THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, Al The WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By DREW PEARSON Editorial Staff Homer Swander . . . . Managing Editor Will app . . . . . . City Editor M1e Dann . . . Sports Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Hale Champion, John Erlewine, Robert Mantho, Irving Jaffe, Robert Prelskcl Business Staff .t~rard Perlberg . . . Business Manager EFxE M. Ginsberg . Associate Business Manager Morton Hunter . . . Publications Manager NIGHT EDITOR: HALE CHAMPION r F ft I The editorials published in The Michigan Daily arepwritten by members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. a .. An Apology To The Ann Arbor News . N EDITORIAL OF MINE in yesterday's Daily erroneously attributed racial dis- crimination to the editorial columns of the Ann Arbor News. To my knowledge the Ann Arbor News has never suggested or approved racial discrim- ination in any form in its editorial columns. The discrimination which was under discus- sign should have been attributed to its adver- tiing columns. t The, mistake occurred through a copy reader's error. I sincerely regret any trouble it may have caused and am sorry that it should even unintentionally have reflected on the fairness of the News. - Art Carpenter What Happened To 'Equality Of Sacrifice'? ... MEMBERS of the UAW-CIO have re- volted against their promise to sur- render premium payments for week-end work, and unless Congress gets, down to work and makes "equality of sacrifice" more than a beau- tiful war slogan, this country may very soon be faced with a really serious uprising by organ- iged labor. Last April the UAW emergency convention, in response to a plea by President Roosevelt, agreed to give up the customary double pay for Satur- day and Sunday work within the five-day work week. The move was intended as part of labor's contribution to the war effort, as part of their contribution to the sacrifices which must be made by the nation. SINCE THEN, according to UAW members, independent unions have managed to win elections by promising workers double payments end pointing out that the CIO had promised niot to take such payments for the duration of tbe war. They have also claimed that employ- : s, anxious to fight the CIO, have granted these premium wages to keep the CIO out of their plants. Delegates to the UAW convention at Chicago stamped and whistled, refused to listen to ,peeches for 20 minutes, and battled for three hours in an attempt to get union heads to cbnge their policy, to go along with the rest of the country and get double pay for week-ends. Leaders have managed to push through a reso- lution which would release the UAW-CIO from Its commitments unless the policy of relinquish- ing premium pay for week-ends is universally applied throughout industry within 30 days BUT even if the President does manage to pull industry into line, even if he does get non- CIO workers throughout the country to give up part of their pay, and. even if he does keep inde- pendent unions from using the CIO's coopera- tion for their own advantage, he still will not be ,getting at the source of labor's unrest, he. will not be striking at the cause of wildcat strikes nd soldiering. Labor resents, and rightfully, the country's failure to put as stiff a limit on wages, bonuses and executives' salaries as on wages. Workers are angry because Congress has dilly-dallied ard shilly-shallied with anti-inflation bils, until the passage of the sales tax looks like a 4ure thing. They are cynical about the whole war because of cracked rent ceilings, huge executive salaries and lack of efficient pro- WASHINGTON-One sad commentary on the war effort is that the big brewing companies are now among beneficiaries of the patriotic cam- paign to collect tin cans. Together with certain soft drink bottling companies, they are getting, for bottle caps, a large percentage of the tin cans which housewives in 140 different communities have been so faithfully collecting to be used for bombs and war weapons. Furthermore, the two chiefs of the WPB' Conservation Division, Julius Rosenwald and Paul Cabot, have given their OK to letting these companies get a part of the tin cans. This has aroused the vigorous opposition of lesser lights in the WPB, particularly the men charged with collecting tin. They are Burton M. Parka. chief of WPB's tin can unit: Leslie Mer- rill, deputy chief, and Edward Place, office ad- ministrator. They have been seething ad over the stand of their superiors and feel that the entire conservation program may be wrecked by this "business-as-usual" policy. Seething WPB Here is the inside story on the situation whicj has been boiling inside the WPB for days. When tin and iron first became scarce, the brewers and bottling companies were ordered by WPB to reduce their use of bottle caps to 70 per cent of 1940. They protested. An appeals hear- ing was held, but the order was kept in effect. and meanwhile the tin can unit of the WPB had started its campaign to get housewives to save tin cans. This was not an easy campaign, first, because tin cans are bulky unless cut in two and spread flat; second, because collection is difficult. How- ever, the campaign was started in 36 larger Eastern cities, then extended to 104 additional cities, all in cooperation with local mayors and local salvage committees, which did an excellent job. Simultaneously, WPB's tin can unit went to Charles R. Van Etten and Lieut. Harold J. Cohen of the Salvage Division of the Army's Quarter- master Cors and arranged to salvage large- sized tin cans used in great quantity by the Army. Van Etten and Cohen welcomed the idea. Army Balks But their superior, Col. Robert M. Falkenai, chief of the Quartermaster's Salvage Division, did not. The Army, he said, was supposed to train men to fight, not save tin cans. And he History Can Be A Poor Teacher . WE ARE YOUNG in nationhood. It is not yet time for dynicism or its attendant evils to pervade and dominate' our thought. Yet so-called thinking Americans can look back upon one hundred and fifty years of history and cull therefrom as sickening a passiv- ity about immediate issues as has ever bemused any people Thus a letter to The Daily placidly asserting the insolubility of Jim Crowism is all too indica- tive of an attitude which threatens to eat out the vitals of progressivism everywhere. So tra- dition-infested have the workings of our na- tional mind become that we are told the Negro problem cannot be solved simply and wholly because it has always existed. 13,000,000 voices are raised in unspeakable anguish as the chains of continued politico-economic enslavement cir- cle their bodies with ever-tightening rigidity. And we resort to hoary history books with their hoarier "lessons." How consoling it is to know that action is unnecessary when action seems futile! WHAT IS TRUE of the United States is even truer of the United Nations, many of whose would-be spokesmen cannot see the possibility of world union for much the same reason that American pundits cannot see the possibility of racial freedom. National passivity rots and festers into inter- national apathy. All the world is atremble with imminent change and, "authorities" refuse even, to perceive this world as it is. How long will it take us to realize that the situation which exists today is unique? It is paralleled by no other situation since the beginning of time because the universe has never before been indissolubly bound up. It is today. One hundred years ago world unity was a pipe dream; now it is a physi- cal, measurable, patent geographic reality. We are one and know it not. The process has matured willy-nilly. And while men stand at the threshold of a new epoch, the abyss of inaction yawns before them. A single misstep and our leaders can commit universal hari-kiri. NOW THEN, this is the alternative, sharp and clear: we shall act on that truth, seek to organize a working federation of the world and evolve a just, peaceful international order, or we shall deny that which stares us in the. face, or- ganize for disunity, follow the lead "of geo-. political perversion, accentuate petty regional animosities, and fan as seldom before the all- consuming flames of social self-destruction. One path can spell the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth -the other only hellish degradation unto death. There are times when history can act as a negative quantity. This is such a time. Society must nulearn all the divisive tendencies that have rent it asunder century after bloody cen- tury: If these be youthful, idealistic notions, so is America youthful and idealistic-lest man- didn't want army cooks cluttering up the kitch- ens with empty cans. After much persuasion, however, Col. Falk- enau was persuaded to try the idea at least in army camps around Pittsburgh and New Jersey. Later the plan spread to other camps. When the Army Quartermaster Salvage Divi- sion makes its collections, it operates just as a village or municipality. It has a supply of junked material available for sale to the "de- tinning" outfits. In the case of the Army, just as it was giving A-1 cooperation, the brewers and some soft drink bottlers stepped in and offered the Quarter- master three times as much the price set for the tin cans by WPB. Simultaneously, hospitals, colleges, municipal governmen'ts received lush offers from the bottlers and brewers. So local salvage committees, which have ac- complished a tough, patri6tic job, are beginning to get sore. And the tragedy is that the next time a call comes to collect and save a vital war material, it may not be so easy. LCTTCERS TO THE EDITOR Feed Starving Europe To the Eitor: M ANY PEOPLE in the United Nations today-both in and out of public of- fice-seem to reflect a profound misunderstand- ing of what the war is being fought about and how it can most speedily and permanently be won. This misunderstanding is daily becoming more serious, because it is tolerating complete inaction toward a problem which may be of cru- cial importance in organizing the world for peace. If I did not believe there is such a misunder- standing it would be almost trite to begin this letter by emphasizing that the resurgence off pagan nationalism in the world today is basically a counter-revolution against "liberty, equality, fraternity"-the doctrine enshrined in the hearts of mankind since the French Revolutio. Al- though it certainly has definite economic roots, the National Socialism We are fighting is truly a revolt against the French Revolution in its modern form-Democratic Collectivism. THE LATTER has taken difierent forms ac- cording to the institutions of the countries concerned, but it is fundamentally an attempt to improve the status of working people everywhere by forcing modern institutions to subserve the interests of the individuals who live under them. Thps it has sought to reconcile Christian Democ- racy's respect for hpman personality with the economic necessity for collective action to oon- trol a modern industrial society. Pagan national- ism abhors this broad humanitarian content, and itself treats individuals as tools to be used (i. e., sacrificed) to its narrow views of national ag- grandisement. Therefore, since this is indeed a war of ideas between two such radically different notions of the role of individual man in society, it must be fought as such. Men wo have fallen under the heel of the National Socialist Frankenstein and forced to listen to its drivel about a "new order" must be reached and won over by an awakened Democracy! This fighting Democracy, as several American statsmen have recently declared, must have as Its goal a "peoples' century" in which its concepts will be extended to usher in an era of permanent peace and prosperity. The ideas of the counter-revolution will persist if the United Nations seek only to defend Democratic Collectivism-even though they thereby win a military victory! MILLIONS TODAY are crying for a "second front" in Western Europe, but military stra- tegists apparently do not believe it would be suc- cessful yet. Meanwhile the United Nations are passing up an opportunity to speak on a world front a language which all the world under- stands,,and which they arie now in a'position to speak louder than it has ever been spoken be- fore. This is the language of food. All the warehouses in the Western -Hemis- phere simply are not large enough to hold the bumper food crops which are being harvested today. Meanwhile, the men and women whose support we must have to -win the peace are dying of starvation and being shoveled out of gutters into horrible pyres all over devastated Europe. If Democratic Collectivism sincerely wishes to ex- tend itself, answering the Axis in the way it will do the most good, it must try to get food through to these people! THE USUAL OBJECTION to "feed Europe" plans is that "the last war was won by a food blockade." Even if that is true, the last war was not a counter-revolution (i. e., a war between profoundly irreconcilable ideas), and no one needs to be reminded that we plainly lost the "last peace." My point is that the United Na- tions today dare not risk "muddling through" - fighting this war of ideas with a terrible famine which is bound to alienate starving millions. If the goal is a "people's century" of world-wide peace and prosperity, people-grateful, healthy people-must be kept alive to support it. Demratwr ic' colectivism must~1 answer Nation- I)AILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1942 VOL. LI No. 38-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 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 p'eked up by the trucks which make regular janitors is available to collect the campus, deliveries. Service of %the materials from the various rooms in the buildings to be delivered to the receiving location. E. C. Pardon Exhibition of Chinese Painting: Water-colors by Professor Chang Shu-Chi: Rackham Building Gal- leries; Tuesday, August 4, through Saturday, August 8; 2 to 5 and 7 to 10. Professor Chang will give dem- onstrations of painting in the gal- leries on Thursday anid Friday, be- tween 3 and 5. Consumer Education Exhibit may be seen daily at theMichigan League. Hours-11 a.m. to 8 p.m. A cadem ic Notices Freshmen, Summer Terni, College of Literature, Science, and The Arts: Freshmen may not drop courses without E grade after Saturday, Au- gust 8. In administering this rule, students with less than 24 hours of credit are considered freshmen. Ex- ceptions may be made in extraordi- nary circumstances, such as severe or long continued illness. Faculty, College of Literature, Sci- ence, and The Arts: Midsemester reports are due not later than Saturday, August 8. Report cards are being distributed to all \departmental offices. Green cards are being provided for fresh- man reports; they should be re- turned to the office of the Academic Counselors, 108 Mason Hall. White cards, for reporting sophomores, juniors, and seniors should be re- turned to 1220 Angell Hall. Midsemester reports should name those students, freshmen and upper- class, whose standing at midsemester is D or E, not merely those who re- ceived D or E in so-called midsemes- ter examinations. Students electing our courses, but registered in the other schools or col- leges of the University, should be From M-3's To M-4's The Detroit (Chrysler) Tank Arse- na's ,non-stop changeover from the M-3's to the improved M-4 models was an event in itself but in addi- tion, it seems to us, the event had even broader snificance asreveal- ing new and unsuspected possibilities for . flexibility in mass production generally. This looks to be rather important, considering that the war is so largely fought with machines and that the ability to improve their quality as well as quantity is vitally advantageous. Mai. Alexander P. de Seversky has a good deal to say about that in his books currently published in The News. He proves it was the super- lative quality of the British Spitfire and Hurricane fighters that saved Britain's bacon both in the 1940 Blitz and at Dunkirk. The Nazis had standardized their pre-war Messer- schmitt and Heinkel models for the sake of quantity. They got it. But they also got licked, when these fighters were matched against planes inferior in numbers but superior in performance. The British never had standardized; their up-to-the-minute fighters were virtually hand-made jobs. / When we read -those chapters, we thought with misgiving of the great aviation plants hereabouts. The erstwhile auto industry is applying its mass-production skill to making war planes in quantity. Having thus committed plane output to standard- ization, would it be possible to pre- serve the flexibility on which pro- gressively improving quality must de- pend? There is a partial answer in the' sheer potential capacity of American plane production. The country with the biggest capacity evidently is best able to shut down a part of it for changeover to new models. Howeyer, that means sacrificing the advan- tage of quantity-the sacrifice fought and successfully avoided in the Tank Arsena transition to the M-4's. How that miracle was wrought we are in no position to guess. But if the same kind of technic and the same smart planning may be applied to plane production, Maj. de Sever- sky can quit worrying over any dan- Doctoral Examination for Henry Michael Foley, Physics; thesis: "An Investigation in the General Theory of Pressure Broadening, and an Ex- perimental Study of Pressure Effects in the 14 Band of Hydrogen Cya- nide." Friday, August 7, East Coun- cil Room, Rackham Building, 3:00 p.m. Chairman, D. M. Dennison. By action of the Executive Board the Chairman may invite members of the faculties and advanced doc- toral candidates to attend the exam- ination and he may grant permission to those who for sufficient reason might wish to be present. Candidates for the Teacher's Cer- tificate for August or September, 1942 are requested to call at the office of the School of Education be- fore August 10 to take the Teacher Oath which is a requirement for the certificate. Civilian Pilot Training: Learn to fly! Applications are now being made for the next program of Ci- vilian Pilot Training which starts approximately September 1st. A full ten weeks course is given in eight weeks. Detailed information may be secured in Room B47, Engineering Building. See Mrs. Fischthal. College of Literature, Science, and The Arts, and Architecture; Shols of Education, Forestry, Music and Public Health: Summer Session stu- dents wishing a transcript of this summer's work only should file a re- quest in Room 4 U. H. several days before leaving Ann Arbor. Failure to file this request before the end of the session will result in a need, less delay of several days. - - o a Seniors: College of Literature, Science, and The Arts, School of Ed- ucation, School of Music, School of Public Health: Tentative lists of seniors including tentative candi- dates for the Certificate in Public Health Nursing for Both the Sum- mer Session and the Summer Term have been posted on the bulletin board in Room 4, University Hall. If your name does not appear, or, if included there, it is not correctly spelled, please notify the counter olerk. Students, College of Engineering: The final day for removal of incom- plete will be Saturday, August 8. Petitions for extension of time should be filed in the Secretary's Of- fice at once. The final day for dropping courses without record will be Saturday, August 8. A course may be dropped only with the permission of the classifier, after conference with the instructor. Lectures The Michigan P.E.M. will be the subject of Track Coach Kenneth Doherty's talk on Monday. August 10th, at 4:05 p.ln. in the University High auditorium. "Weiekly Review of tie News" by Professor Howard M. Ehrmann, Dept. of History, Tuesday, August 11th, at 4:15 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. "The Cooperative Study in Action" by George E. Carrothers, Director of the Bureau of Cooperation with Edu- cational Institutions. Tuesday, Au- gust 11th, at 4:05 p.m. in the Uni- versity High auditorium. Lectures on Statistical Methods. evening by the Michigan Repertory Players of the department of speech. Tickets are on sale daily at the box office, Mendelssohn Theatre. Wesley Foundation: Wienie Roast tonight at the Island fireplace. Meet in the Guild lounge at the church at 8:0O p.m. Reservations must be in at the office (6881) by 1:00 this afternoon. Cost 15c. Maurice Gerow, Tenor, will present a recital in partial fulfillment o the requirements for the degree of Master of Music at 8:30 p.m. tonight, August 7, in the Assembly Hall of the Rack- ham Building. A student of rrofessor Arthur Hackett, Mr. Gerow will be accompanied at the piano by Miss Joan Stevens. The public is cordially invited. Star Clusters and double stars will be seen frop the Angell Hall obser- atory tonight from 10-11 o'clock. Dancing in the Michigan League Ballroom. 9-12 p.m. Come with or without a partner. Fricay and Sat. urday nights, Westminster Student Guild,-Open House at 8:30 p.m. Mr. Lampe is the sponsor. Drop in and bring your friends for an inteesting gam%- night. Coming Events Wesley Foundation: There will be a work holiday at the church Satur- day afternoon beginning at 2:00 p.m. We will work on the arranging and classification of the Foundation's li- brary. Join in work and fun and refreshments. Blair MeClosky, baritone, and guest Instructor of Voice at the School of Music during the Summer Session, has arranged a program of songs of Mozart,,Schubert and Hugo Wolf for his rlcital at 8:30 p.m. Monday, August 10, in the Lecture Hall of the Rackham Building. Pre- viously announced for the Assembly Hall, the recital will be given in the Lecture Hall on the first floor #nd will be open to the general public without tickets. Students and Faculty of the Latin and Greek departments will meet for a Coffee Hour and Round-table discussion of teaching' problems on Tuesday, August 11, at 4:10 in the West Conference Room of Rackham. "Glimpses Into Life in South In- dia" is the title of motion pictures, partially in color, to be shown by Dr. Elizabeth Hartman on Tuesday, August 11th, at 8 o'clock in the Rackham Amphitheatre. Beethoven Sonata Series: On Tuesday evening, August 11, Gilbert Ross, violinist, and Mabel Ross Rhead, pianist, will repeat the first program of the series of Beethoven Sonatas series for the benefit of those who were unable to secure tickets for the performance given on August 3 in the Assembly Hall of the Rackham Building. This second performance will be given at 8:30 p.m. in the Lecture Hall on the first floor of the same building, and will beopen to the general public with- out tickets. Women In Education. The last regularly scheduled luncheon for this summer will be held Wednesday, August 12, from 11:45 to 1:Op in the Russian Tea Room of the Michigan League. Miss Bessie L. Whitaker, Associate. Professor of Speech in charge of Speech Reading, Insti- tute of Human Adjustment (Speech Clinic) will speak on "Teaching of Speech Reading at the University."