r( THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1941, __ ,. _ s. ....... .. .... . . ...... r THE MICHIGAN DAILY ... ..,. " ' Daily Calendar of Events Thursday, July 10- 7:15 p.m. Concert on the Charles Baird Carillon. 7:30 p.m. Duplicate Bridge. (Michigan League.) Anyone wishing to play is it r - invited, -w- . Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. PuAlished every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session. 8:30 p.m. Come with or without partners. "George Washington Slept Here," by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. (Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.) Washington Merry-Go-Round 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. 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Florence Schurgin NIGHT EDITOR: BARBARA JENSWOLD The editorials published in The Michi- gan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Hemispheres Are Dated... CARTOGRAPHERS FROM Prince Henry's day onward turned over in their graves or held their heads in their studies the other day, but Ptolemy and his gang smiled down from the heavens; they never allowed for a Western Hemisphere anyway. President Roosevelt, while not denying the existence of a dividing line between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, says he has given up trying to determine where the line ran, which is tantamount to saying that, if necessary for convenience, it can be stretched elastically to include practically any point in what geogra- phers used to call the Eastern Hemisphere. Thus a hemisphere ceases to be one of two equal parts into which a sphere is divided by a plane running through its center and becomes the larger of two unequal parts into which a sphere is divided by a President running through its possibilities. IT MAKES LITTLE DIFFERENCE to the man on the street where such imaginary lines as those between hemispheres are drawn on the map until he remembers that certain documents of his government have been drawn up in terms of these hemispheres. Thus, the Selective Service Act of 1940 stated that draftees should not be sent for service outside the Western Hemisphere except to U.S. possessions. Thus, if the line dividing the Eastern and Western Hemispheres ~is such that it can be stretched by executive decree, the Selective Serv- ice Act provides no restriction other than execu- tive order over where our new draftee army can serve. This point was a major subject in last summer's Congressional debate. The President seems to have this fact already well in mind. When questioned Tuesday by re- porters concerning General Marshall's recom- mendation of holding draftees over the one year limit and removing the Western Hemisphere restriction, President Roosevelt approved of the former and considered the latter to be unim- portant. Or did he mean unnecessary? EVIDENTLY Congress must learn to be more specific in its wordings. Hereafter, such phrases should be written "the Western Hemi- sphere as of 1940" or "our hemisphere as denoted on the Rand-McNally world map of 1938." Or better yet note specifically the boundaries in terms of latitude and longitude. . -- Harry M. Kelsey WASHINGTON-The 1942 political rumba is still a long way off, but the politicos already have begun to cast their eyes over possible can- didates. One of their chief topics of discussion is the governorship of New York. Herbert Lehman, thrice governor of the Em- pire State, is certain not to run again. This cre- ates a wide open situation for a prize considered a stepping stone to the 1944 Presidential contest. Remember that Franklin Roosevelt went from the Executive Mansion in Albany to the White House in 1932. ANUMBER of hopefuls are known to be ready to try their luck, chief among them Repub- lican Tom Dewey and Democratic Lieutenant Governor Charles Poletti. Dewey came near beating Lehman in 1938 and his yen for the Presidency is undiminished. As governor of New York, he would have the inside track of another shot at this ambition. Poletti is a political pro- tege of Lehman and was selected as running- mate on his insistence. But the most interesting possibility being men- tioned in inner political circles is Wendell Will- kie. Particularly significant is that this talk is coming from Democrats as well as Republicans. These Democrats are not the party bolters who supported Willkie against Roosevelt last year. They are men who fought Willkie bitterly then, but now feel differently because of his outspoken stand against isolationism and appeasement. CONVINCED that this issue will dominate the 1942 elections, these Democrats already are discussing the possibility of starting a boom for Willkie as a fusion candidate for governor. Note-Willkie has not been approached on the idea, has given no intimation even to close friends that he is interested. But the idea is in the air, and, as proved in 1940, anything can happen in politics. Germany vs. Russia One of the key factors in gauging the Russo- German war is that the Germans are marvels at transportation; the Russians are not. As long the the Red Army can force the Nazis to fight a digging-in, slow type of warfare, Hit- ler's forces are up against it. But whenever Nazi mechanized columns are out ahead, dodging through Russian wheat fields, then even if they sometimes get cut off from their own forces, the advantage is very much with Germany. So far, the Nazis have employed exactly the same tactics they used so successfully in France, cutting through enemy lines with one mechan- ized spearhead, then widening that spearhead with infantry. THIS USE of infantry is one tactic of the Ger- man army which most people have not real- ized. For although the shock attacks have been accomplished by tanks and heavily armored troops, Germany's great military genius has been the ability to bring up horse-drawn infantry im- mediately and widen the gap made by the panzers. In the campaign against France, U.S. military experts estimated that the Germans used about 700,000 horses to bring up infantry, field kitch- ens, hospitals, food, guns, ammunition and all the other vast paraphernalia of war. Nazis Learned From Circus Inability to organize transportation is one of the Russian army's greatest defects-especially so while transport trains, airports, railroad trains and switch yards are being bombed ceaselessly from the air. Also the Russians have no genius whatsoever for repair. Trucks and tanks will get out of kilter and the Russians simply aban- don them on the roadside. The Nazis, in con- trast, will be on hand with traveling garages and repair the stalled equipment immediately. So this war, spread over very long distances, may be won by the army which .has the best organized transportation. Note-The Nazis learned the art of quick transportation by coming to the United States and studying the American circus-probably the greatest development of the technique of quick unloading, hauling and repairing. Merry-Go-Round T HE WHITE HOUSE is the oldest federal building in Washington. Designed by James Hoban, an Irishman living in Charleston, S. C., the mansion was completed in 1800 and the first President to occupy it was John Adams . . .. It was originally called the "President's Palace" by L'Enfant, French engineer who laid out the Cap- ital. President Theodore Roosevelt was the first to designate it officially as the White House, in' an executive order issued October 21, 1901 .... Assistant Secretary of Commerce Robert Hinck- ley was responsible for the dispatch of the group of crack airplane mechanics to Britain to fa- miliarize the RAF with the repair and main- U.S. Fatigue Pills Those mysterious anti-fatigue pills fed Ger- man soldiers before going into battle are nothing new to the U.S. Army. In fact, U.S. nutrition experts have gone the Germans one better. The Nazi pill is simply a tablet made of a mix- ture of corn sugar and citric acid. The acid causes a flow of saliva which in turn promotes quick digestion of the corn sugar, giving the sol- dier a "lift" within a few minutes after the pill is swallowed. US. ARMY EXPERTS have developed a much improved version, known as Type D su- per-emergency ration. It consists of a concen- trated chocolate bar fortified with vitamin B. The bar weighs one ounce, can be carried in the soldier's pocket and will withstand heat up to 120 degrees. It it enclosed in a special wrapper which will resist eight hours of mustard gas attack. One bar is the energy equivalent of a full meal. The Army also has developed a special ration for pilots, consisting of a cracker containing whole wheat, soybean meal, ground beef muscle, whole milk, hydrogenated fat, vitamins and minerals. This cracker will withstand tropical heat without spoiling. By A. P. BLAUSTEIN It finally happened. For the first time in three long years, the speech department came 'through last night with a production that ,even my old sourpuss Uncle Looie would have liked. In brief, the Michigan Repertory Players' "George Washing- ton Slept Here" was good-puh-lenty good. The comedy itself, and Kaufman and Hart heartily agree, is nothing to write home about but the combination of the best acting we've seen in Ann Arbor and really swell directing by Valentine B. Windt make this one play on the summer season schedule that one shouldn't miss. Here's the plot in a nutshell: Newton Fuller buys an old farmhouse that Washington was supposed to have slept in, and, despite the ob- jections of wife Annabelle, moves in. Annabelle is sore about the whole idea-and with good rea- sons. The couple have no water in their home, road trouble, disagreeable neighbors, etc., and to make things worse a visit from a brat nephew and an uncle that has to be petted to insure their inheritance. Finally things get even worse and they are in danger of losing their house, losing their inherit- ance and even losing their daughter. But then lady luck neatly steps in. The good woman solves their troubles handily and sets them on the road to "live happily ever after." Cast in the leading roles as Newton and Anna- belle were Norm Oxhandler, a Play Production veteran, and Claribel Baird, a speech professor from Oklahoma. Both were superb. Oxhandler easily lived up to his reputation around here as being the best student actor on the campus, and Mrs. Baird made a complete mockery of Shaw's old witticism that "those who can do and those who cannot teach." But despite their excellence there were a couple of other performers who almost stole the show. Prof. William P. Halstead as Uncle Stanley proved himself a lot more impressive on the stage than we've ever seen him in classroom, really going to town beautifully in the closing minutes of the play. Other top-notch performers were Dorothy Haydel as Hester, and Mary Ellen Wheeler as Miss Wilcox. Miss Haydel almost had some of the audience in the aisles as she stamped up and down stairs playing the disgruntled maid, and Miss Wheeler was the only member of the cast who didn't say anything-she didn't need to. She just stood around in bathing suit or the latest in beach pajamas looking beautiful and drawing more than her quota of laughs by "slinking" around the place and looking disgust- ingly bored at all times. Virginia Batka as Madge, the Fuller daughter, and William Mills as Steve Eldridge were both quite weak and so was Neil Smith as Mr. Kimber, who didn't show any signs of life until he had drunk a pint of stage whiskey in Act 3. We sin- cerely hope that he takes another drink of the same brew before he goes on next time. Other bundles of praise to William Altman as the unpleasant neighbor, Mr. Prescott; Ada Mc- Farland as Rena Leslie, the actress; and John Hathaway who played the brat, Raymond. All were more than competent and we're positive that tomorrow we'll still feel like hitting Altman, asking Miss McFarland to be a sister to us and giving Hathaway the worst cat-o'-nine tails beating that any precocious fledgling ever had. As far as the rest of the cast is concerned, none had an opportunity to show what he could LETTERS TO THE EDITOR In Protest.. . To the Editor of The Daily: The emasculation of The Daily last year to make it coincide with rising reactionary 'elements dismayed the entire campus, as was shown by the enormous petitions asking that The Daily remain unchanged. And when liberal writing in The Daily ceased, most of the campus felt a vital loss. But this loss at first was felt mainly in a negative sense. Now The Daily policy has flipped into the same sort of omniscient sneering and informed nastiness that character- izes commercial papers throughout the country. A letter written with restraint and strength by the Y.C.L. in Tuesday's Daily was accompanied by an inane and obvious personal comment by Karl Kessler. I would like to request, since the letter box is evidently the only space in The Daily left open to free discussion and unbiased thinking, that The Daily editors refrain from attaching their own uninteresting comments to what letters may be printed there. They have plenty of space to ex- pound in the editorials. - Nelson Bentley, Grad. * * * In Reply .. . The purpose of the Letters column of The Daily is to give readers of The Daily space in which they can express their views on current issues, whether those views be consistent with or contrary to the opinions of the editors. We shall, however, as a further service to our readers, always at- tempt to present both sides of the issue, with a particular view toward pointing out fallacies in reasoning. These comments hardly deserve full editorial treatment. They are usually quite short, and are con- cerned primarily with a particular letter. We wish, further, to call Mr. Bent- ley's attention to the accepted inter- pretation of the term "liberal." Web- ster includes the following qualities: "broad-minded, not bounded by au- thority or established forms in politi- cal or religious philosophy." The true liberal cannot align him- self body and soul to any one political organization. He may agree with its' primary aims and ideals, but he must; weigh each issue indhis own mind and come to an independent con- clusion: only thus can intellectual honesty °be maintained. 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 to forsake the right to be called "lib- eral." How often have we heard pleas for freedom of speech and "free dis- cussion" from self-styled liberals who, once they have gained that free-' dom for themselves would not hesi- tate to deny dissenting opinions that same right. We shall always endeavor to keep our editorial columns open to all points of view, but we shall not re- strict that privilege to any particular view. - Karl Kesslerf * * * Senator Brown Honored The choice of Senator Prentiss M.t Brown to fill the place on the Senate steering committee left vacant by the death of Senator Pat Harrison is no small tribute to his ability. An influential body, ruling the or- der of business, the steering commit-c tee nevertheless is unofficial, not provided for by the rules of the Sen-s ate. Consequently, unlike the offi-I cial committees, appointments to it do not go by seniority. So the Mich-1 igan Senator's selection to replacef the redoubtable Mississippian in theX Senate organization is, as stated, ac tribute.E - The Detroit News c GRIN AND BEAR IT "- so it's settled, that at the approach of enemy aircraft, we all meet here for lunch!" S BTUPID S By TE{ENCE By Lichty (Editor's Note: This is a university, and at universities there are the fi- nals,eyou know. So while Terence brushes up for Oral Penmanship 71, Eugene Mandeberg, associate editor, takes over the Stuff for the day. Treat him kindly, gentle reader, he may nev- er return. And I deny everything he may say.) AS IT MUST to all men, the ques- tion has presented itself, who, who is Terence? Is Terence a he, a she, or what? I am personally spon- soring a contest to see if anyone on campus can guess who Terence is by the helpful hints I shall now proceed to throw out. In order to keep the incognito complete, I shall hence- forth refer to Terence as IT: we wanna keep sex out of this thing anyway. First of all, you must have realized by this time that IT is lazy and a sucker for a line. How else do you thing I could have gotten this column for today if IT wasn't both? SECOND CLUE: Terence has many ' of the appearances of a human being. IT's eyes are .not too notice- able crossed, teeth, including molars, are present in a super-abundance,j the usual number of fingers and toes' can be seen upon close inspection, and generally, Terence looks normal, in a horrible sort of way. Third and last clue: Terence drinks cokes. Look about you the next time you saunter into your favorite bar and watch the people around you. Look, there's something over there sipping insipidly on a dark-colored liquid. Maybe it's Ter- ence. Rush over and ask him. If absolutely nothing happens, if, you aren't accused of being crazy, or you don't receive a flurry of blows or a withering look, maybe you've struck oil. Maybe that's IT. Then again, maybe not. PREMIUM clue (no extra charge). Terence saves his money. Cover all banks, and mattresses in town, you may find Terence in one, or un- der the other. With these hints to help, how can you go wrong? Watch carefully. When you have selected IT from among the five thousand students, hurry out and tear the top off your favorite professor. Send me that, plus, your name and address. If you are the first to have identified Ter- ence, you will receive, perhaps, a complete set of all-purpose crib notes, assuring at least an A in what- ever course you may take. Special attention is given to those omitted 1941-42. REMEMBER, this contest runs for a limited time only, so get your entry in early. Honest, you haven't a minute to lose. SDAILY OFFICIAL 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. The University Bureau of Appoint- merts and Occupational Information has received notice of the following Civil Service Examinations. Detroit Civil Service: Transportation Equipment Oper- ator, salary $.75 to $.78, examination July 12, 1941 and Aug. 2, 1941. Watchman, salary $1,440, last filing date, July 7, 1941. Laborer A, salary prevailing rate, July 7, 1941. l Laborer B, prevailing rate, July 7, 1941. Ditch Digging Laborer, prevailing rate, July 7, 1941. Garbage Collector, prevailing rate, July 7, 1941. Complete announcements on file at the Bureau, 201 Mason Hall. Office hours: 9-12 and 2-4. Concert, High School Clinic Band: The University of Michigan 1941 High School Clinic Band of 145 pieces will present a concert at 4:15 p.m., Sunday, July 13, at Hill Auditorium. The program will feature solos and ensembles in addition to the numbers presented by the entire band. Wil- liam D. Revelli, Conductor of the Band, will be assisted by two guest conductors, Mr. Cleo Fox of Kalama- zoo, and Mr. Dale C. Harris of Pon- tiac. Although this performance will be complimentary to the general pub- lic, small children will not be admit- ted for obvious reasons. Lecture Recital: The first of a series of six programs to be given this sum- mer will be presented by Joseph Brinkman and William Beller, Pian- ists at 4:15 p.m., Monday, July 15, in Rackham Assembly Hall. It will be composed entirely of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, including his Italian Concerto; Prelude and Fugue in A minor; B flat Partita; and Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue. This program will be open to the general public. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: Schools of Music and Edu- cation: Students who received marks of I or X at the close of their last semester or summer session of attend- ance will receive a grade of E in the course unless this work is made up by July 30th. Students wishing an extension of time beyond this date in order to make up the work should file a petition addressed to the ap- propriate official in their school with Room 4, U.H. where it will be trans- mitted. The petition must carry the written approval of the instructor concerned. Carillon Recital: Percival Price. 'I Mediation Plans In Ecuador .. . A N ECUADOREAN communique ac- cuses the Peruvians of starting bor- der fighting over the week-end. A Peruvian com- munique accuses the Ecuadoreans of agresssion. Just like Europe! The contested territory, according to a Peru- vian source, contains important oil fields, to- bacco plantations and other assets. It has "belonged" to Peru since 1821. Ecuador sub- mitted its claims to the King of Spain in the 1890's, but dropped proceedings when it saw the arbitration was going against it. The United States, Argentina and Brazil have recently of- fered their services to settle the dispute. Peru resents this, we read, because, from its stand- point, there is nothing to mediate. Governments-our own included-should not RADIO SPOTLIGHT WJ. .WWJ-CKLW.WXYZ 760 KC - CBS 950 KC - NBC Red 800 KC - Mutual 1270 KC - NBC Blue Thursday Evening 6:00 Headline News Sports Review Rollin' Home Easy Aces 6:15 Inside of Sports world News Rollin' Home Mr. Keen 6:30 Marriage Club News By Smits Club Romanza Intermezzo 6:45 Marriage Club Sports Parade Evening Serenade Barry Heilmann 7:00 Death valley Coffee Time Happy Joe World's Best 7:15 Death valley Coffee Time val Clare World's Best 7:30 SPBSQ Aldrich Family B. A. Bandwagon Charlie Ruggles 7:45 SPBSQ Aldrich Family B. A. Bandwagon Charlie Ruggles 8:00 Major Bowes Music Hall To be announced T. Dorsey Orch. 8:15 Major Bowes Music Hall News Ace T. 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