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NIGHT EDITOR: JOHNIERLEWIlE
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The editorials published in The Michigan)
Daily are written by members of The Daily
staff and represent the views of the writers
only.
Pearborn Follows
The Hitler Line.
W E'RE FIGHTING a tough war but
we don't have to go off half-cocked
ncrd forget that this is the United- States, not
G many., Because there is a war we should
iyoid getting panicky and reverting to the old
Nazi slogan of blood is thicker than nationality.
THIS MEANS DEARB.ORN, MICHIGAN.
The Safety Commission of that city, trying to
help keep Hirohito out of Michigan at any cost,
has made an inexcusable blunder in the case of
?t,-year-old Kenneth Mwrase. an American of
J4panese descent. After Pearl Harbor and Kim-
mel, the War Department issued orders which
caused all Americans of Japanese descent living
on the West Coast to be interned, a step that
had to be, taken although it meant breaking up
the well-ordered lives of many innocent people.
Then the goveinment couldn't take any chances.
t had to move fast to prevent possible sabotage
fy unknown Japanese agents who might have
bn taking advantage of all the Japanese-
descended American patriots. When it was safe
tomove these people out of internment-that is
to say, after proper investigation had weeded out
all suspicious characters-the War Department
was all for releasing the interned.
Tht is the background of the Kenneth Murasp
incident in Dearborn. Now for the facts of the
case itself.
The Mt. Olivet Methodist Church in Dearborn
wanted to bring four Americans of Japanese
descent into the city. These four Americans had
each been investigated by the War Department
and released fron the West Coast internment
camps. But the Dearborn Safety Commission
rose-up in a grand burst of mighty wrath to veto
the idea. Reverend Geer, pastor of the Mt. Olivet
Iethodist Church, asked to have an open hear-
ing of the case, at the same time compromising
on one of the Japanese-Americans instead of
the four the church originally wanted to bring
into Dearborn. The church decided on Murase.
The open hearing was granted.
Then the city fathers-all solid citizens who
had helped build Dearborn into the city it is,
today-appeared on the scene. Three hundred of
them grumpily went on record "agin" the
church's idea. So the Safety Commission of
Dearborn told the Methodist Church that Dear-
born couldn't consider the preposterous notion
of admitting the enemy into the city.
THERE WERE REASONS given by the Dear-
born city fathers to support their veto of
kenneth Murase. Ralph Trotter, former com-
mander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, De-
psrtment of Michigan. super-patriotically took
the speaker's stump.
Said he: "On Dec. 7 the United States was
stabbed in the back by the very ancestors of
these people the clergy wants to bring into Mich-
igan. In all the Japanese, race prejudice will
overshadow citizenship in' any country."
But Walter Enig, commander of the Allied
Veterans Council of Dearborn-as pompous an
crganization as its name sounds-took the cake
,y this statement:
"We've got enough subversive elements here
in Dearborn."
Far be it from us to tell people their thinking
is crooked, but if there is any logic behind Dear-
-hnvn's move to orevent an invasion of the city
WASHINGTON-On many occasions President
Roosevelt has summoned labor and capital to
the White House and semanded that they iron
out disastrous disputes. But when business and
labor leaders called on him last week with a
pledge of "cooperation to win the war," the
President had absolutely nothing to do with
inaugurating the move.
The unprecedented step was worked out in a
behind-the-scenes conference held in the private
dining room of a Washington hotel a few days
before the labor and business leaders called on
the President. Even before this, however, Eric
Johnston, new, refreshing president of the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, had warmed up the AFL
and CIO, as exclusively reported in this column.
After this advance work, Johnston summoned
to the secret hotel meeting AFL President Wil-
liam Green, CIO Secretary James B. Carey. AFL
Secretary George Mjeany, William P. Witherow,
president of the National Association of Manu-
facturers, and all the others who later called, on
the President, except CIO President Phil Mur-
ray, who was out of the city.
Eric Johnston sounded the keynote of the
meeting.
"I guess this is the first time in history." he
said, that the AFL, the CIO, the NAM and the
U.S. Chamber-the four great organizations rep-
resenting employes and employers-have ever
sat down voluntarily to adjust their own differ-
ences without government help.
"We are all intelligent enough to realize what's
at stake in this war." Johnston continued, "and
if we don't work together, free labor and free.
management will be washed up. We simply can-
Vote Politics Out
Of Washington. .
POLITICS is ticking again. For a
while after Pearl Harbor' Washing-
ton seemed to forget that it was divided into
Republicans and Democrats, that such things as
lobbying, farm blocs and, isolationists existed.
But the political pendulum has gradually re-
gained speed until now even the most casual
government clock-watcher cannot help but feel
that the Washington watch is reverting back to
the political chaos of pre-war days.
Probably the chief example of the way that
Congressional attitude is obstructing the war
effort for vote-getting reasons is its refusal to
draft those in the 18- and 19-year-old age group.
The Army has wanted 18- and 19-year-olds ever
since the war started because it has been proven
that men of these ages learn faster, have greater
endurance, and eventually turn out to be better
soldiers. But Congress refused the Army because
it was afraid that the folks at home might not
lite to have their "babies" drafted an; might
show their displeasure at the next election.
ANOTHR NOTORIOUS EXAMPLE of imme-
diate political gains being placed before the
interests of the country as a whole is the farm
bloc's success in preventing a ceiling on sgri-
cultural products. The OPA reported recently
that the price of farm products has risen 71
percent during the last 33 months while metal
and metal products (much more scarce than
grain) have only had an 11 percent increase in
a corresponding period. The farm bloc's stand
is definite obstructionism that places sectional
interests 'before national interests.
And then Congress is ieiusing to vote the OPA
the 195 million dollars that it needs to effectively
control prices. Instead only 120 million dollars
is being granted for this vital work, 75 million
under the amount asked for by Price Adminis-
trator Leon Henderson. The OPA was created
and is operating to control prices so that there
will be no inflation after the war. Prevention
of price rises to dangerous levels is a difficult
job when demand is greater than supply and it
takes money to administer a successful program.
And yet Congress refuses to grant the necessary
amount.
HE PRESSURE GROUPS are not only able
to prevent Congress from enacting necessary
legislation, but they are able to successfully en-
courage Congress to pass non-essential appro-
priations beneficial to but one section of the
country. For instance, the recent millions ad-
vanced for the Florida barge canal when the
canal will take over a year and a half to build
and when it is doubtful if we can produce the
necessary barges.
Political motives do snot dominate all con-
gressmen. Probably a majority of them are serv-
ing the country with patriotic, unselfish motives.
However, politics is making too many serious
inroads into the war effort. The only way to
prevent this state of affairs from becoming
worse is by voting the politicians out of Wash-
ington. That should make them realize that the
old rules don't hold any more, that the public
is willing to sacrifice sectional interests for the
sake of the natioral interest. and that what
Americans want most of all is victory for the
United Nations.- Ray Dixon
tainly overshadow citizenship in any country.
This is the logic of Mr. Ralph Trotter, an old
citizen of Dearborn. The conclusion would be
that we are going to lose this war because the
people of the United States aren't united. They're
going to sell out the country in the crisis, watch
and see.
In the second place, city fathers of Dearborn,
..V." -^1fal rn- 611hv rcia.s.-a .s in .....
not be divided at home and expect to win this
war. Therefore, I think we ought to agree right
now on some unified plan of action."
After considerable discussion, it was decided
to suggest to the President a "joint economic
council." This would be composed of representa-
tives of the four groups present, and would ad-
vise with war agencies on labor-management
problems and make recommendations, from time
to time, on war labor policies.
It wasn't announced at the White House, but
this was the basis for the plan of cooperation
which industry and labor spokesmen laid before
the President a few days later.
Labor's If luence .
Despite the seriousness of the business-labor
session, there was one mirthful moment when
Johnston made a grinning remark about labor's
'influence" with the government.
"What are you talking about," replied Bill
Green goodnaturedly. "Big business is in the
driver's seat. Your dollar-a-year men are run-
ning the show."
"That's right." chorused CIO's Carey and
George Meany of the AFL. "Why, labor doesn't
even have representation in the cabinet."
This dig at Secretary of Labor Perkins brought
a howl from everyone-including sedate William
P. Witherow, president of the Manufacturers
Association.
"Come now," persisted Witherow. "You still
haven't answered the question. What's the secret
of labor's influence with the Administration?"
"I guess it's because we control more votes
than you fellows," grinned Carey.
Elliot Roosevelt In Brazil
On a recent trip from Rio to Washington, Fer-
nando Lobo, astute Minister-Counselor of the
Brazilian Embassy. stopped overnight at the
strategic port of Belem, well-known these days
to many an American aviator.
At Belem's Grand Hotel, Lobo asked the pro-
prietor how he liked the American fliers con-
stantly passing through.
"Fine," said the proprietor. "Fine. But once I
did the wrong thing. A captain came to the hotel,
a big American, and he wrote his name in the
book, but I didn't pay attention. I just gave
him a room on the top floor and forgot about
him.
"Then pretty soon came a colonel, and he
signed the book. When he saw the name of the
captain, he said to me, 'Look who you have here;
this is the son of the President-Captain Elliott
Roosevelt.'
"So I ran upstairs right away and apologized
to Captain Roosevelt for giving him such a poor
room. But he was already stretched out on the
bed, and hesaid, 'It's all right; it's fine.' So I
left him.
"But that night-what do you suppose? That
very night, the German radio announced from
Berlin that Captain Elliott Roosevelt was stay-
ing at my hotel! What spies we have!"
Note: Elliott has since been promoted to the
rank of Major. His superiors say he earned it.
Sawd'lt1and
Owier .S2X/Z
KEEP THINKING about going to Southbury-
Southbury, Connecticut. Of course I can't,
not possibly, but I'd like to, I like thinking about
it.
I've never been there but they say it's perfect,
all green and sort of gentle and very old. Noth-
ing, ndthing at all is new, or at least that's what
they tell me. Probably there's plumbing and
movie theatres and chain stores all right, but
the plumbing is in an old farm house or another
just like it and it's still the old music hall or
maybe the general store, just a little different,
out really the same.
Oh, of course I won't go, it's the money, the
train is so much I couldn't possibly afford it,
but I like thinking about it. I'd go if I could
afford it. I could stay in a two-hundred-year-old
farm house with a wall as thick as your arm
stretched out, straight up to your shoulder and
there's a barn that's been made into a studio,
and a stable for horses. I'm frightened to death
of horses, I wouldn't dare ride one, but you'd
expect to find horses in Southbury.
KNOW she didn't mean it, it's one of those
things that people say, it's the nicest kind of
a thing to say, but people hardly ever mean it.
She said, "come out and visit me, won't you?
Come out to Southbury and stay for awhile," but
she didn't mean it. I'd go if I thought she
meant it.
They say that it's quiet in Southbury. It's such
a little town and there are no factories. The
train doesn't even go through. You have to go
to New York and find a train to a town nearby-
they can't tell you the way in Ann Arbor.
They say that if I went I'd have to buy a lot
of clothes. I'd have to have a hat, maybe a yel-
low felt with a wide brim, but I'd never wear a
hat again and I'd feel so silly-yellow felt--be-
sides, I can't afford it. Then too there's the
matter of shoes, and, "really, my dear, you must
have nne aod won lsit." T'd an if T didn't havo
DAILY OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1942
VOL. LII No. 31-S
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.
Notices
The University Bureau of Appoint-
ments has received notice of the fol-
lowing State of Michigan Civil Ser-
vice Examinations. Closing dates for
filing applications is'noted in each
case.
Inheritance Tax Examiner II Au-
gust 12, 1942. $200 per month.
Institution.Psychologist A, Augustf
22. 1942, $135 per month.
Institution Psychologist I, August
22, 1942. $155 per month.
Industrial Hygiene Physician V.
August 12, 1942, $400 per month.
Inter-County Drain Inspector I.
August 12, 1942 $155 per month.
Orchard Farmer B, August 12, 1942.
$115 per month.
Poultry Farmer B, August 12, 1942,
$115 per month.
Numeric Bookkeeping Clerk B, Au-
gust 12, 1942, $115 per month.
Blind School Elementary Teacher
I, August 12, 1942, $155 per month.
Bacteriologist II, August 12, 1942,
$206 per month.
Blue-Print Machine Operator B.
August 12, 1942, $115 per month.
Nurse Anaesthetist AI, August 12.
1942, $145 per month.-
Farmhand C, August 12, 1942, $100
per month.1
Manual WorkerC, August 12, 1942,.
$100 per month.
Soils Engineer I, August 12, 1942,1
$155 per month.1
Soils Engineer II, August 12, 1942,
$200 per month.
Soils Engineer III, August 12, 1942,
$250 per month.
Further information may be had
from the notices which are on file in
the office of the Bureau of App int-
ments, 201 Mason Hall, office hours
9-12 and 2-4.
Bureau of Appointments and
Occupational Information'
If you have purchased improved
property on a land contract and owe
a balance of approximately 60 per-'
cent of the value of the property,
the Investment Office, 100 South
Wing of University Hall, would be
glad to discuss the possibilities of
refinancing your contract through
the medium of a mortgage. Such re-~
financing may effect a savings in
Interest.
Consumer Education Exhibit may
be seen daily at the Michigan League.
Hours-11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The Storehouse Building will act
as a receiving center for scrap rub-
ber' and also metals. Any depart-
ment on the Campus having metals
or rubber to dispose of for defense
purposes, please call Ext. 337 or 317
and the materials will be picked up
by the trucks which make regular
campus deiveries Service of the
janitors is available to collect the
materials from the various rooms in
the buildings to be delivered to the
receiving location.
E. C. Pardon
Academic Notices
Engineering Faculty: There will be
a meeting of the Faculty of this
college on Tuesday, August 4th at
4:15 p.m. in Room 348.
A. H. Lovell,
Assistant Dean and Secretary
Summer Session Students of the
English Department: All upper-class
and graduate students enrolled in the'
Summer Session are cordially invited
to a tea on Friday, July 31, at four
o'clock in the Assembly Room of the
Rackham Building. Dr. Cleanth
Brooks visiting Professor from Louis-
iana State University will give an
informal demonstration of certain
teaching methods in poetry.
College of Literature, Science, and
the Arts, Schools of Education, For-
estry and Conservation, Music, and1
Public Health: Students enrolled in
the regular Summer Session who re-
ceived marks of I or X at the close'
of their last term of attendance (viz.,
semester or summers session) will re-
ceive a grade of E in the course unless
this work is made up by July 29.t
Students wishing an extension of time,
beyond this date should file a petition
addressed to the appropriate official1
in their school with Room 4 U.H.,1
where it will be transmitted.
Seniors in Chemical Engineering:'
Dr. F. N. Rugg of the Bakelite Corp-
oration will interview chemical en-
gineers who expect to receive theirj
degree in September on Thursday,I
July 30, beginning at 9:00 o'cloc.{
Sign interview list in Room 2028 E
Engineering Building.
Watch the Bulletin Board outside<
Room 2028 East Engineering for no-
tices of the interviewers from various
companies who will be coming to talk
to seniors.E.
Senior Engineers: Mr. H. A. Hicks~
_ .,...
of the Chrysler Corporation will in-
terview Senior =Engineering students
graduating in August or September,
1942, for positions in that organiza-
tion, on Wednesday, July 29, 1942.
Interview schedule is posted on the
Bulletin Board at 221 West Engi-
neering 'Bld.
Interviews will be held in Room
214 West Engineering Bldg.
R. S. Hawley,
Chairman,
Dept. of Mech. Eng.
Tennis tournament schedule is now
posted in W.A.B. for women's singles
and mixed doubles. The first bracket
must be played off by July 31st. Top
person in each bracket is responsible
for calling opponent to arrange time
for play. Pay entrance fee to matron
at desk in'Vomen's Athletic Building.
Department of Physical Edu ation
for' Women
Events Today
Graduate Coffee Hour Wednesday,
4:30 p.m. in the Men's Lounge of the
Rackham Building. All faculty mem-
bers, graduate students and their
friends are invited to attend.
Methodist Students: Tea will be
served for all Methodist students and
their friends from 4:00 to 5:30 this
afternoon in the Wesley Foundation
lounge of the church. Come in and
greet your friends.
"Lettcrs to Lucerne," rated as one
of the best plays of the curient New
York season, opens "tonight and will
run through Saturday evening. This
is the fourth production of the 1942
Michigan Repertory Players of the
department of speech. Tickets are on
sale at the Mendelssohn Theatre box
office daily from 10-$:30.
A Physical Fitness Review will be
be held on Ferry Field Wednesday
evening, July 29th, beginning at 7:45
o'clock. in which, the students en-
rolled in the Physical Conditioning
Classes will participate. This Review
is to be dedicated to .Dr. Elmer R.
Townsley. Price of admission is 50c
for adults and 25c for children. The
proceeds will be given'to Mrs. Towns-
ley and her three small children.
Tickets may be purchased at the
Michigan Union, Michigan League,
Haller Furniture Store, Wahr's Book
Store, the Intramural Sports Build-
ing, University Golf Course, and the
Athletic Offices.
H. O. Crisler
Director
Inter - Racial Association Panel:
"Why Fight Discrimination Now?"
Chairman-Professor Richard Fuller.
Speakers: Richard Haikkenen UAW-
CIO, Gloster Current, NAACP; Char-
les Smith, Recruiting Officer, U S.N.
Wednesday, July 29, 1942. Michigan
Union. 8:00 p.m..
Women In Education: Luncheon in
the Russian Tearoom of the Michi-
gan League, Wednesday, July 29,
11:45 to 1:00. Dr. Margaret Bell,
Professor of Hygiene and Physical
Education, and Physician in the Uni-
versity Health Service, will speak on
"Some Aspects 'of Physical 'Fitness."
Come and bring a friend.
Sound Motion Pictures: "The Per-
fect Tribute" and "Teddy Roosevelt,
the Rough-Rider" v~ill be shown at
the weekly Speech assembly at 3 p.m.
Wednesday in the Amphitheatre of
the' Rackham Building. All Speech
students should attend. The public
is invited.
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers will hear Prof F. N. Men-
efee on the subject: "The Engineer
and the War," Wednesday, July 29th,
f 7-n..,., a k Rrtnhar, r Tn .
Lounge and Terrace. Single and
couple admissions.
Pi Lambda Theta' Picnic: Thurs-
day. July 30, 5:30 p.m. Call Dorothy
Tissue for reservations. Phone 8321.
Meet at the steps of Univsrsity High
School at 5:00 p.m.
Cercle Francais: Professor Percival
Price of the School of Music, will ex-
plain and demonstrate the operation
of the University Carillon to mem-
bers of the Cercle. Students and fac-
ulty who are interested will please
meet Professor Price at the Burton
Memorial Towver, Thursday at 7 p.m.
A woodwind recital in which fac-
ulty and students will participate has
been planned by the Scool6 of Mu-
sic for Thursday evening, Juys 30,
in the Assembly Hall of the Rack-
ham Building. The program will in-
clude compositio's by Blume, De-
Wailly and Thuille, as well as Quin-
tet, Op. 5, witten by Dean Howard,
a graduate student now enrolled in
the University. Scheduled to begin
at 8:30 p.m., the recital is open to
the general public.
Summer Session Studeits of the
English Department. All upper-class
and' graduate students enrolled in
the Summer Session are cordially in-
vited to a tea on Friday, July 31, at
four o'clock in the Assembly Room
of the Rackham Building. Dr. Cle-
anth Brooks, visiting professor from
Louisiana State University, will give
an informal demonstration of cer-
tain teaching riethods in poetry.
Dancing: Friday and Saturday
evenings from 9-12 at the Michigan
League. Come with orwithout a
partner.
Phi Delta Kappa: Initiation and
banquet, Thursday, July 30th at a:15
p.m. at the Michigan Union. The
speaker will be Dr. Norman W. De-
Witt of Victoria College, University
of Toronto.
Graduate Outing Club: The Grad-
uate Outing Club (and other inter-
esting graduate students) will make
a tour of Greenfield Village on Sun-
day, August 2, leaving Ann Arbor at
2 p.m.' on the Greyhound Bus and
returning at 6:50. The cost of the
trip including lunch will be aput
$2.00. All those planning to go are
requested to sign up either at the In-
formation desk at the League or at
Rackham before 'Saturday noon.
Watch this column for further notice
about meeting place.
Youth Hostel Trip: There will be
a Youth Hostel Trip to Saline Valley
Farms leaving the Women's Athletic
Building Saturday afternoon, August
1, at 1:30 p.m. and returning Satur-
day morning. This will be a bicycling
group.
Dept. of Physical Education
for Women
N
The Future of Nationalism will be
discussed at a panel discussion, by
William Muehl, Paul Lim Yuen, and
Max Dresden, at the Michigan
League, Thursday, July 30, at 7:55.
There will be questions from the floor.
Everybody is invited.
The Post-War Council
Lectures on Statistical Methods:
Professor J. Neyman will give the
second of ,his series of lectures on
"Methods of Sampling," on Thurs-
day, July 30, at 8 p.m., in 3011 A.H.
All persons interested are cordially in-
vited.
Growth and Education of Elemen-
tary School Children, Byron O.
Hughes, Instructor in Education and
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By Lichty
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"I say we;
got enough air raid shelters fer the hawgs an' cattle-
now we'd oughter think of our families!"