TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1944 9 - - - THE MICHIGAN DAILY A. ffI 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 Bummer 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. REPRSENT5D FOR NATIONAL ADVERTIS1NG By' National Advertising Serviceine, " College Publishers Representative 420 MADIsON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CHICAGO - BOSTON * LOS AGELES * SA FRANCIscO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1940-41 Daily Calendar of Events Wednesday, July 23 - 1:00 p.m. Excursion No. 5--Greenfield Village. Visit to Ford's Village, museums of early American life, Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory; the Dearborn Inn. Round trip by special bus. Reservations in Summer Session Of- fice, Angell Hall. Trip ends at 5:45 p.m., Ann Arbor. 2:30 4:00 p.m. "Religious Education Forum," Rackham Building, East Conference Room.' 3:30 5:30 p.m. Dancing. (Michigan League Ballroom.) Free of charge. Come with or without partners. 4:05 p.m. Lecture. "Work as a Part of the Secondary School Program," Rudolph Lindquist, Director of the Cranbrook School. (University High School Auditorium.) 8:30 p.m. Clinic Ensemble Recital. (Hill Auditorium.) 4:15 p.m. Lecture. "The Effect of War On the Social Order." Hans Speier, Professor of Sociology. The New School for Social Research, New York City. (Lecture Hall, Rackham Bldg.) 4:15-5:15 p.m. Auditorium W. K. Kellogg Institute. Mr. Leo Fitzpatrick, Vice-Presi- dent and General Manager Station WJR, Detroit. Topic-"The Prob- lems of the Broadcaster." 7:30 p.m. Intermediate Dancing Class. (Michigan League Ballroom.) 8:00 p.m. Medical Lecture. (Illustrated) "Cancer." Dr. Walter J. Maddock. (Lec- ture Hall, Rackham Building.) 8:30 p.m. "The Little Foxes," by Lillian Hellman. (Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.) Washington Merry-Go-Round Managing Editor City Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Sports Editor Womens Editor Editorial St af I/ . . KarlK Kessler .Harry M. Kelsey .William Baker Eugene Mandeberg Albert P. Blaustein . Barbara Jenswold B 3 DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN r Business Staff Business Manager Local Advertising Manager Women's Advertising Manager Daniel H. Huyett Fred M. Ginsberg 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. Acre: A Story Of Civilization .*.. 0UT OF THE BLUE SKIES of the Holy Land recently came news of a peace, of the end of a war that had scarcely made even the front pages of newspapers. The terms ending the Syrian war, an abortive little struggle hidden under the bushel of a greater conflagration, had been reached: at peaceful little Acre on the coast of Palestine, 90 miles from Jerusalem. It was at Acre too that Scott laid the scene in The Talisman where the gallant Saladin and the brave Richard the Lion-Hearted meet. With one mighty stroke of his English broadsword Richard severs an iron bar. Saladin draws his scimitar of Damascus steel across a pillow of silk and the pillow falls apart .. . But the taking of the little fisherman's village by Saladin and its recapture by Richard are but two incidents in a long history. Placed by some whim of the martial gods on a low promontory overlooking the bay of Acre, the town has for ages been a meeting place of wars. It overlooks the military road along the coast, and is the natural port for Galilee and Damascus. It guards, too, the entrance to the historic plain of Esdraelon. THIS QUIET LITTLE VILLAGE first appears in the mists of history more than 3,000 years ago when the Egyptian pharaohs, der fuehrers of the B.C. era, placed it in their little black book of conquests. It is mentioned in the Old Testament as one, of theplaces from which the Israelites did not drive the Canaanites. In the long struggle before the Christian era, Acre was the muster place of armies, the hibernum of in- vaders of Syria, the rendezvous of captains and kings. It was taken by the Assyrians under Sennacherib . The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ... At Acre Julius Caesar basked in the warmth of Herod's hospitality. The Emperor Claudius made it, a Roman colony, and Paul rested there be- tween boats while traveling from Tyre to Cae- sarea. In 638 the Arabs retook the town, and it be- came the scene of many struggles in the Cru- sades. Generous merchants who had estab- lished a monastery at Jerusalem moved it to Acre-St. John d'Acre. The monks who kept the monastery were called Hospitalers, and knights from almost every European country joined the Knights of St. John, a powerful order almost a nation within itself. It held towns and foirtresses, developed an army and a fleet. With the Knights Templar the order became one of the two great military orders of the Middle Ages. ACRE was the last stronghold of the Cru- saders, and fell after years of battle to the Saracens in 1200, later to be taken by the Turks. .When Napoleon attempted to emulate the Macedonian Alexander in the East he was sty- mied at Acre by the British fleet in 1799. Egypt retook the town in 1832, and eight .years later it was razed by the allied fleets of England, Aus- tria and Turkey. Exactly 100 years before the Vichy-British treaty at Acre the Turks regained the town, and kept it until it was taken by the British in World War I. ND THUS in the history of one small fisher- WASHINGTON-For just about one century the African Republic of Liberia has been a pain in the neck to the United States government. But now, at long last, it may .justify the head- aches it has caused in Washington. It may be another Iceland. Liberia, meaning a "free country," was founded even before the Civil War by American Negroes who sought to establish a free black republic and lead a movement "Back to Africa." The idea was encouraged by abolitionist leaders in New England, and the colony had an auspicious start. HOWEVER, American Negroes transplanted to Africa later became slave-owners themselves, and established a lively trade selling their own brethren from the jungle to plantation owners. This trade of blacks selling blacks got so bad that irate Henry L. Stimson, then Secretary of State, practically forced the resignation of the president of Liberia. Stimson stamped out the slave trade and Liberia has been fairly clean since. Liberia always has been under the protection of the United States. Its government operates partly on funds borrowed from the U.S. govern- ment, and its customs are watched by a U.S. collector. A friendly U.S. gunboat drops in at its ports from time to time, and U.S. Minister Lester Walton, a Harlem newspaper editor, car- ries great weight in the affairs of the country. NOW SUDDENLY, with the hasty Nazi-super- vised arming of French Dakar, Liberia is coming to have great importance. It is located south of Dakar in an area friendly to Great Britain and the United States and which could be used to protect the coast of South America. For some time military strategists have driven home to the White House and State Department the very great importance of West Africa in preserving the Monroe Doctrine. For if a hos- tile army gains control of West Africa, the hop across the South Atlantic to Brazil and Uruguay is relatively easy for modern bombing planes. The Vichy government has now openly ad- mitted the arming of Dakar against the United States, and Free Frenchmen escaping from North Africa have reported that about 3,500 Nazi technicians were busy in Dakar and other parts of French Northwest Africa installing coast artillery and building air bases. HOWEVER, south of Dakar and near Liberia, deGaulle Frenchmen are in control. Thus this part of equatorial Africa is being studied carefully as a base from which U.S. forces might operate to block Nazi operations against the Western Hemisphere. Nazi Lowdown On U.S. Here is some interesting light on the current splurge of reports that Hitler will stage a new "peace offer" offensive. At a recent dinner party in Havana, the Ger- man Charge d'Affaires, Herr Tauchnitz, was asked by a Cuban how long he thought the war would last. This was the Nazi's reply: "About six months-by which time both the Pope and the President of the United States will have made an intervention for peace and the action of the President will be very important." "But do you really think," the Cuban asked in surprise, "that the President will act in this manner? He has not talked that way." "If you will recall," replied the German charge, "that I said the President of the United States. I did not mention any name, either that of Roosevelt or Colonel Lindbergh." AFL Ruckus Hot inside warfare is raging 1inthe AFL over President Bill Green's appointment of that seven-man committee to study defense labor conditions and "promote union cooperation" with the government. IT WAS HUSHED UP, but at a caucus last week the poweful building trade unions, representing the biggest voting bloc in the AFL, flatly repudiated the "cooperation" committee, then followed this up by bluntly telling Green that the committee didn't exist as far as the building trade unions were concerned. to be in the limelight, both Woll and Watt have been miffed at not landing top defense jobs. AFTER LISTENING to the fiery blast of Brick- layer Bates, the caucus decided unanimously (1) that Hillman and his labor advisory com- mittee were doing an efficient job; (2) that no good purpose could be served by the committee, and (3) that building tradesmen representation in the defense setup (outside that in Hillman's organization) should come from their own de- partment in the AFL, headed by John Coyne. Following the caucus, a delegation led by Bates called on Green personally and notified him of their decision. "We want it clearly understood, Bill," Bates declared frankly, "that your committee is not to represent the building trades in any manner, shape or form, or interfere with the representa- tion we now have in the OPM and other agen- cies. Also, we want it clearly understood that your committee will keep out of the building trades field in making any studies it may under- take. W've come here to get such assurances from you." SINCE the building trade unions are autono- mous, Green had no alternative but to agree. O ikes&Men By JUNE MCKEE rTHE SUMMER SESSION'S fourth radio as- sembly today features David Owen, father of the strip show-or air "soap opera." From the drama staff of the CBS in Chicago, Mr. Owen comes to the auditorium of the Kellogg Institute at 4:15 p.m. with an extensive background in broadcasting. To audiences of the air, he has introduced, among others, "Betty and Bob," "Skippy," and "Jack Armstrong." Mr. Owen will be interviewed by Prof. Waldo Abbot, who ex- tends cordial invitations to everyone interested. Arrangements are now set to present two pro- grams by the High School Clinic Band, through WJR at 4:45 p.m., today and tomorrow. Under the direction of William D. Revelli, 140 young musicians from approximately 50 different cities in Michigan will play. The program will be broadcast from the auditorium of Perry School at Packard and Division. Copies of the political science talks presented by Professors James K. Pollock and Dr. Charles E. Martin are being made for all desiring perma- nent record of "The German Problem" and "America's Responsibility in the Pacific." Re- quests made to Broadcasting Service will be filled during the week. A student of Germany for many years, Pro- fessor Pollock believes this "anybody's war" in which the first job is to defeat Germany. He pointed out three necessities: to make perfectly clear to the German people first of all that the German army has been defeated; to sufficiently humiliate the country by an invading army's physical occupation in preventing further up- rising, and then, viewing the enormous economic and social rehabilitation problems posed, to help keep the house in order by such outside aid as an internal governing commission could furnish. The responsibilities of the United States in the Pacific and Far East, as summed up by Dr. Martin. visiting professor from the University of Michigan, will be ready for distribution by the week's end. * * * From "The Nation's Vacationland," at Macki- nac Island, Mort Jampel writes that Chuck Bowen and Gerry Schaflander are now working at WSOO . . . also that Mike Church will be there this week-end, promoting a $12,000 pag- eant for the government, handling the radio end of the deal-for which Dr. Joe Maddy will be over from Interlochen 150 strong .--. Dick Maddy, son of the National Music Camp president, has just won first chair percussionist honors, playing with the national high school orchestra in network broadcasts over NBC Blue STUPID St By Terence OUR BUSINESS STAFF here at The Daily is plagued every day with circulation complaints by people who haven't gotten their paper, sometimes our fault and sometimes not. The other day they received one, and the vice-president in charge of circulation complaints looked up the name of the complainant, and couldn't find it in the files. So he wrote the young lady, and told her that we rely on the University to supply the names of those entitled to a subscription, and that we had not received her name from them, undoubtedly a mistake on their part. He also told her that if she would bring her treasurer's receipt up here, her name would be entered in the file. And so back comes this reply in letter form: Circulation Department, Michigan Daily Dear Sir: Neither your organization nor mine is at fault for your failure to receive my card for The Daily- just one of those failures in rou- tine that happen. However, it does seem to me a bit unreasonable to make a per- sonal appearance to get something that should have come through in the usual order. If you will turn to page - line - in the Student Summer Directory you will be able to verify my standing as a student, or lift your receiver and call the Graduate School and you can ver- ify that student No. - is now in attendance. Nickel enclosed for the latter. Thanks. Yours truly Complainant got her paper; the nickel was returned. ** * TOM THUMB desires me to print the following notice for him: Since this thing has gone far enough I hereby step out of the picture and retract all statements about schoolteachers, this merely being a circulation-builder for (one word censored here) Terence. This was done without malicious intent, but was not received in the spirit in which it was conceived. I am short and fat and cannot get a date. I am the campus' prize heel and despoiler of fair woman- hood. I am a lecher. I do not take notes in class. I was suckled by a skunk. I throw stones at my mother. I hereby bequeath the school- teacher problem to Terence, who has the proper type of mind for teacher-baiting. - I am sorry it started and I do hope you all en- joy the Summer Session. - Tom Thumb P.S. Because of scholastis defi- ciency, I am not supposed to be writing in The Daily this summer. I NEVER said anything about schoolteachers and I never will. Just acted as middle-man in reprint- ing letters answering my inane friend. Hence I refuse his bequest. I like school teachers, and with the weather as nice as it has been I might even get to like Tom Thumb. Anyway, further comments, criti- cisms, questions, answers or sugges- tions re: schoolteachers should be addressed to A. P. Blaustein, keeper of POTPOURRI. If you'll remem-' ber the whole thing started there, and it can go right back as far as I'm concerned. NEWS ITEM: The United States government, through the Recon- struction Finance Corporation, today authorized a loan of $425,000,000 to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to pay for American war materials ordered be- fore the enactment of the Lease- Lend Bill. Well I'll be! We have to lend them 4% million in order that they can pay us what they owe. I don't get it . . . sounds too much like Ec. 51. ,F A W GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty "Don't mind Estelle-it annoys her when friends drop in unexpectedly to find the house looking as it usually does!" DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN 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 Little Foxes" by Lillian Hell- man will be presented at 8:30 p.m. to- night through Saturday night at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre by the Michigan Repertory Players of the Department of Speech. Single ad- missions are 75c, 50c, and 35c. The box office is open from 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. (Phone 300). Dancers for The Gondoliers. Any- one interested in dancing in The Gondoliers report at the ballroom of the Michigan League Thursday after- noon at 5 o'clock. Seminar in Pure Mathematics will meet on Wednesday, at 4:15 p.m., in 3201 A.H. Dr. Bella Manel will speak on "A general mapping theorem for multiply connected domains.- The Summer Session French Club: The third meeting of the Summer Session French Club will take place Thursday, July 24, at 8 p.m. at "Le Foyer Francais," 1414 Washtenaw. Mr. Arthur Hackett, Professor of Voice in the :University School of Music, will sing a group of French songs, and Mr. Richard Jean Picard, of Paris, will relate his flight by bi- cycle from Paris to Bordeaux in June 1940. Membership in the Club is still open. Those interested please see Professor Charles E. Koella, Room 200, Romance Language Building. Professor Tilson of Indiana State Teachers College will give a Demon- stration Lecture on Music Tests at 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 23 in Lane Hall. For Wednesday, July 23. Special Announcement-Change in Recital Time. The High School Clinic Solo and Ensemble Recital, William D. Revelli, Chairman, has been-changed from 4:15, Wednesday, July 23, Hill Auditorium, to 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 23, at Hill Auditorium. One-Act Plays: The Laboratory Theater of the Department of Speech will present two separate bills of one- act plays Friday, July 25, at 3:00 p.m. and Saturday, July 26, at 10:00 a.m. in the auditorium of the Ann Arbor High School. These plays are direct- ed, acted, produced, costumed, and the sets built by students in the act- ing, directing, and technical theater courses of the Department of Speech. All students of the School of Educa- tion, the Department of English, the Department of Speech, and of Ann Arbor High School are cordially in- vited to come. Admission is free. Whatever- seating room remains is open to the public. The Childhood of Maxim Gorky will be shown at the Rackham School Lec- ture Hall July 24 at 8:15 p.m. Tickets are available at Wahr's, League and Union. Art Cinema League. Clinic Band Radio Broadcast., The 1941 High School Clinic Band, Wil- liam D. Revelli, Conductor, will pre- sent a broadcast over radio station WJR from 4:45 to 5 p.m. on Wednes- day, July 23 and Thursday, July 24. The, program will originate from Perry School, Ann Arbor. Clinic Ensemble Recital. An en- semble selected from the High School Clinic Band will present a recital at 4:15 p.m., Wednesday, July 23, in the Hill Auditorium. July 23, 4:15 p.m. "The Effect of War on the Social Order. Hans Speier, Professor of Sociology, The New School for Social Research, New York City. Carillon Recital: Percival Price, University Carillonneur, will present a program composed entirely of Itali- an songs from 7:15 to 8 p.m., Thurs- day, July 24 in the Burton Memorial Tower. The University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information has received notice of the following Civil Service Examinations. Last date for filing application is noted in each' case: United States Civil Service Junior Public Health Nurse, salary $1,800, until further notice. Farmer-Fieldman, $2,600, August 7, 1941. Senior Inspector, Ordnance Mater- ial, $2,600, until further notice. Inspector, Ordnance Material, $2,- 300, until further notice. Associate Inspector, Ordnance Ma- terial, $2,000, until further notice. Assistant Inspector, Ordnance Ma- terial, $1,800, until further notice. Junior Inspector, Ordnance Mater- ial, $1,620, until further notice. Principal Industrial Specialist, $5,- 600, August 7, 1941. Senior Industrial Specialist, $4,600, August 7, 1941. Industrial Specialist, $3,800, August 7, 1941. Associate Industrial Specialist, $3,- 200 August 7, 1941. Assistant Industrial Specialist, $2,- 600, August 7, 1941. Housing Management Supervisor, $3,800, August 14, 1941. Chief Housing Management Super- visor, $6,500, August 14, 1941. Principal Housing Management Supervisor, $5,600, August 14, 1941. Senior Housing Management Su- pervisor, $4,600, August 14, 1941. Associate Housing Management Supervisor, $3,200, August 14, 1941. Assistant Housing Management Su- pervisor, $2,600, August 14, 1941. Project Auditor, 3,200, until further notice. Chief Project Auditor, $5,600, until further notice. Head Project Auditor, $4,600, until further notice. Principal Project Auditor, $3,800, until further notice. Senior Project Auditor, $3,500, un- til further notice. Associate Project Auditor, $2,900, until further notice. Assistant Project Auditor, $2,600, .. I