. 3. Afterward Lasser discovered a secret Com- munist movement to pack the coming Alliance convention with their followers in order to elect a complete Red control and adopt a "party line" agitational policy. "It's your mother again, lad--she says not to forget to wear your parachute'" i4e EDITOR 7e 27 /I Praise For Germ~any The Straight Dope By Himself To the Editor: For the most part, Professor Ehr- mann's lecture last Monday after-1 noon was fair. To those of us who sympathize with the German cause it was a pleasure to have a pro- British lecturer admit that the un- derlying cause of the war is "The German Question." We half-ex- pected to hear another repetition of the trite falsehood that the war is basically a struggle to preserve democracy. But there were a couple of asser- tions in the lecture which ought to be protested. For one thing, Pro- fessor Ehrmann said "In the Ver- sailles Treaty Germany was dealt with harshly in economic terms, but territorially she was treated rather leniently. The real criticism of the Treaty of Versailles was .not that it was too severe, but rather that it could not enlist the support of a. ma- jority of great powers." This would seem to imply a belief that injustice can be excused by its vigorous en- forcement. No one who holds to the ideal of justice in international re- lations can subscribe to that belief. The Treaty of Versailles was not only "harsh" economically, it was also an outrageous insult to a great na- tion. All just men should be glad, not sorry, that the treaty was not enforced. The lecturer also referred to the "fine institutions" of the British as the motive behind the pro-British sentiment in the United States. No one can deny that the British do have some fine institutions, but so do the Germans, the Italians, and the Japanese. The mere fact that these three peoples (and others) have not yet shown the ability to evolve and maintain a democratic government ought not to be used as an excuse to confine their cul- tures within narrow territorial lim- its. Yet this is exactly what that great land. and sea- monopoly, the British Commonwealth of "Nations" has un- dertaken to do. Its aim is to reserve one-fourth of the earth for the de- velopment of Anglo-Saxon culture alone. To accomplish this it must, in a very real sense, imprison the other great and progressive cultures of the world in their inadequate homelands. To excuse the obvious injustice of such a procedure the British have invented the. myth of their own superiority to all other peoples. The eradication of this over- bearing British arrogance (by a crushing defeat in warfare) is a necessary condition for equitable cooperation of all nations in main- taining a just peace. Germany is about to humble English pride, to show England that she too can be defeated. This will be an even great- er service to the world than the dis- ruption of the British Empire. For as long as the British hold other nations in contempt, there cannot exist in the world any real charity, and without charity there can be no lasting peace. A disgusting exhibi- tion of this intolerable British con- tempt for other peoples was recently given by Prime Minister Churchill in his speech to the House of Com- mons (about the Flanders Battle). He~ refervrd tothe Ge~rman neon1e as eDAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN All notices for the Daily Official 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. Buses will leave at 8:30 a.m. this morning from State Street in front of Angell Hall for the trip to the Schools of the Cranbrook Founda- tion in Bloomfield Hills, and will re- turn to Ann Arbor at 3:30 p.m. The round trip bus tickets will be $1.25. Graduate Record Program will be held in the Men's Lounge of the Rackham Building today, July 6 from 3 to 5 p.m. An interesting program has been arranged. Robert Nieset will be in charge. All inter- ested are invited. Graduate Outing Club will meet on Sunday, July 7, at 2:30 p.m. in the rear of the Rackham 'Building for a trip, a short distance from Ann Arbor, affording swimming, softball, volleyball and hiking. All graduate students, faculty and alumni invited. Band Concert. The University of Michigan Summer Session Band Iill present its first concert in the sum- mer session series Sunday afternoon, July 7, at 4:15 o'clock, in Hill Audi- torium, under the direction of Pro- fessor William D. Revelli. The gen- eral public is invited to attend. The Michigan Christian Fellow- ship, an Evangelical Student Group, wish to welcome summer school stu- dents to their hour of devotion Sun- day afternoon, 4:30, in the Fireside room of Lane Hall. Students who wish to attend both this weekly meeting and the band concerts are urged to be present this week to make their preference for a conven- ient hour 'known. Summer Session Convocation and Vespers: The Summer Session Con- vocation and Vespers will be held in Hill Auditorium, Sunday, July 7th, 8:00 p.m. Professor Louis A. Hop- kins, Director of the Summer Ses- sion will give the address of welcome. The Summer Session Chorus, under the direction of Professor William Breach will present a program of songs by modern American compos- ers. Lutheran Students: Pastor Yoder conducts early service at 8:30 am.. and regular service at 10:30 a.m. in Trinity Lutheran' Church each Sun- day, and Pastor Stellhorn conducts regular service at 10:30 a.m. in Zion Lutheran Church each Sunday. The Lutheran Student Association for Lutheran Students and their friends will meet this Sunday evening at 6:00 at the home of Pastor and Mrs. Stellhorn, 120 Packard St. St. Andrew's EpiscopaL Church: Sunday, 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion; 11:00 a.m. Holy Communion and Sermon by the Reverend Henry Lew- is; 11:00 a.m. Kindergarten, Chil- dren's Chapel in the Church Office Building; 3:00 p.m. Cars leave Harris Hall for a student tour of the Cran- brook Foundation and Christ Church, Bloomfield Hills. Picnic supper, 25c. All Epicopal students and their friends cordially invited. If you can great achievements of civilization; there are other aspects of life besides politics. Who but a fanatic Anglo- Saxon jingo will dare to assert that a grat co.r~nstitution is of mrenr vau provide transportation, please cIai the Church Office, 7735. Wesley Foundation. Student class in the Wesley Foundation Assembly Room at 9:30 a.m. Subject: "The Bible and Literature." Leader, Mil- dred Sweet. Wesleyan Guild Meeting at 5:30 p.m. in the Wesley Foundation Room. Refreshments and Fellowship at 5:30 followed by the meeting at 6:15 p.. There will be a panel discussion on "Industrial Disorder" by persons of varying viewpoints. We will adjo rn in time for the Vesper Service at Hill Auditorium. First Methodist Church: Morning Worship Service at 10:40 o'clock. Dr. C. W. Brashares will preach og "Christian Citizen." First Baptist Church, 512 E. Huron St.. C. H. Loucks, Minister. 10:30 Morning Worship. Communion Med- itation: "The Word of God." 11:30, The Church at Study. We hope to have the entire family stay for this thirty-minute period of Bible Study. 10:30. The Beginner's and Pri- mary Departments will meet during the Worship Service. A recreation period is provided for these Depart- ments during the Church School session. 6:15, The Roger Williams Guildl (Baptist Student Group) will meet on the lawn of the Guild House, 503 East Huron Street, for a picnic sup- per, and attend the Summer School Convocation in a body. Unitarian Church: 11 a.m. Rev. John Howland Lathrop D.D. of Brooklyn, N.Y. will speak on "What the Liberal Church Stands For." 3:30 p.m. Monday, July 8. A re- ception will be held in the Unitarian Church library for Rev. and Mrs. Edwin Wilson of Chicago. All Uni- tarians and Universalists are par- ticularly invited. Presbyterian Church: 10:45 a.m. "Help For Our Burdens" will be the subject of the sermon by Dr. W. P. Lemon. 5:30 p.m. Sunday evening vespers led by the minister, Dr. W. P. Lemon, on "What the Other Half Believe." This Sunday evening his subject will be The Jew Views "The Gentile Prob- lem." A cost supper at 5:30, meet- ing at 6:30 p.m. First Congregational Church, State and William Sts. Rev. Leonard A. Parr, D.D., Minister. The morning worship service will be at 10:45. Dr. Parr will preach on the theme "God's Anvil Stands!" Music by the chorus choir led by John H. Secrist. First Church of Christ, Scientist, 409 S. Division St. Sunday service at 10:30. Subject: "God." Sunday School at 11:45. Monday., July 8: Conference on Religion. "Religion in ' India" by Kenneth W. Morgan, is the topic for the lecture at luncheon at 12:15 in the Union. "Religion in National Develop- ment" by Professor Leroy L. Water- man, will be delivered at 3:00 p.m. in the W. K. Kellogg Institute Audi- torium. "Delinquency Prevention" by Ken- neth F. Herrold and a group of panel members will be discussed at a for- um from four to six in the W. K. Kellogg Institute. "Church and State in the World"' by William W.dSweet will be present- ed at 8:15 p.m. in the Horace H. Rackham Lecture Hall. 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 ia the Study of MetabolisiA." All in- terested are cordially invited. All students in the Departments of Greek and Latin are cordially in- vited to attend an informal recep- tion to be given by the departments on Tuesday, July 9, at 8:00 p.m. in the Garden of the Michigan League, or in the Ethel Fountain Hussey Room in case of rain.' Wives of students and internes are invited to attend a tea given in their honor on Tuesday, July 9th from 3:30 to 5:30 in the garden of the Michigan League. All wives of sum- mer school students are urged to come and get acquainted. The Graduate Commercial Club will hold it sannual picnic, Tuesday, July 9, at Newport Beach, Portage Lake. Cars will leave the University High School at five o'clock. Tickets may be secured at the High School Office. Duplicate Bridge will begin at 7:30 Tuesday night at the Michigan League, and every Tuesday here- after, instead of at 8:00 as originally announced. Faculty Concert. The first faculty concert in the summer session series will be given Tuesday evening, July, The other night we betook ourselves with some temerity over to the Rackham Building to. see the documentary movies. It took con- siderable courage for us to go because we have never been what you might call comfortable in the Rackham Building. Never. It is not that we don't think the Rackham Building is beautiful. We do. It is so beautiful it scares us. Our first remark when we saw it was "What a beautiful mausoleum." We still feel that way about it. Always, both by night and day, we are unable to stretch out our legs in the com- modious space provided for them in the Main Auditorium because we fear someone in a long white robe with ectoplasm flowing from mouth and nose, will come and summon us to a land that does not contain any Wendell Willkies whatsoever. But this time it was different. We went with friends and we avoided those sumptuous over- padded lounges and went directly in to the mo- vies. When the lights went down we had a bad moment or two but after the music started we really began to get rid of a few hundred goose pimples. The Rackham Building is one of the few places we can think of that is less terri- fying by night than by day. Our girls' house and all sororities on Tappan included. But to the movies themselves we want to give the bulk of our attention. The movies were swell. First came "The River." "The River" is just about the best movie we ever saw. It has everything. The drama of it is the drama of a continent, the suspense is the struggle for life itself and while, like everything bearing on hu- ten by Virgil Thomson, best known because he wrote music that made a success of a little gem by Gertrude Stein called "Four Saints in Three Acts" or vice versa, we forget. The music implement sthe action and adds to it satire, comedy and sometimes a heightened but not obtrusive beauty of its own. (Note to lowbrows and music majors; we liked the music.) Next on the bill was "The City" which con- trasted a Charlie Chaplin-like life in big cities and mining towns to a possible contrast in the form of an already-existing community around some ideal factories in a beautiful rolling hill country. The place looked so swell that Shan- gri-la suffers by comparison. Music was by Aaron Copeland, never one of our favorite mod- ern composers, although a very good one. Mr. Copeland hit the mood of the jangled jungles of New York and Pittsburgh better than did Morris Carnovsky, the silver-voiced actor from the Group Theatre. In the lyric scenes the hon- ors were reversed. Even reversed there were enough of them to go around. "The Plow That Broke the Plains" held as much real tragedy as anything we ever saw. The dust bowl has never been presented quit? as movingly, quite as sensitively. Seldom has the greed engendered by war been shown quite so clearly for what it is and what its results are. The fifth of a nation was ravaged for war profits in wheat and the results speak for them- selves. Mr. Virgil Thomson's little touch of a choir of strings playing a Phrygian version of Old Hundred while a farmer scuffs with broken shoe at the useless topsoil will remain in our memory for a long time. This cpn,b1idpqsC the iri, r .-.s'. na1;f,4..