THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIAY, AUGUST I ii Daily Calendar of Events Friday, August 1 - Lecture. "The United States and Spanish-America," Professor Arthur S. Aiton. (Rackham Amphitheatre.) "Stqrm Over Patsy." (Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.) Social Evening. (Michigan League Ballroom.) Come with or without partners. Washington Merry Go-Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON-It certainly is risky to oppose Senator Burt Wheeler on his isolationist-ap- peasement stand in Montana. Although he never misses an opportunity to beat his breast noisily about freedom of speech and press, Wheeler wields a ruthless axe on critics in his home state. Several weeks ago Walter Winchell was barred from three Montana radio stations owned by Wheeler intimates. Lat- est to feel the scourge of Wheeler's ire is John Erickson, three times governor of the state and for a short term U.S. Senator. Erickson presided at a Helena meeting ad- dressed by Senator Claude Pepper, militant Fforida anti-isolationist. A few days later, Governor Sam Ford, Republican closely allied with the Wheeler machine, fired Erickson from his $250-a-month job as assistant administrator of the Montana Liquor Board. Note: "The state convention of the American Legion and the Butte Miners Union -have adopted resolutions condemning the barring of Winchell from the Montana radio stations. cations Commission is turning down some of the best qualified foreign newspaper correspondents in America as monitors to detect foreign radios- because they lack civil service. Far more im- portant is the fact that they understand foreign languages. Good Neighbor Frauds In a few weeks the Post Office Department will give a new twist to the blacklist of Axis agents in Latin America. Postal authorities will indict a bunch of U.S. operators who have been using the Good Neigh- bor policy to defraud Latin Americans out of large sums of money. The racket was an ingenious one. Posing as mail-order houses, the crooks flooded\ Latin American papers with ads offering at cut prices goods formerly supplied by German and Italian firms. In each instance the ad required the buyer to send payment in advance. Some of the promotions were on a huge scale. One advertisement which offered sets of "self- fitting" false teeth for $10 brought hundreds of responses. Another which offered a well-known patent medicine netted the racketeers more than $50,000. In every case, the buyers lost their money. The alleged mail-order houses consisted of noth- ing more than a lock box in a post office, changed at frequent intervals to avoid detection. No goods ever were shipped. Authorities first got wind of the racket when U.S. consuls reported being bombarded with complaints from victims. The consuls warned Washington that the fraud was giving U.S. business a black eye which no amount of good willing could overcome. So the Postal Inspection Service, which has jurisdiction over rackets of this nature, imme- diately got busy, with the result that in a few weeks 'ring leaders of the fraud will be "jail house bound." STUIILS # By Terence 4 &%111&%%%\\\\\\\\\ : \\\ \ t\%%1 THE American Review of the Soviet Union, a propaganda leaflet, states informatively that ther Soviet's mass voluntary society for civilian defense is popularly known as the Osoaviakhim, which, it seems ,is a handily abbreviated form of the Russian words for "Society for Assistance in Defense and in Aviation-Chemical Construc- tion." In short, the Moscow equivalent of an air raid warden is an osoaviakhimite. Which seems to be a very effective argument against war .... The fellows over in the Jackson State prison, a contemporary reports, took quite good naturedly the remark of a, visiting preacher: "We're all here for a time and then we are gone." * * * Diabolical Definitions: A gentleman is a man who will not strike a lady with his hat on .. . A true musician is one who, when he hears a lady singing in the bathtub, will put his ear to the keyhole . . . . Bigamy is an offense punishable by law; the extreme penalty is having two mothers-in-law. * * * SEEMS LIKE the Russians must be follow- ing the strategy of war the simple Chi- nese are using. Remember? First day, 100 China'boy die, kill 10 Japanese. Second day, 200 China boys die, kill 20 Japanese. Third day, 300 China boys die, kill 30 Japanese. Pretty soon no Japanese. * * * DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN 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 exceptton Saturday, when the notices should be submitted before 11:30 a.m. Tickets for the "Mystery Cycle" to be given in Hill Auditorium on Sun- day night, August 17, by the Depart- ment of Speech and the School of Music, are now available at the Sum- mer Session office (1213 A.H.), the Speech Department office (3211 A.H.) the School of Music, the Michigan Union, the Michigan League, and the IMendelssohn Theatre boxoffice. Admission will be by ticket, but tickets will be distributed free as long as they last. Student Graduation Recital: Rich- ard Whittington, Tenor, who is a student of Arthur Hackett, will pre- sent a recital in partial fulfillment of the degree of Master of Music at 8:30 p.m. on Friday, August 1, in the Rackham Assembly Hall. Mr. Charles Shradtr of Waverly, Ohio, who is also a graduate student in the School of Music will accompany Mr. Whittington. Graduate Outing Club will meet Sunday, August 3,-at 2:30 p.m. sharp, for trip to Big Portage Lake in, Water- loo Recreation Area. -To insure satisfactory transportation arrange- ments, reservations including twenty- five cent supper fee, should be made at Rackham check desk as early this week as possible. Car owners are urgently requested to call Alice Byer, 2-4914. For further information, call Miss Byer. All graduate students, faculty, and alumni are invited. Square dance booklets. The square dance booklets, "Good Morning" have come in and may be obtained at any time in the Social Director's Office, Michigan League. Women's Tennis Tournament: The 3rd round in the women's singles and GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty I That's the worst part of the Army-they teach them how to live on $21 a month and then they turn 'em back to us!" doubles TenNis Tournaments should be completed by August 3rd. "Storm Over Patsy" by James Bri- die and Bruno Frank will be presented at 8:30 p.m. tonight through Satur- day night at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre by the Michigan Repertory Players of the Department of Speech. Single admissions are 75c, 50c, and 35c. The boxoffice is open from 10:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. (Phone 6300). One-Act Plays: The Laboratory The- atre of the Department of Speech will present a bill of one-act plays Friday, August 1, at 3 p.m., and the Secondary School Theatre of the De- partment of Speech will present a sec- ond bill of one-act plays Saturday morning, August 2, at 10:00. Both programs will be presented in the Pattengill Auditorium of the Ann Arbor High School. These plays are directed, acted, produced, costumed, and the sets built by the students in acting, directing, and technical the- atre courses in the Department of Speech. . All students of the School (Continued on Page 4)= + Letters To The Editor To the Editor: The two recent communications which the Executive Council of the Y. C. L. has addressed to readers of The Daily, and the medial spurts of Mr. Bentley and Mr. Kessler, must offer much food for thought to those few who are allowing themselves in- telligent thought concerning the present war-to those, that is, who are trying to get a few yards off of the ground and view dispassionately and with perspective the views of botp the "appeasers" and the "inter- ventionists." The first "Y. C. L. Ex- planation" was, as Mr. Bentley stated, "wriltep with restraint and strength," but was, at the same time, a notable example of confused logic, illustrated best perhaps by its key paragraph: "The attack upon the USSR whose people own the means of production and who therefore by the very nature of a socialist econ- omy can in no way fight for any-, thing but their own national in- dependence, has changed the im- perialist war into a struggle of a free people for its own existence and for the maintenance of the national independence of all the peoples of the world." The second "communication" from the Y. C. L. has not the advantage of "restraint and strength," and, on the other hand, is quite plainly more confused than the first. To para- phrase Mr. Kessler: "To follow a line of reasoning merely because it happens to fall for the moment in accord with the political interests of a group, to rationalize oneself into a ,dictated course of reasoning," is ob- vious proof of insincerity. We must have the answer to sev- eral questions concerning the state- ments made in the paragraph quoted above from the "Y. C. L. Explana- tion" ere we can completely agree with it. First: why can not a people who "own the means of production"I (if such do really exist) fight for aught but their own independence? Presumably the "means of produc- tion" may seem inadequate even though they be communably owned. Second: in what way has the unwill- ing-nay, forced-entry of Russia into the war changed it from an "imperialist" struggle to a war for international freedom? The connec- tion is somewhat vague. Third: what reason have we to believe--other than the statements of the Y. C. L. which are obviously supplied it by its national headquarters-that the people of Russia do own the means of production? Anyone who takes the trouble to glance at the eighth book of Plato's Republic can see there described the process by which is evolved that form of government under which we have every reason to believe Russia suffers at the pres- ent time-tyranny or dictatorship. Why was Russia not interested im maintaining the "national indel~end- ence of all the people of the world" before she was attacked by Hitler? Previous to the quoted paragraph the Y. C. L. had made the statement that the Russian government "accepted the proposal of the German govern- ment for a treaty of non-aggression" and "adopted a policy of consistent neutrality toward both sides" not only in the interest "of the people of the USSR who desired peacefully to build their socialist society,", but also because this course "corre- sponded to the best interests of the peoples-of all landS." Why is it that both war and peace are humani- tarian so long as they are the policy of the USSR? , But let us not ask too many "em- barrassing" questions before we come to Communition No. II. Mr. Kessler had asked the question, "Where was Russian altriusm hidden in the case of the Finnish, Rumanian and Polish territorial snatches?" The answer- that "the present role of these three nations explains quite fully their own nature and the nature of Soviet for- eign policy"-says exactly nothing, and, what is more, is not even a neat evasion of the question. The 'fact that the Finus, in retaliation for the previous unprovoked Russian inva- sion of their country have allied themselves with the Germans against the Russians, must seem less repre- hensive than that the U.S. must ally itself with either Great Britain or Russia against Hitler-one alliance being perhaps as great an evil as the other. Is it not easier to read an in- dictment than a vindication of Rus- sia into their "answer?" In proceeding to the "answer" to Mr. Kessler's second question we might point out that he did not use the term 'flip-flop' which the Y. C. L. finds it so hard to tag with a definite meaning. (Nor would consultation with a dictionary help them any in the matter.) That however is irrele- vant. But is it not revealing, does it not vindicate Mr. Kessler's reference to "over-night reverses in the Com- munistic attitude" that they admit that "the Y. C. L. determines its program not at one grand session .. . no, the Y. C. L. bases its program on the particular situation which calls for analysis and action?" That the Soviet Bureau of Information does indeed follow this policy is only too apparent--intellectual honesty can be too "embarrassing." , There is an example further on'in this article of such "adaptation." Despite their previous reference to the Russo-Ger- man non-aggression pact we find the Y. C. L. making this statement: "That the Soviet Union has always been the bitter enemy of Hitlerism is proven beyond doubt today by the resistance that Hitler can only de- scribe as 'fanatical'." Did you notice that word "always?" Is this typical of Y. C. L. logic? The rest of Communication No. II is an elaborate confusion of two main ideas: first, that America's fight against Hitlerism must be made in alliance with Soviet Russia, and therefore, second, that this implies American acceptance of Soviet ideals and doctrine. Subsidiary to this is the proposition that the Anglo-Soviet Pact is the result of mutual ethical and -political understanding rather than a circumstance made unavoid- able by Germany's invasion of Rus- sia. These contentions are woven in- to a fugue'of bad logic and ill chosen premises which is full of discord and lacks mete measure. It is not the preservation of Ameri- can democracy (whatever that may be) but the extension of Russian anarchy (in the root sense of that word) which activates Russia's rela- tions with the United States. Whe- ther the United States must take part in this war is being decided- rightly or wrongly-in the affirma- tive by everything this country has done or is doing in respect of it. It is not a sudden decision that can be made at a single moment and (LIPS That Pass In the Type: The Michigan Daily, July 31: Thomas Points At Germany's Army Figures Don't you know it isn't polite to tor? A contributor contributes, for1 youth Headline in point, Sena- the sake of Fortieth Birthday At twenty I knew all the answers At thirty I had some doubt; At this stage of my age will some twenty- year sage Let me know what the whole thing's about. There's something remarkable about the United States. Trust Americans to come through. 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