THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, Y 29, THE MICHIGAN DAILY Daily Calendar of Events Tuesday, July 29- !I * 4 Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Pulilished 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 it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Poet Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as seond1 class mail matter. Subscriptions during the regular school year by carrier $4.00, by mail, $4.50. RSPRSiDNTKD POR NAT IONL AOVERT4#NG BY National Advertising Seirvice, n c 4 SCollege P,,bliskers.Representative 420lMADisON AYE. NEW YORK. W. Y. "MtcAGO " BOSTON - LOS A14GBLS - SAN FRANcisco 'ember, :associated Collegiate Press, 1940-41 4:05 p.m. 4:15 p.m. 4:15 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m. Lecture. "The Teaching of Human Relations in Secondary Schools." F. Dean McClusky, Director o the Scarborough School. (University High School Auditorium.) Lecture. "The Repair of Tissue and Tissue Resistance." Dr. William deB. MacNider, Kenan Research Professor of Pharmacology of University of North Carolina Medical School. (Amphitheatre, Rackham Building.) Lecture. "The United States as Viewed by Other Nations." Philip E. Mosely, Social Science Research Council and Associate Professor of His- tory, Cornell University. (Lecture Hall, Rackham Building.) Lecture. "The Political Development of the United States," Professor Verner W. Crane. (Room 1025 A. H.) Beginners' Class, in Social Dancing. (Michigan League Ballroom.) Duplicate Bridge. (Michigan League.) Anyone wishing to play is invited. Come with or without partners. Concert, by the faculty of the School of Music. (Hill Auditorium.) Quar- tet composed of Prof. Wassily Besekirsky, Prof. Joseph Brinkman, Prof. Hanns Pick, and Mr. George Poinar. Soloist, Prof. Hardin Van Deursen accompanied by Mrs. Ava Comin Case. 1 I Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN. Managing Editor City Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Sports Editor Women's Editor Editorial Stafff Karl Kessler *....Harry M. Kelsey . William Baker S . Eugene Mandeberg . . . . BAlbertP. Blaustein .~Barbara Jenswold Business Staff Business Manager ...... .gniel H. Huyett Local Advertising Manager . . . Fred MN Ginsberg Women's Advertising Manager . . Florence Schurgin NIGHT EDITOR:. ALBERT P. BLAUSTEIN The editorials published in The Michi- gan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. For Defense .. . VISIONS of "nothing to cook in" and Y "can't buy any more aluninum pots and pans" rose up before housewives' eyes when the Civilian Defense agency and the Office of Production Management commenced their drive for nore aluminum than actual production can scare up. Today the officials have seen a new danger And are moving to correct their error. House- wives, giving up aluminum cooking utensils, have turned to enar'el ware, the most likely substitute, and now there is feared a run on enamel pans. Since these are made of sheet steel, the secondary metal crisis would seriously add to the danger of the situation. So now donors have been warned to give only unwanted aluminum, to hunt through cellars and attics for pieces outdated or not needed. Here is an example of the way in which a hurried, frenzied campaign for a worthy cause can work back against itself to produce unde- sirable results. Although the warning came out 'some time after the beginning of the drive, it is still early enough to nip the danger in the bud. In this, officials who ,evinced short foresight are lucky. And as a result of this, housewives can feel freer to donate to the cause. They are being in no way coerced or intruded upon by the state, which should engender an attitude of valid gen- erosity and patriotism; With a capable leader in this campaign, and with sufficient publicity we hope to see a great quantity of aluminum collected to build bombers for ourselves and our allies. ALONG' ANOTHER LINE, housewives ought to feel fairly secure and happy: they aren't the only ones contributing in this campaign. One of the larger hotel chains in the country Friday contributed more than 54,000 pounds of alumiinum to its country's defense. Intended for a new 1,000-room hotel in the over-crowded capital city, the metal had been purchased before priorities were established by the Office of Production Management. More than 80 percent had already been fabricated into windows and must be remelted and substituted by another commodity. ALTHOUGH the private cost will run into the thousands, the hotel chain has taken this risk in the interests of the public and their con- sumers. At a time when every individual citizen is asked to contribute, whatever his financial status, it would be highly undesirable for a busi- ness involving each year a tremendous financial turnover to hold out in its own interests, even though it is clearly in the open as far as law is concerned. More power to the aluminum drive and to the thousands who are giving their share to make it a success! When everyone takes heed, from the giant concern down to the smallest housewife, when a cooperative attitude has been instilled into the public, then we shall expect a great collection with a minimum of effort on everyone's part. - Barbara Jenswold Wheeler Again.. . Senator Wheeler is twice at fault in his clash with Secretary of War Stimson. First, he had no business soliciting criticisms of our foreign policy from members of our armed forces. This ,it- Mr +him a afniy ,.rpann thni mili WASHINGTON -20 newspapermen leaned forward around the long blue baize table in the ante-room of the Secretary of State. At the extreme end stood tall, austere Acting Secretary, Sumner Welles. On his face was an expression of grim-lipped intensity. In his hand was a type-written statement. He read it loud. It was a scathing, carefully worded blast against Japan. At the opposite end of the table stood three Japanese newsmen, short, affable, eager. For months and years they had been attending press conferences, given the same privileges as any American newsmen. For months also they had waited for some such bombshell. Now it came. One split second after Welles finished reading his statement, the Japanese were out the door, pattering down the marble corridor to the press room telephones. It was a big day for Japanese newsmen. ! Finally Ickes Wins It was also a big dy for certain members of the Roosevelt cabinet. For months and years they also had been waiting. For months and years also they had been urging Roosevelt to embargo oil shipments to Japan. At the Friday cabinet meeting just before Japan moved, Secretary Ickes, as new oil ad- ministrator, raised the embargo question again. He-proposed to stop oil shipments to Japan. But the Acting Secretary of State said no. On Mon- day, he said, Japan was going to make a move toward Indo-China and it would be wiser to wait until then. Once before, Ickes had stopped a shipment of oil to Japan and aroused the wrath of the State Department. Last June a Philadelphia manu- facturer complained to him that a Japanese ship was loading 240,000 gallons of lubricating oil. "I can't get oil myself to speed up my own defense orders," wrote the manufacturer, "and yet I see in front of my nose this shipment of oil going to Japan. To hell with defense, if the government is as screwy as that." So Ickes called the Coast Guard and asked them to act before the oil was loaded. They did. Then things began to boil. It .di'd not leak out at the time, but the State Department com- plained to the White House that Ickes' action had interfered with the policy of appeasing Japan so she would not go south to the Dutch East Indies. And the president called in Ickes. However, Ickes held his ground. He insisted that he was not meddling in foreign policy, but that it was nonsense to ration oil aid gas on the Atlantic seaboard and at the same time let Japan ship oil away from the Atlantic seaboard. In the end Ickes won. FDR Signed Order Against Oil But eighteen months before the oil adminis- trator and several of his cabinet colleagues did not win. The same issue was at stake. It came up at a dinner given by the late Lord Lothian at the British Embassy in August at which Secre- tary of War Stimson, Secretary of the Navy Knox and Secretary of the Treasury Morgen- thau decided to ask the President to embargo all oil and scrap iron to Japan. The President agreed and actually signed the executive orders. But they were never published. When the State Department saw the orders, its officials almost jumped down the White House throat. So the orders were changed to apply only to aviation gasoline and No. 1 scrap iron, though later modified to include all grades of scrap. This debate over appeasing Japan has con- tinued inside the cabinet ever since. The State Department has contended that to cut off oil meant an immediate Japanese attack on the Dutch East Indies-which has oil. The Ickes-Knox-Stimson-Morgenthau group has claimed first that the Dutch East Indies were pretty well defended, that it would take Japan four months to seize them, and that Japan did not have enough oil to operate her fleet that long. Also the British fleet then was better able to defend the Dutch and Singapore. Now it isn't. Also we had far more ships in the Pacific at that time. Now some are at Iceland. So it looks as if we appeased Japan until she got ready to pick her own sweet time as to the best moment to head toward the Dutch East Indies. ,r,. ,. - .., .. i They figure we are going to get into the war anyway, and it is good strategy to deal knockout blows in the very first round. They favor send- ing waves of U.S. bombers from the Philippines to raze the paper and bamboo cities of Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Osaka. They also favor sending the fleet, plus airplane ca-riers to the coast of Japan. They favor doing this immediately. There is no use, say the navy men, of punching at a man's legs when you can strike for his heart. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: Attached to our communication of July 8, in which the YCL stated its program of defending America by aiding Great Britain and the USSR, there were two "'embarrassing" questions posed by the editor of The Daily. The. first asked, "Where was Russian altruism hidden in the case of the Finnish, Rumanian and Polish territorial snatches?" Aside from pointing out that the word "altruism" was not used by us, we feel that the present role of these three nations explain quite fully their own nature and the nature of Soviet foreign policy. (Even Broadway finds Robert Sherwoods There Shall Be No Night an uncomfortable vehicle.) In regard to the second question which finds a "flip-flop" in the YCL program, we again come up against a problem which has become a plague to American thought-the meaning has gone out of old, accepted terms, to the extent that even so simple a term as "flip-flop" cannot be applied accurately. The YCL determines its program not at one grand session, and then, come what may, isists that this program is valid for all time. No, the YCL bases its program on the particular situation which calls for analy- sis and action. As lbng as that situation remains the same, so long do we feel our program valid. In our last communication we stated that the character of the war had been changed by the Fascist attack on the Soviet Union. Since our statement, nothing offers greater proof of the fact of that change than the alliance between the USSR and Great Britain, by which these two nations promised each other "aid of all kinds" and pledged no separate peace with Hit- ler. Whereas in 1939 the British Government turned down overtures for a similar pact, now it has come to realize that the battle against Hitler fascism is an indivisible battle. In reject- ing the earlier proposals, the British Govern- ment did not see that peace was likewise indi- visible, that it is necessary for all anti-fascists to unite. Great Britain's rejection of mutual anti-Hitler cooperation with the USSR was tantamount to describing the war which they were about to wage as a war of imperialist rivals, similar to that of the first World War. That the Soviet Union has always been the biter en- emy of Hitlerism is proven beyond doubt today by the resistance that Hitler can only describe as "fanatical." The hundreds ofvthousands of Soviet men who have already died holding the eastern front were not fanatics, but bitter anti- fascists. An alliance with such "fanatics" in 1939 would have drawn our full support; war without such an alliance could only have been, as it was, one imperialism fighting another (no matter what staunch, individual RAF fliers may have felt); that, we do not and did not support. Today the Churchill government, through the experience of events, has seen that anti-fascist war, just as peace, is indivisible. The Anglo- Soviet Pact is the result. President Roosevelt and the State Department also realize that Hit- ler aggression is a threat to the United States. Should the Soviet :Unions fall, or even should Hitler gain control of the resources of the Ukraine, the threat of fascism for the nations of the world will become immeasurably greater. It is for this reason that the YCL insists that the defense of America must be built around sincere and effective aid to the Soviet Union, to Great Britain, and also to the anti-fascist fight- ers of China. Any other program plays into Hitler's hand, is fascistic; yet there are those in America who would paralyze such aid, especially to the~ Sovrie~tUnion.The aro'iimpnts hevu eofferI' STUIIJ tu By Terence A LETTER comes correo aereo, v our mail to the uninitiated, from Will Sapp, who recently set out from Ann Arbor in a Plymouth of ancient vintage bound for South America. He got as far as Mexico City anyway. Dear senores y senoritas- I am writing to you from the home of Senora Al verez at 10-A Avenue Obrigon in the heart of Mexico City, 2,450 miles from Ann Arbor. That we are actually here is only the re- sult of luck. Just a few words about that. Driv- ing ten hours a day for six days wasn't exactly easy on the car, even one as good as mine. By the time we reached Laredo, Texas, there was so many squeaks and noises that it sounded like automobiles were honk- ing to pass. But then came Mexi- co. We made Monterey the first night and it was swell. And we made Valles the second night (in Mexico) and that was swell too. Valles t4 Mexico City is only 300 miles so we slept late that day before starting for La Capital. As soon as we start- ed we had trouble with the car. When I would take my foot off the ac- celerator the motor wouldn't hold the car back. It was like driving with the clutch in all the time. Well, we weren't worried, after all we were driving on plains. But then, the mountains came. Up and up we climbed until we were 6,000 feet above sea level. Then we had to go down to 2,000 and back up to 7,000 and down and up to finally a little over 8,000 feet. All this was on roads chopped out of the sides of the moun- tains, having a 3,000 foot sheer drop in places with no guard rails, and plenty of hairpin curves. And they were really hairpin curves . . . about ten or fifteen of them to each mile. And around each curve would be sonme damn cow standing in the middle of the road. Our horn bleat didn't phase them. Well, I was ner- vous as hell, we burned our brakes down to the floor in the first 150 miles and almost stopped. Anyway we went through almost 100 miles of the most hazardous road in the North American continent without brakes and with no motor to hold the car back. Well, we kept on and made it. Course we onlykaveraged 10 miles an hour but that's life. HIS IS a funny city. I'm a bit disappointed. Monterrey and Val- les were so thrilling and this is so much like Detroit. It is dirtier than any other Mexican town I have seen and offers fewer conveniences. Just a few notes about La Capital. You can't leave your car out on the street at night . . . if they don't break into it they'll strip the tires off . . . I have never seen such fast drivers ... one way streets and the fools drive about 40 or 45 despite the fact that the streets are peopled more than anywhere else I know of . . . it is the noisiest town I have seen . Mexican cars (American made) have exceptionally loud horns. Believe me, if they are just driving down a wide street with no car in sight they will honk and honk . . . most cars have mangled fenders . . . lotta thieves. The fellow with me lost his $8 foun- tain pen today to a thief who "bumped into him." But 10 minutes later he bought one from un otro hombre for dos pesos. Fuuniest thing a bum approached us with the pen . . . a cop saw him and came up. I thought he was going to arrest the bum for attempting to sell obvi- ously stolen merchandise. Instead he pulled a pen from several in his pocket and cut the bum's price in half. If anything is stolen you can buy it the next day at the thieves' market. ONE THING Americanos don't seem to have the straight dope about. It is not dangerous to eat and sleep here in. Mexico . . . you won't get typhoid or dysentery. You don't have to stick to American restaurants. That's a lot of hooey. Before I came down here I took typhoid pills on a doctor's order and purchased medi- cines. Now I feel foolish. I've been eating Mexican dishes (of food) and I like them. Prices are funny. Lunch today cost me $2.50, dinner $4.00. At Valles we paid $12.00 for a room for the night. It's the exchange rate of course . . . $4.85 (Mexican money) por dinero Ameri- cano $1. Otherwise their dollar (pe- so) is worth about 22 cents. Makes you feel rich to carry $200 in my pocket, but when you figure that shows cost $2 and my raincoat $48 it doesn't go so far. This is the rainy season, everyday it pours in the late afternoon, then gets plenty cool. Am still hopeful of securing a pas- sage to South America and am go- ing to inquire tomorrow after we get back from the pyramids. (One of the pyramids is larger than any of the famed Egyptian ones.) Hello to the gang land tell Blau- stein to stop writing that columnista bunko. Hasta luego, adios, Senor Sappo Autograph Hunt' Dance Will Test Your Ability Ltr T a"'I etttr-, t ra, unitlrrt . - n -1 GRIN AND BEAR IT DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN 7, . 191, C hicaoPtea nc"[,, "Now see what you did?-You captured the wrong country! -You had the map upside down'" _., All Notices for the Daily Official Bul- letin are to be sent to the Office of the Summer Session before 3:30 p.m. of the day preceding its publication except on Saturday, when the notices should be submitted before 11:30 a.m. Pharmacology Lectures: Dr. Wil- liam deB. MacNider, Kenan Research Professor of Pharmacology of the University of North Carolina Medical School, will deliver the following let- tures on the general subject of "The Acquired Resistance of Tissue Cells." Tuesday, July 29. The Repair of Tissue and Tissue Resistance, 4:15 p.m. Amphitheatre, Rackham Build- ing. Wednesday, July 30, The Ageing Process and Tissue Resistance, 4:15 p.m. Room 151, Chemistry Building. Thursday, July 31, The Adjustabil- ity of the Life Process to Injurious Agents, 2:15 p.m. Amphitheatre, Rackham Building. All interested are invited to attend. Women's Education Club picnic will be held July 30, at 5:00, at the Island. All women are cordially in- vited to attend. Sign up in Room 4016 Universiy High School by Tues- day at 4:00. Price 35c. Notice to staff members using pri- vate automobiles on University busi- ness : Effective July 1 the Regents have. provided five cents per mile reim- bursement for trips made in private automobiles on University business within the State of Michigan. Deutscher Verein. There will be a picnic Thursday for members, stu- dents of German, residents of the, Deutsches Haus, and all those in- terested in songs, games and other entertainment. Meet at the Deutsches Haus, 1443 Washtenaw Avenue at 5:00 p.m. Refreshments and trans- portation. Make reservations in the German Office, 204 University Hall, Ext. 788. The Fellowship of Reconciliation will meet next 'Tuesday evening in Lane Hall at 7:30 to continue discus- sion of the first chapter of the book "War Without Violence" by Krish- nald Shridharahi. Please read the reference, material before coming. (On file at Lane Hall). Everyone is invited. Faculty Concert: Several members of the School of Music Summer Ses- sion Faculty will present a concert at 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 29, in Hill Auditorium. The program will consists of a selection by Wassily Be- sekirsky, Violinist and Joseph Brink- man, Pianist;,several songs by.Har- din Van Deursen, Baritone acid Ava Comm Case, Accompanist and a selection by a string quartet com- posed of Wassily Besekirsky, Violin- ist; Joseph Brinkman, Pianist; Hanns Pick, Cellist; and George Poinar, Vi- olist. Students, College of Literature, Sci- ence, and the Arts: Students whose records carry reports of I or X either from last semester or (if they have not been in residence since that time) from any former sessions, will receive grades of E unless the work is com- pleted by July 30th. Petitions for ex- tensipns of time, with the written approval of the instructors concerned, should be addressed to the Adminis- trative Board of the College, and presented at Room 4 University Hall, before July 30th. Record Concert for Graduate Stu- dents and others interested will be held Tuesday, July 29, at 8:00 in the Men's Lounge of the Rackham Build- ing. The following program will be played: Mendelssohn, "Scotch" Sym-. phony, Brahm, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Wagner, Music from Tristan and Isolde, and Bloch, Schel- omo. The Commercial Education Club will hold its weekly meeting today at 7:30 p.m. in the West Conference room of the Rackham Building. A discussion of the proposed'National Club for Commercial Students. "Psychology 42 makeup examiha- tion will be given Thursday, July 30, at 2 p.m. in Room 2125 Natural Sci- ence." Episcopal Students-Tea will be served this afternoon in Harris Hall from 4 until 5:30 p.m. All Episcopal students and friends cordially in- vited.. Episcopal Students-Celebration of the Holy Communion at 7:15 a.m. Wednesday in the Williams Memorial Chapel, Harris Hall. At the Phi Delta Kappa Luncheon this noon in room 116 Michigan Union, Professor H. McClusky will give "Some Inside Glimpses of the Operation of the American Youth Commission." Members are reminded of the initiation to be held this Thursday at 4 p.m., followed by a banquet at 6:30. (Continued on Page 3) 9. 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