THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, JULY 19, 194 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Daily Calendar of Events Saturday, July 19 - Li ; 8:30 p.m. "The Contrast." (Lydia Mendelssohn Theater.) 9:00 p.m. Social Evening. (Michigan League Ballroom.) partners. Come with or without _WI i 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 ckrrier $4.00, by mail, $4.50. NRPR8ENTEDF OR NATIONAL ADVERTISING DV National Advertising Service, Inc. . College Publishers Representative 420 MAoesoN Ave=. NEW YORK, N. Y. ' CCAGO " BOSTOn * LO ANGELES * SAN FRANCiSCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1940-41 Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN Managing Editor City Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Sports Editor Women's Editor Editorial Staff f Karl Kessler Harry M. Kelsey S. William Baker Eugene Mandeberg Albert P. Blaustein . Barbara Jenswold Business Staff Business Manager . Local Advertising Manager Women's Advertising Manager . . Daniel H. Huyett . . Fred M. Ginsberg . . Florence Schurgin NIGHT EDITOR: BILL BAKER The editorials published in The Michi- gan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Priorities Create A New Problem ... WITH the defense program being aug- mented every day, civilian and mili- tary authorities as well have run face-to-face into the problem of how to supply promptly raw materials necessary for defense without at the same time cutting off supplies needed by non- defense industries. For months we have been hearing about the number of workers who wer'e finding jobs ir, the defense program. Now there is the actual danger of men losing jobs for the same reason. It is predicted with alarm in some quarters that soon hundreds of businesses may have to close down through material shortages. It is a situation that requires careful handling. One day priorities director of OPM E. R. Stet- tinius, Jr., announces that there will be strict enforcement of priorities compliance orders, that hoarding and bootlegging of needed materials Will not be permitted, although cooperation fer expected from the great majority of industries, even if it means that they must close down or greatly curtail their operations. THE VERY NEXT DAY the OPM calls for the aid of organized labor in preventing or mini- mizing, the dislocations of workers while much of the nation's industry is being placed on a de- fense basis. All of which is tantamount to offi- cial recognition of the problem of enforcing priorities. "The priorities system, in fundamental theory, is very simple," says an official statement of the OPM priorities division. "Put as briefly as pos- sible, it is a method of putting first things first, a technique for making sure that machines and wheels and gears and guns and radios and ther- mometers and range finders-and all other things necessary for defense of the nation-are produced promptly, on schedule, without delay." Yet the priorities division admits that "It would be quite erroneous to assume that all de- fense needs come ahead of all civilian needs," that "obviously the most important civilian needs are more important than the least im- portant military needs," and that "this is a mat- ter of delicate adjustment which the priorities system must make." ITIS indeed a delicate adjustment. In support of this, the case of a large factory employing thousands of men engaged in the production of purely civilian commodities is cited. This plant may have little or no connection with defense, and yet to close the plant through the applica- tion of the priorities theory in such a way as to unnecessarily cut off raw materials and other supplies would throw thousands of men out of work. The "priorities critical list" includes more than 225 articles and classes of articles. On it are scores of materials used by plants employing from a dozen to several thousand men. It is quite apparent that the whole industrial ma- chine of the nation cannot, nor need not, be turned to defense. War or no war, people must go on living, and to do so, they must have goods which are not a part of defense. These daily needs must be supplied, and at the same time priority must be given to the most important defense needs. THE WHOLE PROBLEM is a phase of defense which has not yet come under the sway of the nation's propaganda ministers. More will be heard of it in later months, listed under the haA nof°c rriginP" But thenonle ahvanrght WASHINGTON-Most of the congressional leaders had a chip on their shoulders when they went to the White House for the Monday pow- wow on General Marshall's proposals to expand and prolong the use of the draft army. But it wasn't there when they left. THE PRESIDENT adroitly disarmed them at . the start by declaring flatly that an A.E.F. "is the farthest thing from my mind." He and Marshall then followed up with some telling arguments on why selectees should be retained in the Army. When they finished talking, the legislative chiefs obviously were impressed. Roosevelt categorically denied that he had any intention of sending troops outside the Western Hemisphere. At the same time, he admitted that he did not consider Iceland, the Azores and Cape Verde Islands wholly within the hemis- phere. Asked if he contemplated sending troops to these places, the President made this reply: , In all probability some soldiers will be needed in Iceland to supplement the naval force already there. No move will be made to occupy the Azores or Cape Verde Islands unless Hitler seizes Portugal. Should that happen, it would be sui- cidal for the United States not to take the same protective action as was done in Iceland. GRIMLY, the President pointed out that Nazis entrenched on the two strategic insular points would be able to dominate the Atlantic. Another argument which made a strong im- pact was some startling information concerning Nazi military infiltration in South America. The President stated that Nazi agents have organized "secret armies" in several Latin Amer- ican countries to incite revolutions and border wars and disrupt hemispheric solidarity. He declared there were reliable reports that the Nazis have a secret army of 2,000,000 men in Brazil. This is 600,000 more than our own army, the President pointed out, and gives the lie to Hit- ler's assertion that he has no designs on this hemisphere if he conquers Britain. 'Wrecked Defenses' GENERAL MARSHALL qietly but with great earnestness warned the congressional lead- ers that the nation's major defenses in Hawaii, the Philippines, Alaska and the Atlantic bases would be "wrecked" unless civilian soldiers are retained in the service. 'About 85 percent of the troops in some out- lying bases are National Guardsmen, selectees and reservists," Marshall said. You can well imagine the spot we will be in if these men have to leave when their year is up and are replaced by raw, untrained recruits. Our offshore de- fenses would be unable to withstand attack if any were attempted. "If Congress cannot realize the extreme grav- ity of this situation," Marshall continued, "then all I can say, gentlemen, is that the Army should be relieved of responsibility for the safety of the country and its citizens." Speaker Sam Rayburn, House Democratic Leader John McCormack and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Walter George replied that they fully grasped the danger, but that a majority of Congress was opposed to pro- longing the draft period beyond one year. As a compromise, Rayburn and McCormack proposed that selectees be allowed to volunteer for addi- tional service. GENERAL MARSHALL firmly rejected this. He declared that "the times are too perilous" to depend on an army of volunteers. "You can- not meet the danger of modern warfare," he said, "with makeshift expedients. The world is menaced by an army of professionals. If we value our security, we can't afford to risk it with an army of amateurs." The President backed up Marshall, and the conference ended with a general agreement to hold public committee hearings on the proposal to retain draftees longer, then see how sentiment shapes up before taking the issue to the Senate and House floors for action. Merry-Go-Round DAN TOBIN, square-shooting AFL teamster boss, has been awarded a miniature gold boxing glove as "AFL Champ" by Drs. John A. Ross and L. E. Rehner of Plymouth, Mich. Also slated for one of the unique awards, which have gone to many top national figures, is Wayne Coy, head of the Office of Emergency Management, who was awarded the Brass Ring by The Wash- ington Merry-Go-Round last month . . . . The National Defense Inventors' Council, which re- ceives daily some 400 inventions, was startled the other day by getting a request for one. A New Jersey squab farmer wrote asking ,for an invention o "dry-pick" squabs for the market. If you have any suggestions, send them to the Council . . . George M. Reynolds, Assistant Ad- ministrator of the Surplus Marketing Adminis- tration, .is an unusual government official. He answers letters offering ideas to the agency courteously and sympathetically. No ,GOP Dollar Men A NEWSMAN FRIEND asked Republican Na- tional Chairman Joe Martin when he planned to name the traveling liaison officers who were to act as his "ears and eyes" in the political field. This was an innovation Martin had announced after the spring pow-wow of the Republican National Committee, but he has done nothing about it. "I'd like to appoint them right away," he re- plied, "but I haven't the money. I'll have to wait until the treasury is in better shape. Right now it's about as bare as Mother Hubbard's cup- board. What would you suggest I do about it?" "That's easy," replied the news friend. "Pay them a dollar a year. A lot of big-time Republi- cans are working for the Government on that basis." "That's the one reason our treasury is empty," moaned Martin. "Most of the substantial men in the party have gone into the Government as Dollar Men and can't afford to contribute any more." Mail Bag . L. C., Honolulu-The Navy Department has had a flood of complaints about living con- ditions in Pearl Harbor, and about hasty selec- tion of workers. Their excuse is that high wage rates are intended to compensate these draw- backs . . . . . C.B.S., New Orleans-Except in emergency defense contracts, government agents are supposed to award business to the lowest bidder. If the Government bought an air-com- pressor at $36,000, when another compressor, fully meeting specifications, was available at $32,000, it was an open violation of the law. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 'Deutsch land Uber Alles' To the Editor: Being off the campus proper in- hibits one's enjoyment of the various cultural opportunities connected with such residence. I refer directly to the playing of "Deutschland uber Alles," so ably reported by your cor- respondent, one Gerald Davidson. The writer's indignation at the per- formance of this "most terrible of all melodies" is most vividly, if pro- fanely, brought out in his recent letter. Of course, being some twenty-five miles removed from the site of the Carillon, I am not in a position to say just when Haydn's anthem was played. Brother Davidson, in his pre- occupation with the "Battle of the Atlantic" has not informed us of this. At any rate, I rather imagine the bells pealing forth on a Sunday, when, instead of "blood . . . and shattered lives," washed and beam- ing children's faces will be envisaged at the sound of the melody. For, friend Davidson. "Austria" is one of the oldest and most beloved tunes in American church musical literature. It is a hymn tune which all Protest- ant and many Catholic men and women remember with pleasure from their childhood, and, in remember- ing, forget, if they ever knew, its more unpleasant modern implica- tions. Davidson's attitude is typical of the hot-headed, illogical, misin- formed interventionist, leaping at anything which will give him a chance to rant. In the first place, Davidson gives lip-service to an aesthetic democracy by acknowledg- ing the beauty and value of German art and music, "even Wagner." It is plain to see that this is merely an acknowledgment, and a grudging one at that. Where Davidson has made his mistake becomes apparent imme- diately in his choice of music, for the informed know well that Hitler has found most of his inspiration in the music of Wagner, particularly in "The Ring." "Deutschland uber Alles" plays but a minor role in lead- ing German youth to death; Hitler has substituted his own song, known as the "Horst Wessel Lied." There- fore, if Davidson must find music on which to vent his irrational spite, he might better turn to Wagner or some of Hitler's modern party composers, whose music is surprisingly well rep- resented in the United States today. Picking on poor old Haydn, who nei- ther composed -in the spirit of, nor has been completely acccepted by Nazism, seems considerably out of place. No, the song in question was not played in a spirit of levity. The writer's real or pretended ignorance of this fact brands him as irresponsi- ble and unfit to represent his cause. At the risk of offending groups which, in the end, may determine our part in the present conflict, he has sounded off in a manner hasty and unintelligent, betraying a lack of knowledge of things which play a basic part in the lives of many of our fellow countrymen. In the future may I recommend a more careful consideration of things around you, Gerald, particularly to some of the cultural facts of life in America, where, in letters to the editor, it is still possible to make a fool of yourself. - Bill Todd DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN T!~ GRIN AND BEAR IT I s'k "Oh, Lester!-NOW I know that I'll wait for you like you asked me to'." By Lichty ST UPIi&tQ * By Terence Slips That Pass In The Type THE OTHER DAY some of the fellows were gathered around a table at a downtown tav- ern over.a few short beers, and we got to remin- iscing about The Daily and what it means to us and what it's been in the past. I guess you might say that's our whole life around here- just The Daily and what we can make of it. You get over here and it seems to get in your blood and then nothing else seems to matter-just ask the profs who've had Daily editors in their classes or the girls we've gone out with. Anyway, like it almost always does, the sub- ject of boners came up, and we all began telling about favorite ones we'd been told of or seen. Even The Daily makes mistakes, we admit, but then so does The New York Times and The Kalamazoo Gazette and The Kansas City Star. BUT here are a few of the classics I picked up from that little confab over a couple of short beers: Last year a night editor had two cuts, one of a map of the Dakar region and the other of a shipwrecked boat. The boat was to run inside and the map- p.1. Well, when the paper came out, there was the map on p.1. all right, but underneath it the cut lines started: "This ex- cellent picture of a French steamer grounded on the African coast . . ." A couple of days later we ran a picture labeled Governor Van Wagoner. The city editor got a letter after that from the Governor's office saying that the picture we had run was of Senator Prentiss Brown. They sent us a mat of Van Wagoner. A few years ago President Ruthven's father died, and we were running quite a story on it. Mr. Ruthven was a famed railroad contractor, but in composing the story a linotypist inad- vertently changed the occupation to read: "rail- road conductor." At 2:13, two minutes before The Daily is supposed to go to bed, the error was caught and corrected. THE NEWMAN CLUB a few years back spon- sored a talk here by Father Hubbard. The priest was to show pictures that included some movies of an Arctic storm. The day before he was to talk, Ann Arbor had a terrible wind and hail storm. Quick to take advantage of the tie-up, the next day the ad in The Daily read: "You may think the storm yesterday was pretty bad, but wait until you see Father Hubbard's movies." Stan Swinton, who's doing his turn for the government up at Custer now, and was city ed a couple of years back, put out the women's page once, and it came through with the rather ludi- crous mistake about a prof's wife: "She at- tended the affair dressed in a charming low-cut evening gown-in fact, extremely low-cut." THERE'VE BEEN the usual quota of proof errors, too, like "President Ruthven's anni- versary as head of the University will be cele- brated at Yost Field Mouse." Several times a dateline has gotten through, not always acci- dentally, reading "Cashington, D.C." Every year the night editors have to exercise their funny bones, and the anree nf humn rnme 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. Examination for Graduate Students in Music Education: Comprehensive examination in Vocal and Instru- mental Public School Methods and Materials required of all graduate students in Music Education before completing work toward the Master's degree, will be given on the third floor of Burton Tower, Saturday, July 19, from 9:00 to 12:00 noon. David Mattern Students, College of Literature,' Science, and the Arts: Except under extraordinary circumstances, courses dropped after the third week, Satur- day, July 19th, will be recorded with a grade of E. Lectures on French Music: Mr. Per- cival Price, Professor of Composition and University Carillonneur, will give a series of three lectures with records on French music. In the first lec- tureyProfessor Price will talk on "Early French Music of the Jon- gleurs and the Troubadours." These lectures, which will be given in English and are open to all stu- dents and Faculty members interest- ed, are to take place in Room 202, Burton Memorial Tower on Monday, July 21, Monday, August 4 and on Monday, August 18, respectively at 4:10 p.m. The lectures are sponsored by The Department of Romance Languages. Graduate Students, and others in- terested are invited to listen to the regular Tuesday program of record- ed music to be given in the Men's Lounge of the Rackham Building at 8:00 p.m., July 22. The following Program will be given: Bach, Tocca- tas and Fugues for Organ, Brahms, Variations on a Theme by Hayden, Tschaikowsky. Symphony No. 3 and Dohnanyi, Quartet No. 2. Concert, High School Clinic Band: The University of Michigan 1941 High School Clinic Band of 147 pieces will present a concert at 4:15 p.m., Sun- day, July 20, at Hill Auditorium. Mr. Mark Hindsley, who is Assistant Con- ductor of the University of Illinois Bands, will be the guest conductor. Although this performance will be complimentary to the general public, small children will not be admitted for obvious reasons. Psychology 34 Makeup Examina- tion will be given Tuesday, July 22, at 2 p.m. in Room 2125 Natural Sci- ence Bldg. 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. The Biological Chemistry Lectures: The third of the series of lectures on the fat-soluble vitamins will be con- cerned with Vitamin A and the caro- tenes. Mrs. PriscillaAHorton of the University Hospital and Dr. L. A. Moore of Michigan State College will speak on the physiological aspects of Vitamin A and the carotenes, in Room 151, Chemistry Building on Monday and Tuesday, July 14 and 15, at 2 p.m. Professor Harry N. Holmes of Oberlin College will speak on the chemistry and distribution of these substances in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Building on Thursday and Friday, July 17 and 18, at 2 p.m. All interested are invited to attend. Students, College of Engineering: Saturday, July 19th, will be the final day for dropping a course without record in the summer session. Courses may be dropped only with permis- sion of the classifier after conference with the instructor. University Men and Women: Any- one wishing special instruction in teaching square dancing is invited to come to the Michigan League at 4:00 p.m. Monday. Mr. Lovett will hold a class in the ballroom at that time in addition to the regular square dance lesson at 7:30. All local and visiting members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority are in- vited to attend our informal meeting at Smith League House, 1102 East Ann Street, on Saturday, July 19, 1941, at 3:00 p.m. Tickets are available for Sunday Night Series of the Art Cinema League which includes "The Baker's Wife" July 20, "The Cobbler Captain (Continued on Page 4) -1 4 scheduled to start the next day, and The Daily being published that eve- ning was to be the last for 12 days. The paper was put together early, and everyone was feeling quite jovial, with vacation coming up. The night editor went down in the hole to watch the make-up man throw the type in the forms, instructing a soph- omore to stay at the night desk and let him know if anything big came over on the AP machine, so it could be stuck in the paper. The kid obeyed instructions, and stayed upstairs until 2:15 when the machine shuts off. After the forms were locked up the soph and the n.e. were walking home together, and the junior said: "Sure glad nothing broke on the teletype, saved tearing up the front page." The soph pulled a piece of teletype paper from his pocket. "This came over at 2:12," he said, "but I knew it was too late to; put it in so I didn't say anything about it." The n.e. read the little bulletin: "President Wilson tonight asked Congress for a declaration of war against the German nation." TWELVE DAYS LATER Ed and Coed filed back to Ann Arbor, and for the first time The Daily informed its readers that this country was at war with, Germany-12 days after that fateful April eve. All of which has gone into making The Daily for more than 50 years now. But a lot more has gone into making it the best student news- paper in the country, and I defy anyone, even the Board of Regents, to say differently: entered in the All- Anierican Pacemaker Award Con- test seven times since 1934, and win- ning seven awards; three firsts of *I R/ADIO .10SPOTLIGHT WJR WWJ CKLW WXYZ 760 KC - CBS 950 KC - NBC Red 800 KC - Mutual 1270 K C - NBC Blue Saturday Evening 6:00 Stevenson News Ty Tyson Youth Dramas To Be Announced 6:15 Inside of Sports Science Program Youth Dramas Sandlotters 6:30 wayne King's S. L. A. 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