THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, JULY 11, _ v _ _ = asI THE MICHIGAN DAILY .. ... ; ---I- X. Daily Calendar of Events Friday, July 11-- 8:30 p.m. "George Washington Slept Here," by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. (Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.) 9:00 p.m. Social Evening. (Michigan League Ballroom). Come with or without partners. 31 Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Published 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 Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during the regular' school year by carrier $4.00, by mail, $4.50. 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The Americas Draw Closer ... )NE OF THE FEARS most often ex- pressed when the British blockade went into effect, cutting off South America from most of its markets on the continent, was that the export trade of the southern republics would be so curtailed that commerce and industry would be virtually paralyzed in that section. The achievements of the Americas in the past few years have startled many economists and interventionists, and not the least of these achievements has been the preservation of eco- nomic stability in the Latin Americas when they were cut off from European markets. Figures recently released by the United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce indi- cate that the export and import trade of South America declined less than 10 per cent in 1940, as compared to the figure for 1939. The total amount of trade in the republics in 1940 was, in round figures, three million dollars, as com- pared to 3,200 million in 1939. the chief factor in keeping the Latin American nations above board has been the startling in- crease in inter-American trade. The United States has vastly increased its business with Latin America, from about a third of their ex- ports And imports combined in 1938 to nearly half in 1940. JWQUALLY SURPRISING to economists is the' trade which has sprung up between the Latin American countries themselves. To take care of the shortage of dollar exchange and to foster this embryonic commerce, the United States, through the Export-Import Bank, has kept money flowing in the countries. Of 69 million dollars loaned, 22 million dollars have been re- paid, indicating that the loans are good business risks. All of this presents an encouraging outlook for the Western Hemisphere, a striking rebuttal to those who have said that the Americas could never survive once European trade was cut off to any degree. Inter-American cooperation, which has been far from perfect, due largely to penny-grabbing politicians and self-styled professional authori- ties on Latin America in this country, has shown results. Much remains to be done in creating good will, especially along the economic line, for the sins committed by "Yanquis" in the past have left their mark on Latin republics. But much has been done, and the real states- men of both the Americas realize that the strug- gle: must be continued, to create a closer-knit, integrated Hemisphere, to face a war which in- evitably, it seems, we are bringing on ourselves. - Bill Baker WASINGTON-With Germany making its inroads upon Russia largely through the use of tanks, Secretary of War Stimson has been giv- ing a lot of thought to developing an American weapon which would stop what he calls the "German mastodon." Also he has been having a hot row with some of his own ordnance people over the purchase of a new and trackless tank which Stimson thinks may be the answer. The Chief of Ordnance, General C. M. Wesson, opposed purchase of the new tank as far too expensive. HOWEVER, General Benedict Crowell, Assist- ant Secretary of War during World War I and now War Department adviser on material, went over Wesson's head to Secretary Stimson himself. "An eight-wheel tank has just been developed," General Crowell told Stimson, "that is a won- derful thing. It may be the answer to Germany. It has been turned down by Ordnance, but I think you ought to see it." So Secretary Stimson went over to Ft. Meyer and saw it demonstrated, later sent it down to Ft. Knox to General A. R. Chaffee, Chief of the Armored Force. Then he went to Ft. Knox, per- sonally, and conferred with General Chaffee, who was enthusiastic, wanted the Army to order seventeen tanks immediately. But Ordnance wanted to order two at the most, considered the price far too high. Turned Down Lewis Gun At this point Stimson harked back to the days when he was Secretary of War in the aft Ad- ministration. "THERE IS ALWAYS a balance to be attained between what the fighting forces want and what the War Department in Washington wants them to have," he explained to friends, "and the trouble wtih the Ordnance office is that it is so deluged with people who want to win the war with new inventions, that it gets rather callous. "However, the last time I yielded to the Ord- nance office in a matter like this was when I was Secretary of War under President Taft-and regretted it. The Ordnance people had turned down the Lewis machine-gun. General Crozier, a very dear friend of mine, was opposed to it. I went behind the barracks and shot the gun, but in the end I bowed to General Crozier and the Army passed it up. "Well, the world now knows what became of the Lewis machine-gun. The next time I saw it, I was in a British airplane over the English Channel in the last war, and the pilot was using a Lewis machine-gun against the enemy. The British had bought the patent and perfected it." 'To Hell With Ordnance!' SO LAST WEEK Stimson decided not to make the same mistake with the trackless tank. At Ft. Knox pictures were taken from inside the tank, looking out through a gun-hole, and it was proved that the eight wheels made the tank far smoother and thus more deadly in its aim. Also Stimson figured that it would take four to five months anyway to .build two tanks, and seventeen could be built in the same period. So in the end he said: "To hell with Ordnance," and over-ruled General Wesson. Note-The original $58,000 price of the track- less tank, considered exorbitant, finally was re- duced to about $35,000. Assistant Secretary of War McCloy, who handled the negotiations with Ordnance, got into a veritable hair-pulling con- test with them, but he was only reflecting Secre- tary Stimson's views. In New Orleans, Don't Ask Colonel Charles H. March, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, had occasion to visit New Orleans recently and stopped at the Roose- velt Hotel. This is the hostelry where Seymour Weiss once worked as manager of the barber shop at $25 a week, then rose to be president of the hotel, not to mention Commissioner of Police, a boss of the Huey Long political machine, and Democratic National Committeeman. COLONEL MARCH knew this, but he had for- gotten the epilogue-that Seymour Weiss had been sent to the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta, where he is still serving his term. Meeting Weiss' brother, Bernard, who is now operating the Roosevelt Hotel, Colonel March engaged him in polite conversation, finally frost- ed the cake with this ingenious faux pas: "Tell me, Mr. Weiss, where is your brother now?" Secret Vichy Ambassador Dapper and loquacious, Gaston Henry-Haye is the great friend of actress Elsie deWolfe and millionaire Mrs. Harrison Williams, but no friend of Cordell Hull. In the ornate French Embassy. on Wyoming Avenue or on the steps of the State Department he issues ponderous statements on last summer after the fall of France. Living in a swank Connecticut Avenue apartment at a rental of $475 a month, Chautemps has operated behind the scenes as a potent wire-puller for Vichy. Twice premier of France, Chautemps also was vice-premier under Blum the Socialist, under Daladier the conservative, aso under Reynaud, who assayed the role of Winston Churchill. Chautemps also is a good friend of Marshal Petain, Admiral Darlan, Pierre Laval and Gen- eral Weygand. For a long time it was a mystery where Chau- temps got the American currency with which to live. That mystery can now be solved. Chau- temps receives from the Vichy Government once a month a salary or pension of $2,000. Capital Chaff NEWSMEN were asked not to mention the hos- pital where the President's private secretary, Marguerite ("Missey") LeHand is under treat- ment, because she would get more flowers than the hospital could hold . . . Louisiana's Con- gressman F. Edward Hebert leaves no doubt how his name should be pronounced. In the Con- gressional Directory, he inserts after his name: "(pronounced A-Bear)" . . . . On hot days, a war of pennies enlivens Capitol Hill. Clerks toss pennies into the fountain near the Senate wing, and little colored boys scramble for them, gross- ing as much as a dollar a day .... Homey Hattie Caraway of Arkansas is an admirer of glamorous Gail Patrick of Hollywood, and vice versa .... In Senator Vandenberg's office is a lithograph portrait of himself as big as a barn door .... Lawrence W. Neff, a Southern poet, has written the Soviet Embassy suggesting that the Russians use against the Germans the same technique of spraying poison from airplanes that cotton farmers use against the boll weevil. Disturbing Offer T WAS 5:30 p.m. of the day the President an- nounced the landing of a naval force in Ice- land. The sinking sun cast an orange glow over gray-haired Senator Walter F. George of Georgia, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, as he stood facing a newsreel camera on the steps of the Capitol. A group of khaki-clad visitors from Camp Eustis, Virginia, tarried nearby, waiting for the show to begin. Senator George nervously fin- gered a straw hat while listening to last-minute instructions: "Look straight into the camera, Senator. Keep your voice up." After deftly straightening George's tie, the newsreel man sig- naled a colleague to start shobting. George launched into his statement. "The occupation of Iceland," he said, "is solely a de- fensive move to strengthgn us against possible, invasion and protect our commerce on the high seas." T HERE WAS a slight pause, and George was about to proceed. But just then an audible whisper came from one of the bystanding se- lectees. "Senator," it said, "tell the folks that the boys from Camp Eustis are ready to go if the Navy needs any help over there in Iceland." George didn't catch the remark, but the sound track of the camera did. "Sorry, Senator, but we'll have to take that over again," said the cameraman, with a reproving scowl at the kibitz- ing soldier. Big Job Building a two-ocean Navy means that the job of running the Navy's shore establishments is the biggest industrial job in the country-big- ger even than running General Motors or U.S. Steel. THAT JOB falls to Ralph A. Bard, Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Bard is the latest of a succession of New Deal Assistant Secretaries. Since 1933, the office has been held in turn by Henry L. Roosevelt, Charles Edison, and Lewis Compton. But Bard is not a New Dealer. Like the Secre- tary of the Navy, the Secretary of War, the Under Secretary of War, and the two Assistant Secretaries of War, he is a Republican. In 1938, Frank Knox, then publisher of The Chicago Daily News, made a trip to Europe, visited one country after another, and wrote editorials about the unrest he saw. As com- panions on that trip he had Mrs. Knox, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bard, and Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Warner. It was Warner, vice-president of the Pure Oil Company, who had first introduced Bard to Knox. When Knox came to Washington a year ago as Secretary of the Navy, he was given a free hand to pick his own Assistant Secretary. He picked Ralph Bard. N the golden twenties Bard was a Chicago mil- lionaire. He made his money by financing industrial companies. One of the companies he built un was an automatic pencil comnanv. STUPIDStl By Terence THERE IS a world of drama going on every day "under the clock," in which you and I play leading parts. A coke date is arranged and a boy and girl meet there for the first time. A mother visits Ann Ar- bor, and, away from her boy for months, meets him again under the clock. Two little bulldogs hold a rendezvous there, and soon collect a covey of companions to distress pass- ersby by running beneath their legs. Old grads return and there's a lump in their throats as they remember familiar scenes . . . familiar faces they first met "under the clock." Every university in the country has its "clock," or something similar to serve the same purpose. And this is the true story of a boy who once walked and talked under the clock at one of the great educational in- stitutions in the Midwest. I say once, because I knew this boy, and there is something about his story that makes you meditate a little on a "great liberal educational system." HIS NAME isn't important, nor is the name of the university. Jim -that's a good name for a tale like this-was, in the traditional manner of melodrama, the son of "poor but honest parents." His father was a factory worker, in a chemical plant, where he worked on explosives. Jim didn't want that kind of a life, though, sohe came to college. His father could give him no money- there was Jim's mother and five other kids. So the lad set out on his own. College life was hard work for Jim. There was none of the tradi- tional fun or rose-colored back- ground. Where you and I hold hands at football games with some coed, Jim spent Saturday afternoons wash- ing dishes in a downtown restaurant. He worked in the evenings reading to an old man, so there were no dances and no walks in the Arbore- tum like you and I take. He had to work for his food-the dishwashing job. He got up at five to fire his, landlady's furnace, and worked an hour a day for her. In the evenings he read to the old man, from seven to nine every night without fail. ALL THIS and studies too. Nine- teen hours, for Jim had to get through in three years. Came the end of the semester, and there was an E on the report card, not because he hadn't tried, because he had. I knew him and I know he did try. But 19 hours and working that much, well, it's a pretty hard job. Lord knows I have enough trouble with 14 hours of pipes. The Dean called Jim in and had a little talk with him. That was Jim's last official act as a member of that University. They said it was DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN GRIN AND BEAR IT "Elwyn's a darling, mamma-we had our first quarrel this morning and he's no good at it!" By Lichty bad grades, and they mentioned something about "ungentlemanly conduct." But you and I both know they don't kick kids out of school for three hours of E, especially in Jim's circumstances. And I'll swear that Jim never, did anything that even the most stodgey of deans could call "ungentlemanly conduct." I knew him ... But Jim had one thing against him, a last name that could never disguise his race. Now I won't say that is the reason Jim was kicked out. It may be, or may not be. But that University- a public institution-has repeated the incident several times lately, the same dean, the same reasons given. And all the victims were of Jim's race. THE SPECIFIC INCIDENT isn't important. It's the general trend that matters. Not so long ago I lis- tened to a man holding a high posi- tion at the University of Michigan give a speech which reaked of intol- erance and racial prejudice. And though I heard other educators equally as well known extol the vir- tues of tolerance, of the necessity of racial freedom and equal opportunity for all, I still hear above all the voice of that one man, and countless others like him, directed at a large and pa- triotic part of this country . . . and I recall too the story of Jim and a dean of a great educational institu- tion in a free country. Like I said, it all makes you medi- tate a little about a "great liberal education system." The quotes are mine. Puff! Puff! Once during the argument in a lawsuit, in which Lincoln represented one party, the lawyer on the other side was a glib talker, but was not considered much of a thinker. He would say anything to a jury which happened to enter his head. Lincoln, in his address to the jury, referring to the habit, said: "My friend on the other side is all right, or would be all right, were it not for one peculiarity, his habit of making reckless assertion. He can't help it; the oratory of the man completely 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. Engineering Structures Institute- Special Lecture. Professor J. N. Good- ier, Chairman of the Department of Engineering Mechanics, Cornell Uni- versity, will give a lecture on Friday, July 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 311 West Engineering Building. The subject of his talk will be: "Column and Stiffener Buckling in Aircraft Structures." All interested are cord- ially invited to attend. Round Table Discussions on the Teaching of the French Language. A series of weekly Round Table discus- sions on the teaching of French will be offered under the direction of Professor Charles E. Koerla. The first one will take place Monday, July 14, at 7:00 p.m. at le Foyer Francais, 1414 Washtenaw, and will deal especi- ally with the teaching of French Pronunciation. All students teaching French and students specializing in French are cordially invited. Public Health Nursing Certificate candidates for August 1941 should make application at the office of the School of Education, 1437 U.E.S. Students, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: Except under extraordinary circumstances, course dropped after the third week, Satur- day, July 19th, will be recorded with a grade of E. The students of The Smith League House, located at 1102 E. Ann Street invite the Students of the Summer Session, their friends, and visiting members of The New Education Fel- lowship Conference to a reception on Friday, July the eleventh from 9:00 to 10:30 p.m. followed by dancing until 1:00 a.m. Lectures on French Painting: Pro- fessor Harold E. Wethey, Chairman of the Department of Fine Arts, will give a series of three illustrated lec- tures on French Painting. In the first lecture Professor Wethey will talk on "French Tradition in the XVIIIth Century, in the second on "Post-Impressionism" and in the third on "The School of Paris" (XXth Century). These lectures, which will be given in English and are open to all stu- RADIO SP dents and Faculty members interest- ed, are to take place in Room D, Alumni Memorial Hall on Monday, July 14, Monday, July 28 and on Mon- day, August 11, respectively, at 4:10 p.m. The lectures are sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages. Charles E. Koella A representative of the Arthur Mur- ray Dance Studios will be at the Bu- reau of Appointments and Occupa- tional Information Friday, July 11, at 2 p.m., to interview both men and women interested in employment as dancing teachers. This will be a per- manent salaried position. No pro- fessional training necessary, since this organization trains its own teachers. People who are interested should come to 201 Mason Hall at the time specified. Graduate Outing Club will meet Sunday, July 13, at 2:30 p.m. sharp, in the rear of the Rackham Building. A trip to Big Portage Lake in Water- loo Park is planned, including swim- ming, hiking, and softball, followed by a weenie roast. Those having cars are urged to kindly bring them; an allowance is given for transportation furnished. All graduate students, faculty, and alumni are welcome. The University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information has received notice of the following Civil Service Examinations. Last date for filing applications is noted in each case: Michigan Civil Service Afflicted Crippled Children: Medi- cal Coordinator V7, salary $400 mon., July 25, 1941. Prison Guard Officer I, $150, July 18, 1941. Prison Guard Officer III, $250, July 18, 1941. Field Tax Representative A, $130, August 2, 1941. Liquor Warehouseman Cl, $95 August 2, 1941. Hospital Physician VI, $525, July 23, 1941. Hospital Physician V, $400, July 23, 1941. Standards and Testing Executive IV, $325, July 13, 1941. United States Civil Service Industrial Specialist, $3,800 yr., August 7, 1941. Principal, $5,600, August 7, 1941. Senior, $4,600, August 7, 1941. Associate, $3,200, August 7, 1941. (Continued on Page 4) OTL I GHT S Tut, Tut, General!- Is That Nice? .. . Near Memphis, a column of troops rolled along past a golf course, where several girls in shorts were playing. With the exuberance of youth seeking some diversion on a long, hot trip, some of the soldiers whistled and called to the girls. 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