4 DiSTHE MICHIGAN DAILY SATUR AV, AUGUST 16, 194 [E MICHIGAN DAILY Daily Calendar of Events Saturday, August 16 8:30 p.m. "The Gondoliers," by Gilbert and Sullivan. (Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.) 9:00 p.m. Social Evening. (League Ballroom.) Washington Merry- Go-Round 3, 1 Edited and managed by students of the University of chigan under the authority of the Board in Control Student Publications. 'ublisheds every morning except Monday during the iversity year and hummer Session. Member of the Associated Press the Associated 'Press is exclusively entitled to the for republication of all news dispatches credited to or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. Aill hts of republication !of all other matters herein also erved.E gntered at the post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, Si and class mail matter. 3ubscriptions during the regular school year by rier $4.00, by mail, X4.$0. REPRSEONTED POR NATIONAL ADVKRTIGING NY , National Advertising Service, Inc. * College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YoRK. iN. / CIICAGO * BoSTON . Los ANGELES * SAN FRANCISCO ember, Associated Collegiate Press, 1940-41 ly DRw PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN. naging Editor y Editor ociate Editor ociate' Editor rts Editor men's Editor Editorial Sta . . . .r. .f . . Karl Kessler *Harry' M. Kelse , . Willam 'Baker Eugene Mandeberg Albert P. Blaustein . Barbara Jenswold Business Staff, usiness Manager . . . . Daniel H. Huyett ocal Advertising. Manager . . . Fred M. Gi isberg romen's Advertising Manager . . Florence Schurgin NIGHT DITOR: BILL BAKER The editorials published in The Michi- gan Daily are written by emeibers of The t Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. lo The Class f '45... OU who intend to wear '45 after your j name have chosen an interesting ime to be freshmen, just as all of us. have chosen ,n interesting generation in which to be born. As 'ou enter a period of higher education to learn tow to think more clearly, critically, and individ- tally,. there is a growing national tendency to hannel thought into a "united effort'for de- ense." Some leading patriots think 'that' any pposition to their ideas ist un-American; that ree speech is a bottle-neck in the advance gainst dictatorship; that those who refuse to eap on the all-out bandwagon are intriguing or unconscious" abetters of Naziism. These people elieve the only way to defend America is to sus- >end democracy. WITH THIS NEWSPAPER we of The Daily issue the Class of '45 a challenge. We believe ive student newspaper open to all shades of pinion. Each year we re-pledge ourselves to 'epresent the student body. And we do, for our taff is open to everyone eligible to join and our etters columns are open to all who -are willing o observe the ethics of journalism. We are glad o give the campus this kind of paper because he University has guaranteed us absolute free- lom of opinion within the limits of good taste, ccuracy, and clear thinking; and if in the future his freedom is abridged, it will not be The Daily hat has let you down. Alongwith this newspaper we of The Daily, ssue the Class df '45 a challenge. We believe hat the students of the University, from fresh- nen to grauates, are as capable of formulating and expressing opinions as the average American. Ve believe that the leaders of tomorrow have as nuch thinking ability today as the common man. Ve do note believe that old age and'wisdom are he opposites of youth and enthusiasm, for recent listory has shown that too many mature people lave gained no lesson from experience, and too nany others have learned to dodge bullets with- ut having been shot. Our challenge is that you reshmen start preparing yourselves now for the >roblems being prepared for you now by your athers. We trust you will want to read, criticize, and upport a newspaper that offers you not only the zews of the campus and the world, but an oppor- ;unity and challenge to study, think and speak or yourself and the future of your country. -Emile Gele, Managing Editor, 1941-42 WASHINGTON-One of the most serious problems of the defense program is a shortage of electricity. OPM experts estimate that the de- ficiency imay run as high as 800,000 kilowatts next year. Already civilian consumption has had to be curbed in some areas, and pending in Con- gress is a bill for nationwide daylight saving. Yet projects that would provide hundreds of millions of kilowatts of additional power have been stymied for eight months by a fierce tug-of- war inside the Administration. ALL of the participants in this row distrust the big power companies, have battled against them for years. Yet now they are battling among themselves so bitterly that the private power companies may come out on top.a Sole&cause of this battle is who should be boss of the new defense electric power projects. Nothing else is at issue. But over this issue the New Dealers have bickered and the President has teetered from one side to the other for almost a year. Meanwhile the power shortage becomes increasingly urgent. The Contestants Three groups are embroiled: 1 Secretary Harold, Ickes, who insists that control be vested in his Department of Interior. He contepds that only by such centralized au- thority will it be opssible to +obtain uniformity and standardization. Otherwise there will be wide variations among the projects, impairing theirusefulness and playing into the hands of the utilities. 2. Vigorously opposing Ickes are Senator George Norris of Nebraska, father of TVA; Rep- resentative Clyde Ellis of Arkansas, militant young New Dealer, who is backing an Arkansas Valley Authority with potentialities twice as gre~t at TVA; Senator Homer Bone of Washing-. ton, sponsor of a Columbia Valley Authority em- bracing the great Bonneville and Grand Coulee projects; Senator William Butlw of South Da- kota, author of a bill for an Upper Missouri Val- ley Authority; and Governor Culbert Olson of California, advocate of a CenralValley Author- ity in his state. THIS GROUP has nothing against Ickes per- sonally, readily concedes he is an able and public-minded executive. But they contend he will not be Secretary of Interior forever; also that each section should have a voice in the man- agement of its project and that this is possible only through separate Authorities. 3. Third contestant is Leland Olds, chairman of the Federal Power Commission, who has aroused the ire of Ickes, Norris and other public- power champions with a defense power-pool plan which they think plays directly into the hands of utility interests. Olds has been a pub- lic-power supporter, but his critics charge that he is sacrificing public interests in an ambitious effort to make himself the big-shot of the power picture.! "' 4 FDR All O er The Map In this Tangle the President has been on all sides, sometimes all at the same time. The fight started a week after the election last November, when Roosevelt asked young Ellis and Governor Olson to prepare bills for their pro- posed Arkansas Valley and Central Valley Au- thorities. They summoned David Lilienthal, ace TVA director, to assist them in the drafting. Two days before the new Congress convened in January, when Ellis planned to introduce his Arkansas measure, Ickes went to the president and protested setting up an independent Author- ity. Ickes insisted that administrative controlof the vast project be put in his hands. NEXT DAY White House word went to Ellis to hold up his bill while a compromise was worked out with Ickes. Ellis agreed to make the effort, but it got nowhere. Norris, who carries great influence in the Senate on power issues, insisted on an independent Arkansas Authority. So, did Senator Bone of Washington and the others. Still striving to please both sides, Roosevelt then suggested a plan. He would name an Ad- ministrator for all the projects, who would report to him through Ickes. The formula was rejected on the ground that in practice it would mean Ickes would be the real boss. Olds Makes His Bid Finally, after a luncheon conference with Ickes, the President took another tack and wrote a let- ter to Senator Bone urging that his Columbia Valley project be put under Ickes. Bonneville and Grand Coulee already are under the Interior Department and the President suggested it would simplify enactment of legislation if Ickes was given control in the new set-up. If the letter was intended as a peace move, it had an exactly opposite effect. Bone hit the ceiling. Ickes' management of Bonneville and Grand Coulee is not popular in the Pacific North- west. Bone shot back a flat rejection of Roose- velt's proposal and announced his intention to shortage, Olds, without consulting Ickes, or the Rural Electrification Administration, or the Se- curities and Exchange Commission, or other members of the National Power Policy Coimit- tee, submitted a plan making the utilities top- dog in the set-up. Dropping their differences for the moment, Ickes, REA, TVA, Norris, and the others turned their guns on-Olds. The raking which this am- bitious New Yorker got is one he will long re- member. Roosevelt Changes Attitude The shooting is still not over. But apprised by Ickes of Olds' scheme, Roosevelt has ordered Olds to make important modifications in the proposed grid system; also hereafter to work in cooperation with the REA, SEC and Power Policy Committee. However, Olds still harbors a yen to make himself defense power czar, and there may be more eruptions on this score. Meanwhile, whether because of irritation at this attempted maneuver or because of the long delay in the four big projects, the President is giving indications that he will line up with the independent Authority group. Just before de..- parting on his sea cruise he told Congressman Ellis to go ahead with his Arkansas Valley Au- thority bill. THE AUTHORITY GROUP considers this de- velopment highly significant, because it fol- lowed on the heels of a talk Ickes had with the President. Inside word is that at this conference Roosevelt told his tenacious Secretary of In- terior it was "no dice", and that he had finallly decided against the Secretary's demand for con- trol of the four power projects. Ambassador's Press Relations When Lord Halifax became Foreign Secretary three years ago, he picked a man named Charles Peake to be head of his new department. And when Halifax was appointed Ambassador to Washington, Peake came along as his personal assistant. Peake's office is in the British Embassy on Massachusetts Ayenu, close to the Ambassador himself. He handles the Ambassador's mail, pub- lic engagements and press relations. When the Hess story broke, Halifax was in Kansas City. Peake was with him. The Ambassa- dor's address was already prepared and distri- buted, but Peake urged that he include some ref- erence to the Hess incident. Halifax wrote a tail twister for the end of his speech, and the aud- ience ate it up.; TIE BEST WAY to know Peake is to hear him talk: "The Ambassador has a tremendous cor- respondence. We answer everything; that is, al- most everything. When they're clearly balmy, we don't bother. "You chaps of the press have been awfully good. In fact, that goes for the whole country. This may sound terribly trite, but I've never seen anything like your American hospitality. Nothing is too much trouble. It amazes me! "This makes it difficult to form an opinion about 'isolation. Is it just the kindness of your hearts, or does it mean-? But, look here, it would be highly imprudent of me to try to pon- tificate about isolationism. / "All I can say is, they were so cordial to the Ambassador during his trip that it was actually exhausting." by an Eciadorian] AL CARILLON DE ANN ARBOR Campanas sensitivas, campanas inelodiosas Que a Schubert interpretan y a Beethoven imitan; Campanas que elevando plegarias dolorosas, Hacen del alma noble, cual punado de rosas, Deshojar emociones, deshojar sentimientos, Y hasta al que nunca'supo sentir nada en la vida, Hieren vuestros lamentos. El viajero suspende su paso para oiros, En extasis y atonito su espiritu se eleva. Es una serenata la que el viento le lleva. Al monje que en coloquios se encuentra antes el altar Con el Ave Maria le ayudais a rezar. Y vuestras melodias van brotando a raudales Mientras se van Ilenando las almas de ideales. Teresa Bueno Ecuador TO THE CARILLON OF ANN ARBOR Sensitive chimes, melodious chimes Interpreting Schubert and imitating Bee-" thoven; Chimes that exalt painful prayers, Make the soul noble like a handful of roses, And even of one who never was able to grieve in life LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Peculiar Coincidence To The Editor: Every once in a while there occurs a coincidence so remarkable that one wonders whether the laws of proba- bility are all that is claimed. On page two of this morning's Daily, the first column contains Karl Kessler's editorial, the theme of which is that engineers don't know enough outside of pure technology. And in the fourth column is a "Letter to the Editor" which is a perfect specimen of the so-called thinking of just the kind of engineer that Kessler had in mind,- the chap who can't - see beyond the technical operation of machines to the psychology (both individual and mass) of the men who operate them. I do not wish to lambaste'the en- gineers or to enter the controversy over the length of service of draftees. What I do wish to point out is the absurdity of the idea that it takes only six weeks to train a man for mechanized warfare. This notion springs solely from our engineer's in- ability to see that the soldier's train- ing involves anything more than training him to "master these ma- chines of, destruction",-that is, to become proficient in the handling of certain weapons. O TAKE an illustration from my professional field, I am sure that I could teach a man of average me- chanical ability all that I know about the operation of our large telescope in about one week of intensive train- ing, but it would not make an astron- omer of him, Still better is the fol- lowing illustration which ought to drive the point home: suppose nine men were individually trained to per- fection in pitching, batting, catching, and running, and were then turned loose, without any training in team play; how long would they stand up against' the greenest sandlot crowd? I'm thinking of selling this idea to a Iollywood producer; it may have the makings of a good comedy. But the same idea applied to the training of soldiers has the makings of a first-class tragedy. An army must work as a coordinated whole. It is not just a mob, equipped with impliments for killing, and turned loose with instructions to each man as an individual to kill as many of the enemy as possible. Maybe our engineer is naive enough to think so. However proficient a man may be in the handling of this or that deadly weapon; he is almost useless as a soldier unless he can employ it effectively in conjunction with other members of his unit. And each unit is relatively ineffective unless it is handled so asuto supplement the work of other units. That, in brief, is why it takes many months to make a soldier ready for combat. One of the major obstacles in the way of our National Defense is the widespread lack of understanding of what military training really is. However much one may complain about the injustice (if such it be) of holding draftees longer than a year, it would be a crime to turn them loose with incomplete training in the es- sential element that distinguishes an army from a mob: TEAMWORK. The trained soldier has a vastly greater chance of survival than the half-trained one. And when (I don't say "if"), the war comes, it will not wait until the second half of the training is completed. Dean B. McLaughlin, Professor of Astronomy J World War I A statistical analysis of the 902 major wars fought betweeen 500 B. C. and 1920 A. D. using as factors their duration, the number of countries and combatants involved and the cas- ualties, showed that the World War of 1914-1918 was eight times larger than the other 901 combined. -Colliers "Jack rabbit" stars and abrupt stops waste gasoline, according to the Department of Commerce. -! SO you're coming to the University of Michigan: Tsk, tsk. Poor fel- low! But I'll tell you my story and maybe that will help you out a little. Maybe it will rescue from the same path of ruin that I followed. My Odyssey might be called Inno- oents Abroad or The Adventures of a Kansan in Ann Arbor. You see, I come from Kansas. From a small town inKansas called Cherry Hill Center. .50 people. But don't hold that against me. WELL, I'd never been east until I came to Ann Arbor. I'd lived a nice, quiet, innocent existence back on the farm, and hadn't ever seen one of these critters called an "East- erner." I guess I really hadn't seen life yet. But fella, I was due for a rude awakening. My first encounter with one of the critters was in a popular sandwich joint on State Street, which the busi- ness staff won't let me mention by name. (There's another tip, pal: if you come out for The Daily, don't come near anyone on' the business staff. The editorial bunch is much nicer and we got prettier girls.) Any- way, I went into this place and or- dered a ham sandwich and a glass of milk, being very anxious to do like my mother had told me and get my good old quart of milk every day. WSELL, pretty soon a fella enters with a furtive look on his face and sits down at the counter. He surveyed the assembled multitude with a contumelious stare (got that one from English 160. Skip it, though. Pretty tough course.) Then he looked at the guy behind the counter sort of haughty like, and nasals: "I say, old chappie, can you bring me a cheese sand- wich and a cup of tea." Now can you imagine that, fella. A cup of tea. Well, I just set there drinking my milk like my ma told me to and wondered ... The next experience I had with one of those Easterners was during Registration. You go into a great pig building where everyone is yelling and shouting and scurrying around trying to get into any section but an WELL, anyway, I was standing in that mass of humanity when a guy comes up to me with that unhealthy look on his pan which I now instinctively associated with Easterners. He asked me if he could borrow my fountain pen, and being anxious to please and make friends, I said Sure, and gave it to him. And do you know I never saw the pen or that fellaagain. .so I did some more wondering about these here Easterners. But the worst was yet to come. I hadn't seen anything yet, pal. Through the good offices of a house mother a blind date was arranged for me. (That's another thing to watch out for: don't trust blind dates that house mothers get for you, and be awful careful of exchange din- ners . .. you always lose.) WELL, anyway, the blind, date was arranged for me. And it turned out to be with a girl from the East. From the Bronx, to be exact. Now back home when I went out on a date, which wasn't more than once or twice a year, it was a pretty simple affair. And that's sort of what I figured on here . . . movie downtown- the 20-cent one - a five-cent bag of popcorn to eat an the way home, and we'd be in by o9:30, which is plenty late enough to be out with any woman. But as I said before, I didn't know much about life. It didn't turn out that way at all. First there was a dance at the ,Union, and then to a downtown tavern which the business staff won't let mnp mention by narhe again, and her 12 beers and my glass of milk. And then we went to a place called the Arboretum. WELL, -before I tell'youabout what happened to me there, I'll tell you the definition of the Arboretum which I later discovered, but, alas. too late! "The Arboretum is a tract of land donated to the University for biological research, but now used for more practical and amorous pur- poses." Now I think you know what that means. And like I say this here date of mine wanted to go to the Arbore- tum, and being nice and chivalrous like they taught me to be to women back on the farm, I went. And I've regretted it ever since. YOU SEE, fella, I'd never hit a woman before in my life. But before I got home that night I had to slap that fresh young thing three times . . AND that's my story. It's sad, I know, but true. And if you profit from it, fella, then I will feel that I didn't lose all in vain. (And have a nice time at the U. of M. this fall. It's a pretty swell place, in spite of everything, fella. But be careful.) For Coeds Only Next to dress the topic dearest to the hearts of women is their weight and how to reduce it. But they talk mc.-1y nohnnii1n net ,~av-nd nly hes-. rorn The Class )f '41. I WE WHO ARE LEAVING our under- graduate days to gather dust with the 1941 yearbooks extend to you, the campus leaders of 1945, a sincere welcome and hope that you shall be able to make the most of the curricu- lar and extra-curricular facilities of the Univer- sity. By enrolling in the University, you are accept- ing an opportunity and a challenge. Here you will find the necessary background for a liberal education-what you do with that background, what you carry away from Michigan is entirely up to you. When you leave the Campus four years hence, you will receive a richly engraved piece of sheep- skin. 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