THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDA, AUGUST 20.,1 941 Daily Calendar of Events Wednesday, August 20- 4:05 p.m. Lecture.. "The Nature and Scope of Pupil Personnel Work." Myers, Professor of Vocational Education and Guidance.{ High School Auditorium.) George E. (Univex'ity __ i 'Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON andB ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON-There was a good reason why Lord Beaverbrook, dynamic Minister of Supply, listed tanks as the No. 1 objective of his visit to the U.S. He flew over largely to try to persuade our Army chiefs to lend-lease him the major share of our growing output. There is sharp division in the Army over this. Armored unit commanders have been champing at the bit for the tanks now beginning to roll off assembly lines. They need the equipment not only to train their men and officers but to keep up morale-which sags when modern war ma- chines are missing or simulated. Buck privates to generals have griped over being forced to "play at soldiering." This was one of the main causes for the strong sentiment among citizen soldiers against extension of their year's service. They could raise no enthusiasm for continuing to train without equipment. On the other hand, the General Staff believes that it is far more vital to the immediate security of the U.S. to let our tanks and other arma- ment help hold off the Nazis 3,000 miles from our shores. The strategists contend that a U.S. tank is performing infinitely more valuable service knocking out Nazis on the torrid deserts of North Africa, or the bloody steppes of Russia, than using up oil in a training camp in Texas. They favor sending most of our new tanks to Britain for the present, and Beaverbrook's mission is to clinch that argument. British Need The British need for tanks, particularly for the latest type, 32-ton medium tanks, is ex- tremely urgent. It was lack of these that caused the rut in Greece and prevents the British from taking the offensive in Libya and on the continent. Also, without medium tanks the British would be in desperate straits should Hitler make his feared overland move into Spain and Portugal, across the Strait of Gibraltar and down the At- lantic coasi of French West Africa to Dakar. Thanks to the U.S., the British are well sup- plied with light 12-ton tanks. So far they have received about 500, together with spare parts. r Only loss was one shipload of parts torpedoed last month in the South Atlantic. These light tanks have given a good account of themselves. They are superior to similar German and Italian types. But mounting only 50-caliber guns and lightly armored, they are no match, as Greece and Libya have proved, for medium Axis tanks. The British have in operation only 160 of their own new type mediums, and these are being kept in England, to resist invasion. New tank output by Britain's strained industry will continue to be small. England must depend on us to equip its rapidly expading armored forces.4 That's why Beaverbrook is so hungrily eying our mounting production of medium tanks- fast, heavily armored, mounting 75-mm cannon, and the most powerful of their kind. By next month the new Chrysler plant in De- troit alone will be turning out 450 a month. Other firms will get into production in the fail and winter, and by next sping tanks will be rolling off assembly lines fast enough to equip two divisions a month. But in the meantime the big question is how to divide those now being produced, between U.S. and British requirements. Beaverbrook hopes to return with the answer in favor of Britain. How We Do It (?) Blair Bolles, Washington Star ace reporter, was approached the other day by Yelverton Garnett, an ex-reporter for The Star who said he had been commissioned by the Navy De- partment to find out where Pearson and Allen got their news about the Navy and what naval officers were responsible for leaks to the Merry- Go-Round column. Bolles, without a flicker of an eyelash, replied: "Don't you know how it's done? It's done by a network of bribery. They bribe messenger boys and stenographers and elevator opeators. They brie everybody. That's how they get their news."." "Really!" gasped Garnett, his eyes wide with astonishment, and he rushed off to tell the Navy. Knox's Censorship Ex-publisher, now sailorman Frank Knox has been crabbing about newspaper publication of navy news and issuing denials about the use of American planes and vessels in patrolling with (or accompanying) British ships. Last week, however, a large advertisement ap- peared in metropolitan papers stating that the Secretary of the Navy viould tell in Collier's Weekly about how an American naval officer rode in the U.S.-built navy patrol bomber which first sighted the Bismarck and contributed to her sinking. Lessons From Crete There is an air-power vs. sea-power lesson for the United States in hitherto secret details of the battle of Crete which have now leaked out. British warships damaged by the Nazi airplane barrage over Crete are still being re- paired in shipyards in Singapore and elsewhere in the Pacific. The Warspite, a 32,000-ton British battleship, was struck by a torpedo in the bow, causing the gasoline stored there to catch fire. Result was that the entire front of the vessel was melted or blown away. Thanks to its sealed water-tight compartments, the big battle-wagon stayed afloat. And with engines running in reverse, she managed to back 'to Alexandria, Egypt, 500 miles away. Then the stern of a merchant ship was riveted on the bow of the Warspite and it limped through the Suez Canal to Singapore. Singapore. how- ever, was so busy repairing other British ships damaged at Crete, that the Warspite went else- where. Isolationist 'Terror' Senate isolationists, skilled in breast-beating about the sanctity of free speech, appear to be staging an organized drive to dry up the press, radio and the movies. First sign of this was the barring Qf Walter Winchell and other anti-isolationist commenta- tors by three Montana radio stations owned by friends of Senator Burt Wheeler. Next was the resolution introduced by isola- tionist Senators Nye and D. Worth Clark to in- vestigate "war propaganda" by the movies and radio. Maneuvered to Wheeler's Interstate Com- merce Committee, the probe has actually been launched, though not approved by the Senate or money voted for it. Wheeler has simply held "public hearings" on the resolution-by a five- man committee packed with four isolationist cronies. The latest whip-cracking came from isola- tionist Senator Homer Bone of Washington. E. L. Groome comments on "The Military Spotlight" twice weekly over Station WWDC in the Capital. Last Friday night he gave a mild criticism of Lindbergh. Five minutes later, Senator Bone telephoned the radio station, peremptorily demanded the manager and caustically bawled him out for permitting Groome to "make such statements" over the air. Bone declared it was an "outrage" and ordered that a copy of the broadcast be on his desk without fail the following morning. Bone is a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission., He also has an interest in a large Seattle radio station. Senator Caraway The Shoreham terrace is the swanky, high- priced rendezvous where lobbyists and debu- tantes dance under the summer stars. Into this scene one evening came the modest little figure of Hattie Caraway, Senator from Arkansas. Hat- tJe is not a debutante any, more, but she had some young relatives visiting her and wanted to give them a good time. As the evening wore on, she was persuaded to oin the group on the dance floor. Hattie is short and her partner was six feet tall, but she kept up the rhythm of the dance and enjoyed herslf. After she had sat down, a voice called from a neighboring table. It was her Senatorial col- league, Tom Connally of Texas. "I see you were dancing," said Senator Con- nally. Hattie smiled. "If that's what you want to call it," she replied. Merry-Go-Round Politicos of both parties are watching with keen interest the attempted comback campaign ~ of former Representative Tom Amlie of Wiscon- sin, running for the seat of the late Representa- tive Bolles. Reason for their interest is that Amlie, a fighting Progressive, is making the race as a Democrat, an experiment that if successful will be followed in next year's regular primary by a number of other Progressive Party leaders who are fed up with the isolationist-appeasement stand of the LaFollette brothers. Commjes And Strikes Before June 22 every strike in a shipyard or munitions plant evoked a Communist scare. "The Commies are back of it," said folks who put two and two together and get a hundred. Disciples of the old-fashioned doctrine that two and two make four, and only four, found it diffi- cult to believe that an insignificant pack of crackpots and frustrates could stir up all that trouble. And moreover only a few of the American Commies even know how to talk to workingmen' -they do better in studio parties and campus, wrangles than on the firing lines of industrial warfare. But Stalin was Hitler's pal, and the fI SNPID UStu By Terence SLIPS That Pass In The Type: The -Michigan Daily reports on Hank Greenberg and the draft: The baseball star, who was se- lected as the American League's most outstanding player last year, was less talkative. He told re- porters he had nothing to say about reports he would seek imme- diate release from service is full of Hopps playing baseball or football or running or jumping. The Michigan Daily, August 19 And him in the public eye, too! * * * ONLY one more cramming day un- til finals. So, as one of the many special services of this column, I will pre- sent here a few examples from my own file of perfect comprehensive final examinations, in the hope that they may be of some slight aid to you in preparing for your own finals: ASTRONOMY 31 1.In which way are stars brighter than they are? 2. How far? ENGLISH 31 1. What is poetry and if you know what poetry is, why in hell did you take this course? 2. Discuss the following. FORESTRY I 1. Poplars, quite naturally, will be chopped down and will be sawed up and will be utilized as wood. 2. Go out and chop down the near- est catalpa tree and enclose it in your bluebook as an exam- ple of your axhandicraft. Stu- dents will not be allowed to converse while out of the room. And don't cut yourself! PHYSICS 71 1. How did the world get along be- fore the law of gravity was passed? 2. If a sound is made which in- creases in volume and then stops, how many times may it be Repeated? 3. If a squirrel runs froin one end of the cage to the other, and then runs to the other end, doubling his speed each trip, how long will it be before he meets himself coming back? ENGLISH 107 1. Nouns are, the names of any- thing. ENGLISH 165 1. Poetry is essentially a vocabu- lary, just as prose is essen- tially not. When? ORAL PENMANSHIP 1. Leave vacant all the blanks in the following questions. MENTAL HI-JACKING-10 (This examination wa lost from my files when the cat con- sumed it. The cat later died.) HISTORY II. 1. Battles are named because there have been hills which have made a hill in a battle. Dis- cuss. Be brief but specific. 2. Outline concisely the course of history from then to now, pay- ing particular attention to the period in between, and also indicate thebtype of fauna in- habiting the earth during that age. Limit your answer to 50,000 words. HISTORY OF ROMAN BAND INSTRUMENTS 13 (This course omitted in 1940-41.- ECONOMICS 51 1. The retail prise og sdferht wer qwei in a sdferweter in 1931, erwe wai wertertsd in 1940. Discuss this statement briefly. Be concise in all your answers. 2. Elucidate on the point pro- pounded in Footnote 14 on page 647 in Schlicter. Confine your answer to five pages. Be concise. AND with these little aids to study- ing, I leave you to your books. Happy finals, people! Ersatz Ersatz We have surrendered our alumin- um pots and pans, swept the counters of silk, turned to plastics, adopted plywood in place of metal and wood where we could, expressed our will- ingness to use silver instead of tin for soldering, and otherwise re- adjusted our mode of living because of the shortage of essentials. If only a change of raw materials were called for, the problem of production would be easier than it is. Manufacturers know better. To substitute glass for metal in decorative lamps is not so easy. The plant that knows how to handle metal knows nothing of melt- ing, casting and working glass, nor does it know where to turn for the necessary new equipment in these days of priorities. There is also the problem of raw materials, particular- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Faculty, College of Literature, Sci- ence, and The Arts: It is requested by the Administrative Board that all instructors who make reports of In- complete or Absent from Examina- tion on grade-report-sheets give also information showing the character of the part of the work which has been completed. This may be done by the use of the symbolsE (A), X(D), etc. E. A. Walter Student Graduation Recital: Nellie Boswell, Mezzo-Sopran'o, who is doing graduate work in the School fo Music thissummer, will present a recital in partial fulfillment of the require- ments for the degree of Master of Music at 8:30 p.m. this evening in the Rackham Assembly Hall. The recital is open to the general public. Doctoral Examination for Sholto Marion Spears, Civil Engineering; Thesis: "Psychological Factors in Highway Design and Traffic Control Problems," Wednesday, August 20, at 2:00 p.m., in 1224 East Engineering Bldg. Chairman, R. L. Morrison. The last carillon recital of the summer session will be presented by Percival Price, University Carillon- neur, from 7:15 to 8 p.m., Thursday, August 21, in the Burton Memorial Tower. The program will consist en- tirely of compositions by Professor Price including a sonata for 43 bells, a Canadian suite, and a ballet whicqh was composed for a special perform- ance in Ottawa, Canada. Hopwood Contestants: All students who have won prizes will be notified by special delivery letter not later than Thursday noon. Contestants may call for their manuscripts at the Hopwood Room after five o'clock on Thursday or on Friday from 9 to 12 or from 2 to 5:30. R. W. 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