THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, JUNE 19, h _ ---- - The WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S ALLEN - - GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichiy Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. The Summer Daily is published every morning except Monday and Tuesday. Member of the Asociated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or 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 car- rier $4.00, by mail $5.00. PS'RE9NTED POR NATIONAL ADVERT1SNG By National Advertisimg Service, Inc. College Publshers Representative 420 MADisoN Ave. NEW YORK, N. Y. caicAo 'BosToN ol ANGELES '-S5N1PRA ICO d Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1941=42 Editorial Staff Honier D. Swander . . . . Managing Editor Will Sapp . . . . . . . City Editor Mike Dann . . . . . . Sports Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Hale Champion, John Erlewine, Leon Gordenker, Robert Preiskel Business Staff As WASHINGTON-Secretary of War Stimson had to wait twelve years for it to happen, but he has just won an important naval victory. When he was Secretary of State under Hoover, the biggest row Stimson ever had was with the admirals of the U.S. Navy. It was deep, bitter and personal. Stimson contended that I*g warships were not necessarily the best type of vessel for the Navy, that small, fast cruisers, able to fire at lightning speed, might be just as good, perhaps better. Stimson maintained that the Admirals should experiment Wvith different kinds of ships before they put all their eggs in the big ship basket. Because of this argument, the late Admiral Hilary P. Jones resigned for a time from the American Naval Delegation at London; and a battery of admirals bombarded Stimson publicly before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But Stimson won his fight-until Roosevelt entered the White House. Then the admirals rushed to the man who once was assistant secre- tary of $he Navy, and concentrated on their one great love-big warships. Lessons Of Big Battles The Navy's announcements of the past week, however, have supported Stimson 100 percent. For in the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway Island, the Navy's big warships did not fire a single shot at a Jap vessel. They did not get even remotely within range. Everything was air power, with a few sub- marines also participating. And in other theaters of war, what we have needed most is small, fast cruisers and destroyers for convoy work, the type of vessel Stimson said the Navy should try out exhaustively. I Meanwhile, there are indications that the big battleship advocates have been decisively de- feated. Senator Brewster of Maine has reported that he understands the Navy has abandoned work on five super-dreadnaughts in favor of expanding the aircraft carrier program. This is a move which has been urged by many White House advisers, who also want to see battleship steel going into merchant ships and patrol'ves- sels which can be finished in 1942, not 1944. A staunch advocate of the battleship who has been won over to the new strategy of naval war- fare is Admiral Leahy. One of the ablest and most forthright officers who ever bossed the fleet, Admiral Leahy has come back from Vichy to confess: "This war has made a fool out of me. These battleships' I advocated have to be wrapped up in cotton wool. The trouble with us is that our Bureau of Ships sees what the Japanese are building and says 'We've got to build ships° to match the Japs.' Then they see what the British are building and say 'We've got to have ships like those.' "What we really want are some far-sighted designers who will plan some ships which nobody else has-ships that combine the best features of the battleship and the airplane carrier." Edward Perlberg Fred M. Ginsierg Morton Hunter Business Manager Associate Business Manager , Publications Manager NIGHT EDITOR: LEON GORDE KER - I The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. - Ickes Nations Gas Troubles Not H Fault.e S gas rationing became a nationally debated subject-one flung back and forth between motorists the country over- the fiery-tepnpered whirlwind that is Harold Ickes took a temporary rumble seat. The man who first fought-cursed vitriolically by newspapers like the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune-for a limited gas ra- tibning which would prevent greater privation fater on is now back in the headlines. His scheme for a new pipeline has been in part ac- tepted, and a reviei of his long tribulations is in order. Called Donald Duck by a press not ever overly fond of one of the bitterest tongues in the Roosevelt administration, Ickes was first apL pointed Petroleum Coordinator for National De- fense in 1941 with a brilliant administrative record behind him. Already possessor of a country-wide reputation for unquiet determination to do what he thought was right-w~hich usually is right-Ickes' came into office to the tune of loud kicks by oil execu- tives. Heartened by opposition without which he seems unhappy, the Chicago liberal began work in fipe fettle. Finding thus depleted Eastern oil reserves and a growing shortage of tankers con- stituted a first-rate seaboard problem, Ickes set to work to do something about it. FIRST he attempted to have a pipeline built to the seaboard, but the SPAB denied him ptiority rights on the necessary steel-an amourt much less than now lies at the bottom of the Atlantic sunk carrying precious petroleum. Next he tried rerouting railroads and in many respects was successful. Unfortunately there just weren't enough tank cars available under the set circumstances, and recognizing the dan- ger of still diminishing oil reserves Ickes came out for seaboard gas rationing-while the wolves howled. It was tried for awhile, but an optimistic, easy- going public turned it down, and Ickes was right back where he s4arted. Back to the pipeline he went and still no suc- cess. Still as the gasoline situation on the East Coast grew darke by the day, and shortages began to threaten other parts of the country, the man who foresaw it all got no recognition. Now WPB has approved a pipeline for which the nation can thank just one man, Harold Ickes. It may be a matter of too little, too late, but the blame rests with a complacent public, an obstructionist press, a dawdling Congress, and a sleepy SPAB. All the credit goes Jo a dumpy little fire-eater who with an almost prophetic persistence has told the American people what it doesn't want to hear. Honest Harold-a nickname given him by Washington administrators who have seen him refuse time and again to make political appoint- ments-can now step forward and take a bow. He won't. Right now he's probably getting ready to blow his top off about something else Everybody else will feel uncomfortable. but Ickes will be right at home. -- Hale Champion A Suggestion from Pearson and Allen In the rear trunk or rumble seat of your auto- mobile is a rubber mat used to keep suitcases from getting scratched, It is not essential to your car, yet it contains between four and seven pounds of rubber. Probably you could replace it with a piece of old carpet, or even let your suitcases ride on the bare boards. At any rate, if everyone of the nation's 20,000,- 000 car owners turned in this mat, it would net around 100,000,000 pounds of rubber. lollywOvd Goes To Wair Hollywood has sent a dozen or so notable pro- ducers to the Army, where they are doing inter- esting and sometimes valuable work. Of these, highest ranking are Jack Warner of Warner Brothers, and Darryl Zanuck, president of 20th Century-Fox. Between these two has developed a rivalry as to who shall salute whom which threatens to put in the shade even the good old dinner- Seating clash between Dolly Gann and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Col. Zanuck, who draws $260,000 yearly from 20th Century-Fox, got into the Army first with tie rank of lieutenant colonel, which nets him around $3,000. He is in the Signal Corps. Then Jack Warner got into the Army also as a lieut'enant colonel in the Air Corps. Whereupon the rivalry started. Lt.-Col. Dar- ryl Zanuck invited Maj.-Gen. Dawson Olmstead. chief of the Signal Corps, out to Hollywood, where he gave him a big blow-out with all the stars and starlets for trimmings. Sawlud an]ti O.Uiter S'he//i4 NOT LONG ,AGO I received a letter from an old teacher of mine. Old meaning that I was in his class when I was twelve or thirteen, really h's probably not much over fifty. When I knew him he was a little man with curly grey hair and not a sign of baldness, and in all the time I was in his class I never saw him in any other suit but a rough tweed one with trousers that slide down over his hips because he had no waist. His parents had been missionaries to China and he, himself, had lived there until he was ready to enter Columbia. Although no one was ever quite able to determine just what his field of concentration was he had several doctorates and was perpetually going to school. Now he's a professor at Columbia and as a sideline puts a pompously entitled course, "Chi- nese Letters and Literature" before high school students in the university school. However, be- cause discipline is difficult for him, his classes more often than not degenerate into hours for story-telling or are divided by moments given to scribbling uncomprehended Chinese characters on paichment with fat, very American water color brushes. Every year since I left he's written me once or twice at least, letters addressed in purple ink to towns I've moved away from or carelessly en- trusted to general delivery and intuitive post- men. This year's letter had been forwarded twice and probably reached me about two weeks after he sent it. IN IT he outlined a plan to accomplish what he modestly describes as "the preservation of human progress in historical times," and partly because I need material for these ten inches, partly because I think you, kind readers, might be interested, but mostly because I'd like to send this column to my misunderstood friend I'm going to restate his plan as clearly as I'm able "Civilization," he says, "cannot outlast this conflict." In words that sound very much as though they were taken from H. G. Wells but do not expiress exactly that, he says that the most we can hope for is that back-county peo- ple, people of no political importance will be spared to perpetuate the human race. The great nations of the world will no longer exist as units and anarchy will be the order of the day. Only by hiding some few persons who are products of our age of "advancement" and who have benefited by "systematized" education can we hope to preserve whatever it is that man- kind has been able to accomplish. My old teacher proposes that artists particu- larly, whom he believes to be intellectually re- moved from the conflict between nations, should band together and settle in a remote part of Siberia or the Kentucky hills. The wisdom of setting apart artists as leaders of any settled political life or of building any sort of civilization upon artistic accomplish- ments might be questioned but I'm merely stat- ing his argument as he wrote it in his letter to me, In this new organization of the world moral codes which have inhibited civilization since its inception must be destroyed and a new, entirely pragmatic, system of right and wrong must be built up. The artists whom my teacher would set apart will be privileged to lead the backwoods "ts easy for me to avoid danger and keep out of the machinery, with the experience ve had as a private secretary, keeping out of reach of the boss " I As Others See At American Communist - Rissian Tie-Up Discussed By The New) Repi bi "Navy's Decision Shows Intelligence , 0 THE NAVY'S DECISION to turn all facilities available to it for con- struction of large ships to the production of aircraft carriers should effectively squelch the loudly proclaimed contention of certain duck- pond admirals that the Naval High Command is incapable of altering policy in order to meet changing conditions. Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen, perpe- trators of the Washington Merry-Go-Round, have been particularly 'vociferous in criticism of what they refer to as "Navy brass hats"--who, within the last two months, have saved both the United States and Australia from Jap inva- sion fleets. Since the early days of steel vessels the battle- ship-the floating fortress carrying heavy guns -has been the basis of all the world's first-rate. navies. Though many predicted before the out- break of this war thatthe airplane would ren- der the battle-wagons useless, the first two years oi sea warfare did not bear them out. TRUE, the devastating British raid on Taranto, and several isolated instances of English ships being sunk by Nazi aircraft might be of- fered to justify their premise. The fact is, how- ever, that the Italian warships were not in mo- tion at Taranto but were anchored in the har- bor, easy targets for British bombardiers. Added to this refuting evidence was the fact that it was British naval guns, not aircraft, which immobilized the French fleet off Oran and kept the supply lines between America and Britain open for two years, Thus, there was no conclusive evidence to support the superiority of the airplane in naval warfare and much convincing testimony to re- fute it until the opening of hostilities between the United States and Japan six months ago. Pearl Harbor simply emphasized the lesson of Taranto-that planes were effective in a sur- prise raid against stationary seapower caught with its defensive trousers down. THE CORAL SEA- ACTION of May 8 was the first proof that aircraft, fortunately Allied, could inflict large-scale damage on warships DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN FRIDAY. JUNE 19, 1942 VOL. LII, No. 4 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. Senior Group in the Program for Honors in Liberal Arts will meet on Saturday, June 20, at 2:00 in Room 118 Haven Hall. P. A. Throop Women Students: The Women's Department of Physical Education is sponsoring a picnic for all women on campus. This will be held at 61:00 p.m., Friday, June 19. on Palmer Field. A small fee will be charged to cover the cost of food. Students planning to attend must sign up and pay the fee in Office 15, Barbour Gymnasium ais soon as possible and not later than Friday noon. Dept. of Physical Education for Women. THE NEW TREATY between the USSR and Great Britain and the new understanding between the USA and the USSR have been interpreted to death by the commentators but one aspect of both has almost wholly escaped attention. It is the obscure but embarrassing relationship be- tween the Soviet government, through the Third International, and the Communist Parties of the United States and Great Britain. As ex- plained to Parliament by Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, the Russo- British treaty contains a provision pledging each of the parties to re- frain from interference in the in- ternal affairs of th other. As outlined in the cryptic White House announcement, the accord be- tween this country and Russia con- tained no similar understanding. However, the pact negotiated by President Roosevelt and Maxim Lit- vinov under which Soviet-American diplomaticrelations were resumed early in the New Deal did contain a mutual guarantee of non-interfer- ence. A positive reaffirmation might have been regarded either as an ad- mission that the original agreement had been broken or as an unneces- sary redundancy. In any case, Soviet Russia now stands pledged to have nothing to do with the Communist Parties of the United States and Great Brit- ain, both of which are, in essence, Russian nationalist groups operat- ing with legal sanction inside na- tions that are now Russia's allies. In the United States, members of this nationalist group hold hig office and influence high policy in the labor movement, hold a few minor jobs in the government it- self, propagandize and proselytize under the protective tent of gen- erally guaranteed civil lberties and faithfully follow any line deemed to serve Russia's best interests. Frequently in the past few years Russian interests and American in- terests have been inimical. At these 1 Y LETTERS To THE EDITOR To the Editor: IF thle Libray of the University of Michigan is for the use of the students-and the betterment of the community in its broadest sense- somne of its policies would bear re- vision. A number of students who are woring in Ann Arbor so they can- go back to school during the winter are deprived of the privileges of circulation because they are not formally enrolled.zr First of all, they are no less STU DENTS because they are not en- rolled for the summer; the criterion is they want to read. Secondly, they are not able from a time standpoint to read in the library as suggested. The Ann Arbor Public Library un- aided lacks the physical facilities to meret their needs, ITS IMPOSSIBLE to secure the briefest use outside the library of books to be used for one of the com- times American Communists havea unhesitatingly worked against the interests of the United States. At the moment, to be sure, the major objectives of Russia and the United' States are identical-to beat the Axis. Chances are that the main lines of Russian and American pol- icy will remain merged for some time to come. Yet there already are divergences in the secondary lines that trace means to the common end. The United States is fighting Japan. Rus- sia is technihaly neutral in this fight. Russia's, attitude toward the Pacific war is understandable and beyond criticism. But it is wholly within the realm of possibility that the existence of a Russian nationalist party :within the Unibed States might be embarrassing in this situation. For example, what if the Com- munist-dominated unions on the West Coast decided that too much American material was going' to China and not enough to Russia? What if Harry Bridges decided to remedy this maldistribution of ma- terial by ordering a slow-down of loadings on ships bound for India with cargoes to be moved overland -to China? This probably won't happen, but it is not too fantastic 'a hypothetical case in view of Bridges' part in the North American strike, which closed down a key factory to prevent manu- facture of airplanes for Great Britain at a time when Russia was buying time with a Russo-German mutual- assistance treaty.' Assuming that such a slow-down were ordered, it is safe to assume that two of the most influential men in the Washington office of the CIO would work hand in glove with Bridges to force the government to back down from its policy of aid to China and step up its aid to Russia. The Daily Worker, The New Masses and several obscure sheets would join in the fight. A few obscure gov- ernment officials would contribute what they could to the campaign. If the War Labor Board, under these circumstances, cra'cked down on West Coast longshoremen, they would be systematically reviled by word of mouth and in print. Aid to China would become a policy of re- action in left-wing circles. Innocents and front organizations would take up the cudgels., Motives would be cloaked in elaborate dialectics. As long as there is an organized Russian nationalist group operat- ing in the United States, half un- derground, half on the surface, possibilities of this kind will re- main a source of potential discord between two of the anti-Axis allies. So long as the American Commu- nist Party's disgraceful record dur- ing the life of the Russo-German Pact is remembered, the Party's existence will remain a source of irritation and danger to the Roose- velt administration and its friends in their on-going struggle for do- mestic support of the war. How close the liaison between the American Communist Party and the Soviet government has been in the last few years is a question. Soviet officials and diplomats have been Physical Education-Women Stu- dents: All physical education classes are open. Register in Office 15, Barbour Gymnasium. No late regis- tration fee. Dept. of Phys. Educ. for Women Department of Metal Processing The following course is being of- fered during the Summer Term: Metal Processing 5, Welding. 2 hours credit, hours to be arranged with Professor Spindler, 2044 East En- gineering Building. Prof. W. A. Spindler. Ch.-Met. 171. Explosives. 3 Hours Mr. Osburn. Lecture and Recitation, Mon. and Fri., 1-3, Rm. 4215. A Study of the Processes Used in the Manufacture of Commercial Explo- sives: Their Properties and Uses. Prerequisites Ch.-Met. 25. First meet- ing of the class will be on Friday, June 19. Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering. The Storehouse Building will act as a receiving center for scrap rubber and also metals. Any department 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 regulr capus deliveries. Service of the janitors is available to collect the materials from the various rooms in the build- ings to be delivered to the receiving location. E. C. Pardon Candidates: All students previous- ly registered with the Bureau and now on the campus are reuested to come in to the Bureau and. leave their addresses, telephone numbers, and their summer elections. University Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information. Methodist Students: You and your friends are invited to the in- formal party and open house at 9:00 o'clock tonight in the Wesley.Foun- dation rooms of the church. Inez Chamb'erlin is chairman, and there will be singing, games, refreshments, and dancing. Betty RaIe Hileman, Social Director. The Lutheran Student Association will hold an open house a .Zion Lutheran Parish Hall this evening at 8:00 p.m. All students are wel- come. Psychology 31: A new section, sec- tion 4 will be given Monday and Fri- day at 11 o'clock in Room 3126 N. S Building. Friday Westminster Student Guild-Steak Roast at 6:30 p.m. on the church grounds. New students interested in the Presbyterian Ghurch are espe- cially invited. Make a good start and join this fellowship. Mr. and Mrs. C. Dey, Mr. and Mrs. R. Spokes, Mr; and Mrs. L. R. Hunter, and Mr. W. V. Lampe are the chaperons. The University Bureau of Appoint- (Continued on Page 4) It is now obvious that Stalin en- tered into the German pact with his fingers crossed. He knew that Russia would eventually fight Germany. So it seems improbable that he would have sanctioned the North American strike. The local comrades simply followed what they thought to be Kremlin line too enthusiastically. Since the signing of the new lease- lend agreement and announcement of the second-front understanding much has been written about the necessity of breaking down R ussias natural suspicions of the Unlted States. Even the most conservative columnists have in retrospect de- fended the pact, the Kremlin's de- mand for repossession of the 1altic states and its later abandonment of this demand. Much has been said in justification of Russia's refusal to N. 4. 4 I'.